I loved this gorgeous spread about The Violets of March that I found in the June Doubleday Book Club mailer today! Wow! Do you buy books from book club catalogs like these?

Many of you know that my second novel, THE BUNGALOW, will be out around April of 2012. I'm past the halfway point of book #3 (details TBA!). As I finish up that novel, I wanted to share that I've decided to set my fourth novel

The Violets of March hit Target stores this week, and look, there's just one copy left at the Seattle Target store where I shop (and where I frequently spend way too much money---do you also have this problem at Target?!). Have you seen Violets at your

Hello all! I want to tell you about a beautiful new novel, published by my dear friend Camille Noe Pagán. The Art of Forgetting, out on June 9 from Penguin (Dutton), is a gorgeous story about friendship, and how one friend's brain injury changes the

How fun is this?!

Hello lovelies! Thanks for all the lovely entries in my giveaway. I loved all of your comments so much that I've decided to give away TWO copies. And I'll be picking winners at random this weekend! For now, I wanted to share the story of the

**Update! Two winners have been chosen! Thank you for playing. So sorry if you didn't win, but check back for more giveaways this summer! Hello lovelies! It's been such a fun weekend: Mother's Day and a really great book signing at Costco in Seattle---yay! So, I'm

You know what's a little surreal? Seeing your book on a table at Costco. (!) My mother-in-law just sent me this photo snapped at an Oregon Costco store, and I was so excited. There I am, right next to James Patterson! I wonder who will

I grew up in Poulsbo, Washington, the town just off the bridge from Bainbridge Island, where The Violets of March is set. The lovely book store there, Liberty Bay Books (just down the hill from the church I was married in!) has a nice display

We popped in to book stores to check on The Violets of March, and of course, the boys had fun! Here is Colby, age 12 weeks, holding his mama's novel, above. And the older boys thought it was pretty cool, albeit a little weird, to