Dear Reader,
Can it be it is finally summer? The return of warm days and summer rains, sweet tea garnished in mint from the garden, crates of peaches and juicy red tomatoes fresh-picked at the farmers market, fireflies and twilight lightning storms... Time to hit the beach with a tote full of great summer reads. Recently I hiked to the top of a forested bluff, unpacked an apple, and read for an hour in the sun. Beauty and poetry collide.
Sometimes we need to get out of the office, lace up our shoes and hit the trails for a fresh perspective. Go play outside! Plan a vacation with someone you love, visit a place you've always wanted to see, say hello to a long lost friend. Summer is the season of celebration of all the goodness life has to offer.
Check out the Events tab here on my website for local book event listings in your area and be sure to drop in and say Hello if you can join me. It's a privilege to meet so many of you at writers conferences and book readings. I also welcome your comments here through my web site, and thank you, with deep gratitude, for reading my work. This August my newest release will be available - the softcover edition of The Geography of Love.
And finally, on a personal note, the manuscript of my newest novel, Principles of Flight, is complete and in the expert hands of my amazing agent. Agents and editors are the unsung heroes of every book, my friends. The work of bringing a manuscript to the book market, developing the full voice of a story - well, an agent or editor's work is largely invisible and tireless. So here's to my publishing team! As for me, the next story beckons...
Warmest regards,
Glenda Burgess
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, Broadway Books, New York, August 2008
TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2008 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2008 BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD, finalist
A tender and intimate memoir that will resonate with readers of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Susan Duncan's Salvation Creek
PRAISE FOR THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE
"Burgess' tender recollections...remind us all that we tend to be defined by our great loves well after we've lived them." - Elle Magazine
"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir in one sitting-in one breath-and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe. And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel." -Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean.
"This generous book, both primer and elegy, chronicles a courageous woman’s journey forward into love’s complexities…and long after I’ve closed the book, convinced me to embrace and savor wholly each day, each moment, each love, before they, too, are gone." - Katrina Roberts, author of The Quick, and Friendly Fire, Idaho Prize for Poetry
"The Geography of Love" means many others can indeed share in {Burgess'} memories, be inspired by them, reflect on what this one shining marriage teaches about love and happiness, trust and instinct, faith and loss." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Burgess lyrically and perceptively explores how the body, emotions and experiences are connected, how love and misfortune affect that landscape... Wrenchingly painful, but intensely affecting." - Kirkus
"Burgess' journey possesses bravery and open-eyed clarity." - Publishers Weekly
“The Geography of Love is a memoir that is a wonderful love story. We all know that falling in love can be powerful and consuming, but in the throes of passion we often forget how great love also carries risk. Love brings us immense joy but also makes us vulnerable. That's the other side of love. A shadow on Ken's lung changed everything. What happens after this is a very special love story that is more courageous and beautiful than the idyllic one that came before.” - Carol Fitzgerald, BookReporter.com (Reading Group Guides, June 27, 2008)
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