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  • The librarians like it, too -- and I like them!

    Summer Wood - Feb 1, 2011

    From Library Journal: "Wrecker is a three-year-old boy living in 1968 San Francisco with his mother, Lisa Fay, a single woman struggling to provide a living for her son. When a string of bad decisions results in his mother’s arrest and imprisonment,…   Read More >>

  • WRECKER video trailer is live!

    Summer Wood - Jan 3, 2011

    Watch it on YouTube.  Post it on Facebook.  Send it to your friends.  Bosco, our dog, has a cameo.  Anyone interested in engaging him for movie stardom will have to check with his agent.  His people will have lunch with your…   Read More >>

  • Book of the Month Club chooses WRECKER

    Summer Wood - Jan 3, 2011

    Good news from my fabulous editor:  Book club rights to WRECKER were recently sold to Book of the Month Club!   Read More >>

  • This BookBrowse review made me very happy

    Summer Wood - Nov 29, 2010

    Title: Sometimes it is Nice to Read About Good People Submitted by: Cheri W. (Grand Rapids, MN), 11/23/10 (Grand Rapids, MN) "This was a page-turner from the opening of the book until the ending. It is nice to read about good people doing good things…   Read More >>

  • I love Publishers Weekly!

    Summer Wood - Nov 16, 2010

    PW says, “Wood succeeds with surefooted prose; a lush, earthy California backdrop; and a sensitive story of nurturing and family.”  Here's the full text of their review: Wrecker Summer Wood, Bloomsbury, $20 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60819-280-9…   Read More >>