News

I apologize (again!) to those who are looking for Island Light. My publisher is working with a new distributor, and books are slow getting to the stores and online retailers. Signed copies are now available at RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth. Go to the purchase page of this site and click on the link to email them. They can arrange to send copies, and I can inscribe them if you like.

Island Light, the third volume of the Snow Island trilogy, will be available from bookstores and online distributors in early July. For those of you who pre-ordered from Amazon, it is NOT out of print and will be posted there soon. You may have to place your orders again, though. Check back for additional postings of my book events and reviews as they come in. I appreciate the patience of my readers while my publisher has gone through a finanical reorganization and publication has been delayed. Many thanks to all of you who have written to ask when the book will be available and who have placed advanced orders online. Some of you even offered to send casseroles!

An essay of mine titled "A Life Observed" appears in Writers and Their Notebooks, just out in February 2010 from University of South Carolina Press.

An essay of mine is included in Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertilty, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion. This anthology of essays by women writers about reproductive choices was published by MacAdam/Cage in October 2007.

A poem of mine is included in the anthology The Other Side of Sorrow (March 2006, Poetry Society of New Hampshire), a collection of poems about war and peace from New Hampshire poets and others around the world. See the purchase page to get a copy from RiverRun Bookstore. See the Other Work page to read the poem.

Snow Island was the 2006 One Book, One Town title in Merrimack, NH.

Snow Island was the featured title for the 2005 Westwood Reads program in Westwood, MA.

Snow Island was chosen for the Life Journeys with Books program sponsored by the Grand Rapids, MI Humanities Council in March 2005, as part of Women's History month.

Five New Hampshire libraries featured Snow Island in the Seacoast Reads program in February 2005.

Events

June 16, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.—Reading and signing at Merrimack Public Library, Merrimack, NH.

July 12, 2010 at 7 p.m.—Reading and signing, Levenson Room, Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth, NH. Co-hosted by RiverRun Bookstore.

September 15, 2010 at 7 p.m.—Reading and signing at Rockport Public Library, Rockport, MA. Co-hosted by Toad Hall Bookstore.

September 18, 2010, time to be announced—Presenting a reading and workshop at the Monadnock Literary Festival, Glen Brook Center, Peterborough, NH.

September 21, 2010—Reading and signing, Barnes and Noble, Newington, NH.

September 25, 2010, time to be announced—Reading at the Power of Word Conference at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.

October 28, 2010 at 7 p.m.&mdash Reading and signing, Gibson's Bookstore, Concord, NH.