Booklist Review!
Here is the Booklist review! Yipee!! Rasmussen, Rebecca (Author) Apr 2011. 304 p. Crown, hardcover, $24.00. (9780307717962).Born to two star-crossed lovers turned emotionally estranged parents in rural...
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AWP!
Last Thursday, I was a very lucky girl and got to have dinner with these talented ladies! Tanya Egan Gibson, Barbara Drummond Mead, Therese Fowler, Siobhan Fallon, Rebecca Rasmussen, Heidi Durrow,...
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Nature's Creative Influence by Melissa Crytzer Fry
Nature’s Creative InfluenceBy Melissa Crytzer FryWhen a peregrine falcon circled over my head during a jog this week, words began to swirl in my mind, matched only by the intensity of each hurried wing...
View ArticleSemper Fi (In Other Words: Have Some Heart, Rebecca)
** This is a blog post I did for the lovely Amanda Hoving and wanted to share it here, too.Semper Fi (In Other Words: Have Some Heart, Rebecca)By Rebecca RasmussenThe first time I walked off the course...
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Starred Library Journal Review!!!!
Hello everyone! Lovely news from the wonderful Library Journal Review: Rasmussen, Rebecca. The Bird Sisters. Crown. Apr. 2011. c.304p. ISBN 9780307717962. $24. FWhat a pleasure to become acquainted...
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Navel Gazing by Lisa Cihlar
Navel GazingBy Lisa Cihlar"Most poets write and publish far too much. They forget the agricultural good sense of the fallow period. . . " Irish poet Michael LongleyApril is National Poetry Month and...
View ArticleBird Sisters Pre-Order Special!
Signed Bookplates, Donations to the Audubon Society, check out The Bird Sisters Pre-Order Special! From February 28th--March 7th! Thank you, as always, for your lovely...
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Literary Citizenship By Cathy Day
Cathy Day is the author of two books: Comeback Season, a non-fiction novel (Free Press 2008) and The Circus in Winter, a short-story cycle (Harcourt 2004). Her stories and essays have appeared most...
View ArticleBird Sisters, oh my!
You can now read a nice, long excerpt of The Bird Sisters c/o my lovely publisher!http://scr.bi/gEH4dm
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Getting Back to Business by Nancy Hinchliff
Nancy Hinchliff owns and operates a bed and breakfast in Louisville, Kentucky where she also blogs and writes on line at Examiner.com, Eye on Life Magazine, Pink magazine and Hub pages. You can find...
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The Never Ending Re-Write by Beth Winegarner
When I was in my late teens, I would proofread my dad's market-research reports for extra pocket money. They needed it; my dad had a habit of inserting a comma every time he paused to look at his...
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Launch Day for Jessica McCann
Hold On for the Ride (or How to Write a Novel)by Jessica McCannWriting your first novel is like a walk in the park. Really, you say, it’s that easy? Before you rush to judgment, allow me to share a...
View ArticleThank you!
Thank you to everyone for putting up with my Facebook accounts recently -- they have been compromised and I am working on getting them restored. This has been a bit of a nightmare, and it's all of my...
View ArticleThe Nervous Breakdown
Hi everyone-- I wanted to share with you a lovely feature on the Bird Sisters at The Nervous Breakdown, which includes a self-interview, an excerpt, and some other pretty wonderful things. Thank you so...
View ArticleBOOK CLUB IN A BOX--4 days until Launch Day!
Hi everyone -- I wanted to let you know about a GREAT giveaway happening c/o the amazing Dawn from Too Fond of Books. She is generously giving away up to ten hardcover copies of The Bird Sisters and a...
View Article1 Day Before The Bird Sisters Launch!
I can't believe we are almost there! I want to wish everyone a great day -- I am trying to enjoy this day before I hop on a plane to Pennsylvania and officially get things rolling with The Bird...
View ArticleLaunch Day!
I am about ready to get on another plane to start this tour off, but I was thinking about all of you on my first plane ride and for the first time I was crying not out of fear but out of joy. You all...
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Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong By Jolina Petersheim
Jolina Petersheim's blog, The Happy Book Blog, at a year old has been featured twice on Southern author River Jordan’s Clearstory Radio. Currently it is syndicated with The Tennessean's "On Nashville"...
View ArticleIntroducing Paul Elwork and Michelle Reale
SSM 2011: Conversation between Paul Elwork and Michelle Reale, 5.20.11In honor of Short Story Month 2011, I thought it would be fun to chat a bit with a short-story writer I know, Michelle Reale, about...
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Keep Writing, Even When It Hurts by Kathryn A. Brackett
Keep Writing, Even When It Hurts by Kathryn A. BrackettWhen I was born, I was small enough to fit into an adult’s palm. My father was afraid to hold me as he peered at my premature shell, hooked to...
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Guest Post!
In the Palms of Angelsby Terri Kirby Erickson Several months before the release of my new collection, In the Palms of Angels, I didn’t have a venue for the launch party. Every place I thought...
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The Paperback!
Hello friends,I am finally coming out of the hardcover cloud that I was in (and the moving across the country cloud, too) and just in time...The Bird Sisters is arriving in paperback on November 22nd,...
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Guest Post by Doreen Mcgettigan
It was about this time of the year. I sat on the front porch with my bonus daughter Heather and rubbed her eight months pregnant belly.I created one thousand reasons in my mind why the baby boy was...
View ArticleGoodreads Giveaway!
Hi everyone! I didn't want any of you to miss out on this lovely giveaway! 24 copies of The Bird Sisters are up for grabs over at Goodreads. Thank you...
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New Book Recommendations
I can't stop talking about this book: The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey. It is so lovely and thoughtful, I hope you pick it up. You're in for a treat. Another book I am loving is The Snow Child by...
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