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Incredibly happy to be sharing some wonderful blu

Incredibly happy to be sharing some wonderful blurbs I’ve been receiving for K-Jane! This one is from a fellow Nebraska author that you may have heard of…the wonderful @rainbowrowell!

Please do check out her book, Slow Dance, a Reese’s Bookclub pick and NYT Bestseller, which releases in paperback on June 3. 😊

About Slow Dance:
Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.

She used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.

When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.

She desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen by him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.

Would Cary even want to see Shiloh after all this time? After everything?

The answer, it turns out, is yes.

In her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a love story so honest and human – so cathartic – you’ll feel it in your bones. Slow Dance is a power ballad of a book, brimming with Rowell’s signature compassion and wit. It’s deeply affecting and profoundly romantic.

Remembering when I learned to watercolor to make s

Remembering when I learned to watercolor to make some swag art for Toxic’s release back in 2018. I miss water coloring!

#watercolor #watercolorpainting #artofinstagram #watercolorgalaxy

It’s been over a decade since I’ve written any

It’s been over a decade since I’ve written any poetry. This one was prompted by the @nebraskamed @unmc_im General Internal Medicine department’s last annual retreat where we all took a few minutes to write 55 words about anything at all. I took that little scribble and expanded it into a poem about life and death, comfort and discomfort, the bonds that we health care practitioners form with our patients, the beauty to be found in the plainest of places, and the struggle many of us have with our mortality.

It was published last week in the Ad Libitum section of @annalsofim. I wish I could share it with you in its entirety but alas! Paywall and copyrights exist.

If you have a subscription or can get it through your library through loan, I hope you get a chance to read it.

❤️

#poem #poetry #doctor #humanities #medicalhumanities #authorlife #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poemcommunity

I can’t believe this was a year ago! #lucasfil

I can’t believe this was a year ago!

#lucasfilm #starwars #acolyte #thehighrepublic #swthr #starwarsthehighrepublic #redcarpet #premiere #authorlife

27 years! Happy anniversary, B!
❤️❤️❤️

Not too late to share the recent covers of @sw_ins

Not too late to share the recent covers of @sw_insider_official magazine featuring two more High Republic stories! It’s been such a whirlwind, writing these. I’ve grown so close to Ghal, Joss and Pikka, Visma, Elping, Ebbe, and C-06N. 🩷

I’ve wrapped up the last story for the June issue…and I have feelings. Can’t believe there only one more left!
😭😭😭

Thank you to @jakeluntdavies for the beautiful art!

#starwars #starwarsthehighrepublic #swthr #starwarsfan #starwarsnerd #starwarsbookstagram #lucasfilm #authorlife

In the mood for tea while writing on this gloomy d

In the mood for tea while writing on this gloomy day. Which teacup to use? I ended up with a frilly pink one and an antique spoon I picked up at a vintage market in London last time I was there.
I’m having a great English breakfast tea gifted to me from a friend on her last London trip, from Harrod’s. I’m running low! 😭

What do you drink when working?

#amwriting #teatime #teapot #teacup #caffeine #drinkoftheday

It’s never too late to thank all the fans and re

It’s never too late to thank all the fans and readers for this amazing swag that was gifted to me in Japan during Celebration! The friendship bracelets were so fun and the detail that people put into these…incredible. I love you guys!!! I feel lucky every day that I get to be in this world. ⚡️✨💜💙

#starwars #starwarscelebration #swcj #starwarscelebrationjapan #swthr #starwarsthehighrepublic #authorlife

Maybe my favorite back stage photo from Star Wars

Maybe my favorite back stage photo from Star Wars Celebration (thanks Joe Sullivan!) along with my fellow High Republic authors @crashwong and @tessa.gratton!

#starwars #starwarscelebrationjapan #swcj #swthr

Native plant experiment: wild grape! 🍇 Last ye

Native plant experiment: wild grape! 🍇

Last year I noticed a weed growing in our hosta patch. It looks familiar and I realized it was grape! I decided to let it grow, and I gave it a little support to cling to and this year it’s huge. Curious to see if it will grow any fruit and what it will taste like!

#wildgrape #grapevine #wildgrapes #nativeplants #nebraska #gardening

Pretty cool to go to work (career #1 of 2) and one

Pretty cool to go to work (career #1 of 2) and one of the fabulous MAs keeps snapping up your books to read.
❤️❤️❤️Colleen has been here longer than I have, going on 20+ years, and never fails to do a great job taking care of patients.
I work with such a great team at @nebraskamed!

Happy Mother’s Day to all and hugs to those who

Happy Mother’s Day to all and hugs to those who need extra love and care today.

I will always be thankful for the sacrifices that my mother and mother-in-law have made in our lives for the sake of their families. They deserve all the flowers and embraces today!

Looking back on some of the pictures of me being a new mom and I remember thinking that I looked so horrible and haggard back then but really I was glowing and I had no idea. We all need to be kinder to ourselves!

What are these glowing jars of rosy, ruby magic, y

What are these glowing jars of rosy, ruby magic, you ask? It’s my first batch of rhubarb jelly!

It took years to make this happen. I know this is probably exciting to no one except gardening nerds, but ever since I started gardening after we moved to Omaha, I really wanted something perennial that would come back every year without me constantly working at it. About five years ago, I bought this really sad little rhubarb plant from a local garden store that was on sale for a dollar. It was on death’s door, and after I planted it in my raised beds, it got completely overshadowed by other plants and looked fairly pathetic. I gave up on it. The next year, lo and behold, it popped up with a few leaves and I just let it be. After that, it came back with gusto and started out-competing everything else in the raised bed so I dug it up and planted it near the pumpkin patch in the far corner of the yard. By now the roots had turned into this giant ball that looked like a monster.

So this year I chopped off about 5 giant stalks and cooked up so jelly to go with our toast and B’s sourdough bread.

It’s so pretty!! And yummy!

Now I need to make some scones!

#rhubarb #rhubarbjelly #canning #vegetablegarden #gardening #gardengirl #omahagarden #nebraskagarden #nebraska #backyardgarden #vegetables #foodstagram #canningandpreserving

Thanks so much to the @unmc_aapisa and AAPI Employ

Thanks so much to the @unmc_aapisa and AAPI Employee Resource Group for having me as a keynote speaker today! It was so great to meet students and staff from all over campus. The panelists and I spoke about our experiences as AAPI members of the @nebraskamed and UNMC community and how creativity affects our lives. 감사합니다!
😊🇰🇷🇺🇸📚🎶🎥🪩

May the Fourth be with you! My now adult (and near

May the Fourth be with you! My now adult (and nearly adult) kiddos gave me permission to post their light-saber wielding talents of yore. And there isn’t enough room to post all the happy pictures showing how much Star Wars has changed my life in the last several years. We’re a big family of fans and creators and I love it so much.

For light and life! And may the Force be with you all today!

#starwars #maythe4thbewithyou #maytheforcebewithyou

Did an interview recently and we discussed my writ

Did an interview recently and we discussed my writing journey. Writing nonfiction and YA and historical adult fiction all have different pulls on me as far as the research that’s needed, the energy that goes in, the time it takes, and of course, the ones that I enjoy more than others. I love them all, but they are all very different! Case in point, the fact that historical novels require quite a bit of research before I ever write a single page. These are photos that I took while writing the novels that take place in historical Manhattan. The books go from 1850, to 1899, to 1918, and 1942. I can’t write a scene unless I know what the characters are seeing and smelling, and what building they see when they walk around the corner in historical Manhattan. Hence the giant maps!

I’m taking a little break from writing historical fiction. More news to come!

#writerlife #amwriting #amresearching #historicalnovel

We found a patch of clovers in our backyard that h

We found a patch of clovers in our backyard that had not one but eight four leaf clovers! Lucky, lucky!

I’ll always take a moment to search a patch when i have a minute to look. No matter how old or jaded I get.

#fourleafclover

Breakfast of champions! Avocado toast (recipe by

Breakfast of champions!
Avocado toast (recipe by @rajivsurendra) but with gochugaru on top instead of regular hot pepper flakes. Olive rosemary bread from Omaha’s @le_quartier_ bakery. Today’s work is to get all my gardening done. Cold weather crops will be planted (I’m late I know but I was I Japan!), amend my pumpkin patch with compost, add soil to to my raised beds. Let’s go, spring!

#avocadotoast #foodstagram

Hello! There’s a @barnesandnoble 25% off preorde

Hello! There’s a @barnesandnoble 25% off preorder book sale going on right now! Use the code PREORDER25, online only, for reward members (which is free 😉) Ends tomorrow!

#barnesansnoble #preordersalw #k-jane #yabooks #bookrec

Last random assortment of picts from Japan. My you

Last random assortment of picts from Japan. My youngest kid, waiting for the Ginza subway line to arrive, who is so much cooler than I ever was. And our last temple, Senso-ji temple in Asakusa, was crowded but busy. We paid our respects and gathered our fortunes for the year. Also—the store at the airport where we spent our last yen on cookies and crackers. Books and drugs, okay lol.

#japan #tokyo

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