HeyJaredReporting from Quiltropolis
Marianne Fons writes from the small town of Winterset, Iowa, reporting on quilty and non-quilty topics.
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Let's Just Read . . . (opens the original)
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My love of stories is right there on my toddler face in a photo I’ve shared before. That’s enraptured me at my mother’s left, my twin brother David in her lap, my older brother Jimmy looking bored on her right.<img alt="" class="si
A Cover That Isn’t A Quilt (opens the original)
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Last August, my novel inspired by The Scarlet Letter found its way to Mika Kasuga at Union Square & Company. Mika fell in love with The Dressmaker of Winterset and my heroine’s beautiful fashions, contacted my agent, and bought my book.For months, I tried to imagine what the face of my brainchild—my book’s cover—would look like. When the preliminary artwork was placed in my arms a few weeks ago, like any new mother holding her newborn, I forgot all about those imagined covers and was instantly t
Lifestyles of the Greek & Famous (opens the original)
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I wasn’t planning to read The Odyssey, and didn’t know a blockbuster movie version was barreling toward theaters worldwide, but what does one do when one is in Greece and needs a book to read?The island of Mykonos boasts a single bookshop with a small selection of English titles. The owner pointed me, naturally, toward a translation of The Odyssey.Reporting from Quiltropolis
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