One week until my signing at Doylestown Bookshop as part of their Local Author Spotlight! I will be there from 2-3:30pm, and I’ll have homemade cookies!

I hope you’re coming! There will be two authors signing at noon and two of us signing at two.

Click HERE for more information!

Here are two photos from my book signing at Harleysville Books yesterday! Great day. Met some interesting folks. HUGE thank you to my Personal Assistant, Kathie Cronk! I have to thank owner Stephanie Steinly for inviting me to Local Author Saturday. It was a fun event, despite the rain.

(Shout out to Patti Cline and Albert Reale for coming yesterday; it was a pleasant surprise.)

In the second photo, I was speaking with the owner and some customers about how independent book and record stores are still relevant. It was a casual signing. Kathie, who in addition to being my Personal Assistant (she chose her title!), is also the Baker-in-Chief, and she made some incredible chocolate chip cookies. My Booking Agent and mom, Kathie Woods Harrington, helped get this whole Book Tour rolling. Thank you, Ma!

In honor of the beginning of the Sweater Girl Book Tour, use coupon code MP-100 on my website and get 15% off all of my books! Just use the code as you’re checking out. Plus, all Kindle editions are only 3.49!

I took the cover photograph of my friend Vicky Lee holding a really old friend, Woofer, who has seen better days. Dominique Messihi of Pepper Lillie designed the cover, or, rather, Dominique re-designed it, as we rescued this, my first book, from the clutches of the original publisher.

TOMORROW!
I will be at a signing at Harleysville Books from 2-4pm, along with author Jeanne C. Hoff as part of Local Author Saturdays. Stop by, say hi, enjoy a homemade cookie, buy a book!

See you there!

Here is a photo of my books on prominent display at the Doylestown Bookshop. I’ll there for a signing on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2-3:30, as part of their Local Author Spotlight. Wow, my books look so cool on display!

This Saturday, I’ll be signing books at Harleysville Books from 2-4, as part of their Local Author Saturday.

My mom took the photograph!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

All four of my books (the new Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County plus Saving Magdalene, I See No Angels, and Deep Autumn) are now available at DOYLESTOWN BOOKSHOP!

Located at 16 S. Main Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 (215-230-7610), Doylestown Bookshop is one of the Philadelphia area’s greatest independent bookstores. You could browse for hours and then relax in the café. They have an extremely knowledgeable staff, and their event calendar is always filled: Educators’ Night, Children’s Story Time, book signings, and more! Bonus: they are around the corner from one of the area’s best independent record stores, Siren Records.

I will be part of their Local Author Spotlight on September 27, along with three other writers.

It’s a meet-and-greet, and we’ll be signing books too. I will be there from 2-3:30pm.

Don’t forget: I will be part of Harylesville Books‘ Local Author Saturday on September 13 with another writer. It is also a meet-and-greet and signing, from 2-4pm.

A new date has been added to what I’m calling my Book Tour 2014!

I will be appearing at Harleysville Books on Saturday, September 13, 2-4pm, as part of their Local Author Saturday.

680 Main Street
Salford Sq. Shopping Ctr.
Harleysville, PA 19438
215-256-9311

I will be there in support of my latest book, Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County. It’s a meet-and-greet, so you can stop by and chat. If you buy Sweater Girl or any of my three other books, I’ll sign them! At least one other author will be there as well, so you can meet that writer too!

ALSO: I will be appearing at the Doylestown Bookshop for a meet-and-greet and signing on Saturday, September 27, 2-3:30 pm, as part of their Local Author Spotlight. Three other writers will also be there that day!

16 S Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
215-230-7610

Save the date!

I will be appearing at the Doylestown Bookshop on Saturday, September 27 at 2PM as part of their Local Author Spotlight. Click HERE for more information and profiles on the other authors appearing that day.

I will be there to promote my latest book, Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County. There won’t be any reading, but you can meet various authors and have your book(s) signed. I will be there for an hour and a half, and my book will be in stock at the Doylestown Bookshop.

Here’s the lineup so far:
12 to 1:30pm—Karen Polis, author of Moses Was Watching Over Me
2 to 3:30pm—Michael-Patrick Harrington
2 to 3:30pm—Nicole Maddalo Dixon, author of Bandito Bonita: Romancing Billy the Kid

So please come out and hang with me for a little while!
This is the first appearance on my book tour!

Doylestown Bookshop
16 S Main Street Doylestown, PA 18901
215-230-7610

PS All of my books are also available at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles’ web site, as well as this web site.

From The Daily Telegraphl

Pulitzer Prize: Donna Tartt wins in fiction for ‘The Goldfinch’
© The Daily Telegraph | 22 April, 2014 07:08
Last week Donna Tartt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Goldfinch. The prize honours exceptional journalism, literature and musical composition.

The 784-page bestseller, which follows a grieving 13-year-old New Yorker whose fate becomes intertwined with a mysterious 17th-century painting, was described as “a beautifully written coming-of-age novel that stimulates the mind and touches the heart” in a release from Columbia University, which announced the awards.

The Goldfinch triumphed over the two other nominees, The Son by Philip Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis.

It was Tartt’s eagerly anticipated third novel, following her highly praised The Little Friend, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003. Tartt’s first book, The Secret History, was released in 1992.

A film adaptation of The Goldfinch is in the pipeline after the producers behind the hit teen franchise The Hunger Games announced last month that they had taken up an option on the book.

This year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction went to Dan Fagin’s Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, the story of a small New Jersey town ravaged by industrial pollution. Megan Marshall’s Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won for biography, and the winner in poetry was 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri.

Alan Taylor’s The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 received the history prize.

Last year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded to The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson.

RIP Gabriel García Márquez, author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude…a true visionary…

Click HERE to read Salman Rushdie’s essay on the late Márquez.