A Post About a Bookstore

My first true mentor was author Jean Brody (Gideon’s House, A Coven of Women, Cleo).  I met her when I first had the guts to join the Cambria Writers Workshop and read my work out loud (picture if you will: hands trembling as they try to hold the printout; hammering heart; much pausing for life-giving oxygen).

She wasn’t an “easy” or “soft” mentor.  In fact, I once stayed away from the group in despair when she announced that all my authority figures came off as stereotypes.  I respected her knowledge so much that I allowed it to crush me.

Why did I go back?

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