Archive for January, 2009

Hallmark Magazine website feature with audio

Friday, January 30th, 2009

http://www.hallmarkmagazine.com/Ideas-Books-Must-Read-Love-Story Ellen Greene’s Remember the Sweet Things: One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage (William Morrow, $20) is a new book we love. FINDING TRUE LOVE the third time around is the subject of this candid, inspiring memoir, which began as an article in Hallmark Magazine (print the article). When Ellen, a divorced 38-year-old mother of [...]

Publication Day!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Yesterday was one for our memory books—Remember the Sweet Things appeared on shelves for the first time. I picked up my granddaughters from school as usual, and we cruised the book stores here in San Jose. We made a big production of going to the service desk to ask for my book and be guided [...]

My beginner’s luck continues to hold.

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

 Hallmark Magazine has featured Remember the Sweet Things as the “New Book We Love” in their February/March issue. This is my fourth time to appear in the magazine and, as usual, they have created a visual pleaser. The book cover pops out at you, and the mix of typeface colors draw you in for a [...]

It’s here!

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

As I pulled up to the house, coming back from a workout at the Y, my daughter Jennifer popped out of the front door. “It’s here! It’s here!” she shouted, waving wildly.  I knew what she meant. The Year of Living Anxiously was over. After twelve months of edits, rewrites, planning, and promoting, it had [...]

A Thank You Note to Helen and Hallmark

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

       Never before published, I was luckier than I knew when Hallmark Magazine (http://www.hallmarkmagazine.com) bought my story about Marsh and the Sweet Things List. Executive Editor Helen Rogan and her art department took that story and honed and polished it into an eight-page gem. They framed the photos I sent them to look [...]