Ask the Author: Candace Allan
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Candace Allan
I'm not sure yet, but Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl for sure. And Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers.
Candace Allan
Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy! It's been suggested. I do know the secret to giving my daughter an extra hour of alone time even when it's 23 below and I have both kids in my car from a previous engagement - spoiler - it involves Starbucks Drive Thru, the 'healthly' snack pack (how do they keep that apple from turning brown) and the movie Frozen in my car's video player.
Candace Allan
I had barely honed the skills to convince my children they had to take pure math, and that all the kids who said they'd had sex hadn't really when my eldest daughter announced her imminent departure from home. Soon after, our first son left for a ski resort, the second son considered entering an ashram, and our sixteen-year-old daughter left for five months in Italy. During years spent keeping track of a house of teens, cooking heaps of food, giving driving lessons, and soothing all the victims of unrequited love, I never thought much about their launch from the nest. Had I prepared them? Wary of hovering, I've attempted nervous iparenting from afar. Text Me, Love Mom tells what happens during those sometimes turbulent, sometimes funny, curious new times.
Candace Allan
Along walk on a calm day ...listening to soulful music...thinking about most life changing moments...
Candace Allan
I'm so excited to get back to work on a novel that has been brewing, just brewing.
Candace Allan
A long time ago the great Canadian author, Alistair Macleod , told me that what you need more than anything to be a writer is perseverance. So true.
Candace Allan
You know, the best solution is just as Hemingway said, "Write one true thing." From there it really can take off.
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