June 2012

One on One with author Alma Bond, PhD

by nancy on June 15, 2012

After being a highly successful psychoanalyst for 37 years, Alma H. Bond, PhD “retired” to be a full-time writer, although she still maintains a small practice.  Jackie O: On the Couch, the first of her On the Couch series to be published by Bancroft Press, was published on August 15, 2011, and received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award.

Her previous books include Margaret Mahler, a Biography of the Psychoanalyst (McFarland Press), which received both the Best Books Award Finalist USA Book News and Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Finalist and Michelle Obama, a Biography (Greenwood Press) as well as 18 other books including a children’s book, The Tree That Could Fly. Dr. Bond also wrote the play, “Maria,” about the life and loves of Maria Callas, which was produced off-off Broadway and is currently touring Florida.

Among other organizations, Dr. Bond is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Dramatists Guild, PEN, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychological Association. She taught psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she is a fellow, and presently is a faculty member of WritersSchool, where she teaches Psychology and Literature. (For more information, visit her website.) [click to continue…]

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One on One with novelist (and Hillbilly Debutante) Kathie Truitt

by nancy on June 1, 2012

Kathie Truitt may have been living in the Washington, D.C. area for the past 11 years, but she has never cut the ties that connect her to her hometown of El Dorado Springs, Missouri. And with her latest novel, The Hillbilly Debutante Café  (Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC), she has strengthened that connection since she set the book in the same small Ozark town where she grew up and first put a pen to paper.

Her first book, False Victim, was inspired by a stalking experience she and her family suffered after they moved to Washington, and further illustrates the relationship between her life and her writing. (For more information, visit her website at Hillbilly Debutante.) [click to continue…]

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