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Notes from the Publishing Trenches


Favorite book moment of the week: Being asked to do another blurb. There’s nothing more flattering than being let in on the fun (or more nervewracking than asking for one, for that matter). I was so lucky to have amazing blurbs on my book’s cover. (Go congratulate one of my

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A New Day


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“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery It’s that time of the year.  The time when your impossibly put-together friends announce that they are going to accomplish a Huge

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It Has Come


It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! – The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett I can’t believe I’m posting this.  At long last, The Heroine’s Bookshelf is in stores! Though technically this journey began when I

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Fear!


First of all, thank you for all of your lovely comments about my new cover.  I so appreciate it.  For those of you eager to hear about the saga of LauraPalooza, may I direct you to my guest post on Book Club Girl’s blog?  I post there about 5 things

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The Whirl of Gaiety


As July comes to an end I feel kind of like Laura Ingalls, who scored a paltry 92 in arithmetic after a whirl of gaiety that left her breathless and almost affianced.  The past month has been a whirlwind, first of work, then of travel to LauraPalooza 2010 in Mankato,

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