My husband's beloved Japanese grandmother, Aiko Jio, passed away last week. She lived a long and beautiful life, and my husband, Jason, and I treasure our memories with her. We spent the past weekend in San Jose, where she lived, and loved showing our boys

How gorgeous is the cover for the Italian edition of The Violets of March, to be published by the fabulous Italian publisher, Nord, in October?! And, check out the book trailer they made for the book---it's so gorgeous!

My littlest guy is growing up, and I'm soaking up all of his baby sweetness.

OK, so it's not quite summer yet. Still, we're in full summer mode at the Jio abode. How gorgeous is this peach rhododendron? I always think of my grandma Antoinette when I see them. She used to have an entire orchard of them in every imaginable

I'm working on the revisions for my fourth novel, The Last Camellia, and I just stopped to snap this photo. I love looking up out of my office window at this spooky moon and ominous sky above. It's so cozy and fun, and it gets

Yesterday, we bought a new house. Well, an old house, with wonky plumbing, faulty electricity, and a faint smell of must in the air. But, it has the biggest, loveliest, sunny yard with lilacs, a prolific fig tree, plums, a Southern magnolia, Japanese maples, camellias

Today, Blackberry Winter (my third novel, set to debut in the U.S. on September 25!) sold in Norway, to the amazing publisher Cappelen Damm. I couldn't be happier about the sale, especially since I grew up in Poulsbo, Washington---a town that takes its Norwegian heritage

A career highlight happened yesterday: I got the chance to interview Dr. Maya Angelou for Glamour. Here's some bits from our conversation, which I shall remember for the rest of my life. We also talked about addictions that are killing people every day all over

My publisher put this little quote card together for me. I really loved writing this scene, which takes place in a graveyard! P.S. Blackberry Winter will be out on September 25! You can pre-order it here, here, and here!

Hello readers! Do you have a mom, grandma, or friend who likes to read books in large print? The large print edition of The Bungalow (as seen in the cover directly above) recently came out in hardcover, and I'd love to offer a signed copy