Tag: Midwest
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Grace Notes and Self Confidence Tracy Seeley Interview Pt. 5
I love anecdotes that momentarily seem out of the main line of the story because they remind us that the world is a richly interconnected place, thick with story and meaning even over there in the margins.
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Memoir writer on conforming, rewriting, publishing
Small presses, too, though, want to know how your book is like others that have gone before (and gone on to succeed), as well as how it’s a new and exciting, one-of-a-kind thing. It’s a funny kind of challenge to describe your work in both terms. But My Ruby Slippers does belong to a tradition…
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I Left my Heart In… Kansas? Memoir Review Part 2
Subtly, gently, and almost inevitably, she expands up to another level and asks how Kansas fits into the psychology of the entire nation. Her charter to make peace between these two parts of the country is extremely important to her. Having grown up on the Great Plains and then lived in Connecticut and San Francisco,…
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Mothers and Daughters Don’t Always Mix
This book demonstrates the power of persistence. By crafting the story until she got it right, Linda Joy Myers discovered amidst the wreckage of that little girl’s childhood an intact human being, complete with courage, confidence, and dreams. Storytelling transformed her heartbreaking childhood into one stage in a much longer saga. Her suffering and then…
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