It's been a month of book birth announcements. Another student from my
online classes and private coaching has just released her debut novel, Eden. Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg has launched it with great panache too--with excellent reviews on Kirkus, Booklist, Redbook, the Boston Herald
and other publications. Writer Anita Shreve calls Eden "a masterfully
interwoven family saga with indelible characters, unforgettable stories,
and true pathos."
I first met Jeannie at a storyboarding workshop I taught at Grub
Street in Boston where she was working on a two-storyboard novel,
exploring the financial ruin of a family's historic home in seaside
Rhode Island and the backstory of the matriarch who decides to reveal a
long-buried secret and introduce the child she gave up for adoption in
her teens. Weaving the two storyboards together was a challenge that
Jeannie approached beautifully, and her excellent book is the result.
Once it was finished, she looked over her options for publishing. I
interviewed her about her choices and what she eventually decided to
do.
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