Kristina Riggle
Novelist, short story writer

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
Thomas Mann
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I'm a freelance journalist and novelist. My debut, All Happy Families, will be published by Avon Harper Collins in the summer of 2009. Subscribe to the updates to get bulletins on exciting developments in this process as we head toward the release date. Also click on the short story link above to check out some of my published stories. Thanks for visiting!

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I have a new title! The publisher asked me to change my original title and after a great deal of thought, and after achieving consensus with my editor, we settled on "All Happy Families", inspired by this famous quote from the first line of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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