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My Book, Making Piece, Available for Pre-Order

Here’s an exciting update on my book — it is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Every day closer to the publishing date of April 1 brings new progress. It may be five months until the book is out but the momentum — and, dare I say, the buzz — is starting to build.

I’m still waiting on final cover art for my book and will post it as soon as I have it, but meanwhile, here is the description that will appear on the book jacket:

Journeying through a grief that at times seems unbearable, Making Piece introduces a superb writer who used America’s quintessential comfort food—pie—to heal her heart, reconnect with people and find her way back after suffering a devastating loss. When journalist Beth Howard’s young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way—be it shooting a pie documentary or handing out free slices on the streets of Los Angeles, Beth uses pie as a way to reach out and find purpose. Ultimately, Howard returns to her Iowa roots and creates the perfect synergy between two of America’s biggest icons—pie and the American Gothic House, the little white farmhouse immortalized in Grant Wood’s famous painting, where she now lives. During the summer, she runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand, which bears her living motto to “pie it forward” because she believes pie heals and makes the world a better place. Making Piece powerfully shows how one courageous woman uses the simple act of giving to others to triumph over tragedy. It tells of the role of fate, second chances and the strength found in community.

Want to read it? Be one of the first to order it on Amazon. Click here to pre-order.