By Kj Swanson, with Column Five’s Ian Klein To celebrate the one-year publication anniversary of The Heroine’s Bookshelf, Erin and I thought it would be fun to create a literary-inspired cocktail list. Okay, truth be told, the idea came from us making fun of the pronunciation of St John River’s
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Before We Get Started… If you’re here, it means you survived both the emotional rollercoaster and this very long readalong…and I’m so excited to have finished the book in the presence of such great discussion and input! Congrats to Diane, who won a copy of the movie adaptation of Gone
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Any author can tell you this: by the time your book gets to copyedits, you can barely read it any more. I well remember flipping the book upside down in frustration and tackling the edits just one more time, back to front, reading every sentence out loud to myself in
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Thanks for your patience, everyone. It’s a crazy time in the land of the bookshelf, between a new paperback cover, plenty of events coming up, and a jammed life full of reading, writing, and revising. Oh, and working, and living in a house that’s not a complete hovel. You know
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One of the best/most nervewracking things about publishing is the big cover gamble. I’ve been incredibly fortunate with Harper, who took the time to ask me my thoughts about the original cover and made sure to get it right. The paperback is in the capable hands of Harper Perennial, which
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