Monthly Archives: June 2010
Take a peek at the Prologue—
Prologue: The Briefcase
Alabama. September, 2005.
My assignment: A magazine story about poverty in Alabama. Fifteen hundred words. Real people, real names. Due in two weeks.
High stepping, but I knew where to look. I’d worked at walk-in helping social service agencies, taught school in rural Alabama, and clerked at debtors’ court. I cast a big net. Soon, the director of a women’s shelter suggested I meet someone on her staff.
That’s how I came to know Ginger McNeil.
We met at a sandwich shop. A woman dressed in lime green and brown linen dashed through the door. I spotted her… [More]
Couldn't put it down—-reviews coming in
This from Lundy Bancroft, an authority on abuse and especially on abusive men:
“Rarely has a story of a woman’s courageous fight for freedom been told in such an eloquent and moving way. And, even more unusual, we get an open view into the twisted mentality of a vicious man who was able, like so many abusers, to convince the outside world that he was normal. A hard book to put down.”
Lundy Bancroft, author of “Why Does He Do That?” and co-author of “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
From Jedwin Smith, twice-nominated for the Pulitzer Prize… [More]
Summers Bridgewater Press
I’m publisher, president, CEO
and chief bill-payer.… [More]
Book cover—book news
Finally, the final book cover. I love it, so do many of you. So the decision is made. This sycamore tree is the tree for As the Sycamore Grows. But reaching this point has been a curvy road.
If experience is the best teacher, then I’ll earn a graduate degree soon.
Sycamore will launch in October, to coincide with National Domestic Violence onth. Eagle Eye Book Store in Decatur asked to host my launch party. Then I’ll travel to Florence, AL for a second launch, this time at the Kennedy-Douglas Center.
In the meantime, the book’s web site will be up… [More]
