See You At Harry’s: Celebrating with Jo Knowles

It’s a very good day when I get to sit across from Jo Knowles in a café while we and other friends write together, drink coffee, and catch up. But you can almost hear the planet hum on a sunny May afternoon when I can get a new book, signed in silver, and give a congratulatory hug to someone who’s worked so hard and so faithfully to create something beautiful. See You at Harry’s is a novel filled with love, humor, family, friends, sorrow, and hope. Here’s Jo surrounded by family and friends, all of us ready to listen to a few pages.

And heres’s Jo with Kara LaReau. How cool and seet is it to dress to match the book cover?

And one of the world’s kindest, smartest authors with me and Ellen Wittlinger after eating ice cream with all sorts of toppings, chatting with friends, hearing kids bat a volleyball, with littler ones running by in clothes soaked by water guns, with a bit of chocolate on some faces, perfectly happy, as were we all. Leaving with a novel that doesn’t paint life as sunshine-y every day, but shows the power of love and truth to help us move forward. Lucky to have others who understand.