I'm delighted to welcome Kirsten Mickelwait to the blog today as part of the blog tour for THE GHOST MARRIAGE, the exciting new paranormal memoir.
Kirsten Mickelwait is a professional copywriter and editor by day and a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction by night. She’s an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Paris Writers’ Conference, and the San Francisco Writers’ Conference. Her short story, “Parting with Nina,” won first prize in The Ledge’s 2004 Fiction Awards Competition. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she’s working on a new novel.
Her latest book is the paranormal memoir, The Ghost Marriage.
You can visit her website at www.kirstenmickelwait.com or connect with her on Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads and Facebook.
10 Things You Might Not Know About Kirsten Mickelwait
1. For her day job, Kirsten works as a marketing writer for the engineering college of a major university, which allows her to interview and write about brilliant faculty, researchers, and students. If anyone will be able to save our planet, it’s these amazing folks!
2. When she was 30, Kirsten
spent a year living in Rome and working as a guide on bus tours of the
Continent. It was the hardest job she’s ever had.
3. While in Rome, Kirsten and
a friend talked their way onto the Goodyear blimp Europa, not usually open to
the public, which sailed over the city during the summer months.
4. If time travel were
possible, Kirsten would rather travel to the past than to the future. Some of
the destinations on her wish list would be: ancient Rome, ancient Crete, Holland
in the 17th century, an Amish community in the 19th
century, Paris in the ‘20s, and New York in the ‘50s.
5. Kirsten has spent her life
combatting entropy by trying to impose order on her physical environment at all
times. When under stress or feeling sad, her best therapy is to organize a
drawer or clean a bathroom.
6. Kirsten currently has no
pets, but lives on the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay where she’s
surrounded by geese, ducks, seagulls, snowy egrets, blue herons, whimbrels,
plovers, and sandpipers.
7. Kirsten is a pretty good
cook, when she wants to be. Her favorite cuisines are Middle Eastern and
Mediterranean.
8. Among the trips on Kirsten’s
wish list are: Morocco, Spain, a chartered sailboat around the Aegean, a bike
trip in Holland, India, Buenos Aires, and Kyoto.
9. Kirsten hates talking about
wine, but loves to drink it. She much prefers a citrusy New Zealand Sauvignon
Blanc to an oaky, buttery Chardonnay.
10.
Kirsten
drives a sage-green convertible Fiat 500, possibly the cutest car in current
production, as an homage to old Italian movies. Her children call it “the clown
car.” Fortunately, it has seven airbags.
Kirsten, at age 31, meets and marries Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney. Twenty-two years later, Steve becomes unemployed and addicted to opioids, using money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. What’s more, he’s been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. Soon after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within a year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts she knew nothing about. As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlife―which lead her on an unexpected path to forgiveness.
“A skillfully written, thought-provoking account that positively reconsiders an antagonist as an important teacher.”
―Kirkus Reviews
“What if you accidentally married your worst enemy? With unflinching honesty and hard-earned grace, Kirsten Mickelwait peels the shiny façade off her catastrophic marriage to reveal how she not only survived the lies, betrayals, and lawsuits, but also found her way to compassion. If you don’t think on your ex fondly, The Ghost Marriage will teach you why you should.”
―Meredith May, author of The Honey Bus and Loving Edie
“The Ghost Marriage is an absorbing tale about what happens when you marry Prince Charming and the expected ‘Happily Ever After’ erodes into a kind of ‘Cursed Ever After.’ It’s a story of survival, of adjusted ambition, of how to be quick on your feet when your daily foundation crumbles in midlife.”
―Julia Scheeres, author of Jesusland and A Thousand Lives
“With The Ghost Marriage, Kirsten Mickelwait―in bracing, unsentimental prose― brings us in close to the disturbing history of her troubled marriage. It’s abundantly satisfying to watch her move through each crisis toward new compassion―for herself, but also for her deceased ex-husband.”
―Angela Pneuman, author of Lay It on My Heart and Home Remedies
“By turns hilarious, lyrical, suspenseful, and touching, Kirsten Mickelwait’s memoir pulls us into the whirlpool of her unique marriage―then spits us out into the dazzling light of what that marriage came to mean. Supremely well written, and with a captivating honesty.”
―Veronica Chater, author of Waiting for the Apocalypse
Book Information
Release Date: Audiobook releases April 12, 2022
Publisher: She Writes Press
Amazon: Paperback https://amzn.to/3tYLlcs
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