I’m giving away books on Goodreads from 9:30 to 11:00 Pacific time, Wednesday, May 21. All you have to do is show up to my online coffee club, where we’ll be chatting about No One You Know, just out in paperback. Three winners will be randomly selected to receive a signed copy of NO ONE YOU KNOW.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Where Stories Begin
Not long ago, I was sitting with my son in the loft of his preschool, telling him a story, when he interrupted me to ask, “Where did that story come from?” “I just thought of it,” I said. He was not satisfied. “But where did it come from?” “From my imagination,” I said. “Where’s your magic nation?” “In my mind,” I said. Oscar’s question is a variation of the same one I heard again and again from graduate students during my years teaching creative writing, the same question I hear every time I do a reading or visit a...
I’m Giving Away Signed Books on Wednesday!
Why should you join me for my goodreads Coffee Club on Wednesday, May 20? Because three participants will receive a free, signed copy of No One You Know. The Details Join me on Wednesday, May 20, for coffee and conversation. Put on your favorite brew and log on to Goodreads, where I’ll be discussing my latest novel, NO ONE YOU KNOW, just out in paperback. Book Club Giveaway: If you bring six members of your book club to the event, I’ll do a phone-in visit with your book club at a later date. The setting is virtual, but the...
No One You Know is now in paperback
NO ONE YOU KNOW is out in paperback today…just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. The paperback contains great supplementary materials, including a Q&A, reading group guide, and playlist. I’ve been hearing a lot from book groups, who say that this novel about sisterhood and the impact of stories on our lives makes for a lively book group discussion. If you’re in San Francisco, please help me celebrate tomorrow night at Book Passage in the Ferry Building. If not, you can purchase signed copies of the book from Book Passage or signed and personalized copies from The Booksmith.
The Power of Images
The Year of Fog gets a mention today in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Book reviewer Ina Hughes contemplates the nature of images in Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop, now out in paperback from Basic Books. Hughes calls I Am A Strange Loop “a fascinating, lay-friendly book about the workings of the brain and the meaning of words.” Sounds like my kind of book! A taste from Hofstadter’s book: In just as potent a fashion, looking at that photograph of Dad brings back, to us who knew him intimately. Hughes goes on to quote The...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
