Past Updates
May Update
I spent Sundays from April of 2006 through April of 2007 attending
services at Protestant churches nationwide, and have been deep in my writing cave since Easter trying to meet my deadline for this book, which was sparked by warnings
during my Catholic childhood never enter one of these buildings. "Sundays in America" will be published next March by Beacon Press (www.beacon.org), which also published my other two memoirs.
As for other news:
I've also started to write for a very interesting new online magazine, Obit (www.obit-mag.com), which covers all
things dead and death-related. My first Obit essay is "Wake
Photographer," at
http://www.obit-mag.com/news.php?id=91
Another essay, titled "Walking Lessons," is included in the recently published "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Celebrating Mothers and Daughters," edited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Julie Firman, Frances Firman Salorio and Dorothy Firman. I thank the Firmans for suggesting that I submit a story.
The thirteenth issue of the literary journal Post Road (postroadmag.com) included my recommendation of the book "Reading the Future: Twelve Writers from Ireland in Conversation with Mike Murphy, edited by Cliodhna Ni Anluain. This issue includes work by Richard Hoffman, Baron Wormser, Alan Davis, Shara McCallum, Monica Wood, A. Manette Ansay and Jessica Treadway.
I was honored to serve as one of the non-fiction judges for the 2007 MassBook Awards presented by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Information on the winning books, including Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower," the winner in non-fiction, is at www.massbook.org
How cool to find that collage artist Sarah Fishburn is featuring a quote from "Lily of the Valley" on her website. Read the quote and see some of her dazzling artwork at www.sarahfishburn.com/tricks
Finally, my newest favorite animal guardian angels are found at Clean Slate, an animal rescue and rescue education facility that began on a 20-acre farm in Oregon before relocating to a former school building in Columbia, Kentucky. Its mission includes creating environmentally friendly systems of care for homeless animals, and educating others about these systems. That, and selling very cool benefit tees, including one designed by Kevin Nealon. For a t-shirt, or perhaps to adopt your new best friend, please visit www.cleanslateanimalrescue.com.
Happy summer reading!
Suzanne