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Jan.10.2009
On its copyright page, my new novel, Love and Other Natural Disasters, features the standard disclaimer. You know the one: this is a work of fiction and any resemblance to actual people is purely coincidental. I know it’s necessary, in these litigious times, but the wording always strikes me as...
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Oct.07.2008
As lots of you know, Litquake is San Francisco's major literary festival, and the Litcrawl (scheduled for this Saturday, October 11) is its closing ceremonies of sorts. Litcrawl is fundamentally a pub crawl with readings, but there are some venues in addition to bars. I've been crammed into video...
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Sep.16.2008
Chapter 1.
Some years, I gaze around the Thanksgiving table and I feel almost painfully grateful for my own bounty, for the abundance that is my life, for everything that brought me to this moment, with these people, inside this light.
And some years, I just eat turkey.
That Thanksgiving was off...
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Aug.25.2008
Here it is, my new book cover. I love it. I loved it from that first JPEG my editor sent me, asking for initial feedback. My feedback? "I love it." I e-mailed it to my boyfriend at work and we sat together on the phone, staring at it in a state of shocked pleasure. Because the road to my...
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Aug.05.2008
My second novel, Love and Other Natural Disasters, is coming out in January 2009, which means that we're entering the marketing flurry (or what I hope will be a flurry!) My first novel, Five Things I Can't Live Without, was published a year ago July, and I have to say that when I knew less, my...
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About Holly
I'm a novelist and a practicing marriage and family therapist in the San Francisco bay area. My first novel, Five Things I Can't Live Without, was a lighthearted look at the neurotic art of self-sabotage. My second novel is called Love and Other Natural...
Causes Holly Shumas Supports
International Red Cross
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Environmental Defense Fund
Holly’s Favorite Books
"Man Walks Into a Room" by Nicole Krauss
"Patrimony" by Philip Roth
"The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst
"Star Girl" by Jerry Spinelli (though I could have...