want to see my ranch?

Blogger, photographer, digital storyteller, and all-around superhero Karen Walrond came out to my family’s ranch (we are Texans, after all) this weekend and took some photos of the place with a twin-lens reflex camera. I am a big fan of old cameras (the main character in Everyone Is Beautiful uses one), and these photos are […]

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american wife

I just finished Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, American Wife: “a work of fiction loosely inspired by the life on an American first lady.”  And oh, how I loved it.  The writing is so fine.  The dialogue is so crisp and smart, the inner landscape of the main character is so textured and complicated.  The story […]

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book tour for Everyone Is Beautiful!

The dates are confirmed for my book tour for Everyone Is Beautiful!  There are still some unconfirmed events, and not all the times are set, so I’ll update this page as I can. Send your friends!  Send your family!  Or, heck–just buy a plane ticket and meet me there! Tuesday, FEBRUARY 17 Everyone Is Beautiful […]

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interview at Trashionista!

Keris, at the fun and feisty British site Trashionista, has posted an interview with me.  Visit the site to learn who my favorite chick-lit heroine is, find out what I’m reading now, hear my theme song, and read shameful secrets about my housewifery habits.

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the new author photo

I always find myself flipping back the the author photos on the jackets of books I’m reading, just curious about the authors and trying to get to know them a little by studying their faces.  And if I’m reading a second book by an author I’ve read before, I’m always bummed when they re-use the […]

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katherine to speak at the fort bend county book & author dinner!

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 […]

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