April 12: Hey, Los Angeles--I'll be coming to see you soon! I'll be on tour in the LA area from
May 14 - May 18. We're still adding events to the calendar, so check back again if you'd like to come see me. I'll be visiting a number of bookstores in the Willamette Valley in a couple of weeks, too.
Oh, and here's some amazing news. As of December 30, more than 52,000 copies of Hannah have been bought. How cool is that?
Good lord! March 18: Could I possibly be more tardy in updating this page? Not likely. Since I last updated my news a lot's happened:
- I've been featured several times on AuthorMagazine.org by wonderful Bill Kenower, who is an excellent interviewer, as only a fellow writer can be;
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Hannah's Dream will be published in Holland, the UK, Germany, Serbia and Croatia
- I've been appearing in independent bookstores throughout Oregon and Washington
- I've been a guest on a half-hour segment of Vicki St. Clair's arts program on public radio program (listen to it);
- I signed a new contract with Harper Perennial for my next novel, called Booking Hollywood, which is about child actors;
- I've participated in nearly two dozen reading group meetings and discussions, which I love to do;
- I've continued to keep in touch with the amazing booksellers at Borders Express in Hanover, MA, who have hand-sold nearly 300 copies of Hannah's Dream;
- And I'm now being represented by a wonderful publicist who's going to keep me on the road and in independent bookstores throughout the Pacific Northwest and hopefully in Southern California, as well.
December 23: The Bend Bulletin featured an interview with me today.
December 12: The Newport News-Times featured Hannah's Dream in an interview.
December 10: Still on the PNBA bestseller list!
December 3: I'm now #8 on the Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers Association (PNIBA's) trade paperback bestseller list for the week ended Nov. 30!
November 26: Here's something I'm very proud of: I've made the Pacific Northwest Indie Bookseller's bestseller list for last week, coming in at #14 paperback fiction.
November 24: Well, I'll be damned. A terrific woman named Joey has built a Hannah's Dream fan site on MySpace! She and three of her colleagues at a Borders Express in Hanover, Massachusetts, have made it their personal mission to promote Hannah's Dream until it becomes a bestseller. I think they might pull it off, too! Why not join, while you're there?
November 7: I just received the dual good news that HarperCollins has ordered a third printing of Hannah's Dream, bringing the total number of copies to more than 108,000, and Thondike Press will bring out a large-print edition of Hannah!
October 13: Did you know that thanks to the efforts of the Women's National book Association, October is National Reading Group Month? Now you do. I am honored to be on a panel about book clubs and all-things-bookish, to be held at the University of Washington's
University Book Store at 7 p.m., on Oct. 20. I must confess to feeling a little like actress Ellen Page (Juno) at the Oscars: my fellow panelists are impressive, to say the least: Nancy Pearl (Book Lust, More Book Lust and Book Crush, Sasquatch Books), Nancy Horan (Loving Frank, Ballantine), Stesha Brandon (University Book Store), Mary Ann Gwinn (The Seattle Times, Book Editor), Cheryl McKeon (Third Place Books), and Rebecca Willow (Parkplace Books). If you're in the nearest time zone, why not come?
October 9: Amazing! I just showed up on two bestseller lists for paperbacks: I'm #6 in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Borders, and #9 at an independent bookstore in Chagrin Falls, OH!
And I'm floating between #65 and #85 on Amazon's bestseller list for literary fiction. (They seem to count anything under #101 as a bestseller, at least in its category.)
October 8: Listen to my interview on Internet radio program The Creative Mind with Eric Spencer
October 2: Listen to my interview on "The Diane Rehm Show"
September 30: Watch a segment about HANNAH on KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon)
September 5: I've been invited to be a guest on NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show" in very early October! (I'll post the exact date once I know it.) Better yet, the show's guest host will be Frank Sesno, an old college friend who's currently director of The George Washington University's Public Affairs Project and CNN special correspondent. We'll have an entire hour to ourselves, including call-in opportunities.
