And here I take a break from regularly scheduled book news to display my curls---styled by the lovely Kaylene Antonious from Swoop Salon in Seattle. Go see her! She does amazing work (even transforming me into someone who I don't even recognize, ha!).

Happy birthday to my fifth novel, MORNING GLORY! It's in bookstores everywhere today (you can find it at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Costco, Books-a-Million, and at your favorite independent bookstores across the country)! I hope you'll stop and pick up a copy this week (first

I recently had my photo taken by the amazingly talented celeb photographer John Keatley, who has shot photos of everyone from Bill Gates and Sarah Palin to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. John's currently working on the coolest iPhone portrait project, where he's curating hundreds of

  All photos taken by the lovely Wendi Parriera, one of my oldest and dearest friends, on a sunny day just outside of Bellingham, Washington. Memories to last a lifetime

We're excited over here (can you tell?)! And, have you pre-ordered? You can do that here, here, and here.

A while ago, I told my literary agent that I wanted to write a book about cake. Yes, cake. Which, actually seems weird, since I've been writing about health for magazines for so many years---five years as a health contributor for Glamour. But here's the

So pretty, right?

How gorgeous is the cover of the German edition of BLACKBERRY WINTER? It will be published by Heyne/Verlag later this year (a division of Random House in Germany).

I'm so excited that my fourth novel, THE LAST CAMELLIA, has been chosen as the Amazon Kindle Deal of the Day! For today, Sunday only, you can grab a copy for your e-reader for $2.99. (Barnes & Noble, and Kobo readers, you too!) This novel