Kathy Lynn Harris's Blog, page 13
January 19, 2012
You Can Take the Girl out of Texas, but …
A blog! I need a blog! This thought has been keeping me up nights for quite a while, so finally, here it goes …
I'm pleased to announce I'll be blogging here regularly (I hope) about my writing and family life, my adventures in the Colorado mountains, and mostly, my musings on what makes Texas so crazy and yet so special. Hint: It has everything to do with hard-livin', hell-raisin', big-hearted people. And maybe cows.
The big news today on the writing front is that the paperback release of Blue Straggler is scheduled for mid-February now, and readers can even pre-order the book now via Barnes and Noble. I can't wait to hold a proof in my hands soon. And my husband BETTER take me out to dinner. I'm talking steak and vodka, baby.
I'm already making some calls to see if I can set up a couple of book signings down in Texas in March. Let's face it: I love a good excuse to enjoy the spring wildflowers, especially the bluebonnets, and perhaps a margarita or two with some of my dear friends at Texas A&M. Stay tuned for updates!
For now, I'll leave you with a phrase a colleague just told me "must be a Texas-ism." I simply told her that my laptop crashed "like a mother dog." And now I'm thinking that may just be a "Kathy-ism."
September 26, 2011
Blue Straggler
Being a 30-something, fairly directionless single female in South Texas is a world all its own. Kathy Lynn Harris's Blue Straggler is a laugh-out-loud, yet poignant, exploration of that experience — from the quirky, memorable characters who make up Bailey Miller's circle of family and friends to that feeling of your makeup sliding right off in the humidity. Readers will easily identify with Bailey's sometimes humorous, often semi-tragic, choices that eventually lead her out of Texas, to a small mountain town in Colorado, and back. Along the way, she searches for not only herself but also answers to long-held secrets from her "legitimately unbalanced" great-grandmother's past. Bonus: She may even find love with a moody mountain man along the way.
