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Nan McCarthy is the author of the Since You Went Away series, Chat, Connect, & Crash series, Live ’Til I Die, and Quark Design. A former magazine editor & technology writer, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 33 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons.

To find out more, visit Nan's website at www.nan-mccarthy.com, like her on Facebook www.facebook.com/nanmccarthywriter, or follow her on Instagram www.instagram.com/nanmccarthy, Twitter www.twitter.com/nanmccarthy, and Pinterest www.pinterest.com/nanmccarthy.
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Nan McCarthy In 2008, my husband was on a year-long deployment to Iraq. Staying home on a Friday night, I happened upon a 1944 film on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) …moreIn 2008, my husband was on a year-long deployment to Iraq. Staying home on a Friday night, I happened upon a 1944 film on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) called Since You Went Away. Produced by David O. Selznick and starring Claudette Colbert, it’s about a mom and two daughters fending for themselves on the homefront while the dad is off serving in World War II. The film is at once poignant, lighthearted, and somber. I immediately fell in love with the story.

Further research led me to the 1943 novel (of the same name) by Margaret Buell Wilder, on which the movie is based. Discovering Wilder had written the book in epistolary form (one of my favorite literary styles), I couldn’t help but fall even more in love with the story.

My first thought was, why has no one updated this story for modern times? Since You Went Away is an unusual kind of war movie in that it focuses completely on what’s happening with the family back at home. You could say it’s a war story without the war. I loved the idea of creating a modern-day story that gives readers an intimate glimpse of contemporary military family life in a way that’s accessible and—above all—entertaining. That’s what I set about doing when I started writing Since You Went Away in 2012. Back then, I envisioned one book that would take me about a year to write. Ha! Now here we are, eight years and four books later. Life is funny that way sometimes. Thanks for coming along on the journey with me.(less)
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Since You Went Away series featured in Military Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2024 Holiday Buying Guide

Support military-connected entrepreneurs this holiday season by purchasing gifts from veteran- and military-spouse owned small businesses. Did you know that the military-spouse unemployment rate is more than five times the national average? And that military spouses earn 25% less than their civilian counterparts, even though mil-spouses are among the most highly educated professionals in their …
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