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Oct 18
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Death at Greenway is launched!

By Lori | Death at Greenway, Events, Writing life

It has been a busy week, but Death at Greenway is good and launched! Did you miss my convo with Susanna Calkins for the Book Cellar? Here’s the link!  I still have a lot to do, including fun conversations this week virtually for The Book Stall with…

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Mar 19
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The Lucky One online book talk

By Lori | The Lucky One, Writing, Writing life | No Comments

Did I cancel an event where I supposed to tell you all about The Lucky One? I’m so sorry. I had to. You have to. We all have to. Please stay inside as much as possible because, if you’re here, I like you or love you or…

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Feb 09
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Under a Dark Sky advance reader copies arrive!

By Lori | Under a Dark Sky, Writing life | No Comments

And then one day all those ideas are delivered to your front porch in pretty, paper form. These are the advance readers of Under a Dark Sky for reviewers, so NO ONE PANIC. If you are a librarian or reviewer, you can use Edelweiss to request it….

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Jan 18
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UNDER A DARK SKY gets a cover!

By Lori | Under a Dark Sky, Writing life | No Comments

I love cover reveal day…one of the best days in the course of publication because, well, LOOK: What’s it about? I’m glad you asked! From the critically-acclaimed author of The Day I Died comes a terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep readers guessing until…

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Oct 23
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Back home again in Indiana

By Lori | Awards, Writing life | No Comments

That title is a song, and if you’re not *from* Indiana, perhaps this song has never wedged itself into your brain for an entire weekend. I spent last weekend at the festivities for the Indiana Author Award. I was the Regional category winner, and it was just…

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Mar 19
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The most-read piece I’ve ever written

By Lori | Publishing, Writing, Writing life | No Comments

I once published a short story in Good Housekeeping, which goes to 26 million people worldwide. But I feel as though maybe an article that I wrote for Writers Digest online might be the most popular thing I’ve ever written, because WD trots it out about every…

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Aug 02
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Little pretty things I found while writing the book

By Lori | Little Pretty Things, Writing, Writing life | No Comments

One of the fun things I’m doing now that I have some time to think: gathering my thoughts on some new projects. I’ll be talking to my agent soon about what ideas I have and which ones might be the best way to spend the next few…

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Jan 01
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The writing resolutions, 2015 style

By Lori | Writing life | No Comments

This week I’ve seen about a hundred different stories about resolutions: how to set them, why they never work, how not to set them, why you’re wasting your time. You know, a lot of these stories have been anti-resolution, and I get why a story like that…

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Jul 27
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Chicago launch party for THE BLACK HOUR

By Karen | Black Hour, Events, Writing life | No Comments

Celebrated the launch of THE BLACK HOUR at Chicago’s Book Cellar, a fantastic Lincoln Square independent bookstore, July 19. Thanks to everyone who attended! Thanks to Suzi and the Book Cellar staff for the great event and to Rafi Letzter for the great photos.

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Jul 10
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How to support The Black Hour

By Lori | Black Hour, Conferences, Writing life | No Comments

At a conference I went to in March, my friend Catriona McPherson carried around her advanced reader copy of The Black Hour all day, cover out. It was the single best part of the conference, maybe aside from the photo I had taken with Louise Penny on…

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