Sometimes it's hard to remember what a luxury it is to write a book (or, even better, to have written one). After all, the women who came before me were full-time moms, pioneers, dutiful daughters and poor ones, women with things to do. Still others had to fight to prove that their works ...

What do Annie Dillard, Jenny McCarthy, Marya Hornbacher, Kelly Corrigan, and the lowly Erin Blakemore have in common?  More than you'd think...we've all had the honor of having our audiobook narrated by Tavia Gilbert! Yesterday, Tavia kindly wrote me a note telling me she's been selected by Blackstone Audio to narrate the audiobook of The Heroine's ...

For reasons that will become apparent sooner rather than later, I've been thinking about literary places.  Not just real places like the Ingalls Homestead or the moors of England, but the places in which we discover the books that mean so much to us. For example, I could never stand my brothers' little league games (for ...

Random.org has spoken and we have two winners of two sets of galleys of The Heroine's Bookshelf! Congratulations to Laurie A-B of Six Boxes of Books, who chose Rosemary and Barbara from Sister of the Bride by Beverly Cleary as her favorite literary duo, and to Katherine of November's Autumn, who notes "the unlikely friendship ...

I was laying in bed this morning after my first fully restful sleep in a while and thinking about literary duos.  Not necessarily titular (though Betsy-Tacy is not to be ignored), but those great pairings that make my favorite books so juicy to read.  You know...Scarlett and Melanie, or Marianne and Elinor.  Pairs that prove ...