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The Leaves Turn Brown
Anneliese Stewart's first manuscript is being considered by Rosario & Robins, a high-profile Chicago publishing firm, every author's dream. The only she never contacted the firm or sent her work. Against her better judgment and intuition, encouraged by others, she agrees to accept the invitation and meet the senior publisher and editor of the firm. Haunted by her unresolved past and her denial of her self-destructive behaviors, her dream journey will become a nightmare. Annie will plummet down a path of betrayal, loss and grief, ultimately leading to destruction in her personal and private life as she must eventually confront her greatest enemy... herself.
406 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 27, 2022
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July 30, 2023
A friend gifted me this book and, at first, I did not know what to expect from it.
It was indeed a gift.
With real characters painstakingly brought to life, experiencing gruelling reality, forced to their knees until bloody and battered, I found myself admiring the utter honesty of this novel.
There was no sugarcoating, no skirting around hard topics, no camouflaging morality. In fact, the story delved into what many authors—and people in general—tend to avoid.
As a novelist myself, there are always people telling you what to write. What you can write. What you can’t write. But, don’t these people understand that writing is bearing your soul? It is inviting complete strangers to discover small bits of yourself, dispersed through a woven story. Whether that story is fiction or not, is irrelevant. The author of The Leaves Turn Brown undoubtedly understand this, as this concept is so prevalent in her writing. Many professionals tell young writers to squander this voice, to meet whatever trendy expectation is set by the marketing industry. But did classic writers hundreds of years ago sink their quills into parchment with aching hands to meet a public criteria? No. They wrote because they loved the written word. They wrote because it made their life worth living. After everything the main character, Annie, goes through she ends up writing again, even if it was the beginning to all her grief. This novel is a reminder to me, and other writers out there, that it is truth and passion that should fuel our careers. If we have that. . . The mess of our lives may not seem so bad.
It was indeed a gift.
With real characters painstakingly brought to life, experiencing gruelling reality, forced to their knees until bloody and battered, I found myself admiring the utter honesty of this novel.
There was no sugarcoating, no skirting around hard topics, no camouflaging morality. In fact, the story delved into what many authors—and people in general—tend to avoid.
As a novelist myself, there are always people telling you what to write. What you can write. What you can’t write. But, don’t these people understand that writing is bearing your soul? It is inviting complete strangers to discover small bits of yourself, dispersed through a woven story. Whether that story is fiction or not, is irrelevant. The author of The Leaves Turn Brown undoubtedly understand this, as this concept is so prevalent in her writing. Many professionals tell young writers to squander this voice, to meet whatever trendy expectation is set by the marketing industry. But did classic writers hundreds of years ago sink their quills into parchment with aching hands to meet a public criteria? No. They wrote because they loved the written word. They wrote because it made their life worth living. After everything the main character, Annie, goes through she ends up writing again, even if it was the beginning to all her grief. This novel is a reminder to me, and other writers out there, that it is truth and passion that should fuel our careers. If we have that. . . The mess of our lives may not seem so bad.
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