My friend DJ Palladino–my first real editor, after my brief stint at the UCSB Daily Nexus–has written a very sweet profile of me for the Santa Barbara Independent: “Rachel Howard?s The Lost Night is a riveting book about growing...
You Can Take the Girl Out of the Strip Mall . . .
Note to self: Always use Professional Author voice when speaking to the press. From the Fresno Bee: “Rachel Howard has a habit of raising the intonation of her voice at the end of sentences that don’t contain questions. Her lilt...
A review of “The Lost Night” with a personal twist in the Orange County Register yesterday, written by Scott Duncan, my former editor at the paper: “I met Howard when she was 23, an aspiring arts journalist and a polished young...
The Reviews Roll In
In the New York Times today, a review of “The Lost Night” by William Grimes: “As a detective, Ms. Howard fails. She never learns the identity of her father’s killer. But as a memoirist, she succeeds brilliantly. “The...
Appearances this Week
I’ll be doing my first reading from “The Lost Night: A Daughter’s Search for the Truth of Her Father’s Murder” this Wednesday, August 3rd at 7 p.m. at A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books in San Francisco. Click here...
Great review of my just-released memoir, “The Lost Night,” in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday: “In the small farming community of Merced, a little girl wakes up one night to find her father stumbling through the hallway of...
Good Company
Elle Magazine has chosen my memoir “The Lost Night” for its online books forum for the month of August: ” [U]nfolds with the urgency of a thriller, for both obvious reasons?the central fact of Howard’s life is her...
Got word today that Corte Madera’s Book Passage has chosen “The Lost Night” as one of owner Elaine Petrocelli’s “Elaine’s Picks” for July and August. This means that the book will be reviewed in Book...
Beach Reads
The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review listed my memoir The Lost Night: A Daughter’s Search for the Truth of Her Father’s Murder in its annual round-up of intriguing summer books, along with offerings from great San Francisco writers...
I just received a fax from my editor at Dutton with a copy of the first review of my book. It’s from Publishers Weekly, and it’s wonderfully positive, calling The Lost Night “not an attempt at vengeance but rather a profoundly...
Quotables
My memoir, The Lost Night, garnered some more book jacket quotes yesterday. This came in from Alison Smith, whose Name All the Animals worked quite a spell on me as I was revising my own book: “Rachel Howard pulls no punches, offers no...
Proofs
I sent the first-pass proofs of my memoir “The Lost Night: A Daughter’s Search for the Truth of Her Father’s Murder” back to Dutton Wednesday feeling excited. These proofs are the typset pages, which are being bound into...