1/14/2024 0 Comments Pamela gray writerIt was published in Creative Nonfiction Issue 33 and in Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives. Admittedly that stung, but he did like an essay I’d written. He also informed me that I was a horrible public speaker. The instructor, Lee Gutkind, told me not to publish for the sake of publishing, but to publish well. My writing life began in 2005 when I received a fellowship to the San Juan Writers’ Workshop. It wasn’t until after I finished the two years of research for this book that I was officially diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and went through four months of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy through a research study at Southern Methodist University. Prior to declaring my morbid writing intention of exploring death professions during my first semester of Goucher College’s MFA program in 2008, I had little experience with death or grief, not to mention very little social engagement with the living. This is all well and good for those daring types of writers like Mary Roach or Jessica Mitford, but for me it was initially problematic. Purchase Links Amazon | Barnes & Noble | About Pamela SkjolsvikĪ curious thing happens when you have the audacity to call yourself the death writer people want to talk to you about death. If you’re looking for a trope-busting, smart, and fun book for the vampire fan in your life – add this to your holiday season shopping list! I was thrilled to learn that this author is local to me and now I’m crossing my fingers for a sequel because that ending. You can’t help but root for these characters and you also might learn a thing or two about vampires that you’ve always wondered about.Ī ride or die road trip sounds hilarious for a story about a vampire but I don’t think there could be a more perfect, unexpected description. I especially appreciated the depth and emotion the author put into the addiction and recovery storyline. The writing was sharp and the characters were realistic and well developed. I nearly gave up on vampires a few years back because the genre had been so overdone. This book was darkly funny and unique and has something for everyone! Review:Ī menopausal, 12 stepping, road tripping vampire… what could be more fun? Seriously. With raging hormones and a ticking clock, Veronica embarks on a last-ditch road trip to regain her mortality, reclaim her humanity, and ultimately, die on her own terms. When her estranged daughter contacts her via Facebook, Veronica learns that she has one chance to escape her eternal personal summer: she must find and apologize to every one of the people she’s turned into vampires in the last century. These days, Veronica’s existence is just that – an existence, as flat and empty as her own non-reflection in the bathroom mirror. Her life stopped being fun about a hundred years ago, right about the time her teenage daughter stole her soul and took off for California with a hot, older guy. To retain her sanity, she attends weekly AA meetings and adheres to a strict diet of organic, locally-sourced, (mostly) cruelty-free human blood from the hospice facility where she works. Like most hormonally challenged women negotiating the change of life, she is a hot mess. Veronica is eternally fifty-one years old with a proclivity for problematic drinking. Publisher: Fawkes Press, LLC (November 5, 2020).
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