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Dog Love

Dog love is naked love. So this is appropriate on so many levels. I am interviewed and/or posted on a couple of Marshal Zeringue's other blog's today. Check it out. The pictures are lovely; the dog is miraculous; and I am much better at talking about Calli than talking about me.

Coffee With a Canine
Campaign for the American Reader

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The Campaign for the American Reader is "an independent initiative to encourage more readers to read more books" run by Marshal Zeringue who is thereby doing no less than making the world a better place for writers, readers, and humans. Also dogs. So a big, enthusiastic, heartfelt thank you to Marshal.

One of Marshal's blogs is The Page 69 Test which posits that page 69 of any book will be somehow representative of the whole and will give you, as you stand in a bookstore or library trying to...

Where Else Am I?

Well for starters:

I'm interviewed here this week:
Number One Novels Blog

(You can find it here if it's not this week anymore.)

Enter a comment there for a chance to win a free copy of The Atlas of Love!

I am also hosting a Q&A at Goodreads, a lovely social networking site devoted exclusively to reading, which is the kind of social networking site I can get behind. I'll be answering questions and chatting with readers there until the end of September. So if you have thoughts on the book, on writ...

Today's the Day

Pub day! A long time coming.

1) I did not sleep last night.
2) I do feel different today.


My nephews are precocious readers.

















My great friend Alicia and my great husband Paul at the great Elliott Bay Book Co.
















Alicia at B&N.
















Daniel Meta-Cover: Infinite Loop

Guest Blogging

Today I was a guest blogger for the Seattle Public Library and the Seattle PI (R.I.P). Thought I'd post it here as well (or you could click through -- they're really cool blogs). They asked me to chat about what's on my nightstand now -- that is, what I just finished reading, what I'm reading now, what I'm reading next -- a pretty cool conceit. Many thanks to Linda Johns at the SPL for the opportunity!


Nightstand Reading


Currently Reading:

Away
by Amy Bloom
Awesome -- beautiful writing, grea...

Star!

The Atlas of Love received a starred review this week from the Library Journal. It was the only book to get one. It also got some very kind words. Hooray! Check it out here.

Save the Date

The book tour begins! I will be reading/chatting/book signing/question answering/otherwise standing awkwardly up in front of people/hanging out in bookstores and libraries (always a great pleasure) on the following dates in the following places. I'll post more as they come up and reminders (pleas) as well. Please please please please come and bring anyone you can. It will be really really awkward if I'm there all by myself. More to come.

Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle
Sat. Aug 21
4 pm

Villag...

Top Five Things I'm Doing While I Wait

This is a weird time. The book is out of my hands but not yet in anyone else's. In my wildest dreams, every man, woman, and child (and their dogs) in America buys a copy of The Atlas of Love. In my wildest nightmares, no one does but my mom. Probably, reality will fall somewhere in the middle as it always always always does. The path to getting one's novel into a bookstore is looooooong. So here's what I'm doing while I wait through this last (I think?!) bit:
1) Well, blogging. And...

Top Five Reasons Why This Blog Makes Me Kinda Nervous

1) Is there anybody out there? I have no idea. If so, please do let me know. I'd love to meet you, however electronically.
2) It's so very public. I mean I realize that's the point here of course. But still. I am used to editing my written thoughts for a year and a half or so before they go out there into the world.
3) The world of book publishing turns out to be a crazy, complex one, and I long not to offend anyone.
4) Blogs whose main goal is not to offend anyone are probably pretty...