The Real Reason the Magic of Found Objects is so Close to my Heart
Oh my gosh! Well, I’m just about as crazy-pleased as I can be that at last, as of August 1st, THE MAGIC OF FOUND OBJECTS is out in the world for everybody to see! (And not just in Amazon First Reads anymore!) The Magic of Found Objects is a Bestseller in multiple categories! It turns…
Read MoreAuthors Maddie Dawson and Kerry Anne King Discuss The Magic of Found Objects
It was so much fun to sit down with author Kerry Anne King on her Tell Me Your Secrets show to talk about my brand new book The Magic of Found Objects. We also discussed the magic of writing, and love, and friendship, and gnomes. Why gnomes? Listen to find out. Or read the book!
Read MoreThe Magic of Found Objects is Free on First Reads!
Dear Lovely People Out There, (Especially All of You Who Are Blinking in the Sunlight Now That We Can Leave Our Homes, Sometimes Not Even Wearing Masks) July is here! Welcome back to the world of human in-person interaction. It’s July, which is known for being HOT and LAZY and, this year is famous for…
Read MoreA New Baby and a New Book, Plus Blix Talks Life After Quarantine
A New Baby Welcome to springtime! I’m in Minnesota at the moment, where spring has been goosed along by a string of days in the seventies—even once tiptoeing up to 83 degrees, which was really just the weather showing off for us visiting New Englanders, I felt—all resulting in a bunch of greenness popping out…
Read MoreDear Blix–Lockdown Has Eaten My Brain
Dear Blix: I thought that while I was in lockdown, I would keep a journal, organize my closets, try out a recipe for baked Alaska, as well as learn to speak a foreign language. Seriously! Stay home, stop commuting to work? I was all in! Well, we are now coming up on a whole year…
Read MoreIntroducing Ask Blix–the advice column you’ve been waiting for
Do you remember Blix, the irascible 85-year-old matchmaker from Matchmaking for Beginners who went around saying things like “Whatever happens, love that”? She led an interesting, colorful life, and readers still to this day, four years later, write to me and ask me to bring her back. Honestly. They send me soundtracks of what Blix…
Read MoreAn advance look at A Happy Catastrophe
I am so thrilled that in less than one week, A HAPPY CATASTROPHE will be out there on the shelves, in the cybersphere, on the algorithm, in the Kindles–wherever we’re all looking for books these days. It’s a funny thing, having a book come out in a pandemic. It’s…quiet. No book launch at the library…
Read MoreHow to Know If You’re a Writer
There is no excuse for me lately. I have been writing and writing, and that means that a lot of other things have fallen away: cooking, coherent conversations, laundry, just to name a few of the really obvious ones. Eating and showering are going to be the next things to go; I can just feel…
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