Tornado

When award-winning author Mary Anne Mohanraj learned she had breast cancer, she immediately began recording the details in her blog. Tornado is her honest, day-by-day account of diagnosis, chemo, surgery, radiation, and reconstruction, over a three-year period.

One out of eight women gets breast cancer. You know someone who has it, or work with someone, or may have been diagnosed yourself. This is a book for all of us, but especially for anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis for yourself, or for someone you love.

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WGN piece on the Berwyn Shops

WGN piece on the Berwyn Shops — I haven’t watched it, because I am too self-conscious watching myself on video unless I absolutely have to, but I did notice that it looks like they open the video with a pic of some of my jewelry, so that’s nice. 🙂 https://wgntv.com/video/weekend-break-berwyn-shops/10224432

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Well, publicity works

Well, publicity works — did about $600 in sales today, best single day in the shop so far. Several people who came in said they’d heard about it on the TV news. So that was fun. Hopefully it kicks off a profitable season of holiday shopping…guess I better make more art. 🙂. (This serving board sold today.)

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Never too old

Never too old for free hot chocolate with marshmallows, fresh popped popcorn, and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. I love their costumes; so gorgeous. She sewed them herself!

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Holiday kickoff party at the Berwyn Shops

Holiday kickoff party at the Berwyn Shops today (Sat 11/16): • shops and cafes open 10-6• Santa’s visit 12-2• Lincoln school choir 1:30 – 2 I’ll also be collecting Oak Parker signatures for Ade Onayemi (Park district) and Dr. Theresa Chapple (Park district) this weekend. (If anyone else needs signatures collected, don’t hesitate to ask — I think anyone willing to run for office should get a chance to run; happy to support that.) Stop

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The WGN interview went well

I did not fall off the ladder hanging my new sign, you’ll hopefully be pleased to learn. The morning WGN interview went well — they’re doing live interviews with all the shop owners, I think, along with a 5 p.m. feature on the shops overall, with more interview clips included. I had a moment when I wasn’t sure what to say in the live interview, but only a second or so of dead air; I

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Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.

 

Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org).  She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  www.maryannemohanraj.com

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Vegan Serendib 99%
Jump Space 95%
Cancer Log 50%