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NEWS

Days of Wonder, about a young troubled woman, early-released from prison, struggling to reinvent herself as she searches for the child she gave up, and grapples with the mystery of an attempted murder she and her now vanished boyfriend supposedly committed when they were fifteen. Sold on a partial to Chuck Adams at Algonquin, by Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman (world).

 

Watch my video section from Marcia Butler's documentary film THE CREATIVE IMPERATIVE.

With or Without You rave-reviewed on NPR Here and Now, The Weekly Reader

 

My essay, I Was in a Coma And No One Will Tell Me What Happened, which also deals with With or Without You,  is now in The Daily Beast.

Read the feature about me in the Washington Post

Read the feature about me in the Boston Globe

Read the feature about me in the Columbia Tribune

Read an interview with me in the Coachella Review

 

Audio rights for With or Without You have been sold to Dreamscape.


Pictures of You is being re-released with a brand new cover.

Read my new column/blog Runs in the Family on Psychology Today.

 

Read an interview with me  on Spirit of Story

 

EVENTS
all times are EST unless otherwise indicated)

And please check by often because

the pandemic is making everything

bananas and things are likely to be added and changed.

 

Proud member of Novel Network, connecting
book clubs to writers.

PAPERBACK EVENTS FOR WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
 

 Stephanie Weaver The Blue and Yellow Kitchen Show
 

Parent Footprint podcast
Details to come

Monday, June 7 noon.
Writers' Bone interview


Saturday, June 12 4-5

Writers and Knitting event With Ann Hood and Elinor Lipman
 

Thursday, June 24th Library event with Ron Block, Cuyahoga Public Library Series
Conversation with Mary Morris


Friday, June 25, Interview on A Mighty Blaze, Friday Frontliner, 4 with Iris Krasnow

Tuesday, June 29,  7 PM
Booktowne, Manasquan, NJ
In conversation with Jane Green. Register at booktowne.com Free

Wednesday, June 30 at 4, Instagram event. Reading with Robin.
 

Thursday, July 29  10 AM. Write the Book Radio Show
 

Thursday July 15 at 6. Summer Lit Arts Festival
"The Outsider in Fiction." With Leora Skolkin-Smith

August 18th Bryant Park live reading series at noon.
 

Tuesday, September 14.  8 Book Buffet event for bookclubs

PAST PAPERBACK EVENTS

Wednesday, January 27 Authors Love Bookstores

4:00
Live interview on A Mighty Blaze FB page

created a new YouTube stream for your February 17 talk and hope you'll share the link to your Events Calendar and on Twitter. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84ZPZIB4EXQ

Sunday, February 7  with Hank Phillipi Ryan
Talk with Authors in the Backrooms!

https://bksp.org/february-7/

Wednesday, February 17th at 7 EST
RESCHEDULED DUE TO ZOOM BOMB

Waltham public Libary
Life After Coma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84ZPZIB4EXQ

Sunday, March 7 at 2PM Mountain Time

JCC in Albuqueqrue

Tuesday, May 24th, Chappaqua Public Library, 7PM

Writing During the Pandemic: Revision, Reflection and Zoom

Conversation with Susan Henderson

PAST HARDBACK EVENTS

May 29

Writers Live! With Ron Block


Recording Monday, July 13, 1:00
podcast with Zibby Owens
Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books

Wednesday, July 29, 11:00

Real Fiction Radio with Lori Messing McGarry


Saturday, August 1
With or Without You is Reading Corner's Book of the Month

 

Sunday, August 2, 1:00
Ten Questions and a Book With Meg Waite Clayton
4:00PM EST

Monday, August 3 12:30

Joe Donahue National NPR The Book Show
AIR DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Tuesday, August 4, 7:00
Belmont books in conversation with B. A. Shapiro

Register and details are HERE.

Tuesday, August 4 11:00
Glam Cam interview on A Mighty Blaze FB page with author Rachel Barenbaum

Watch it HERE.

Wednesday, August 5, 7:00
The Best of August: Reading with Robin in conversation with Stephen Kiernan and Fiona Davis

Register and find details HERE
 

Thursday, August 6 at 5:00

Zoom chat and Q & A with the Federation of BC Writers
Email for an invite! fbcw.islands@gmail.com

Friday, August 7, 4:00
Lisa Scottoline interviews me on A Mighty Blaze on Facebook Live
Watch and find details HERE

Saturday, August 9, 2:00
A Mighty Blaze
In conversation with Rick Moody on Facebook Live\

Watch and find details HERE

Monday, August 10, 7:00
Wellesley Books
In conversation with Dani Shapiro

Register, watch and find details here

Wednesday August 12th 3-5:00
Reedsy Webinar with Gina Sorell. "How to make your characters come alive."

Register and watch here

Wednesday August 12th, 6:30-7:30
Buttonwood Books and Toys

Conversation with Stephen P. Kiernan

Register and join the conversation here

Thursday, August 13th

Book Cougars interview, 10:00 AM

Details to come

Thursday, August 13th at 6
Live interview on FB with Wade Rouse (Viola Shipman)
 

Friday, August 14th, 5:00
Brattleboro Book Festival

Interview Amy Poeppel at the Literary Cocktail Hour

Find details here

August 17, Little City Books
In conversation with Stephen McCauley

Door prizes! 25 watercolors by me, and three reads of the first 3
pages of 3 people's manuscripts

Details to come here

August 18 6:15 PM
Boston Public Library Speaker series

South End Writes Author Speaker Series with Sara DiVello and Caroline Leavitt
Find details and join the conversation here

Wednesday, August 19th 2:00
A Mighty Blaze

In Conversation with Darin Strauss
Watch and find details HERE
 

Wednesday, August 19th
Brookline Booksmith in conversation with Heidi Pitlor

Register and find details here

Wednesday August 19th

Central Booking Book Show with John Valeri

Details to come

Thursday, August 20
Delbarton Book Club


Friday, August 21 Porter Square Books

in conversation with Jenna Blum

Register and details to come here


Monday August 24th

interview with Jacob at FB The Reading Corner

Find details here

Tuesday, August 25, Literati Bookstore

In Conversation with Elinor Lipman
Details are here.

Wednesday, August 26 4:00
Tell me Your Secrets Podcast @kerryschafer.com

 

Thursday, August 27, Reading Group Choices
Live FaceBook Event  1:00

Friday, August 28th 3
Writers on Writing radio show Interviewed by Marrie Stone

Wednesday, September 2 7:00
In conversation with Carol Van den Hende for PTA/Parents group/Library

 

Thursday, September 3. Alone Together event with Ron Block

Jennifer Haupt, Susan Henderson, Pam Houston, Anna Quinn,
Ruben Quesada, Kristen Millares Young, and me.

www.facebook.com/cuyahogalib/live

Wednesday, September 9

Facebook live with Adriana Trigiani
Details to come. But check back here
 

Wednesday September 9, 7:00
Print, a Bookstore
In conversation with Anne Lamott

Find details here

Thursday, September 10 7-8
Skylark books: in conversation with Alex George
Find details here

Monday, September 14 1 EST/10PT
Instagram Live Chat with Julie Chan of Beyond the Book

Details to come

Wednesday, September 16, 7-8
in conversation with Carol Van den Hende, author of Goodbye Orchid

 

Wednesday, September 30
Long Island Lit Fest and Newsday Talk

Live event streamed on Newsday's platform
Details to come

Wednesday October 14 Wachtung Book signing with Jill McCorkle
An evening with the authors 7:30

Link to come
https://www.watchungbooksellers.com/event

SUNDAY Oct 18th 12:45 -1:30
Brattleboro Book Festival
Midlife Changes Talk with author Amity Gaige, author of Seawife

https://emamo.com/event/brattleboro-literary-festival

 

Oct 22 National Women’s Book Association Panel/Talk 7:30 ET

How Books Find Readers

Info To come


 9AM EST Concord Literary Breakfast

Concord literary breakfast with the authors

Info/register here
Link to come

 

Wednesday, November 11th at 7pm Eastern.
FRIENDS AND FICTION Live talk

Live on their Friends and Fiction page
link to come

 

Saturday, December 5, starting at 5:00pm

Adventures by the Book. Audio Book Fun!

Register here: https://adventuresbythebook.com/event/audio-books-dec-2020/ REGISTER HERE

Tuesday, December 29 Virtual talk with Elinor Lipman
Belmont Books


January 14-16 Pulpwood Queens Book Festival
Keynote speaker with Jenna blum
Stay tuned for details

Tuesday, January 19 7 Central TimeUnbound Book Festival

Tuesday, January 26  Print Book Store

Interviewing Mameve Medwed


 

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