In the Shadow of Crazy Cat - Softcover

Gleaned from her journals, this memoir is a chronological tale of an acolyte author pitting herself against the grist wheel of the international conglomerate the publishing industry became midstream in her career. She delved deeply into her subconscious where spirits guided her waking work, helping her write twelve novels in the course of this time in which she also shuffled literary agents, lost her personal mentor and reader, nurtured her husband, dealt with the repercussions of her dysfunctional family, and persisted through the onerous toil of publishing her work. The author of eighteen novels, short stories and poems, she has published a previous memoir, Grand River Highway: One Woman’s Journey to Autonomy (a finalist in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards of 2016) which shares her formative years leading her to become a writer.