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Abby Try Again

Katie

March 30, 2009

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I wanted to get some pretty things for Rachel and Victoria, who had birthdays in January and February (they’re cousins, born four days apart! I freakin’ love that about them). I’ve been trying to shop handmade and homemade whenever possible, so I rambled around blogland for awhile until I found Abby Try Again. She’s a photographer based in Portland, and her work is just lovely–vibrant and friendly and breathing, somehow.

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Anyway, I picked up a couple of prints for each of my lady friends, and they arrived super promptly in a tidy little package. I think they were a hit. And I got the biggest kick out of the whole thing. Happiness all around.

Love Junkie.

Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.