My TEDx Talk is about how important it is to encourage boys to read stories about girls—stories that put boys in the shoes of female main characters so that they can practice empathizing with folks on the other side of the gender divide. As things stand in our storytelling culture, the vast majority of […]
If you’ve ever wanted to listen to me talk about writing and stories for 1 hour and 24 minutes, today is your lucky day! Kate Williams and Jessica Cole asked me to join them for their podcast about writing and stories, F*cking Shakespeare, and I had so much fun, they basically couldn’t get rid […]
So beyond thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming book, How to Walk Away. I love everything about it. The font! The red! The flowers! Actually, our front door is red, and I painted flowers all over it last spring. So this basically could be our front door. I’m a total cover junkie. I’ve […]
So I just turned in my sixth novel! We haven’t even begun to edit it, and the title is still TBD, and it’s still early days (because it won’t go on sale for a year or so)–but I have that giddy, in-love feeling you get when you’ve just written something with some real magic in […]
I’ll be doing a three-day, three-city tour around Texas in June to talk about my new book, HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS! Please tell all your Texas friends!! I promise to make it fun!! DALLAS :: Thursday JUNE 25 :: The Wild Detectives :: 7:30 pm SAN ANTONIO :: Friday JUNE 26 :: The […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Lost Husband has just been optioned by a movie production company! See the article about it in Variety here.
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]