This about sums it up for me.

The lovely and hilarious Karen Walrond and I just collaborated on a project. I started out wanting to make a book trailer for my new book, but we wound up doing a video about my writing process. That’s me talking in the video, trying to say something coherent about why I write the kinds of […]

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(100 Days of) HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS

In the weeks leading up to the on sale date of my new novel, Happiness For Beginners (March 2015), I’m celebrating by making images of my favorite quotes from the book. Getting the word out about a new book is never easy!  You can help out by SHARING THESE QUOTES (or others!) in any way you like!  Drag them to […]

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Feature in the Houston Chronicle

  This feature about our “bathroom o’ wisdom” by the fantastic Maggie Galehouse appeared in the Houston Chronicle in February 2014. Yep.  That’s our downstairs half-bath, all covered in wise quotes about life.  I started taping them up a few years ago with the idea that it would be good for my kids to kind […]

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essay for Houstonia Magazine

    This essay about growing up and letting go–and Camp Waldemar–appeared in Houstonia Magazine in February 2014. HOLDING ON IN A WAY, MY MOTHER NEVER TRULY LEFT her childhood home, even though she moved out long ago. It’s a classic River Oaks Georgian with two enormous magnolias with mushroom-colored trunks in the front yard. Her dad built […]

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other covers

• • • United Kingdom • • •  • • • Germany • • • • • • Portugal • • • • • • The Netherlands • • •  • • • Hungary • • • • • • The Czech Republic • • •  • • • Audiobooks • • • • • • Large Print • • • *More images as they become available!!

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the fabulous Brené Brown

So grateful to my friend Brené Brown for recommending The Lost Husband so heartily — and for putting my books on her favorites list! • • • “Last week my good friend Katherine Center celebrated the launch of her new book,The Lost Husband, with a party here in Houston.  I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of The Lost […]

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VIDEO: What You Know Now

At the launch for The Lost Husband, I read a short scene from the book, and then I also read an essay that I wrote a while back for an amazing project called The Prime Book. It’s a book of gorgeous, sumptuous pictures by the photographer Peter Freed that aims to redefine what it means […]

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The Lost Husband–LAUNCH!

It’s been a heck of a week! We had a FANTASTIC crowd at the launch for The Lost Husband this week!  It felt like there were a thousand people there, which can’t be right.  But it was standing-room-only, and Brazos Bookstore sold out of books. I am so grateful to all the people who came […]

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my ikea hack

So I went to Ikea the other day.  And I bought this clock. I’d been looking online for something cheery for our kitchen, but I hadn’t found anything.  And I was getting impatient, because I kept glancing at the bare wall where a clock should have been. This one seemed fine.  And cheap!  And kinda […]

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