another feather in its cap

Beachglass made it onto the Seattle Times' Summer Reading List! Check out my website for the quote, under "reviews."

Or, here, to make it easy for ya:

"Seattle-area author Wendy Blackburn's first novel is a deeply affecting, hard-hitting story of a former teenage drug addict and alcoholic who has turned her life around in Alcoholics Anonymous — but now faces a new crisis when she goes back to Los Angeles to be with her dying best friend. Will Delia's hard-won sobriety withstand this ordeal, back in the milieu where she first went astray? Richly imagined and full of vivid characters, this novel is clearly told from the voice of experience (the book's acknowledgements include a thank-you to the AA of Los Angeles, which Blackburn says saved her life)."

Yes, that's really it, despite the unfamiliar cover art -- I don't know how they found it, but somehow the very first draft for the cover showed up in the paper! Veddy inter-esting. With my luck, people will see the book in stores and not buy it out of confusion and a lack of connection to the one in the paper! OY! If it's not one thing, it's another.

So YES, that IS it, despite the photo.

First Amazon, now the Times. Next? Oprah.