From the French publisher La Martiniere and the translator Corinne Julve comes
Small Damages, renamed
Gipsy Song: Le choix de Kenzie.Oh my gosh. I love this.
Meanwhile, over at Teenreads, we've got a tour of Beth's Berlin going on. And a
Going Over giveaway! Check it out
here.
My cup is overflowing.
On this rainy afternoon, I would like to thank the one and only Ed Goldberg for reading
Flow, my Philadelphia river book, and having so much good to say on his spectacular, shared blog, 2Together. Ed, you are so integral to my writing life. I am blessed by your kindness in so many ways.
Through Twitter, a tool I have yet to master, but a tool through which I have made new friends, I learned of two spectacular new reviews of
Small Damages. One, by the bloggess, Love Is Not a Triangle, made me smile in so many ways, and had me sharing, with the bloggess, my thoughts about the
Small Damages sequel I hope to someday write. The whole is
here.
The second is by the good people of teenreads—or, I should say, by the super duper Terry Miller Shannon of teenreads—who wrote,
among other things, "Characters are so fully realized, they could walk off the page....
Small Damages is on the short side but is nothing short of a glorious triumph for Kephart." Those words will put sun into anybody's rainy day.
Finally, today, I want to thank Susan Barnes, Lauren Marino, and a certain publicist named Beth—all on the Gotham team. I had called Susan with a concern not at all of Gotham's making. She listened and took action at once. With tremendous compassion and care, the team relieved me of a percolating anxiety. They didn't have to do this. Some publishing teams might not have. But Gotham did, and I will always be grateful.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is one of TeenReads featured grab bag of books giveaways. As TeenReads is one of my favorite newsletters, I'm really tickled about this. Enter for your chance to win!
Welcome, Year of the Rat!
To help you celebrate, here are a couple of new books we can recommend…
Grace Lin has a sequel just out to her delightful Year of the Dog - called, appropriately enough, Year of the Rat. We’ll have our own review of it soon, in the meantime, you can read what Grace herself says about it here.
You can read here about another new book by Grace, this time a picture-book called Bringing in the New Year. There are some good “Lunar New Year” links on this post from Wild Rose Reader too.
And here are some more Chinese New Year picture books reviewed by PaperTigers:
The Year of the Rat: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin, illustrated by Miah Alcorn,;
The Great Race / The Story of the Chinese Zodiac by Dawn Casey, illustrated by Anne Wilson;
The Day the Dragon Danced by Kay Haugaard, illustrated by Carolyn Reed Barritt.
Do you have any special favorites you’d like to share with us?
…And a PS - do have a look at Grace Lin’s blog to read about her trip to China last month - there are some great photos too.
By: Beth Kephart ,
on 4/7/2014
By: Aline Pereira,
on 2/7/2008
Welcome, Year of the Rat!
Sounds like you've had a good day...that should make you smile. I hope you are feeling better today
the "Small Damages" sequel I hope to someday write....
What??? Happy Dance!