Ann Garvin

Crying Through Summer Camp: Now a Heartwarming Story of Belonging

My first experience with a summer camp was one overnight in the woods with Girl Scout Troup 256. I was eight. I spent much time sobbing in the outhouse, my sleeping bag, and finding s’more sticks in the woods. Not a single terrible thing had happened, but I couldn’t stop…

Ann GarvinAugust 1, 2024

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Fiction Listicles Miscellany

Capturing the Memories and Magic of Summer Sleepaway Camp

This article appears through BookTrib's partnership with Tall Poppy Writers. Ann Garvin shares the real-life experiences that inspired her new novel, Bummer Camp, and recommends two books that relish in the same summer camp nostalgia. I was a nurse at a camp for sight-impaired and hearing-impaired kids with a variety…

Ann GarvinJuly 16, 2024

Miscellany

7 Virtual Book Events That Helped Us Get Through 2020

Funny. If you’d have asked me this time last year, I would have told you one of the things I was most looking forward to in 2020 was live book events. We were in the process of planning our first live BLOOM reader event on the East Coast, and I…

Ann GarvinDecember 24, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: She’ll Stop at Nothing to Find Out “Where She Went”

She thinks immediately of her daughter Emma, a freshman in college, and the only family Maggie has left. But Maggie’s daughter isn’t dead; she’s only missing. And no one knows where she went. Set on the campus of a large Philadelphia university (“Semper”) and in the dark underbelly occupied by…

Ann GarvinOctober 3, 2019

Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: Psycho Dysfunction in “Little Black Lies”

A funny thing happened after I read Little Black Lies (Grand Central Publishing). I met Sandra Block on Twitter soon after reading the book. I remember writing in 140 characters or less: I loved Little Black Lies. You should be a Tall Poppy Writer. I want to be your friend. I’m…

Ann GarvinAugust 9, 2018

Fiction

Real People, Real Problems in Cathy Lamb’s “No Place I’d Rather Be”

Full disclosure. I love Cathy Lamb’s books and No Place I'd Rather Be is no exception. Her writing is so warm, funny and real. Real people, real problems, solved in real ways. I mean, what’s not to like? Oh, wait, that’s not enough for you? Okay fine, this book has…

Ann GarvinSeptember 7, 2017

Ann Garvin

Capturing the Memories and Magic of Summer Sleepaway Camp

7 Virtual Book Events That Helped Us Get Through 2020

Tall Poppy Review: She’ll Stop at Nothing to Find Out “Where She Went”

Tall Poppy Review: Psycho Dysfunction in “Little Black Lies”

Real People, Real Problems in Cathy Lamb’s “No Place I’d Rather Be”

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