My baby brother, who lives in Berlin, Germany most of the year, just bought a place in Santa Cruz - giving me a great excuse to go over the hill to the beach. …
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Meg's Posts
1 Question: Do You Have a Favorite Bookstore? Here are some of mine…
Four years ago this month and just a couple weeks after my second novel, The Wednesday Sisters, released, I learned it would be on the San Francisco …
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Oh the Places You'll Go (To Write!)
To borrow from the good Dr. S: Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're writing away! Mac and I spent five weeks this spring on …
Nancy Pearl on Judging a Book by its Cover
I came across this lovely bit in Nancy Pearl's Book Lust this week, and it screamed "Friday Fun!" “If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 …
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Longfellow Books, Portland ME
warm and cozy, with walls and tables filled with books, and a bookseller who had lots to say about books that I also loved I spent a long weekend in February …
Chaucer (and others) on Friday the 13th
How unlucky can a day be when it inspires words like "emirp" and "friggatriskaidekaphobia"? In a search for the source of the bad luck reputation of Friday the …
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Readers' Books, Sonoma CA
better than a winery tour, and at author events you might get a glassPerhaps it says something about my marriage that Mac and I, on a 24th anniversary trip to …
Mark Twain on Separating Characters from Corpses
An email from a reader this morning reminded me of my favorite Mark Twain quote, which I used in The Wednesday Sisters but have, surprisingly, never shared …
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A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland CA
a little bookstore with an amazing selection, and even more amazing booksellers One of my favorite things about A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, CA is …
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Literary Tights
These tights singlehandedly inspired me to start a new occasional feature on 1st Books: Friday Fun! I found them on the facebook page of Changing Hands …
