March 17th 2022 Thursday

I’ve been working away trying to become more organized at getting Wise Women Ink back up and flying again after such a rough pandemic sh*t storm. I was working on promotions for our latest middle grade novel, The Guardian of The Crystal Skull and I came across something the marvelous Melinda Field had written about her novel, True. And honestly I could have never come close to writing something more perfectly.

For those of you who have never read True, I highly recommend this beautiful novel, it is every thing Melinda so eloquently summarized it to be.

#truestrength #sisterhood

I am often asked the dreaded question, “What is your book about?” I have discovered while in the publishing/ printing phase, that writing a brief synopsis for the back cover is a complicated process of distilling down around ninety thousand words into a few paragraphs. This is definitely an art form! Recently I have come to find myself needing to reveal not only plot lines, characters and the who, where, what and why…

The following is what I believe to be the soul of the story.

True is about life and love in all of its beautiful, strange, chaotic, romantic, maternal, collective, desperate, misguided and unconditional aspects. It is about passages, the journeys over a lifetime through childhood, coming of age, womanhood, marriage, mothering, midlife and the great beyond. It is about sisterhood and friendship, our connections to our families, the men in our lives, our animals and most importantly ourselves. True is about the beautiful and the terrible in the same breath. How hardships and illness and abuse and violence and the longing for peace bring us through the fire, scarred but transformed and more whole than we could ever imagine by the realization that we create our own reality. It’s a choice, we are either alone or all one…True is about
bigotry, narrow mindedness and seeing through the filters of our own convoluted,
tunnel vision. It is about young people feeling worthy enough to receive love and old people having to let go of all they have known, and all the between from birth to death. True is about nature, the wild, pristine, raw preciousness inherent in our earth’s
systematic, artistic perfection. It is about the kindness of humanity and how our deep bonds matter. It is about being connected and fully present in our quest for honest wisdom. True is about love and being true, being free, staying wild and holding fast.

Melinda Field