90 minute sessions with 3 authors who truly walk their walk, are generous with their knowledge from craft to publishing to promotion, and who all have deep teaching spirits.
Format: I interview each author first, and then open it up to questions from the excellent minds of my Haven Nest online community.
Memoirists: (90 min. each) Julie Metz, author of Perfection; Brooke Siem, author of May Cause Side Effects; Laura Carney, author of My Father's List.
Julie Metz is the NYTimes bestselling author of Perfection and the author of the new memoir, Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind. She has written for publications including the NYTImes, Salon, Dame, Slice and others. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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Brooke Siem was among the first generation of teens to be medicated with antidepressants. After spending half her life—and her entire adult life—on antidepressants, she wondered: Who might I be without them?
Unfurled against a global backdrop, Brooke's writing, speaking, and work as an award-winning chef chronicles explosive and terrifying antidepressant withdrawal and the fight to manage the modern mental health system, all while demanding hope and forgiveness in the name of healing.
Her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects, was published in September 2022 and was named as one of Good Morning America's Most Anticipated Reads. Her work on antidepressant withdrawal has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Post, Psychology Today, Insider, Mad In America, The Washington Examiner, and more. She is also a Food Network "Chopped" champion and author of the newsletter, Happiness Is A Skill.
Laura Carney is a writer and copy editor in New York. She's been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Hill, Runner's World, People magazine, Guideposts, Good Housekeeping, The Fix, Upworthy, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper and other places, and her book My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free was published by Post Hill Press in June 2023. Her work as a copy editor has been primarily in magazines, for 20 years, including Good Housekeeping, People, Guideposts, Vanity Fair, and GQ.
To talk about her book, Laura has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, the BBC, Tamron Hall, the Drew Barrymore Show, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, among many other TV programs. She has also been covered in the Washington Post (a story that went viral globally), AARP, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, Woman’s Day, the Daily Mail, the New York Post, and Shondaland, among many other publications. My Father’s List was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2023 by Real Simple magazine.