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Helen Picca

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Anna Quindlen, Jodi Picoult, Jane Kirkpatrick, Dennis Lehane

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I am a former Marketing Executive from NYC and hold a BA in English from Marymount College, where I learned to love the written word. I have traveled extensively, both internationally and domestically, and have lived in New Jersey, New York, Hawaii and Oregon. I visited Port Orford, Oregon several years ago, quite by accident, and fell in love with the place. It was here I was inspired to write my first book. Since that fateful day, I have been living here and enjoying the many wonders of the Oregon Coast, and writing away...

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Helen Picca My best advice is: be open to ideas. When I first got the idea to write a book--which came out of left field, as they say--it was a romance. I saw my …moreMy best advice is: be open to ideas. When I first got the idea to write a book--which came out of left field, as they say--it was a romance. I saw my characters in my mind's eye and they were in love, in this little town I was sitting in. So, I started researching the town, and discovered a little known event that occurred here during WWII. That was the beginning of a long thread that lead me through WWII, to POW's, to the women who served that formed the basis for my book. So, follow the thread wherever it leads, there are no coincidences.(less)
Helen Picca It usually comes out of the blue. I'll be sitting doing something routine, or perhaps having a conversation, and I get gobsmacked with the idea to wri…moreIt usually comes out of the blue. I'll be sitting doing something routine, or perhaps having a conversation, and I get gobsmacked with the idea to write. I guess it comes from the universe.(less)
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With Stay-at-Home orders in place in many states, and with events cancelled, shops/salons/cafes closed, there is really no place to go and nothing to "do." Except read. Once, many people said they had no time to read, but now, we have lots of time. And books will save us--saving me--from the isolation and boredom. I can travel to faraway lands, meet amazing people, go back in time, and have unboun Read more of this blog post »
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Different writing style. Plain, not flowery. At times enigmatic. Polyphonic format allows multiple, simultaneous narratives.
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“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
Helen Picca, From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps

“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
Helen Picca, The Last Frontier of the Fading West

“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
Helen Picca, The Last Frontier of the Fading West

“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
Helen Picca, The Last Frontier of the Fading West

“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
Helen Picca, The Last Frontier of the Fading West

“It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it”
Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
Helen Picca, From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps

“I’ve been around men all my life. I don’t see how you all live with those things. They take more time and energy than a woman puts into her hair.”
Margaret Verble, Maud's Line

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