Patry Francis

Today's an amazing day in the blogosphere. Normally blogs are pretty solitary efforts (even the ones with lots of posters or commenters). You get an idea, you write about it. In my case, of course, I rant about it.

Today though, more than 300 bloggers have 'signed up' to talk about Patry Francis' new book. It's an amazing show of solidarity and camaraderie, and one I'm pretty pleased to join, even though I'm normally not much of a joiner.

Patry Francis' book The Liar's Diary was published in hardcover last year. The paperback edition's pub date is today. Between those two events, Patry was diagnosed with a very serious, and aggressive form of cancer. She's on the mend, but she doesn't have the extra energy to do the much-needed support for a book. Thus, the 1/29 blog fest.

Here's the link to the book on Powells. If it looks like a book you want to read, I hope you'll buy it. If it looks like a book you'd want to read, I hope you'll tell your librarian.

And if you don't want to buy or read the book, that's ok too. Just join all of us in wishing Patry Francis a speedy return to health.