Hello again, dear readers & writers & singers & poets & makers & creatives of everyday magic,
With my third novel in the hands of my publisher, I’ve come up for air. I’ve no other excuse for neglecting this blog for so long. But here I am, hoping you’re still with me.
Love & Other Matters continues the journey begun in Other Wise and This Other Way of Knowing. For those who know Margaret and the cast of characters who people her story, it’ll be a short wait for installment three. For those who don’t yet know Margaret, I hope you’ll explore the first two books.
My publisher, Piscataqua Press, is finalizing both the cover design and the interior format and I can’t wait to show you what it looks like.
I will soon share events surrounding the launch and hope those close at hand will come fill yourselves with story as I read a little and we chat a bit about the writing process.
Listening to a voice reading to us fills a quiet need. I love that I sometimes get to be that voice. And, … my actor self loves that I get to be all the characters–the ones who started whispering in my ear so long ago. The ones whose words I’ve tried to get down on the page. The ones who have become integral to the telling of Margaret’s story.
So come if you’re able when we gather to celebrate. I’ll do my best to live up to these words from award winning Maine writer, Jodi Paloni, author of They Could Live With Themselves, a collection of linked stories set in rural New England & founder of Maine Coast Writers Retreats:
“Mary Lou Bagley has an exquisite knack for storytelling using cadence, tone, and timing to elevate the deeper meaning in her words. I am forever riveted, often moved to bodily sensation, sometimes to tears, always entertained.”
Now tell us a story in the comments about what you’re up to these days …
Beth says
Ah, Marylou. So good to hear your book progress and read what you have to say about writing. So enjoy that. Piscataqua Press has my esteem, for sure.
Besides family care-taking, my son’s upcoming wedding, and cataract surgery imminent, seems very busy! You may have heard my chapbook Reaching for the Nightingale was published by Finishing Line Press. Surprising how much work a little chapbook is! So, I admire your fortitude publishing another book. Time to catch up on all those. I have appreciated working with Brian Evans-Jones, and got to give a reading with him and with Lauren WB Vermette. Had to be the highlight of my summer! And to get a blurb from Kimberly was a boost, indeed. So, that ‘s enough for now.