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I'm a ninth generation Mainer, descended from both Pilgrims and Puritans with the odd French fur trapper thrown in, a blood and guts background if ever there was one.

Though I was born and brought up in Maine, I spent my adult life mostly in New York, where my husband and I raised our daughter. We also lived in San Francisco for five years before returning to Maine in 2019 to settle in a small town Downeast, where it is very very quiet.

My MFA is from NYU, and I also have undergraduate and graduate degrees in French from the University of Maine. The Northern Reach is my first novel. ...more

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W.S. Winslow Colm Tóibín said it best: "The only way to work is to work. How do you write a novel? Write a novel. Why are you not doing it now? Go home."

My persona…moreColm Tóibín said it best: "The only way to work is to work. How do you write a novel? Write a novel. Why are you not doing it now? Go home."

My personal advice: Learn to read so closely and with such discernment that you can no longer get through a badly written book. It'll knock your bedside stack down to a manageable size in no time.(less)

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W.S. Winslow No one regards an unwillingness to delegate as a personal failing or professional shortcoming.

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“Above the reach, low clouds sleepwalk across the February sky. Today they are fibrous, striated, like flesh being slowly torn from bone. It's four in the afternoon and already night has started chewing away the edges of the day. This is winter's waking death: half-light, refracted by gray water and dirty snow, begging the voracious dark to end its miser”
― W.S. Winslow, The Northern Reach

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“The minutes ticked on, and Alice listened as her children shared stories and swapped reminiscences so that, one finger at a time, they let her go, and as they did, the smoky fetters loosened and untangled themselves. Alice lingered just long enough to gather up all the things she should have known, and with her last thought, she gave herself over to the smoke, blended with it, became it, wafting, whisper, wisp, gone”
― W.S. Winslow, The Northern Reach

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“It's the lies that hold people together, she believes, the things we never say, the false faces that mask ugly truths”
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