Sans Serif

Here’s the Hungarian cover of No One You Know. The Hungarian edition, Nikt kogo znasz, translated by Bo?ena Markiewicz, will be published by Videograf, which also published The Year of Fog.

Big thanks to my hometown paper, the Mobile Press Register, for the nod.

Last week, I sat down with Lynn Carey at one of my favorite San Francisco restaurants, Alice’s in Noe Valley. Lynn and I talked about No One You Know, which is the most recent selection for the Contra Costa Times Book Club. Lynn’s interview, “Home Turf and Unfamiliar Terrain Feed Michelle Richmond’s Fiction,” appears this [...]

No One You Know is the next book club pick for the Times Media Group, which includes 14 Northern California newspapers. There’s an excerpt from the novel in the Marin Independent Journal today. Excerpts will be running in several newspapers over the next couple of weeks.
Book club discussions of No One You Know will take [...]

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Coutts & Co, the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, publishes a magazine for its female clients called Coutts Woman. The magazine runs a monthly feature called “Coutts Woman Loves,” and this month, Coutts woman loves No One You Know: “Betrayal and tragedy are the two themes beautifully explored in this [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

I’m popping the champagne cork today. (Okay, not yet, I’m at home alone at 10:00 in the morning, so champagne would be entirely inappropriate, right? Oh, but there’s the trusty mimosa: champagne delivered with just enough OJ to make it a bona fide breakfast item.)
NO ONE YOU KNOW has been nominated for the Northern [...]

I’ll be talking about THE YEAR OF FOG and NO ONE YOU KNOW today at Foothill College in Los Altos. Details here. This event is free and open to the public.
When: Noon
Where: Campus Center Student Lounge
Both books will be available for twenty percent off the cover price.