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Sweet friends —

Such a happy, busy day — running around talking about novels and moss and travel and life and love…and then I just saw this really generous review of "The Signature of All Things."

There are SPOILERS, so proceed with care, but here is a nice sample:

"A radiant novel…that rare literary achievement, a big, panoramic novel about life and love that captures the idiom and tenor of its age…Like Victor Hugo or Emile Zola, Gilbert captures something important about the wider world in The Signature of All Things: a pivotal moment in history when progress defined us in concrete ways.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/th
e-signature-of-all-things-by-elizabeth-gilbert/2013/09/30/bde1d770-27b1-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story_1.html

Grateful! And now home for a nap, and then my first reading TONIGHT, at Union Square Barnes & Noble, at 7pm…

ONWARD!
LG

THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by Elizabeth Gilbert
www.washingtonpost.com
The author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ returns with a radiant novel about a 19th-century botanist.

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

OK, MAYBE JUST ONE MORE CAKE PHOTO….!

Good morning, my darlings.

Anybody have any interesting plans for today?

Anything going on?

Anybody else wake up a 5am, grinning, with a racing heart?

Tomorrow has arrived, my friends! Alma Whittaker is born and "The Signature of All Things" is here!

And here — for your viewing pleasure — is the cake that my friends at my publishing house, Viking, made for me yesterday, for a celebratory lunch. Apparently, they heard that I like cake. (I can't imagine where they got that notion.) Isn't it GORGEOUS?

Readers, we ate it. Book and all. And it was awesome.

So listen, I have to pull myself together now because I'm off to do THE TODAY SHOW (tune in, if you can!) and then I will do a bunch more interviews all day…and then my first event, tonight, is at 7pm at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, NYC.

Check my website (www.elizabethgilbert.com) for all my upcoming events…You're on deck Philadelphia, Miami and Atlanta!!!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Yours in moss and discovery,
LG

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

THE EVENING COUNTDOWN HAS COME TO A CLOSE!

The Signature of All Things will be published TOMORROW.

Sweet, patient, wonderful friends. Thank you for holding this space with me and for sharing my excitement. Here is our final night's countdown cake….appropriately and magnificently made of MOSS, in honor of my dear Alma Whittaker, who will be born tomorrow.

Our most beautiful cake yet, I daresay.

Funny, seems like only four years ago I was dreaming in the vaguest and most foggy way about this book. And then Alma came slowly walking out of the shadows. And here we are. And there she is.

I remain your humble and most grateful servant,
LG

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

A SHOWER OF BLESSINGS!

Wonderful news! Janet Maslin of the New York Times (a stern critic who has been on record in the past NOT liking my work) just gave a rave review to "The Signature of All Things" which she called "vibrant", "hot-blooded" and "engrossing"!

WOOO!

Makes me fee like of like I felt in this photo last summer, after a long day's work in the garden.

BLISS,

Liz

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall