Hello and welcome to my webpage, or welcome back if you’ve been here before. I have to say that it has been a crazy couple of months for me. Crazy in a wonderful way.
Last year, women across America laughed, cried, and reconnected with their friends after reading my novel, Firefly Lane, and I was happy to hear from so many of you that the book made you pick up the phone and call your best friend when you finished reading. Honestly, I was so thrilled by the response that I looked no further for success. But now, in an amazing twist of fate, the book has come out in trade paperback and it’s literally knocking my socks off. So far it’s been on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks. After all my years writing novels (twenty-one, to be exact), I was literally blown away by this. And I know who to thank. All of the women who bought the book last year and told their friends, and those of you who went online and reviewed it positively, and all the book clubs that chose it for their conversations. In short, my readers. I can’t express how grateful I am for your support, and how humbled. As I traveled around on book tour recently, I met many of you, and I’ve talked to literally dozens of book clubs in the past year, and each meeting has proven to me that in a way, we all know each other. So many of us are living the same lives, it gives us a solidarity, a sense of connection, from the very beginning. Those connections among and between women are what I write about.
Just when I thought life couldn’t get any better, True Colors came out in February. In a move that has given me a new favorite number, True Colors debuted on the New York Times list at number 5! This was especially cool because in the same week Firefly Lane went up to number 5—in week 5. It made for plenty of fun around the Hannah household, I can tell you. Lots of celebrating.
Set on a horse ranch in Western Washington, True Colors is about three sisters whose lives were shaped by the loss of their mother when they were young. Raised by a distant, disapproving father, they banded together and became best friends. There’s Winona, who has spent a lifetime struggling with her weight and trying desperately to gain her father’s approval…and Aurora, the middle child, who is the family peacekeeper and wants everyone to be happy, even as she hides her own secret pain…and Vivi Ann, the beautiful, romantic dreamer, for whom everything seems to come easily, her father’s love most of all, until a stranger comes to town. When Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart, rather than the course of a dutiful daughter, events are set in motion that will change everything for the Greys. A shocking crime will shatter both the once close family and the town in which they live. It’s a story about how easily a family can be broken, and how hard it can sometimes be to put the pieces back together, and ultimately about how deceiving appearances can be.
Again, I’d like to thank you for stopping by the site, for buying my books—even for thinking about buying my books. A writer lives a very solitary life, and there is flat out nothing better than finding out that readers are out there who love what you do.
If you have the time and inclination, please join my blog conversation. We have a great group of women over there who never fail to inspire and entertain. You can also see pictures of me visiting with readers. And if you’d like to get a signed copy of any of my books, please contact Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo, Washington.
One of the best new discoveries of this last year for me has been book clubs. As I said earlier, I have been fortunate to speak with dozens of readers’ groups by phone over the last few months, and I can honestly say that each one has been a treat. So if you belong to a book club, and would like to discuss either Firefly Lane or True Colors, please see the details about how to schedule a talk with me. I will do my very best to talk to all the groups I can.
Thanks again and aloha---
Last year, women across America laughed, cried, and reconnected with their friends after reading my novel, Firefly Lane, and I was happy to hear from so many of you that the book made you pick up the phone and call your best friend when you finished reading. Honestly, I was so thrilled by the response that I looked no further for success. But now, in an amazing twist of fate, the book has come out in trade paperback and it’s literally knocking my socks off. So far it’s been on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks. After all my years writing novels (twenty-one, to be exact), I was literally blown away by this. And I know who to thank. All of the women who bought the book last year and told their friends, and those of you who went online and reviewed it positively, and all the book clubs that chose it for their conversations. In short, my readers. I can’t express how grateful I am for your support, and how humbled. As I traveled around on book tour recently, I met many of you, and I’ve talked to literally dozens of book clubs in the past year, and each meeting has proven to me that in a way, we all know each other. So many of us are living the same lives, it gives us a solidarity, a sense of connection, from the very beginning. Those connections among and between women are what I write about.
Just when I thought life couldn’t get any better, True Colors came out in February. In a move that has given me a new favorite number, True Colors debuted on the New York Times list at number 5! This was especially cool because in the same week Firefly Lane went up to number 5—in week 5. It made for plenty of fun around the Hannah household, I can tell you. Lots of celebrating.
Set on a horse ranch in Western Washington, True Colors is about three sisters whose lives were shaped by the loss of their mother when they were young. Raised by a distant, disapproving father, they banded together and became best friends. There’s Winona, who has spent a lifetime struggling with her weight and trying desperately to gain her father’s approval…and Aurora, the middle child, who is the family peacekeeper and wants everyone to be happy, even as she hides her own secret pain…and Vivi Ann, the beautiful, romantic dreamer, for whom everything seems to come easily, her father’s love most of all, until a stranger comes to town. When Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart, rather than the course of a dutiful daughter, events are set in motion that will change everything for the Greys. A shocking crime will shatter both the once close family and the town in which they live. It’s a story about how easily a family can be broken, and how hard it can sometimes be to put the pieces back together, and ultimately about how deceiving appearances can be.
Again, I’d like to thank you for stopping by the site, for buying my books—even for thinking about buying my books. A writer lives a very solitary life, and there is flat out nothing better than finding out that readers are out there who love what you do.
If you have the time and inclination, please join my blog conversation. We have a great group of women over there who never fail to inspire and entertain. You can also see pictures of me visiting with readers. And if you’d like to get a signed copy of any of my books, please contact Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo, Washington.
One of the best new discoveries of this last year for me has been book clubs. As I said earlier, I have been fortunate to speak with dozens of readers’ groups by phone over the last few months, and I can honestly say that each one has been a treat. So if you belong to a book club, and would like to discuss either Firefly Lane or True Colors, please see the details about how to schedule a talk with me. I will do my very best to talk to all the groups I can.
Thanks again and aloha---
