It’s first call for fall! Welcome back to work and school and … the road!
Coming your way on tour for my first young adult novel VIOLA IN REEL LIFE kicking off Tuesday September 1 on the Today Show. For young adult readers, here’s the fabulous interactive Harper Teen site. I’m crazy about 14-year-old Viola Chesterton from Brooklyn, who winds up in boarding school in South Bend, Indiana and has to make new friends and a life for herself. I’ll be visiting classrooms through the Fairfax channel, and also in person. Or watch me on the Today Show. Can’t wait to see you! Viola is on Indiebound—thank you independent booksellers for your support!
We’re also revving up for the tour of BRAVA VALENTINE, everywhere February 2, 2010) the sequel to VERY VALENTINE. Check back very soon for VERY VALENTINE paperback tour (it debuts January 5, 2010!) and the tour dates for the February 2, 2010 release of BRAVA VALENTINE!
The tours will blend into one another so I hope to see you for one or the other or both!
We have lots of surprises for you in the trade paperback edition of VERY VALENTINE, including the first chapter of Brava and a divine recipe section including Roman Falconi’s savory pizzelles with caviar. I made all the dishes, and the Vechiarelli’s of Youngstown, Ohio, the real family from which the fictional Dominic and Gianluca sprang, threw in some of their faves.
Thank you for your letters about VERY VALENTINE as a Reader’s Digest selection. I’ve loved the Reader’s Digest all of my life, so it’s a big honor to be included.
The Irish Independent, Ireland’s #1 newspaper, is a new home for me- I write a weekly Agony Column, Ask Adri (here we call it an advice column), a long time dream has come true—I give free advice an ocean way!
Motherhood Out Loud is a fabulous new play, an evening of theater from a smorgasbord of wonderful writers that made its debut at the Sag Harbor Theater this summer. (click here for future performances).
 |
 |
Looking for some new music? Check out my pal Rosanne Cash's web site. The always hilarious Susie Essman has released a side-splitting memoir, What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy—check it out today! I am also devouring and highly recommending Ralph Stanley's memoir, Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times. |
|
We’re working hard on the movie of BIG STONE GAP. Check back here for
details as we have them. Very Valentine has found a home at Lifetime Television with the great Larry Sanitsky producing a script I wrote for them. We’ll keep you posted on any movie news right here. Have a fabulous fall season. If you need bookplates for any occasion, or just for fun, email us. As always, thank you for reading my books and for writing to me. The best part of writing books is meeting you- truly the world’s best and biggest book club!
xoxxo Adriana |
