Join us as we celebrate the publication of Qualities of Light, a new novel by Mary Carroll Moore, one of our most popular and well-regarded writing instructors.
Qualities
of Light (Bella Books/Spinsters Ink) explores the budding of unexpected
romance in the face of family tragedy, the forging of a new relationship
between a daughter and her gifted, difficult parents, and an adolescent
girl’s confrontation with her own qualities of light and darkness. Author
Ann Bannon (The Beebo Brinker Chronicles) calls it “A tender and
lively coming-of-age tale, told with delicate insight.”
Mary
teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and
The Studios at Key West as well as here at the Writers’ Center. Her previously
published books include How to Master Change in Your Life: Sixty-seven
Ways to Handle Life’s Toughest Moments (Eckankar Books), Cholesterol
Cures (Rodale Press), and the award-winning Healthy Cooking
(Ortho Publications). Your Book Starts Here: Create, Craft, and Sell
Your First Novel, Memoir, or Nonfiction Book, based on her “How to
Plan, Write, and Develop a Book” writing workshops, will be released in
2010. A former nationally syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles
Times, Mary’s essays, short stories, articles, and poetry have appeared
in literary journals, magazines, and newspapers around the U.S. and have
won awards with the McKnight Awards for Creative Prose, Glimmer Train
Press, the Loft Mentor Series, and other writing competitions. She lives
with her family in Connecticut and New Hampshire and writes a weekly blog
for book writers at http://howtoplanwriteanddevelopabook.blogspot.com.
Admission
free; donations welcome!
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, the William Robinson Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester County Government.