“Wardrobe Woes & Other Assorted Misadventures” Published by HerStry

Ever look back at a job interview and cringe? Wish for a do-over? Lament your youthful missteps? Or want to take back a faulty wardrobe decision? I have. All at once, in fact. My first real job interview was plagued by not one or two mishaps, but five! As the years passed, I stopped cringing at the memory and started laughing. So did everyone I told the story to.

So when HerStry said it was seeking personal essays on the theme, “Kind of a funny story,” I knew I had to submit my experience. That essay, entitled Wardrobe Woes & Other Assorted Misadventures, along with seven others, has been published on the HerStry website. You can read my essay here and all of the essays here.

HerStry is an online literary magazine dedicated to putting women’s stories front and center. They offer great content for readers, and many resources for writers.

AudioBookReviewer

Back to the topic of the season, Beautiful and Terrible Things: The audiobook version of the novel came out a few weeks after the paperback and ebook launched in mid-July, and the early reviews are fantastic. I can say that without feeling like I’m bragging because to me, an audiobook review is all about how the narrator brings the characters and the story to life. I was very fortunate to find, through my publisher, Nicole Cash. You can tell she used to be a professional musician by the melodic way in which she phrases her sentences.

Here’s a bit of what AudioBookReviewer wrote in their review about the six friends at the heart of Beautiful and Terrible Things:

“The characters are not just words on a page but living, breathing individuals who make a difference for one another. Their journeys are profoundly moving, making this book a deeply emotional experience . . . These six friends, Charley, Xander, Jessica, Terrance, Sunny, and Buwan, are brought to life by the consistent yet distinctive voices delivered by Nicole Cash’s outstanding narration . . . timely intonations, subtle accents, and perfect pace.“

You can read the full review here.

(The audiobook of Beautiful and Terrible Things is available on Audible, Amazon, and Apple Books. You can get to all of those via this webpage.)

Fun Photo

We started with funny wardrobe woes. We’ll end today’s post with a fun photo. Seeing your book on the shelf in a bookstore never gets old. This shot was taken at The Bookery in Manchester, N.H., which has been very supportive of Beautiful and Terrible Things since it was published in July.

It’s kind of ironic that my book is near Ernest Thompson‘s Book of Maps, because I met Thompson — who also wrote On Golden Pond — at the New Hampshire Writers’ Project‘s annual conference earlier this year. Very happy to be in his company again!