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• Hippie Boy Launch Day – Reflecting on the Journey

  Posted on January 7, 2014 by IngridRicks in Articles

  It’s such a surreal day for me. Today is the day that Penguin is launching their trade paperback version of Hippie Boy nationwide. In some ways, this day is about fifteen years in the making. Ultimately, it took my degenerative eye disease to teach me that I needed to write my story to release the emotions I’d carried around inside me for years—and also to remind me that life is short, that all we have for certain is now, and that we’d better make NOW count.

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  Hippie Boy Lands on NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List!!!

  Posted on June 20, 2013 by IngridRicks in Articles

  It has been an amazing couple of weeks—starting with a letter notifying me that I’d been awarded a 4Culture grant to support my next book project, Determined to See, followed by the launch of our new teen story collection, You’ve Got It All Wrong, and then discovering that Hippie Boy made #20 on the June 16th New York Times bestseller list!

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