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Happy New Year! And Happy Pub Day to Me
Happy new year! It’s an exciting day for me—not only is it the first day of the year, it’s the official launch day of my novel No One Knows Us Here, a labor of love that was eight years in the making. It’s also a bittersweet day for me because I know how much my…
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Read This: Somewhere in Between by Katie Li
Somewhere In Between by Katie LiMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Katie Li’s Somewhere in Between is a Murakamiesque roller coaster ride through love, friendship, and time itself. (Not sure this “roller coaster” metaphor is working, but stick with me.) Magnolia, collector of lost things, and Rom, a shy gamer guy, form an unlikely connection…
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The End of the Tour: Broken Homes & Gardens Visits 15 Blogs in a Whirlwind Fashion
I wasn’t sure I was going to write a post about my TLC book tour. I mean, what if they all hated Broken Homes & Gardens? In that case, I figured I could just quietly fade into the shadows, and no one would be the wiser. Now, I’ll admit that at least five reviewers claimed…
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Powell’s Reading, TV Appearance, and Other Important Updates
You may not have realized that I am now a prominent millennial dating expert. I appeared on A.M. Northwest earlier this month to give twenty-somethings my advice about how to find love in this crazy hookup culture of ours. Here is a <a href=”http://http://www.katu.com/amnw/segments/Dating-in-Your-20s-306516251.html“>link to that segment. I can’t figure out how to embed it.…
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Today is Release Day for Broken Homes & Gardens!
Today is the day I officially become a published novelist. To celebrate the debut of Broken Homes & Gardens, let’s watch the new, improved book trailer my sister Gina E. Kelley helped me create. It is the official book trailer for BH & G: Amazing film editing, Gina. Thank you! Also, check out this essay…
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The Painted Veil (or, Loveless in the Time of Cholera)
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve read so many books about affairs tearing marriages apart. But could a passionate, torrid affair bring a husband and wife closer together? Could the affair be what allows them to finally love each other? This premise intrigues me. It turns out…
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Book review: Shari Goldhagen’s In Some Other World, Maybe
In Some Other World, Maybe by Shari Goldhagen My rating: 5 of 5 stars At first I wasn’t sure I should give In Some Other World, Maybe five whole stars. It had pulled me in so completely that when it was over, I wasn’t sure if the tingling feeling it left me with was the…
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Shirley is Fascinating and Engrossing
Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I first started Shirley, I thought this book is going to be amazing. Much of it was–especially if you’ve read a handful of Shirley Jackson’s novels and are familiar with her short stories. Shirley reads like a Jackson novel in both style and…
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It’s Finally Here: The Cover of Broken Homes & Gardens
We went through so many cover designs: the lone tomato vine snaking around the title, the tomato vine peeking through the picket fence. Bright sky, dark sky. Flaky paint on vertical fence slats, flaky paint on horizontal fence slats. It’s a tricky business, landing on the right design. It has to do so many things…
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