Today we moved me into my new office (yay!) and it feels so good. The coming week has a trip and my house move, so it’ll be a few days before I’m in the office regularly, but I can tell I’m going to love it. I’ll post pictures once it’s in order. Send good thoughts… Read more »
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Pictures and Reflections
Here’s how it looks outside the windows today… I left the endless rain of Northern California and came home to the snow of Eastern Massachusetts :o). Weather is so good for writing. I wrote two and a half pages this morning while curled up in blankets and watching the snow fall. (I consider two pages… Read more »
Scenes from the Writer’s New Life
It’s hard to focus on a hard revision when my new home remains chaotic and I could be organizing, cleaning, and hanging up pictures, rather than fixing this book. The news, which is heartbreaking everywhere, every single day, also makes it difficult. But I am focusing and fixing the book, because it feels even more… Read more »
My Mother Made Me a Hat
So, the movers are coming tomorrow, and though I’m surrounded by exquisite disarray, I feel this is the moment to blog pictures (taken by Kevin) of a very special (perhaps even magical) hat. Because now is the time to celebrate beautiful things. :o) My regular readers know that I knit. Well, my mother knits on… Read more »
Common Stories Event with Nancy Werlin and Annie Hartnett this Friday evening in Harvard, Mass
Hi all! If you’re looking for something fun to do in eastern Massachusetts this coming Friday evening, please join me and writers Nancy Werlin and Annie Hartnett for a Common Stories event Upstairs @ The General, taking place at 7:30pm at the General Store in the town of Harvard, Mass. Each of us will read… Read more »
Packing Catharsis + Scrabble Whinge
Getting rid of stuff is, of course, one of the great pleasures of a move. Just dropped off at the Used department of Harvard Book Store: Copies of my books in lots of languages, including a few in English. They won’t put everything on the shelves right away, so if you’re curious if anything specific… Read more »
The Last Few Days in Pictures, Again
At the Colonial Inn in Concord, Massachusetts, they keep the register on display, set to October 19, 1895.One traveler on this list is from Ohio, but the rest are from sooooo nearby… my friend pointed out that in 1895,Lowell (about 14 miles from Concord on today’s roads) and Waltham (about 11 miles)were far enough away… Read more »
A Gallery of My Favorite Objects (And Other Nonsense)
My Finnish translator, Maria Lyytinen, has one gray eye and one brown eye. She’s a Graceling! Kiitos for translating my book, Maria — I can’t imagine anyone more appropriate! :o) The Simmons Summer Institute is this weekend; I speak Friday, which I’m very grateful for, because it means I’ll be able to enjoy Saturday and… Read more »
Still Not Quite Moved In
I’m taking a moment away from the boxy madness to point out the profile Publishers Weekly did of Fire this week. The online version is here. The focus of the piece is something that’s close to my heart — the wonderful way that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Graceling‘s publisher) and Penguin (Fire‘s publisher) are working together… Read more »
Haves
I have furniture. I have the Internet. I have food in my fridge, sheets on my bed, and clothes — well, I have clothes all over the place. I have the Rockies in the office, the Alps in the kitchen, the Andes in the bedroom, and the Himalayas in the living room (when it comes… Read more »
