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Kathleen Valentine posted a blog post"My Last Romance" for #SampleSunday
Kathleen Valentine posted a blog postIf I Can Do It For Others, I Should Do It For Me
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- About Me:
- Kathleen Valentine is the author of a collection of short stories "My Last Romance and other passions" and two novels, "The Old Mermaid's Tale" and "Each Angel Burns". She has also written "Fry Bacon, Add Onions: The Valentine Family & Friends Cookbook - five generations of good eating", a memoir/cookbook of memories and 400 recipes from a Pennsylvania Dutch childhood, and "The Mermaid Shawl & other Beauties: Shawls, Cocoons and Wraps", a collection of her own lace knitting designs. Some of her short stories are available in e-format from HeartThrobBooks.com and additional knitting patterns from KnitYourTailOff.com. She currently lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest seaport, and is writing another novel, "Depraved Heart" and another knitting book, "Siren Shawls, Seaman's Scarves and Stories". More information on her work is at www.KathleenValentine.com.
She currently lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest seaport.
- Website:
- http://kathleenvalentine.com
Getting to know Kathleen Valentine (from the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, seARTS)
What is your medium?
I'm a writer -- both a novelist and non-fiction writer. I currently have 2 novels, 2 collections of short stories, 1 book on knitting, and 1 cookbook/memoir in print.
How long have you been an artist?
I've been a writer for most of my adult life but began publishing regularly about seven years ago.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Probably the thing that interests me most is good people caught in impossible situations. That seems to be the dynamic that inspires most of my writing. I'm fascinated by people who are basically good, decent, honorable people who suddenly find themselves, often through no fault of their own, in absolutely impossible circumstances. Whenever a tale of that sort starts stirring in my brain I know sooner or later I'll have to write about it.
What else would you like us to know?
I think being a novelist is the highest calling of all the arts. Novelists, alone among artists, have changed the world. I heard a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe he said, "So you're the little lady who started this great big war." Her novel changed this country -- like Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. That is heady company -- something to aspire to be worthy of.
Where can we find your work?
My books are available both in paperback and e-format from Amazon and in paperback from all other online booksellers. Just go to my web site of my blog for the links. My web site is www.KathleenValentine.com and my blog is www.ParlezMoiBlog.blogspot.com.
Kathleen Valentine's Blog
"My Last Romance" for #SampleSunday
Posted on February 27, 2011 at 8:30pm
If I Can Do It For Others, I Should Do It For Me
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 8:13pm — 2 Comments
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BloggerMary (BookHounds) said…
Welcome to Book Blogs. Let me know if you have any questions. Please stop by my blog at http://maryinhb.blogspot.com & my YA blog: http://foreveryoungadult.blogspot.com when you have a chance!
Thanks, Mary
Hi, Kathleen. Just wanted to drop by and welcome you to BookBlogs. Your blog is great, and I love all the things you do- art, books, cooking (though I'm a nobody at knitting)
Varsha
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