https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/interview-amightyblaze-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/85d285ac-861a-4dda-9590-f449f6c2e616/MS-Website_NewsPosts_2026-05.png Updates - Interview: A Mighty Blaze - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/interviews-freshficton-south85journal-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/24b7ca79-3215-463d-8210-7caa87243ea7/MS-Website_NewsPosts_2026-06.png Updates - Interviews: South 85 Journal and Fresh Fiction - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-21 monthly 0.5 2026-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/f2a74aec-e712-4b99-a339-7ad4a13016f8/IMG_2633-2.jpg Updates - Coming Soon! - A WOMAN IN PINK is coming soon! I couldn’t be more excited for the launch of this book. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/excerpt-madrid-review-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/a2217b47-66f7-4fe5-8fd6-8cbe8ce32df8/MS-Website_NewsPosts_2026-04.png Updates - An excerpt from A Woman in Pink at The Madrid Review! - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-19 monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/6d953be7-6c8b-421f-92a0-78b15a5016f7/IMG_2625-2.jpg Updates - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-16 monthly 0.5 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/281abcba-7504-4eea-9e09-5324af9038bf/IMG_2636-2.jpg Updates - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? Because you appreciate books that are more than one thing. An accessible literary novel, a love story, an addiction memoir, AND a Johnny Cash/June Carter parallel for music fans? Yes, please! https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/interview-booksbywomen monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/57f8fcdd-43cb-48b5-ad9d-efae5f402f53/MS-Website_NewsPosts-BBWorg.png Updates - Interview: Books By Women - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-20 monthly 0.5 2025-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/5ddd0532-25ff-461b-a0b3-45394bfc304a/IMG_2653-2.jpg Updates - In a book club? - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-18 monthly 0.5 2025-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/95f1ac12-ceeb-4e5c-adc4-f5ad2f4151a1/IMG_2645-2.jpg Updates - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/interview-popsugar-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/318b95f5-c78a-4ad8-b739-d732437e0ef6/MS-Website_NewsPosts-01.png Updates - Interview: PopSugar - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-17 monthly 0.5 2025-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/4de7a7ae-606c-4ae5-9c4b-d725000dc740/IMG_2621-2.jpg Updates - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/interview-madrid-review-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/46ccbcda-9e71-4358-aac6-808b4dde5e80/MS-Website_NewsPosts-02.png Updates - Interview: The Madrid Review - There are the versions of ourselves we most want to be, and then there are the lesser, compromised versions who actually show up. A WOMAN IN PINK dwells in the gaps between them. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-16 monthly 0.5 2025-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/281abcba-7504-4eea-9e09-5324af9038bf/IMG_2636-2.jpg Updates - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? Because you appreciate books that are more than one thing. An accessible literary novel, a love story, an addiction memoir, AND a Johnny Cash/June Carter parallel for music fans? Yes, please! https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-15 monthly 0.5 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/e43411a2-ab13-4e6e-a194-2da9664a5514/IMG_2505-2-2.jpg Updates - Those close female friends of yours – you know the ones – would do anything for you. And if you’re like me, they are essential to your well-being. Female friendships offer a very particular kind of nourishment, a sense of being fully seen and heard and loved, flaws and all. These relationships crop up everywhere in my writing, including in A WOMAN IN PINK, which author Sarah Pazur says highlights “the radical empathy of female friendship and the stern but loving counsel that it can generate.” Like my life, this book just wouldn’t work without the female friendships at the center of it. https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-14 monthly 0.5 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/a8d23b47-9a7f-45d0-95cc-8c0e6339b7b8/IMG_26300-2.jpg Updates - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? Because it’s timely and relevant. A WOMAN IN PINK offers an intimate account of addiction and the chaos it creates, not only for the addicted but for those who love them most. Carolyn Jack, author of The Changing of Keys, says, “Being in love with an addict – well, that’s when the jet has lost an engine and the other one is in flames. No other book that I have read has ever described this experience with anything like the vivid emotional accuracy achieved by Schikora in her novel.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-13 monthly 0.5 2025-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/e2e967bd-efe2-4a06-be15-777153824ac2/IMG_2630-2.jpg Updates - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? - Why read A WOMAN IN PINK? Because your love life is a mess. Or it was once. Or you have sat with a close friend for months, sometimes for years, bolstering her and listening as she weathered her own storm. Or all of the above. Miriam Gershow, author of Closer and Survival Tips: Stories, says of A Woman in Pink, “Anyone who has ever made unwise choices in love, which is to say everybody, should read it immediately.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-12 monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/cd1458fb-dfad-41a9-b28f-5c720749a78e/shot_only+love+if+hits+artery.jpg Updates - For A WOMAN IN PINK, “It’s only love if it hits an artery.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-11 monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/91e4e8b7-a3bb-45ce-9266-6fdb3227acfd/shot_mirror.jpg Updates - I am A WOMAN IN PINK studying my reflection. “He was lost to me. I was lost to me. In the mirror, I saw a jumble of fragments resembling a person, and didn’t know her at all.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-10 monthly 0.5 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/2306468c-c827-4573-9f6c-3438056c3c53/shot_woman+alone+at+bar.jpg Updates - I am A WOMAN IN PINK, “the focal point in a grim snapshot, a woman alone at a bar. Only now I was even more tragic than at home, because now, my tragedy was on display.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-9 monthly 0.5 2025-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/482d5e59-8d90-4b28-a878-a7957c6026c3/shot_can%27t+have+or+mourn.jpg Updates - For A WOMAN IN PINK, “He was always there and never there. I couldn’t have him or mourn him. And so I was not well or sick, but held by a persistent, dull aching, the kind a person became accustomed to, the kind a person learned to tolerate.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-8 monthly 0.5 2025-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/84d0b1bb-45b7-4356-9afb-243e7e898e14/shot_metamorphosis.jpg Updates - I am A WOMAN IN PINK, gauging Dutch’s metamorphosis from drink to drink. “I sagged when I saw the darkness descend on him, our beautiful day then over. I was learning to be reactive, to watch for the darkness, to measure and modulate my responses to it.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-7 monthly 0.5 2025-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/b399d1c3-1ee7-4b1e-b7d9-542b915c57c1/shot_only+woman+in+group+of+men.jpg Updates - I am A WOMAN IN PINK, “more adept, since meeting Dutch, at being the only woman in a group of men. I knew when to be demure and when to be one of the boys, when to flash a smile or my intelligence like a badge, when to talk and when to remain quiet, when to fire a joke like a single shot.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-6 monthly 0.5 2025-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/19897aab-1d3c-44d8-a741-94cf65809e92/shot_malleability.jpg Updates - A WOMAN IN PINK speculates, “Maybe for women, our malleability and our appeal went hand in hand. Maybe we could be loved or we could be principled, but we could not be both.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-5 monthly 0.5 2025-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/b19a6ba8-7314-4be5-84e7-19c1c7887e1a/shot_door+remains+closed.jpg Updates - I am A WOMAN IN PINK, fearful of Dutch’s new wealth. “Did it draw him from me? Did it open a gulf between us? I secretly wondered and worried. Now he could pass through doors that for me remained closed.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-4 monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/313f3f31-6594-4d3d-aff9-48fa57481652/shot_designed+to+run+toward.jpg Updates - A WOMAN IN PINK says of Dutch, “His brokenness made me love him more. I was designed to run toward it.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-3 monthly 0.5 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/8aec40e2-eaa0-4453-9559-09034c33d8e2/shot_wore+pink+dress+that+night.jpg Updates - I am A WOMAN IN PINK and wore “a pink dress that night, like June Carter’s in Walk the Line, when she and Johnny Cash first met, backstage. When Dutch looked at me like that, the way Johnny looked at June, every nerve inside me hummed.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/post-draft-2 monthly 0.5 2025-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/809d84e4-ccda-4361-b6c8-4652a1a256c8/shot_brilliance+of+day.jpg Updates - For A WOMAN IN PINK, “the sudden, full brilliance of day was a shock. Then, just as quickly, she was struck, flying through the dark.” https://www.meganaschikora.com/updates/advance-copy-unboxing monthly 0.5 2025-08-17 https://www.meganaschikora.com/events daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/may15-whistlers-daughter-books monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/6fe5b88e-e038-4bd6-873b-4df5b2d1dda6/MeganSchikora_WhistlersDaughterBooks.jpg Events - Book Signing at Whistler’s Daughter Books | Ferndale, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/event-sidetrack-apr2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/49994fc3-702b-4d9a-89bf-026e0408d2f6/september-2023-sidetrack-1-1.jpg Events - Book Signing & Reading at Sidetrack Bookshop | Royal Oak, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/apr-11-elphantear-books monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/e4f9de77-7a10-4b59-8c25-97c5758504ae/ElephantEarBooks-Plymnouth-MeganSchikora.jpg Events - Book Signing at Elephant Ear Books | Plymouth, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/feb-20-literati-launch monthly 0.5 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/758fbb33-333a-4562-9a7b-a5ba21a4e156/literati_books.jpg Events - A Woman in Pink Launch Event at Literati | Ann Arbor, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/march-7-2026-pagesbookshop monthly 0.5 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/16d13711-206f-4ebc-aebd-3c14e28159fe/Pages-outside.jpg.webp Events - Book Signing & Reading at Pages Bookshop | Detroit, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/event-one-9ls4e-ff3fk monthly 0.5 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/af1161f2-38da-46fb-87c5-99f533951115/image.png Events - Book Signing & Reading at Plymouth District Library | Plymouth, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/events/event-one-9ls4e-ff3fk-fjxbs monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/cf5e79fe-8fed-4463-9fe4-115014349f11/BookCellar_Chicago_02.jpg Events - Book Signing & Reading at The Book Cellar | Chicago, IL - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meganaschikora.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1615225337376-36JM1AX4C0NIC32WNXXU/Rectangle+26.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1615225123989-3AGGEWNOKB8XK6YRH6A9/Rectangle+25.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1615225350677-B3YBA0I530Q8W9125BX3/Rectangle+27.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1615225322403-8M32U1NK41JYCCJQCWP7/Rectangle+25.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/6b9c49ce-d6e8-4048-8b47-03eb8afb6dc0/MeganSchikora_Headshot-K.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/3d75d287-3f35-4099-94f6-dd27f6111d88/MS_Monogram-01.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/675356acdcd9c57e1c21b37f/853d9453-e248-452d-b89d-6d402f8ebed5/A+WOMAN+IN+PINK+BOOK+COVER-Mock-2025.jpg