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Sea With My Writing: A Novelist Cruises to Book Deals
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
One writer discovers that going to sea on a trans-Atlantic
Ocean liner provides unexpected, valuable, near-magical answers to writing and
publishing problems.
Twice Peggy Payne has set sail across the Atlantic hoping to take a break from obsessive worrying over a novel-in-progress. Twice she has come home with new insight about her writing and, in fairly short order, a fresh book contract.
The first voyage, on the Queen Elizabeth 2, led ultimately to publication of Sister India, a story set in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi beside the Ganges. (Water always seems to provide some writing magic.) Appropriately, the publisher that brought the novel out was Riverhead, an imprint of The Penguin Group.
Sister India, after years of difficulties, became a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The main character, a troubled young North Carolina woman who runs to India to escape trouble at home, caught the ear of one of the Times reviewers: “From the novel’s first sentence, her ravaged voice grips the reader….”
Obviously, the writer should have boarded ship immediately when she started having wrestles with her next novel, Cobalt Blue. Finally, she did; exhausted and frustrated, she boarded the Queen Mary 2. Well, it happened again.
Cobalt Blue emerged in Spring of 2013, nine months after that voyage, was chosen as the May book of the month for a Playboy Radio Network program and has hit the top 100 Kindle books on spirituality. (It’s a racy spiritual book, which is a rarity, not to be missed.) StarNews called it both “a pilgrimage” and “a scorcher.”
At Sea with My Writing is two articles, one for each voyage, on what this novelist learned (and ate), as well as glimmers of the profound pleasures of both writing and a few days at sea.
Twice Peggy Payne has set sail across the Atlantic hoping to take a break from obsessive worrying over a novel-in-progress. Twice she has come home with new insight about her writing and, in fairly short order, a fresh book contract.
The first voyage, on the Queen Elizabeth 2, led ultimately to publication of Sister India, a story set in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi beside the Ganges. (Water always seems to provide some writing magic.) Appropriately, the publisher that brought the novel out was Riverhead, an imprint of The Penguin Group.
Sister India, after years of difficulties, became a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The main character, a troubled young North Carolina woman who runs to India to escape trouble at home, caught the ear of one of the Times reviewers: “From the novel’s first sentence, her ravaged voice grips the reader….”
Obviously, the writer should have boarded ship immediately when she started having wrestles with her next novel, Cobalt Blue. Finally, she did; exhausted and frustrated, she boarded the Queen Mary 2. Well, it happened again.
Cobalt Blue emerged in Spring of 2013, nine months after that voyage, was chosen as the May book of the month for a Playboy Radio Network program and has hit the top 100 Kindle books on spirituality. (It’s a racy spiritual book, which is a rarity, not to be missed.) StarNews called it both “a pilgrimage” and “a scorcher.”
At Sea with My Writing is two articles, one for each voyage, on what this novelist learned (and ate), as well as glimmers of the profound pleasures of both writing and a few days at sea.
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