Melissa Senate

Of my zillions of photos of my son, this is one of my very favorites, taken on his 2nd birthday three years ago.  Today, Max got on a real school bus for the first time and went off to kindergarten. This time, Mommy was not a passenger. 

Speaking of motherhood, one of my favorite anthologies about the subject is Child of Mine (not to be confused with the book about feeding your child), edited by Christina Baker Kline. I must have read the wonderful essays in this collection five or six times each. (My other favorite anthology is Mothers Who Think.) Anyway, Christina Baker Kline has a new novel out, THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE, about a New Yorker who moves to Maine and adjusts to the very different way of life (I know ALL about that!). I've just started it and am loving it.  

 I've gotten lots of emails asking about my next book, so here's the scoop: My next novel is called Questions To Ask Before Marrying and will be published next June. It's about twin sisters on a long and bumpy road trip from Maine to Las Vegas (one twin is essentially staging an intervention to stop the other from marrying her blah fiance.) This November, the trade paperback edition of my first young adult book, Theodora Twist, will be published. And speaking of YA, I am working on my second right now. It's due in mere weeks, so back to it I go. 

Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend!

Melissa