Diese Autorin schreibt täglich, zuerst von Hand und dann auf einem abgenutzten Mac, was ihr tiefes Engagement für das Handwerk zeigt. Sie versucht, die Intensität und Konzentration nachzuahmen, die sie in den anspruchsvolleren frühen Karrierephasen entwickelt hat, und priorisiert einen disziplinierten Ansatz gegenüber äußerem Komfort. Ihr bevorzugter Schreibplatz ist ein kleiner, dunkler, internetfreier Rückzugsort, der darauf ausgelegt ist, Ablenkungen zu minimieren und den kreativen Hunger aufrechtzuerhalten. Sie legt Wert auf produktive Ergebnisse und nutzt Techniken wie die Bearbeitung ausgedruckter Entwürfe während alltäglicher Unterbrechungen, um ihre Schreibdynamik aufrechtzuerhalten.
Willkommen im Magnolien-Club, dem altehrwürdigen Geheimbund der Schönen und Reichen! Mit Hilfe von Hoodoo-Zaubern beeinflusst dieser Bund aus Frauen das Liebesleben und die Schönheit sowie Macht und Ansehen seiner Mitglieder. Ihm soll in Zukunft auch die 16-jährige Alex angehören. Sie ist die Enkelin der Club-Begründerin. Doch eigentlich fühlte sie sich bisher in ihrer Hippie-Kommune, mit Rastazöpfen und in Vintage-Klamotten, ganz wohl. Wird das eigenwillige Mädchen den Verlockungen des Clubs widerstehen? Oder wird sie die Tradition ihrer Familie fortsetzen? Ein Jugendbuch voller Magie und Romantik.
Katie Crouch's Embassy Wife is a satirical page-turner following two women abroad searching for the truth about their husbands—and their country Katie Crouch's Embassy Wife introduces us to Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. She takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive such problems as: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel, but a secret agent in the CIA. Ever the embassy wife, she takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda Evans has just arrived in Namibia, mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job, as her husband, Mark, has accepted a Fulbright. But once they arrive in the sub-Saharan desert, it becomes clear that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, had other reasons for returning. Their marriage, which seemed solid in the safety of home, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari. Mark, it seems, has secrets born twenty years ago, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. When Amanda’s daughter becomes involved an actual international conflict, lines are drawn in the sand, and it is clear that her own government won’t stand up for her or her daughter. Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife compellingly explores the limits of human resilliency and loyalty, asking: How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruptness can Persephone purposefully ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you don’t like your country anymore?
When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her business is bankrupt. After a disastrous attempt to win back her husband, she ends up back at her mother's home to "rest up", where she is once again sucked into the mystery of her missing father. Suspecting that those closest are keeping secrets--including Palmer, her emotionally closed, well-mannered brother and Warren, the beautiful boyfriend she left behind--Hannah sets out on an uproarious, dangerous quest that will test the whole family's concepts of loyalty and faith.
