by Mary | Oct 9, 2011 | A THREAD OF GRACE, DOC, The Cure For Anger
Book publicists tend to think geographically, not climatically. When A Thread of Grace was published in January of 2005, the first week of the tour was on the West Coast. The events started in San Diego (sunny and 80), with stops in San Francisco (rain and 55),...
by Mary | Aug 30, 2011 | DOC
This morning, my beloved husband of 41 years made me shoot coffee out my nose. He was reading a summary of Dick Cheney’s new memoir In My Time and muttered, “Should have been In Your Face.” Which was funny on sooooo many levels… A lot goes into...
by Mary | May 23, 2011 | DOC
A reader just got in touch to complain that there were no photos of the characters in the novel DOC. She’s probably used to nonfiction biographies that include photos. However, there are a number of photos on this website. Click BOOKS, click DOC, then Historical...
by Mary | Nov 27, 2010 | DOC
Last September, I had a grand time with the incoming Honors students at Rutgers University. A journalist named John Connelly asked if he could do a follow-up interview about the new novel. The interview will be published in the Rutgers Review in December, 2010, but...
by Mary | Oct 14, 2010 | The Sparrow movie
From the beginning, readers have said that The Sparrow is very cinematic. People in Hollywood thought so, too. Producer Nick Wechsler came close to doing a movie adaptation twice, first with Antonio Banderas at Universal Pictures and most recently with Brad Pitt at...
