Gallery Flanked by Janet Hoffman and Linda Ubriaco, two high school friends, at the BookMark Shoppe’s “Better than Sisters” launch (Photo: Peter Brown) With some of the talented artists after performing “My Brooklyn, Your Brooklyn” at the Coop with the poet Darryl Alladice (Photo: Jason Madden) Reading from “The El” at Boulevard Books (Photo: Andrew Gardner) There’s nothing like finding your first novel in the stacks at Barnes & Noble (Photo: Peter Brown) On the front stoop with neighbor and fan Jim Cullen About to begin a Google Classroom presentation to NYC high school students and discuss “Better than Sisters” (Screenshot: Veronica Duchene Thomas) Ink for “Better than Sisters” Before reading from “The El,” the demo on how to build an antipasto (Photo: Jessica Dell’Alba) Reading from “The El” to a full house at Manhattan’s Italian American Museum (Photo: Peter Brown) Getting into the groove with “My Brooklyn, Your Brooklyn,” a performance art piece about coming of age in Kings County, created with the late, great Darryl Alladice (Photo: Katy Clements) At a private event with a book club in Manalapan, New Jersey to discuss “The El” Sketched by artist Nancy Lunsford during a reading at 440 Gallery At Volossal Night with fellow authors, hosted by Book Soup in Los Angeles. From left to right: Allison Sciulla, publisher Vinnie Corbo, Jackie Castro, Justin Harrison and Tracy Hammond with Catherine. A light moment with Dolores Deluce at the Italian American Museum during “The Mystique of Every Italian Gal” (Photo: Peter Brown) With Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma at the BookMark Shoppe