@mariahfriend
Writer. Toddler Mama. Fierce advocate of the power of creativity + community. Author of "The Pattern Shop" a novel about the hopes and fears we inherit and the courage it takes to choose home, again and again. 🦋 www.mariahfriend.com
During my research for ODESSA I learned that on Mar. 8, 1917, women led a march in Petrograd, demanding "bread and peace," which helped spark a revolution that quickly overturned 300 years of imperial power.
Women are, and have always been powerful.
#IWD26 #internationalwomensday #womenauthor
I haven't yet but that's a fun idea!
Then the next day
How will you know your enemy?
By their color or your fear
One by one
You can cage them in your freedom
Make them all disappear
-Stars
#poetry #music #writingcommunity #webelongtoeachother #thepatternshop
I want a #writer friend or group that I can talk to about writing and will help keep me accountable to my goals with daily check-ins.
But as a friend, not a coach.
And I need them to at least respect that my fanfiction is just as important to me as my “original” work.
I'd be interested! What genre do you write? I'm mostly doing literary fiction by I write poetry as well.
THE PATTERN SHOP is a novel about understanding the difference between faith and fantasy, fixing, and healing.
For all the dreamers, wanderers, and people who've never fit in, trying to find home. 🦋
www.mariahfriend.com
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #literaryfiction #indieauthors
What would you do next if you believed your success was inevitable and imminent?
#writersky #motivation #inspiration #success #author
This feels like an important quote to share today:
In spite of this, to oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
-Gabriel García Márquez
#nobelprize #literature #hope #motivation #resilience
Progress is progress! I've been working on my new novel in 30 minute increments, sometimes that's just a few paragraphs, sometimes I'm just doing research. It all counts!
Cheers to 25 year old me who was brave enough to quit my job as a nurse in the ICU to backpack around the world in search of a life that belonged to me.
Without you, THE PATTERN SHOP wouldn't exist. 🦋
www.mariahfriend.com/thepatternshop
#travelstories #solofemaletraveler #adventure #backpacking
One of the hardest things about pivoting from nursing to writing and trying to make a career of it is the financial uncertainty.
In this essay, I reframe what it means to take risks in our creative lives and find success. 😊
#creativewriting #writersky
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THE PATTERN SHOP is about a young nurse who realizes she can't save her family or her patients, so trades her stethoscope for a backpack and a one-way ticket to see if she can still save herself. 🦋
#WIPsnips #literaryfiction #nursing #comingofage #booksky
Takeaways from selling my book, THE PATTERN SHOP at an art market this weekend:
🦋Books sold = 4
🦋Gross sales = $70.96
🦋Vendor fee = $23.17 (30/70 artist split)
Read more 👇💗
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#writingcommunity #selfpublished #author #indieauthors #writersky #selfpub #litfic
Notes for my new novel, ODESSA alongside notes from my 3 ½ year old who wants to learn how to write like mommy. 😊💗
#creativewriting #motherhood #writingcommunity #MIS #literaryfiction #inspiration
I love this painting!
With funding increasingly scarce for the arts, it's incredibly important to support #localbusinesses and makers. If you're in #Chattanooga, I'll be there selling signed copies of THE PATTERN SHOP this Saturday at the art market.🦋
Come stop by and say hi!
#artmarket #supportlocal #indieauthor
Hi! My book THE PATTERN SHOP is literary fiction but I also write poetry and personal essays. 😊
What's "hand-selling" and why does it matter for indie authors?
Learn how to leverage sales in your favor and build an author platform with intention in this tell-all about the *actual* math of self-publishing!
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#selfpub #indieauthors #writersky
Thanks, Moran! I'd love to stay connected. 😊
Thank you! And sure! I'm a ways away from editing, only about 10 pages in on the first draft but I'd love to stay connected!
It is February,
the shortest month
of the year
Covered in white,
frozen in time
it is always the longest
in my mind
-Mariah Friend, excerpt from "February"
#poetry #february #winter #poem
A novel where the landscape is the main character. Beautiful, haunting, immersive.
P.S. If you enjoy emotional stories where place comes alive with rich, sensory details you might like my debut novel, The Pattern Shop, too! 🦋
mariahfriend.com
#booksky #debutauthor #magicalrealism
So they don't have to stumble over all my typos and first draft blunders. I'd like to give them something a little more polished!
Not yet! When I'm further along (after a few more revisions) I definitely will!
Thank you! It's got a lot of themes I think will resonate with people, especially in this political climate!
My MC is Eleanorah, a young nurse with intense emotions she tries her best to keep at bay...until it all starts unraveling. It's a #comingofage literary fiction that spans her life from 21-25 as she searches for home, and maybe redemption.
www.mariahfriend.com
#litfic #indieauthors #writersky
#MondayMotivation
#WritingCommunity
An honest look at book sales, self-publishing costs, and profit margins ten weeks since launching The Pattern Shop! 🦋
A must read for any writer considering any form of publishing.
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#publishing #indieauthors #writersky #writingcommunity #selfpub
Balancing promoting THE PATTERN SHOP while writing my new novel, ODESSA is hard! But I'm proud to celebrate writing ten pages of new material!
It took me 10+ years to write my first book, here's hoping it takes less time for the second! 😂
#indieauthors #writersky #writingcommunity #litfic
It's literary fiction with a historical bent! Here's the logline: Two women, a century apart with one choice: stay or leave?