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Details
The process of publishing a book has changed a bit since my own early days in the business. Looking back at my beginnings as a fresh-out-of-college editorial assistant, I marvel at how quaint it all...
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First peek: Magical Journey video & excerpt (and win an advance copy)
I’ve always loved this solstice season of short days and long, cold nights. It is as if all of nature is reminding me: it’s time to slow down, be quiet, turn inward and embrace the darkness. Yet, with...
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A duet with a friend — and some good winter soup
I practiced a visualization all through last winter, one I returned to again and again as I sat alone writing in my son Henry’s upstairs bedroom. In my mind’s eye I saw my friend Margaret Roach at my...
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Pub date reflections
We were an unlikely pair, Olive Ann Burns and I. She was sixty, a gentle, charming Southern housewife with dreams of finally publishing the enormously long novel she’d spent years writing — years when...
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Magic
Just over a year ago, I hit the wall. I’d been writing for months, throwing away more pages than I kept, feeling less sure of myself and what I was doing with every passing day. I had a deadline, the...
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Book giveaway, events, and online chat
A mother’s midlife memoir paired with a gardening book? What, you might well ask, could these two volumes possibly have in common? And why would a married mom of two and a resolutely single,...
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Change
I’ve been paying close attention to the weather lately. Over the last few days, frost has claimed the last of the nasturtiums outside the kitchen door. The maple tree, as of yesterday, is bare, save...
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Gracie, 8/20/00 – 11/18/13
Everyone we know who’s ever loved and lost a dog told us the same thing: that she would let us know when it was time to say good-bye. And of course, she did. Yesterday morning we let Gracie go, with...
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Pub date! (Music, photos & books to win)
Today is the official paperback release of Magical Journey. Paperback publications of quiet, mid-list memoirs don’t generally get reviews or ad budgets or press releases or parties. But I’m pretty...
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A Religion of One’s Own
The first thing I did when I found out I was pregnant, twenty-five years ago this winter, was get in my car and drive to Harvard Square to buy a copy of What to Expect When You’re Expecting. I am a...
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a birthday, a book, a gift
For my birthday this year the universe gave me Ann Patchett. And my joy and gratitude is such that I’m going to pay the gift forward by passing Ann Patchett on to you. If you’re a regular reader here,...
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