Writing the hard book
Sixteen years ago, my best friend committed suicide. She hung herself in her mother’s garage. It was many years before I could speak it out loud without having a panic attack. May 29, 1995. Memorial Day in fact. Although I […]
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The Plan
Perhaps I should have titled this “The Plan that went awry”. So, when I started writing the book which became Ashes, Ashes, I went pretty deep into my characters’ back stories- in particular Grammalie Rose, Aidan, Sammy and Del’s pasts. […]
Around town; a few of my favorite things
I live in a small town. It used to be mostly retired folks but over the last few years, a lot of younger people are moving in. It’s a cool mix of traditional, old-fashioned with just enough funk. I don’t […]
The Comfort in Books
So my life has taken a turn recently. My husband and I have decided to divorce after 16 years together. He is moving out January 1st. It is as amicable as we can make it but of course we are […]
The Right Agent, The Right Book
Those of you who follow my blog, know that back in August my agent told me he was closing up shop. He was a one-man-show so unfortunately this meant that I was cast upon the waves. I thought it would […]
Hunkering Down
It’s a misty day in Nova Scotia today. The foghorns are out there somewhere bellowing like lost cows. My neighbor has pumpkin vines spilling down her lawn onto the sidewalk, though thieves have stolen all her pumpkins save one. My […]
Ashes, Ashes the German edition and CONTEST!
So I just received 5 copies of the lovely hardback German edition from my editor. You can’t tell from this photo but the design team used different techniques on the dustcover jacket so that the title is slightly raised and […]
Not so rosy Part 2- The Agent search(again)
Continuing the not-so-rosy-literary-life postings… Forgive me while I lay my head upon my arms and weep for a moment. A month ago, my beloved agent (yes, truly he is beloved) informed me that he was closing up shop. My first […]
YA (reinvented as a genre rather than a category)
So the other day I read a GoodReads review of Ashes, Ashes written by a 20-something year old man who bemoaned the lack of violence and also, boobs (yup, BOOBS) in the book. This puzzled me exceedingly. It says right […]
Deseret News review
Just got a lovely review from Utah’s Deseret News. Here’s an excerpt and you can read the whole thing here “…Treggiari’s debut dystopian novel describes a post-apocalyptic world that reeks with ash and putrid waste. The high waters cannot cleanse […]