I love this print, and I love the handwriting just as much!

Today was an incredible day for The Violets of March. The amazing team at SheReads chose my novel as their September book club pick (such an honor!) and as a result, Violets suddenly skyrocketed up the charts on Amazon.com and elsewhere (a friend called to tell me that a bookstore in her city was sold out!). And, I practically fell off my chair when I spotted my book on a list with The Help (you know, the book that's been on the bestseller list for about a century, now!). On the Amazon.com Movers and Shakers List, my book---for a brief second---surpassed The Help in its climb upward. If you blinked, you missed it, but it was a very exciting moment for a first time author to see the little book I created share space with such a noteworthy title. Wow. Thank you for celebrating with me!

I was so excited to see this photo that my husband snapped at Fred Meyer (a huge chain department store/grocery store in the Seattle area), where The Violets of March appears on a staff picks shelf, along with a few books written by friends, Allie Larkin's Stay, and Sarah-Kate Lynch's Dolci Di Love. Also, two books I'm dying to read were there. Such good company. Thank you Fred Meyer!

This makes me happy. And I love that my boys love Mr. Rogers too. (We downloaded a bunch of episodes on the iPad, because they're not on PBS anymore. Boo hoo.)