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Now I can finally mention it

January 16, 2009 by Wendy

Because it was in Publisher’s Weekly this week:

Megan Lynch at Riverhead has acquired world rights to Wendy McClure‘s new book, The Wilder Life, via Erin Hosier at Dunow, Carlson and Lerner. This humorous first-person narrative exploration of the life and work of Laura Ingalls Wilder retraces her real and fictional pioneer journeys, while also reporting on the phenomenon of Wilder’s contemporary fandom. Riverhead published New York Times Magazine contributor McClure’s I’m Not the New Me in 2005, and will publish the new book in 2010.

This is all to explain what I’ve been up to the past couple months (writing, thinking, proposal-writing, and selling), and what I’ll be doing for the next year (writing, writing, traveling, writing, churning butter, writing).  You might have guessed from my most recent BUST column that I’ve had Little House on the brain, and I decided to do something about it.

I’ll say more about this when I get a chance, but I have to go grind some wheat flour now. Happy Friday!

Filed Under: big scary world, bookstuff, news, personal, promo

Hit refresh some more!

December 8, 2005 by Wendy

Added some awesome new crappy-review quotes to the the list of randomly generated index page titles, courtesy of DeeDee “M.” of Bentonville, AR, whose comments will be taken to heart, and whose last initial will never be taken too literally. Thanks, DeeDee!
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Robert's Snow 2005

October 31, 2005 by Wendy

Starting November 6, wooden snowflakes painted by 200 children’s book illustrators (including several I’m happy to have worked with) will be auctioned online for cancer research. If you bid on a cool snowflake like this one or this one or this one or otherwise spread the word, kindly let me know so that I can add you to my mental list of beautiful people.

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Now on Amazon

October 30, 2005 by Wendy

Look! (Yes, there’s going to be a book of these.)

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These page titles

August 3, 2005 by Wendy

Hit refresh! The redesign includes a cool randomizer gizmo that coughs up customized index page titles. The current set of titles are fun quotes from some of the more distressing reviews of INTNM. (This one is awesome!)
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Bitchin'

August 1, 2005 by Wendy

Check out the latest issue of Bitch magazine (July 2005) for an interview with me. You can find Bitch at most good bookstores, but they love it when you subscribe, too.

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Recent Press and Links

  • Essay: A Little House Adulthood For the American Masters documentary on Laura Ingalls Wilder, I contributed a piece to the PBS website about revisiting the Little House books.
  • Essay: The Christmas Tape (At Longreads.com) How an old audio tape of holiday music became a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
  • Q & A With Wendy McClure Publishers Weekly interview about editing, Wanderville and more.

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