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Lani Diane Rich

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About Me

Hi, my name is Lani! I write humorous women's fiction, the latest of which, The Fortune Quilt , releases on March 6th!
Carly McKay's life is going just fine until she produces a television piece on psychic quilt maker Brandywine Seaver and receives a quilt with an enigmatic reading telling her that everything is about to change. And it does. She loses her job and her best friend (who proclaims his unrequited love for her). And her mother, who deserted the family seventeen years ago, returns, sending Carly into a serious tilt.
Convinced it's the quilt's fault, Carly races down to the small artists' community of Bilby, Arizona, to confront its maker, and ends up renting a cabin from her. Carly even starts to enjoy her reimagined life, until her old life comes calling. Now Carly has to decide what parts of each world she wants to patchwork in...and how much she's willing to leave to fate.

"Funny and completely involving! Carly is the rare character who is both appealling and confused enough to actually fit in with the rest of your friends." -- Jane Espenson , writer for Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The Gilmore Girls
"Mystical quilts, a hunchbacked toad and a wise-cracking heroine... had me hooked from the very first page." -- Whitney Gaskell , author of Testing Kate and She, Myself and I
"Quick humor...Rich certainly delivers." -- Booklist
"Rich whips up a beguiling twist on a well-tested plot in her romance about a straight-laced television producer who learns to loosen up." -- Kirkus Reviews
Pre-order here , here , here (you can get this one autographed if you order before March 3rd) , or here . Really, it's totally up to you!
For more information on me and all my books, please visit LaniDianeRich.com !

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Readers. Other writers. Knitters. People with great senses of humor. And Colin Firth. ;)

My Blog

Turn The Page!

Hey, MySpacers! Just a quick note to remind you that I will be in Boonsboro, Maryland this Saturday, signing with Nora Roberts, Elaine Fox and Cordelia Frances Biddle at Turn The Page books, owned by ...
Posted by Lani Diane Rich on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:33:00 PST

Booksense! How do I love thee? I'd count the ways, but I'm bad at math.

Yay! Great news! Booksense has chosen The Fortune Quilt as a Booksense Notable for April! That means I'll be featured in their flyers and their website, but mostly it means - the i...
Posted by Lani Diane Rich on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:48:00 PST

New! Podcasting!

Great news! The lovely Samantha Graves and I are putting together a cool new podcast which any readers or writers or wine-drinkers (that should cover most of you!) will enjoy! It's called Will Wr...
Posted by Lani Diane Rich on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:41:00 PST

Radio interview!

Hello, Gentle MySpacers! I have a quick update that anyone who has read Time Off For Good Behavior might enjoy. I have a good friend named Wanda (yes, the Wanda of the book was named for her) who work...
Posted by Lani Diane Rich on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:13:00 PST

Sending Publishers Weekly a Big Dating Game Kiss!

From the 1/15 issue: The Fortune Quilt Lani Diane Rich. NAL, $12.95 paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-22027-1This vibrant novel from Rich (The Comeback Kiss) shows that chick lit can deal intelligently with...
Posted by Lani Diane Rich on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:47:00 PST

Hello, MySpace! Please don't hurt me.

Well, hello! I've finally overcome my phobia and dipped my toes into the untamed wilds of MySpace. So far, so good. No internet predators have come to get me yet, so... yay me! Yes, I watch entirely t...
Posted by Lani Diane Rich on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:42:00 PST