Mary Patrick Kavanaugh
is interviewed by host Brad Swift
On the Living & Working On Purpose show
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Mary Patrick Kavanaugh, a California writer, put to rest grandiose dreams of publishing contracts, movie options, and a guest spot on the Oprah Winfrey Show at a very public open-casket funeral for her rejected novel. She learned how releasing dead dreams and dashed hopes open a much larger space for joy, frivolity, and creativity. Read more.
What is common about Mary is that she represents all of us authors out there who would give their right arm and first-born child to get a contract from a major publishing house. It’s our dream, you know? How many rejections can we take before we are pushed to do ungodly things?
But, what is unique about Mary is that she is one of those people who has unfortunate and very heart-breaking situation and made it work for her instead of against her.
A writer since the age of eight, Mary’s award winning creative non-fiction has been published in Alligator Juniper, Room of One’s Own, San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her professional writing has appeared in numerous trade journals. Mary is the 2003 recipient of the nonfiction award from the Soul Making Literary Competition sponsored by the American Pen Women, and winner of a 2004 honorable mention.
She recently published her first book,
Family Plots: Love, Death, and Tax Evasion.
Her web sites are:
www.marypatrick.com and
www.crapintocompost.com
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