Ram Island Light, Boothbay, Maine. Photo by my husband, John

My husband went up to Boothbay on a photo trip, and he took this photo for me. I can't help but think of Ram Island Light as my lighthouse, because the keeper's cottage is on the cover of Touch Blue.

In many little ways, I feel the book coming back to me. As an author, you send a book off and hope that readers will enjoy it, and that maybe it will even matter to some readers.  When that happens, it's like having the book returned to you, completely whole for the very first time. I remember vividly the books that mattered to me as a child.  So to feel that come back to me as an author. . . .there are no words.

Thank you to author (and my dear friend) Jo Knowles, for giving me a peek into reading the end of Touch Blue with your son.  My son had stopped me several times throughout the book to say, "This is going to have a happy ending, right? Right? Everything's going to be OK?" The characters were as real to him as his best friends.

And thank you to fabulous blogger, brand-new mom, and Red Sox Fan, Jen Robinson of Jen Robinson's Book Page for this beautiful review of Touch Blue.   Touch Blue is one of those rare books that I read slowly, because I didn't want it to end.