Does This Story Make Me Look Fat?
Molly Larson Cook and...
...her thoughts, comments, ideas, hellraising, some of her writing, and maybe an occasional epiphany.
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My books are available at Whidbey Island bookstores, at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine, and from various online booksellers.
Listen, a jazz novel
A girl singer from Idaho, a cozy club in Manhattan, the spirit of Billie Holiday, and a love story that refuses to end.
Jazz vocalist, Rebecca Kilgore, said "This book is a gem!"
On Our Way to Somewhere,
four vignettes of women on the move
Growing pains are not just for the young.
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I am a novelist, poet, playwright and free-lance writer with an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from Oregon State University. Besides being a writer, I've done summer stock; run a landscape design company; been up close and personal with gray whales, petting them off the coast of Baja California; dined with Vincent Price; taught risktaking seminars; owned a consulting business that took me all kinds of interesting places where my hard hat was required; learned to juggle; raised two beautiful daughters; and hung out in jazz and blues establishments on both coasts whenever possible.
I believe what author Louis Auchincloss wrote about a writer's life being his or her capital, and I've tried to gather as much of that capital as possible for my writing.
My jazz novel, Listen, was published by Blue Finch Press in 2003 and my one-woman comedy drama, On Our Way to Somewhere, four vignettes of women and their lives, was published in 2002. Both are available at Whidbey Island bookstores; at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine; and through online book sellers. My latest novel, Tonight on the Six O'Clock News, has just been completed and is making the rounds looking for a publisher.
In 1995, I was a Fellow at the Fishtrap Writers Conference in the Wallowa Mountains of eastern Oregon and in 1998, I received the Dibner Fellowship for Fiction awarded by the Maine Community Foundation. That same year I was named to the Maine Artists Roster. About that same time I was a free-lance writer for both Maine Times (arts) and Maine Audubon's Habitat Magazine (nature/environment).
After teaching as a university writing instruction, I was most recently owner/instructor at Skylark Writing Studio on Whidbey Island, and I still offer occasional workshops and assistance to serious writers.
I was born and raised in the Northwest and, after living in many other places, have come home and live on this lovely island. I consider Maine my second home, but that's another story.
A COUPLE OF ARTICLES BY OR ABOUT ME
"Miners still descend and die in the dark heart of the Earth," Coal mining and family history
seattletimes.nwsource.com/
"Changing the Roles of Women," an interview http://www.lagrandeobserver.com/Features/GO-Magazine/CHANGING-THE-ROLES-OF-WOMEN
On the coast of Maine near Portland Head Lighthouse
