Welcome, TinaDrennan!
It's great to have you here. I hope you find this to be a valuable resource. Many group members are published authors, so feel free to pick those brains!
It's great to have you here. I hope you find this to be a valuable resource. Many group members are published authors, so feel free to pick those brains!
Thanks,
Here's a little about myself. I have written three full length novels and just wrapped up the fourth. One of my favorite authors and writing Gurus, Mark Childress (Crazy in Alabama), once said it takes about four novels to learn how to write one, so I'm hoping I've finally got it down. None of my books has been published (yet), and the wonderful agent who schlepped my first novel (The Cloissonne Broach) around without success has expired, so I am agentless for the moment. Actually for many moments, like about six months worth of queries, but I haven't given up.
My most recent work, The Goddess of Undo, is worthy of an agent and a publisher, and I'm very proud of it. It's about a mother and daughter--mostly estranged after a nasty divorce when the daughter was three--who are reunited just in time for the mother's decent into dementia. Though mostly fiction, the novel is based on my experiences ushering two parents out of this world. It's told in a memoir style, narrated alternately by the not so reliable characters of Betty (mom) and Evie (daughter). Impartial readers (not just my mother) have praised the work as a two woman "tour de force." Boomer readers will recognize themselves in flashback vinettes of the fifties and sixties. My hope is that the book will help soothe the aches, heal the hearts, and restore the memory of the good times for those of us who face the spectre of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias in our loved ones.
I'd really like to post a chapter somewhere, but I don't know the appropriate protocol.
Thanks for listening
Tina
Here's a little about myself. I have written three full length novels and just wrapped up the fourth. One of my favorite authors and writing Gurus, Mark Childress (Crazy in Alabama), once said it takes about four novels to learn how to write one, so I'm hoping I've finally got it down. None of my books has been published (yet), and the wonderful agent who schlepped my first novel (The Cloissonne Broach) around without success has expired, so I am agentless for the moment. Actually for many moments, like about six months worth of queries, but I haven't given up.
My most recent work, The Goddess of Undo, is worthy of an agent and a publisher, and I'm very proud of it. It's about a mother and daughter--mostly estranged after a nasty divorce when the daughter was three--who are reunited just in time for the mother's decent into dementia. Though mostly fiction, the novel is based on my experiences ushering two parents out of this world. It's told in a memoir style, narrated alternately by the not so reliable characters of Betty (mom) and Evie (daughter). Impartial readers (not just my mother) have praised the work as a two woman "tour de force." Boomer readers will recognize themselves in flashback vinettes of the fifties and sixties. My hope is that the book will help soothe the aches, heal the hearts, and restore the memory of the good times for those of us who face the spectre of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias in our loved ones.
I'd really like to post a chapter somewhere, but I don't know the appropriate protocol.
Thanks for listening
Tina
3 months ago
For posting files in the group, click on FILES at the top of the group page. You will see a place to upload a file from your computer. Select the file you would like from your computer, write a description, and hit "upload." That's it!
3 months ago
