In a recent Detroit Free Press article, author and speaker Mardi Jo Link talked about the importance of friendship and how it inspired her fifth book, The Drummond Girls: A Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance. The book, actually a memoir of Mardi’s own ladies-only weekends on Drummond Island, Michigan, is due to be […]
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Recent events coordinated through Books In Common. Garth Stein, Christina Baker Kline, Charlotte Rogan and Mardi Jo Link participated in Literary and events recently.
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Summer is around the corner which means there are some amazing opportunities to listen to your favorite author. Here are a couple June events coordinated with Books in Common.
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Mardi Jo Link recently wrote an essay on her experiences and life lessons. She describes the need for both people and nature to find their own level. Life doesn’t always work the way you expect it to, but yet it always seems to find a balance. Mardi Jo Link’s essay explains, the parallels she found in her own life with love, and the efforts of man to tame the waterways near her home.
Read More »It’s a pivotal moment for an author’s book to be turned into a movie. Mardi Jo Link’s book, Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm, has now been optioned for a film with Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig. From Mardi Jo Link’s struggle to prevent foreclosure on her 100 year-old farm to gaining notoriety in her writing, and now watching her personal story being told on the big screen is an exceptional way for Mardi Jo to come full circle.
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Mardi Jo Link, author of Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm, has been named the winner of the Great Lakes Bookseller’s Choice award for 2013. Her hilarious memoir, which Garrison Keillor describes as, “A heroic-comic saga of single motherhood, pure stubbornness, and the loyalty of three young sons,” Bootstrapper recounts Mardi […]
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