I got mail!
The internet is weird and wonderful. I have made several friends through the website Authonomy, writers whose work I admire and whose advice I trust. I have nev...
Author: Katie O'Rourke
Top 100 on Amazon.uk
Monsoon Season has a British publisher so a lot of the marketing is happening across the pond. For the last week, my amaon.uk rank has been phenomenal. I broke ...
Monsoon Season: Publication
My first novel was published last month and I did the following blog interview, “Recently In Print”, for the Out of Print Writing blog. I wanted to share it her...
Partial Book Review: A Short History of Women
A Short History of Women is a multi-generational family saga that focuses on women’s lives and how their struggles have changed (or not) over time. I loved the ...
Book Review: The Lover’s Dictionary
I really enjoyed the clever format of this book by David Levithan. Each entry is a word and the scene that follows relates the word to the relationship. At firs...
Not a Book Review: Fifty Shades of Grey
I can’t review this book because I didn’t read it. I heard about it, read some hilarious bad reviews and some less convincing (but even more numerous) good ones...
Book Review: By Nightfall
I love Michael Cunningham. I thought The Hours was genius, even enjoyed his rough first stab at writing with A Home at the End of the World, but my all-time fav...
Monsoon Season: Inspiration
My first novel was published last week and I wrote the following for a guest blog, Confessions of a Bookaholic. I wanted to share it here for anyone who missed ...
Monsoon Season: now in paperback!
So it has been a week since the e-book was published and I have received six 5-star reviews on my Amazon page. I just got permission from my publisher to give o...
Monsoon Season: Book Party!
The last few days have been a whirlwind of excitement. On Wednesday, the shipment of print books for Monsoon Season arrived: On Thursday, one of my best friends...