• (10/6) Appearance at Irondequoit Library for Local Author Day, 1pm-4pm

Address:   1290 Titus Avenue, Rochester, NY 14617

• (10/6) Michael Bradley will be appearing at the Collingswood Book Festival.

Address:   Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ 08108

• (9/18) Interview with Fantastic Flying Book Club.
• (9/19) Review from Firstbooklove:

Excerpt: "Perfect Harmony has a romance you will root for since the beginning when the two characters meet. I really enjoyed the story progression and how everything seemed to play out. Fans of music and contemporary romance should definitely give this book a go!"

• (9/19) Review from The Reading Corner for All:

Excerpt: "I found Pippa's passion for music, dreams of being a top cellist, and all her quirks a highlight in the story; she had a clear goal with regards to her music career and was not willing to give up on her aspirations easily. Perfect Harmony had charming allusions to music that were nothing short of enchanting. "

• (9/19) Review from HauntedbyBooks:

Excerpt: "This was such a fun read! I loved the writing! I loved how this book is about music. Each chapter had a quote about music and I just thought that was a cute and nice idea. Also I loved the fact that the romance was an enemy to lovers one! If you like cute and fun and music than this is a perfect read for you!"

• (9/20) Author's playlist on A New Look on Books.
• (9/20) Review from Reader Rising:

Excerpt: "All in all, I had a ball reading Perfect Harmony. The romance is sweet and exciting, the friendship and family dynamics were complex, and I loved seeing Oregon and school orchestra represented!" 

• (9/21) Author's Mood Board on Literary Meanderings.
• (9/21) Review from What's She Reading:

Excerpt: "If you're looking for something light and musical to read, this is your book!"

• (9/21) Review from The Lovely Books:

Excerpt: "Perfect Harmony is a very lighthearted and fun loving novel for fans of music and heroines that go after what they want. I enjoyed it so much!"

• (9/22) Review from Lisa Loves Lit:

Excerpt: "This was a sweet YA read, and definitely one I'd recommend."

• (9/22) Story about the cover on Smada's Book Smack.
• (9/24) Review from We Live and Breathe Books:

Excerpt: "This book wrapped its arms around this romance lovers heart, and held tight. It was such a joy to be a part of Pippa's journey, and I found that my only complaint was: I wanted more." 

• (9/24) Review from Bookwyrming Thought:

Excerpt: "Perfect Harmony speaks of two things: cuteness and music."

• (9/24) Author Guest Post on Angela Walker's Reviews
   

• (9/28) Appearance at Roanoke S.T.E.A.M. Day at the Virginia Museum of Transportation; 9:30am-2pm.

Address: 303 Norfolk Ave SW, Roanoke, VA 24016   

• (9/18) Featured article in Vermont Woman magazine. 
• (9/26) Featured in Ms. Magazine's "Great Reads for Fall"

Excerpt: "In this slender volume, former Vermont governor and U.S. diplomat Kunin contemplates the process of aging, its physical and emotional tolls and its surprising joys. She reflects on a life's accomplishments and offers a wise woman's meditation on dying and living." 

• (10/9) Signing at Galaxy Bookshop 7 pm.

Address: 41 South Main Street, Hardwick, VT 05843

• (9/17) Featured on Your One Question.
• (9/17) Excerpt appeared on Hypertext.
• (10/6) Public Reading and Book Signing (including wine & cheese!) after 4:00 Vigil Mass;  St. Vincent DePaul Church . 

Address: 109 East Price Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144

• (10/7) Book signing after 9:00 and 11:00 Masses at  St. Vincent DePaul Church

Address: 109 East Price Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144

• (10/12-10/13) Exhibitor / Book Sales & Signing at  Future with Hope Conference (Arlington VA).

• (9/19) Review from Kirkus: 

"In this debut novel, a child grows up under the shadow of her family's dysfunction. 

"When DG's mother, Margaret, begins to leave home for extended hiatuses, the girl is far too young-only 5 years old-to understand why. Her father, Alcide Louis Pitre, blames it on her recurrent fatigue, and her grandpa chalks it up to extreme sensitivity: "Your mama, I think she just feels too much. Feels everything too much." When Margaret is around, she seems to float in and out of a fugue-like trance, sometimes sleeping the entire day away, leaving DG to tend to her younger siblings. One day, she greets DG with warm affection, but forgets her name, a moment heart-rendingly captured by Watkins. Alcide is a pipeliner, and as a result, the family moves often and broadly-Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Australia, South Africa-and that peripatetic rootlessness only adds to DG's feelings of dislocation. But over time, she starts to see evidence that her mother's chronic mental illness isn't the family's real disease, but rather her father's despotism. A serial philanderer, he is also maniacally controlling, physically abusing Margaret. At a neighborhood party, he's discovered having sex with a local's wife, and unashamedly laughs off the indiscretion. While he's capable of great sweetness, he can mercurially shift in an instant. Margaret finally asserts herself and demands a divorce, but she's infinitely forgiving and terrified to be alone. Disgusted by her father, DG plots with her mother to find a way to decisively liberate herself from the clenched grip of his cunning dominion. 

"Watkins relates the entire story from DG's first-person perspective, masterfully capturing her shifting voice from early childhood to her teens. Still, the novel's principal strength is its beautifully conceived characters: DG and her mom are both infinitely loving but deeply wounded, and Alcide is incorrigibly unpredictable, by turns a tyrant and a charmer: "The best way to describe him is like a lighthouse beacon. As long as you are in the warmth of his regard, it seems the best place to be. Safe and bright and beautiful. Outside of his regard, there might be monsters-cold, dark, scary." The author's writing is self-assured and nuanced, and even in DG's youth one can detect her precocious intelligence. In addition, the cumbersome weight of the girl's premature domestic obligations in the absence of a responsible parent is shatteringly depicted. On two occasions, Margaret summons DG to drive a vehicle illegally-in the second instance, to help break her out of a rest home. (Margaret even provides elaborate instructions on how to look older.) One minor criticism: DG's siblings are resigned to the background, a largely mute supporting cast. Giving them more life and agency could have furnished a fuller perspective on the family's emotional fragility as well as Margaret's neurasthenic stupor. Nevertheless, this is a powerful drama that impressively manages to both haunt and inspire. 

"An affecting portrayal of an emotionally abandoned girl."

• (10/7) Author appearance at Baltimore NAIBA; 2pm to 6pm.
• (10/12) Denver Mountains & Plains IPIBA Gala Opening Reception from 4:30-6:30 PM 

• (9/7) Review from Brevity:

Excerpt: "Two poets grown older, still considering, as they do in the introduction, "Are poets' lives any different in tone or texture from any other sorts of life?" Maybe not. But the particular vocation of the poet, of the writer, I hear them say, is to free words without too much judgment, to judge words without taking them hostage, and to be "eager to continue." Growing Old in Poetry is an important book and a conversation and a friendship generously recorded."