Tag: newsletter
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Spring Newsletter: Coming Back Different
In one of my favorite books from childhood, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, two siblings run away from home and take up residence in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, Claudia and her little brother Jamie encounter a mystery: an exquisite sculpture of an angel, which may or may…
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Winter Newsletter: The Big Dark (and a cover reveal)
January 8, 2026 This past December 28 was the shortest day of my entire life. I was visiting Copenhagen with my family. That day we had a scant seven hours and three minutes of sunlight. (The previous week we’d been in Hamburg, farther south, so even though the days had been getting longer since the…
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Autumn Newsletter: On Habits and History
September 22, 2025 Hallo from Berlin! Three weeks ago, my family and I flew to the German capital, where we’ll be living until March while my husband is on sabbatical. He’s working in a lab here, our kids are in a bilingual school, and I’m busy working with my editor on manuscript revisions for my…
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Summer Newsletter: Tomato Cans, Coconuts, and How Books Might Save Us
June 24, 2025 Done is better than perfect. That’s what my Aunt Sue used to say, when I was stuck on getting a craft project just right. I took it as liberating permission to stop fussing over something I’d created, call it good, and get it launched into the world warts and all. I considered…
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Mary Fontana ~ Author 