The Barnes and Noble at Rivertown Crossings Mall is staged for a Grand Opening and I’m going to be there personalizing books for customers.
If you live within driving distance from Granville, MI, I’d love to see you in person. Come visit and stay a while. :)
Here are the details:
Rivertown B & N Press Release
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Being a writer…
It isn’t everything you might imagine.
There are good days. Days when you talk to or get emails from people who’ve been impacted by your writing.
Days when you feel good about what you’ve written, about who you are, about what you’re standing for in this world.
But there are other days too.
Days when a couple [...]
So…in explanation for the lapse in posts…
…the last couple weeks have been…harrowing.
(This, by the way, is officially the first time I’ve ever used the word “harrowing” in my life. And you were there.)
First off, my husband, the eleven month old emperor and I just returned from a ten day stint traveling and speaking across 2,500 [...]
When people hear I am doing a book tour for Picking Dandelions, their eyes seem to enviously drift off as if imagining me lounging on a beach side chair, drinking a fruity beverage, and telling stories to a group of locals under the sunshine.
In reality, the only part of that they should envy is the [...]
You may have seen Jimmy Fallon do his thank you card bit. That is, if you’re ever up that late with nothing better to do than watch Jimmy Fallon.
Here are mine (and then my REAL, honest-to-God appreciative ones):
Thank you cottage cheese container (that I wisely tucked into my purse for the 2 mile drive home) [...]
@Jen_Rose, who blogs over at the divinest blog spot eva (that’s really the name–sorta), is interviewing me all week…get this…via Twitter.
(Its not her fault. I’m a nerd in any universe, including Twitter-earth. Just keep in mind, nerds rule the world.)
Here’s the most innovative part – you can join the interview. (Picture you in the front row of [...]
I’m sitting cross legged on the floor at LAX in California.
Not because I prefer the floor.
Especially the dirty, public floor of an airport.
But because it is the only seating available.
Well, at least its the only seat within reach of the an electrical outlet that isn’t already being dominated by fellow travelers.
I plug in my phone [...]
A few reviews have compared my writing to Donald Miller lately.
I was a little surprised by that.
I’m more manic that Donald, I think.
I go on and on.
Don is straight forward.
I packed more Christian ideology, more Bible-y, churchy stuff into my books than you’d find in all of Don’s books combined.
But I still get the comparison.
Don [...]
I do not live in Hollywood.
I do not live in New York City.
I don’t even live in a more mid-size-city, like Atlanta or Pittsburgh or Nashville.
So sometimes it amazes me that anyone anywhere ever hears anything about my book.
A book written by this middle class white girl…
In tiny prison city.
In the economically shrinking state of [...]
There once was a gentleman reading,
A book that was very misleading.
With a dandelion on the cover.
You’d expect women to love her.
But even the men picked up weeding.
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An observant reader pointed something out to me this week:
Based on my book’s cover–which sports the not-so-masculine fuzzy tuft of a dandelion–a reader might assume my book is chick [...]
