Bring On Lemons

 We are so excited to be part of: Neill McKee’s   WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING BOOK BLOG TOUR   OF   Kid on the Go! Memoir of My Childhood and Youth       Book Summary In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada—one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.  McKee’s vivid descriptions, dialog, and self-drawn illustrations are a study of how a young boy learned to play and work, fish and hunt, avoid dangers, cope with death, deal with bullies, and to build or restore “escape” vehicles. You may laugh out loud as the author recalls his exploding hormones, attraction to girls, rebellion against authority, and survival of 1960s’ “rock & roll” culture—emerging on the other side as a youth leader.  After leaving Elmira, McKee describes his intensely searching u...

I am so excited to be part of   Elizabeth Kirschner’s   WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR   OF   Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts   This tour began November 1st - thank you WOW! Women on Writing for the invitation to take part!     Book Summary Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts is a raw and intense collection of intricately layered short stories that touch on the recurring themes of sexual violence, domestic abuse, mental illness, and addiction. The characters are often cruel and inhumane with parents speaking in riddles to their abused children. The narrators are all women, usually unnamed, who have a lost, dissociated quality to them, as the details of their lives seem to fray. As the stories develop, some of these narrators find love and normalcy, though not always happily. Violence pulses steadily throughout the collection, but it is the author's hope that the stories not only reveal the breadth and power of her poetics, but also give...