Nancy Jensen – Author

I’m looking forward to chatting with poet Katerina Stoykova Klemer live on her radio show Accents this Friday at 2:00 p.m.  The program is broadcast on Lexington Kentucky’s WRFL 88.1 FM and also streams live on the internet.

As far as I know, this is the first review of The Sisters from a Canadian publication, Macleans.  It’s an interesting read!

Here is Caroline Leavitt’s review of The Sisters from The New York Times.

If you love books and you haven’t yet discovered TheReadingRoom.com , here’s your chance.  I had a great time with TRR’s 20 Questions Author Interview.

If you’ve never visited the site for Shelf Awareness, you’re missing a real book lover’s treat!  My thanks go to Jenn Risko for inviting me to join in SA’s regular feature, Book Brahmin.  Great fun!

Click here to check out my responses, then take some time to explore Shelf Awareness.

Because of the enthusiastic support given to The Sisters by many wonderful booksellers at independent bookstores across the country, I get to enjoy the incredible thrill of having my novel chosen as the #1 Indie Next Pick for December.  Thank you!

Please, support your local independent bookstore!

Very exciting news!  The Sisters has snagged a place on the American Bookseller Association’s extended bestseller list for hardcover fiction!

Do you remember this scene from The Joy Luck Club?  The little girl Waverly has been featured on the cover of Life Magazine as a chess prodigy.  Her mother drags Waverly through the streets while marketing, holding the issue of Life on display in front of her, telling everyone around her, “This is my daughter.  Chess champion!”  Though my mother lives in another city, and so can’t drag me by the hand through the marketplace, since last week, she’s been carrying around the November 28, 2011 issue of  People Magazine, boldly open to page 77, declaring to everyone, “This is my daughter!  Author of The Sisters.”

Here’s the review.

I’m grateful to author Amy Sue Nathan for interviewing me for her site, Women Fiction Writers.   Her first novel, The Glass Wives, will be published in Spring 2013 by St. Martin’s Press, which makes us debut novel cousins!

Click here for the interview, which features some especially interesting questions!

If you live in the Lexington, Kentucky, area, I hope you can stop by Joseph-Beth Booksellers at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 29.  I’ll be reading from and chatting about The Sisters, which Joseph-Beth has chosen as its November Book of the Month.