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 […]
I had a chance to appear on a panel for an “Arts Town Hall” at the University of Houston’s Hilton hotel this week. Professor of English Elizabeth Brown-Guillory brought artists and arts administrators from every discipline together to talk about how the arts can support and nurture each other. The panel also included novelist Chitra […]
I visited the Fort Bend Junior Service League’s monthly meeting this week and spoke to a huge election-night crowd of something like 150 women.
Here’s the excerpt my great publicist at Random House included with Everyone Is Beautiful when she mailed it out to reviewers this week: “There is no better people-watching than at the airport: The whole world packed into such a tight space, moving fast with all their essentials in their rolling bags. And what caught my […]
I will be speaking at the Children’s Museum of Houston’s big fundraising luncheon on February 23, 2009 — just one week after Everyone Is Beautiful goes on sale. If you’re in Houston, be sure to come! Contact The Children’s Museum for tickets.
My new book, Everyone Is Beautiful, comes out February 17, 2009. Here’s the flap copy: From the author of The Bright Side of Disaster, the entertaining and ultimately poignant story of what happens after happily ever after: how a mother of three recaptures her sense of self and falls in love with her husband all […]
Here’s what happens when I’m really in a groove with writing: I see everything in a split-screen. Like, I’ll be washing dishes and listening to my kids play Naked Zoo Animals on one side of my brain, but on the other side, just as vivid, I’m keeping an eye on the imaginary people from the […]
I’m finally doing it. I love to read blogs. But, with two little kids and many stories playing themselves out in my head most of the time, lots of nights I fall asleep still in my clothes. You know, really. My plate is full. Overly full. Spilling off onto the table. But that has to […]
Here’s a feature from the Houston Chronicle from the summer of 2007.