Light-skinned-ed Girl

THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY DEBUTS AT #18 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

Dude, this is the dream come true! The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Debuts at #18 on the New York Times Bestseller List! I am overjoyed! Thank you all! Now, let's break out the champagne!

Thank you Broadway Books for a wonderful launch!

Thank you to everyone who braved the icy roads on Tuesday to celebrate the paperback release. It was a lovely evening and so exciting to debut the work in progress for you. And you really liked it? Really? Well I will keep plugging away then! Thanks Sally and Roberta for kicking off the tour in such a special way.

Some Saturday Mixed Links

The week's gone by so quickly.  Thank goodness I didn't make the resolution to blog every single day of 2011!  But there are some mixed links I wanted to make sure to share with you -- even though I don't have time to do a long post:

• I can't wait to see this documentary: "Family Portrait in Black and White."  And we would LOVE to show it at this year's 2011 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival--anybody know how to connect with and convince the director?  It's the story of a Ukrainian woman who is raising 23 biracial foster kids, the off-spring of visiting African students and Ukrainian women;
• Loving Prize winner and Hapa artist and activist, Kip Fulbeck, talks about biracial identity on NPR;
• Kudos to Kamala Harris: the first African-American, the first Asian-American, and the first Indian-American to serve as California's State Attorney General.  That's a lot of firsts!  Harris' mother is Indian and her father Jamaican. 

Happy New Year: Resolved!

This past year was amazing and wonderful.  I experienced a dream come true: my debut novel found its way into the world and got a nice response! I met so many wonderful folks on the road and found much to feel blessed about.  But there were many things that slipped: my time to connect with dear friends and family, and my overall commitment to a regimen of consistent exercise and healthy eating (for some reason wine and french fries often sounded like the best thing to eat after a successful reading).  So for 2011 my watchwords are "healthy" and "balance."  I was going to go with just healthy but I felt that my tendency toward extremism might kick in.  Healthy balance.  It's the mantra moving forward.  Here's to 2011: a cheer for healthy balance--and the willingness to let these words be my guide!