December 9, 2007
Happy to be here!
First of all, I'm so happy that Kat's having me as a guest! (Love the blog!)
As she said, I have a new novel out 'Waiting to Surface'
Though it's fiction, it's based pretty closely on my life - and tells how I became a single mom like so many of you. I thought I'd tell you a little bit about the story behind the book. At the time the events in Waiting to Surface occurred I was the features director of Self Magazine. My husband was sculptor whose work had been bought by a lot museums and major collectors. We had been married for ten years and had a six year old daughter. My husband had gone down to Florida to visit a friend. He was depressed and we were going thru a rocky period.
Anyway, I was sitting in my office on an August morning when the police in Florida called to tell me my husband had disappeared without a trace. At the time, they thought he had probably drowned. There were indications that he was suicidal. But it was totally baffling to them and to me that they couldn't find his body. The coast guard had scoured the shore by helicopter and found nothing. At first I was of course in total shock but it didn't seem possible that this was all I would find out.
Within a couple of days, the police changed their minds. They believed a body would have washed up and that my husband was alive someplace. The coast guard totally disagreed and said that because of the tides that night if he had gone out just 100 yards, his body would have been washed out to sea. I hired a private detective who came to believe that he had died either accidentally or intentionally but that his body would never be found.
To me the hardest part was coming to accept that I would never really know what happened that night.
Though Waiting to Surface is a very personal story everyone has to deal with uncertainty in their lives to some degree. Every time you send your child out into the world or kiss someone goodbye you don't know what will happen. Learning to live and be happy despite is a big issue for so many of us. So here's my question to all of you: How do you all deal with the uncertainty in your lives????
December 7, 2007
Guest author coming soon!
I am proud to announce that My Single Mom Life will have a new guest author, her name is Emily Listfield.
She runs a site under her name, Emily Listfield.com, and is an established author of about a half dozen books, her most recent is called Waiting to Surface: A Novel
Emily sent me a copy a few days ago, and I dug right into it. I am a few chapters in, and very interested in seeing where the story goes.
The book is based on the real-life disappearance of Emily's husband, and her new struggles in life to raise her daughter and find her missing husband.
It's fascinating so far, gripping, and a mystery waiting to unfold.
From reading some other reviews, she keeps you guessing until the very last page.
I am so happy to have Emily join me here, and I hope that you will all welcome her and enjoy her posts right along with me.
