Happy to report the US Review of Books RECOMMENDS Saluting the Sun in its review. RECOMMENDED is given to 10 to 20% of the titles it reviews, and means the reviewer thinks it’s a “compelling and lasting read.” If you are looking for a lovely Christmas present, you can buy a copy of WARMING UP...Read More
Episode 163 of Library Life features an interview with me at “my mother’s library,” Mt. Prospect Public Library, on my novels and becoming a writer.Read More
At the Chicago Writers Conference last weekend, author and teacher Eric Charles May gave a talk about causality in fiction. He said that we all tolerate accidents in real life, and while we may ask “Why?” or “Why me?” at various crises in our lives, we inevitably must accept that at times there are no...Read More
What to give the attorney who has everything? ‘Tis the season for that challenging question. Perhaps Scott Turow’s newest, “Identical” (Grand Central Publishing), Chicago attorney Thomas R. Leavens’ “Music Law for the General Practitioner (ABA) or, hey, even my own “Courting Kathleen Hannigan” (Ampersand) or “Warming Up” (She Writes Press)? That would be so...Read More
Here’s my guest blog post on SheWrites.com’s Behind the Book. The other day I autographed my novel, Warming Up, published by She Writes Press, for a friend of a friend who I was told was a writer herself. Since my novel is, in part, about talented artists who are unable, at the start of the...Read More
Carving a story from blank marble June 28, 2013 By Mary Hutchings Reed In my new novel, ʺWarming Upʺ (SheWritesPress, 2013), amateur sculptor Dr. Haverill Richardson, therapist to the main character, is unable to take the first swing at a hunk of marble because he doesnʹt know what itʹs going to be when he is...Read More
A friend of a friend just wrote to me: “I just finished “Warming Up,” and wanted you to know how much I enjoyed it. If I could write a novel like that, I think I would really feel like I made a contribution to our society. It has so many terrific elements and themes. But,...Read More
Thanks to Women & Children First for a wonderful evening reading at their store May 9. Thanks to everyone who attended, also! Owner Linda Bubon shared half the “pass the hat” Women’s Voices Fund collection with The Night Ministry. She is always so generous to good causes as well as women and local authors. Read More
