I’m all excited about the essay I have coming out in April in the anthology Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond. The book is edited by Andrea N. Richesin, who also did The May Queen, and it features Karen Joy Fowler, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Joyce Maynard, and one of my very favorite writers, […]
Bookfinds just gave The Bright Side of Disaster a fantastic review! Here’s an excerpt: “Often, I find myself leaving books half-finished, growing weary with stilted prose or predictable plots. But there are those rare moments when I find a book that really speaks to me. A book that makes me fall in love with both […]
I’ll be speaking at the Mom 2.0 Summit in Houston this coming February. The Kirtsy Chicks and OpMom are organizing, so you know it’s going to rock. Here’s how they describe the summit: What do you get when you mix top brands, mom bloggers, social media experts, marketing leaders, media leaders, tech moms and mompreneurs […]
Last summer, reader and blogger Natasha Maw did an interview with me on her Maw Books Blog. One of her questions was about a tomato-lime soup that I’d written about in The Bright Side of Disaster. She thought the soup sounded good, and wondered if I had the recipe. Of course, many of things in […]
I will speak as a featured author at the Fort Bend County Book and Author Dinner on February 15, 2009. The dinner is just two days before Everyone Is Beautiful goes on sale, but it’s against the rules to sell books before their on-sale date. But you CAN pre-order Everyone Is Beautiful, and it’ll arrive at […]
Varsity pictures just optioned the movie rights to The Bright Side of Disaster!
Karen Walrond is running an interview with me today on her fabulous, gorgeous, thoughtful blog, Chookooloonks. I could explain how we met, and became buddies, and happened to be working on eerily similar projects about women and beauty, but she does it so perfectly, I won’t even try. She’s also running a giveaway for an […]
I just had an essay selected for the Dallas Museum of Art’s fantastic Texas Bound Reading Series. For the series, Texas-connected actors read the work of Texas-connected writers. Actors who have performed in the series include Kathy Bates, Tommy Lee Jones, Larry Hagman, and Marcia Gay Harden. The performance will take place in early April 2009. […]
The first blog review for Everyone Is Beautiful is in, and it’s great. Marcia at The Printed Page, starts her review like this: “This book is LOL funny in parts and tackles serious subject matter with a light hand and wisdom in others. The first 5 chapters had my spouse yelling down from upstairs for […]
A feisty UK website for women readers, Trashionista, just gave Bright Side a great review! The review says: “I mentioned the other day that I loved Katherine Center’s The Bright Side of Disaster and I really did. It’s been a couple of days since I finished reading it and I wish I hadn’t. I miss […]