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"Helluva life. Helluva book"
It’s been a month since A Tipsy Fairy Tale: A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption was published, and, Whew! I am “bowled over” by the response of readers who have taken the time to tell me how much they love it. Here are just a few of their comments.
“I am bowled over by your book. I’m almost done…a few more pages. I don’t want to finish. I might cry. I already cried.”
“I can’t put it down!”
“I believe it will become my favorite fairytale.”
“You're keeping me up way past my bedtime…The book is genius.”
“It is a truly astounding book. I was kind of reeling after I read it.”
“Wow. What a life…Wow. Boom.”
I am lucky to have survived my younger years and grateful for the five decades since I woke up in a gutter in Wales and realized that if I didn’t change my life I would probably die soon.
I am also grateful that I had lots of help and encouragement writing A Tipsy Fairy Tale. In fact, my pages of acknowledgments list more than fifty kind souls who helped me along the way. Among the many people I am indebted to is the amazing agent coach Mark Malatesta who helped me sign with an agent and so much more.
Mark had me write my memoir over….Twice! He said I spent too much time on the addiction part of my story and too little on the recovery and spirituality part. I didn’t want to hear that, but he helped me see that my story was incomplete and would be stronger when I finished it. He was right.
If improving my manuscript was all that Mark had done—if that had been the end of our relationship—it would have been worth it. But he helped me do so much more.
Read and/or listen to this lively conversation between Mark and myself about writing and publishing. And if you would like to learn more about my memoir, click A Tipsy Fairy Tale,
