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Grab Bag

08.08.2011 - 3 Comments Click here to read/write comments

(Or should I say “piece bag” a la Little Women?) Happy Monday! Ish. I do have happy news to report…The Heroine’s Bookshelf just got a Brazilian book deal! The book will be translated into Portuguese and sold as a trade paperback and ebook by Casa da Palavra within the next

Serene Was A Word You Could Put to Brooklyn…

10.21.2010 - Be The First To Comment

…but not to my life as a newly published author! Holy cats. What a week. First: the debut. The joy of seeing the Amazon button turn to “add to cart” instead of “preorder.” The mystery of a nearly standing-room-only crowd at the Boulder Book Store. Then, yesterday, an awesome reading

The Littlest Heroines

09.16.2010 - 5 Comments Click here to read/write comments

Little Laura Jernegan, a girl who traveled the world on a whale ship during the 1860s, made quite the splash on the Internet yesterday (thanks, Wendy McClure, for passing on the link). Her journal, written when she was six years old, records her thoughts on various animals, the smells of

let’s talk about a tree grows in brooklyn

02.03.2010 - 4 Comments Click here to read/write comments

There are some books you come back to again and again at different points in your life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is that kind of book, so imagine my pleasure to see that Harper Perennial’s 2010 book club covered the book for January. Writing a chapter on ATGIB and