Want to enter the comma lottery? I just got exactly what I wanted for Christmas, which is very light copy edits on The Wednesday Daughters. They aren't all just …
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” - Henry Ward Beecher For the holidays, I'm hosting a holiday blog hop, with book bloggers doing quick posts …
Streetcars and Desire, Tennessee Williams and Writing
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” - Tennessee Williams, A …
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Random House Announces Digital-Only Imprints
The Random House Publishing Group (my happy literary home!) just announced three new digital imprints to add to LOVESWEPT, their digital imprint for romance and …
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Bank Square Books, Mystic CT
the true story of the flood If you're looking for signed copies of Louise Erdrich's The Round House in Mystic, Connecticut, I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. I …
Bookshelf as Painting
How sad that this wonderful book image, which I found as a repin on Page & Palette's Pinterest page, links from the Pinterest post to a porn site. Sigh. I …
Books on the Cape: Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Brewster Book Store, and More
Who knew Cape Cod had so many great bookstores and other book places? Mac and I - who are spending a long weekend here before joining family in Mystic, …
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Page's Post-It Dressing
Growing up, I was never a big fan of dressing, or gravy or anything, really, but the holiday turkey and the pies. For my oldest son’s first Thanksgiving, …
Ann Patchett, Richard Russo, John Grisham, Garth Stein and Others Give A Shout-Out to Indie Bookstores!
Today (horray!) is the publication date for My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop. Richard Russo kicks off this …
When Comforting a Grammar Nazi…
Maybe it's just that I'm waiting for copyedits on The Wednesday Daughters, but this one--found on Pinterest, thanks to Pudd'nhead Books--made me laugh. - Meg …
