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#1 Nook Book

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The Lightkeeper’s Wife #1 on Barnes & Noble Nook Book Bestseller List-With the BookPub promotion, The Lightkeeper’s Wife has moved to #1 on Nook.

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Interview with Sarah Anne Johnson – WORDS WITH WRITERS

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Kirkus Review

Entangled in 19th-century social restrictions, two women experience the transformative power of grief and the resurrecting power of love. Johnson’s debut intertwines the tales of Hannah Snow, the titular lighthouse keeper’s widow, and Annie, a sea captain’s runaway wife. Tethered by social conventions and expectations to increasingly unsatisfying lives, both women strive to gain some measure of masculine experience. Annie married Daniel hoping for adventure, not children, so she’s aghast when...

What to do when you get stuck in your writing

Here are a few tips that might help you.

1. Ron Carlson, in his book Ron Carlson Writes a Story,said that when he hits a place in his writing where he doesn’t know how to go on, he stops. He does not get up for a cup of coffee or to check the mail. He does not go online to scroll throughFacebook or read blurbs on amazon.com. He sits in front of his computer–or typewriter or pad of paper–and he waits for twenty minutes until he is ableto write his way into the next sentences of his narrative. T...

Top Ten Books on My Night Table

Raintree County – Ross Lockridge Jr.
Lucky Us – Amy Bloom
Swamplandia! – Karen Russel
The Mad and the Bad – Jean-Patrick Manchette
Panic in a Suitcase -Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Too Loud a Solitude -Bohumil Hrabal
Godforsaken Idaho – Shawn Vestal
Disgrace: A Novel – J.M. Coetze
The People in the Trees – Hanya Yanagihara
Song of the Shank: A Novel – Jeffery Renard Allen

Grace Darling Inspires a Look at Gender in 1843

I was wandering around the Highland House Museum in Truro, MA when I came across this image of Grace Darling, a young lightkeeper’s daughter who became famous when she rowed into a storm to rescue a shipwrecked sailor.

I was transfixed.

I grew up on Cape Cod sailing and spending a lot of time on the water, yet we had no female heroes. No women ship captains, or lightkeeper’s or merchant runners. Now, here was evidence of an actual heroine at sea. The image captured my imagination; the treachero...

Readings & Book Signings Fall 2014

September 9 – Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA

September 10 – Highland House Museum, Truro, MA

September 12 – Barnes & Noble, Hyannis, MA

October 9 – Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA

October 11 – Barnes & Noble, San Jose, CA

The Lightkeeper's Wife Comes Out September 1, 2014

Hannah, a lightkeeper’s young wife on Cape Cod in the19th century, rows into storms to save shipwrecked sailors. When a sailor she rescues is not the man she thought he was, all she knows about herself and her life at Dangerfield comes into question.

Second Book Due April 1st

Hard at work on Book #2…here’s a quick synopsis:

Sylvanius Thrasher wanted to be left alone. He’d achieved a comfortable solitude for ten years, three months and seventeen days, until events conspired to draw him from his simple life on the salt marsh and into the orbit of people he’d once held dear. But it happened slowly, and for a while he went about his life, unaware of what was to come.