Sans Serif

A nice review of the French translation of The Year of Fog, L’annee, brouillard, (translated by Sophie Aslanides) in the Belgian journal Lalibre:
“Avec sensibilité, Michelle Richmond interroge la fragilité de nos propres histoires et le rôle de la mémoire. Avec ce roman psychologique à suspense, Richmond offre une plongée au cœur du désir et [...]

Two new reviews of the French translation of The Year of Fog in French journals:
Femina
“Une fillette disparaît sur la plage, un jour de brouillard… Le livre de l’Américaine Michelle Richmond explore avec une précision photographique le vide émotionnel qui s’ensuit.”
Le Republicain Lorrain
“Ce roman est le premier traduit en français de l’Américaine Michelle Richmond, dont l’écriture [...]

Via the San Francisco Examiner, Poets and Writers Magazine has put together a summer reading list, culled from reader responses and the PW facebook page. Year of Fog is on the list, along with poetry by Robert Haas (Sun Under Wood), fiction by Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(, Robert Bolano (2666), [...]

Thanks to Eileen Conway, Circulation Supervisor at Rockwall County Library in Rockwall, TX, for this thoughtful review of The Year of Fog.

Less than a month after publication, No One You Know has gone into its third trade paperback printing. A big shout-out to readers, booksellers, and to everyone who has spread the word via goodreads, librarything, etc. If your book club is reading No One You Know, please visit my book club page for extra goodies. [...]

If you think writers are full of it, this is the event to attend, because rarely does the evening end without at least one writer suffering some form of public humiliation. Tonight, I just hope it’s not me. To read more about the format and the chilling Death Match finale, go here.
Tonight’s Literary Death Match [...]

The current issue of UK’s Star Magazine features No One You Know, and gives it four (out of five) stars. Gotta love British brevity. The review in its entirety reads:
When Lila is violently murdered, her sister Ellie doesn’t know where to turn. Years later, off the beaten track in Nicaragua, she meets the man accused [...]

The Telegraph recently asked me to write about San Francisco for its “My Kind of Town” feature. The article, which includes my favorite city haunts, where to stay, what to avoid, where to shop, and more, appears today. You can read it here.

My friend Holly Payne, author of The Virgin’s Knot and The Sound of Blue, has a new novel coming out in July, Kingdom of Simplicity. Payne wrote the novel in response to a letter she received from the drunk driver who struck her when she was 22 years old. It took her a year to [...]

I just came across this product at Barnes and Noble.com. There’s an audio version of THE YEAR OF FOG being sold “with earbuds.” What does that mean? From the picture, it looks like the audio is fully packaged, and all you have to do is turn it on–i.e. you don’t need play it on [...]