Tag: memoir

• Book Review Friday – A Fitting Place

  Mary Gottschalk’s first novel A Fitting Place wraps the reader in a familiar blanket in the opening pages. A lovely surprise awaited me as I began reading a story told a hundred different ways of a marriage breaking up when a husband falls for someone younger. Lindsey Chandler and her story of growth leaves the…

  P. C. Zick

  June 13, 2014

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  bulimia, homosexuality, intimacy, lesbians, marriage, memoir, novel, same sex relationships

• Author Wednesday – Mary Gottschalk

  Welcome to Author Wednesday once again. Today I welcome back fellow author Mary Gottschalk who appeared on Writing Whims more than a year ago. I reviewed her first book Sailing down the Moonbeam, a memoir from her time of living on a sailboat while her marriage crumbled around her.  Now Mary has turned her hand…

  P. C. Zick

  June 11, 2014

  Uncategorized

  amazon.com, authors, book reviews, characters, memoir, novel, sailing, same sex relationships, self-publishing, traditional publishing

• Book Review Friday – Sailing Down the Moonbeam by Mary Gottschalk

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick On Author Wednesday, I interviewed Mary Gottschalk who wrote the memoir, Sailing Down the Moonbeam. Today I’m pleased to review the book that captures several years in the 1980s when Mary and her husband Tom embarked on an adventure to sail the world for five years. I thought it would be a…

  P. C. Zick

  April 26, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer, Route 66, Trails in the Sand

  book reviews, memoir, sailboat, sailing

• Author Wednesday – Mary Gottschalk

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome Mary Gottschalk, author of the memoir Sailing Down the Moonbeam. Mary stops by today for an interview about her memoir and her current work. On Book Review Friday April 26, I’ll post a review of Sailing Down the Moonbeam. Thanks for stopping by today, Mary. I’ve read your…

  P. C. Zick

  April 24, 2013

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, characters, fiction, finance, Iowa, memoir, New York, novel, reviews, sailing

• The Wise Writer Does Not Make the Oprah Angry

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I began my writing career, somewhere in the back on my mind I still held the romantic vision of myself typing on a manual typewriter lost all day in the world I would create on the page. If only. When my first novel came out in 2000, my publisher wrote…

  P. C. Zick

  October 12, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, fiction, James Frey, lighthouse, memoir, nonfiction, novel, Oprah, publishing, St. Augustine, writers, writing

• Patti Smith Just Rocks

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Just Kids chronicles the rising star of poet Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, two free spirits let loose in New York City in the late ‘60s. Patti is the kind of artist I always longed to be: cool and free. My fear of rejection kept me from stepping off my…

  P. C. Zick

  September 5, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Writing Ideas

  fiction, Just Kids, memoir, New York City, Patti Smith, poet, Robert Mapplethorpe, writing