novel by Lynne Hugo

I’ll be so grateful for your help if you’ll answer! I’d really like to understand what readers pay attention to and what’s useful to them. I promise, this won’t take long at all. If you will, please just number your answers and respond in the comment section below (as opposed to emailing me). This is […]

…I take many deep breaths and launch another novel out into the world. MOTHERS OF FATE is was published yesterday in tradebound paper and ebook, available on all the various platforms. The audible book will be out in the next couple of days. I really hope you love this one, in which I’ve tackled a […]

…there’s a cat in Lynne’s next book, MOTHERS OF FATE! She wants you to know, she did her level best to get rid of it, but she’s failed. It’s dead in her house (see photo proof) but alive and well in the novel. She assures you, though, the (dull) gray cat has only a bit […]

Thank you, thank you to those readers whose comment included a life lesson I can draw from our experience with Cassie! I have contacted each of the seven winners to offer his/her choice of my available books, OR, also available, A Matter of Mercy, coming out on August 6, about which I will proceed to […]

Do you remember that song, “Another Opening, Another Show”? One stanzas goes, “You cross your fingers and hold your heart. It’s curtain time and away we go…” I can’t cross my fingers (makes typing impossible), but I do hold my heart and my breath as I write to you: Here’s Scout studying the cover of […]

Maybe this happens to you, too? You’re breathing out relief because you got through something—and you look back and feel immense gratitude for the help that carried you to the other side. My husband and I have limped through a tough year with a lot of help from our friends, and I’m feeling very grateful. Lots of people have so much more, much worse, with which to contend—I know this. What made it difficult for us was the tumbleweed effect of my husband’s radiation for cancer

I have always been an animal lover. Possibly, like enough of my identity to be embarrassing, it was born of rebellion against my parents. Well, actually my mother. It was she who was most vocal in her adamant refusal to let me and my sister have a pet. Jan and I wanted a dog, we […]

In case you’re one of the few people who’ve managed to miss my news, THE TESTAMENT OF HAROLD’S WIFE is coming out September 25 from Kensington Books. I thought you might enjoy the real-life stories that gave life to this novel. There were two completely different experiences that planted the seeds. The first had to […]