The honor of your presence is requested at the official launch of 

Other Wise

a novel

by Mary Lou Bagley

Sunday, October 14th, 2018

3 pm

RiverRun Bookstore – 32 Daniel St. – Portsmouth, NH

 

I will read. We will chat. I will sign copies. And we will all leave happy.

The first in a series, Other Wise introduces a cast of characters who will find their way into your dreams and beyond.

Sixty-two-year-old Margaret Meader is both a native Mainer and an outsider. Though she’s not “from away,” many in her community deem her an oddity — an other. Plain-spoken and direct, Margaret is gifted with second sight — an intuitive ability to see beyond ordinary perception and distill what is seen to its practical essence. For decades her gift has benefitted many while frightening others, often making her a target for  jealousy, suspicion, and hatred.

She has her friends and protectors, including young Emily Donne whom Margaret encourages to recover abandoned gifts of her own, deal with the mystery that is her mother, and learn who her long dead father truly was. But even as Margaret supports friends in need and helps find those who are lost, some very old business is coming back around, setting the stage for confrontations rooted in tragedies of the past.

 

I hope to see you on the 14th and may Margaret’s story land gently on your heart.

 

 

Dear friends,

I promised an update on the novel and here it is:

JOIN ME, please, as I officially launch OTHER WISE.

Sunday, October 14th, 3pm

RiverRun Bookstore

32 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH

I will read a little, sign some books, and celebrate a couple of births–mine and Margaret’s. She is the plain spoken artist gifted with second sight who whispered in my ear one day and kept on whispering. I am but the scribe. This is her story, or at least the beginning of it …

I welcome you to come and get a wee taste and meet Margaret and the characters who people her life.

And if you want to get started beforehand, Other Wise is available now at RiverRun Bookstore, A Little Something in South Berwick, Amazon (with a “look inside” option), and through me (there’s a box in my trunk!). Bring your copy if you want it signed. E-read it if that’s your preference. Or wait for this first public reading on the 14th.

And now, tell me: Who or what has been whispering to you? Share your works in progress, your wish fulfillments, your dreams not fully formed, your secret scribblings or etchings or wonderings. And let’s have a little party and celebrate …  you.

 

 

 

Dear friends of this blog, here it is: the cover of my novel, Other Wise, first in a series.

Years of exploring process. Years of starts and stops. Years of living with these characters in my head. And now this: a real book I can hold in my hands — you can hold in your hands — in a very short while.

 

The official book launch hosted by RiverRun Bookstore is October 14, 2018 (my birthday!). I hope you’ll mark it on your calendars (preferably right now) and join me in Portsmouth, NH, late on a Sunday afternoon in the Fall (venue & time tba). I will read. We can chat. I won’t embarrass you with my happy dance, but trust that it is ongoing.

We are writers and artists and makers with stories to tell and artworks to share and comforts to offer. We solitary creatives spend hours alone at our work, yet we are companions on this path. We are community. And we get to come out and mingle now and then.

                                                … sometimes we even get to party!

Blessings, MLB