March

Kerstin March After graduating from St. Olaf College, Kerstin March built a career around writing. During her start as a small town newspaper reporter, and as a public relations professional later on, she always enjoyed bringing out the personal side of news stories. When she sat down to write her first novel, Kerstin could picture the […]
FAMILY TREES launches debut novelist Kerstin March

Kerstin March sent these photos from the launch party at for her heartwarming novel, FAMILY TREES (Kensington). Valley Books sold books at the event, which was held at The Library (Marin Restaurant) in downtown Minneapolis. Approximately 300 people were in attendance, and some, no doubt, enjoyed the Apple-tinis, served, in a tribute to the book […]
Meet Kerstin March, author of FAMILY TREES
June 1 Launch Party “The Library” at Marin Restaurant The Chambers Hotel downtown Minneapolis (books provided by Valley Bookseller) June 6 Barnes & Noble, Woodbury Contact: Ella Zak, Manager 702 Valley Creek Plaza, Woodbury 55125 June 14 The Valley Bookseller 217 N. Main St. Stillwater, MN 55082 valleybookseller.com
Family Trees, Kerstin March

In this moving and insightful debut novel set along the breathtaking shores of the Great Lakes, a young woman must decide which dreams are worth fighting for, and which roots to keep firmly in place… Sensible and self-reliant, Shelby Meyers knows exactly what she wants. She’ll never again depend on her errant mother, Jackie, who […]
So you are a debut novelist…

I was thrilled this week to make a 2-book deal with Kensington Publishing for first time author, Kerstin March. I think this happy ending can be instructive for debut novelists, especially those writing mainstream women’s fiction or genre fiction, so I thought I’d share a little bit about how this came to be. Kerstin came […]