

Jio currently lives in Seattle with her husband, Brandon Ebel, the founder of Tooth and Nail Records and her three sons and three step children. Always : a novel (Ballantine trade paperback ed.). All the flowers in Paris : a novel (First ed.).

Jio is also a frequent contributor to the actress Molly Sims' lifestyle website. Her novels are published in more than 30 countries worldwide and have been translated into dozens of languages. In 2010, Jio signed with Penguin Random House, and has since published 11 novels with this international publishing company including the New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Blackberry Winter. In 2008, Jio became a contributor to Glamour magazine, where she penned the publication's popular health blog, "Vitamin G", and later wrote a weekly column about her life after divorce. Simultaneously she also worked as a freelance writer contributing articles on topics covering travel, nutrition, food, health and psychology to many national magazines and newspapers. Jio started her career in 2000 as an account executive at The Silver Company before becoming an editor at Seattle Pacific University, where she worked for ten years. Later, Jio earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University. She began writing as a child and was the first teenage columnist for her local newspaper, The Bremerton Sun. Jio was born on 18 February 1978 in Seattle, Washington. As June throws herself into the store and her great-aunt's items she stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown amidst the store's papers - and steps into the pages of American literature.Sarah Jio (born February 18, 1978) is an American journalist and New York Times bestselling author of 11 novels. Ruby founded her beloved children's bookstore, Bluebird Books, in the 1940s and was always an inspiration to June as she began her own writing career.

When she is unexpectedly called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, June doesn't have a choice and it provides the perfect escape. 'Sarah Jio's writing is exquisite and engrossing' Elin HilderbrandĪ remarkable story of friendship, love, and the mystery behind a beloved classic.Īcclaimed writer June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness.

A sweeping story of friendship, love and family as told by the New York Times bestselling author of The Violets of March and Blackberry Winter.
