Glenda Burgess
Glenda Burgess, author of the acclaimed and beloved memoir, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, brings readers her latest novel, SO LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER, [September 2019, Black Opal Books]. The Stone sisters, Andi and Marley, queens of country music, almost have it all until a mysterious death and a stalker from the past threaten the sisters promise to stay true to one another and the music that is the heartbeat of the family.
Glenda Burgess is a winner of The Rupert Hughes Fiction Award and a short story finalist for the New Century Writer Award. She won critical acclaim for her memoir, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, Broadway Books, 2008. A reader favorite across the globe, Glenda's memoir was named a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award, and placed in the Top Ten Books of 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, in one sitting-- in one breath -- and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe. And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel." - Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
"Burgess' tender recollections...remind us all that we tend to be defined by our great loves well after we've lived them." - Elle Magazine
Glenda's two previous novels EXPOSURES and LOOSE THREADS, will be republished in 2019 in beautiful new editions from Reputation Books. The author's short stories and book reviews may be found online in select literary journals. She regularly contributes as guest faculty at fiction and memoir workshops and book and writers conferences. Glenda blogs at Quintessence, and invites you to visit her website for book and event news. Glenda is a member of The Authors Guild, PEN America, AWP, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. She is represented by Kimberley Cameron of the Kimberley Cameron & Associates Literary Agency.
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“Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story.”