Authors Advice:
Trust the process
I knew a nineteen year old boy, a recovering alcoholic and starting his first year of college at the University of Vermont when I wrote my first book THIRTY YEARS IN SEPTEMBER. I was nervous, apprehensive and scared to death. This kid was an incredible inspiration. I told him my fears, of how I thought I would fail, “who would want to read my book” a nobody from Boston. He said, “Trust the process”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Just trust that what is going to happen with the book just happens, no fear, just trust.”
I asked him how, at the age of nineteen he came to realize this. He stated he had been an alcoholic since he was fifteen. He had to get sober to stay alive. Finally, at the age of eighteen it all made sense and he started to go to AA meetings - he hated how everyone told him to take “one day at a time” he couldn’t understand that. He was eighteen and wanted to drink, live like all college kids and have a beer or two. But he couldn’t. He had a disease that there is no cure for except to stop drinking.
His sponsor said “if you can’t do one day at a time then just trust the process of recovery. So he did. Ten years later he’s sober and he taught me how to trust the process of my book developing. I prayed like he told me and I learned to hand it over to the universe. So, with my new book TWO WEEKS SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION, I’m doing the same as before and trusting the process and watching my book unfold to whatever it is going to be.
Books By Kate Genovese
Two Weeks Since my Last Confession |
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A dramatic family saga of a large Irish caholic dysfunctional family. Every baby boomer should read this one. More >>> |
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Thirty Years in September |
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THIRTY YEARS IN SEPTEMBER A NURSES MEMOIR, is a chronicle of Kate's thirty years as a nurse. It is a delightful true story that is sad, funny, political and very realistic when dealing with the health care syste. It is a memoir not just for nurses, but for anyone connected to having a loved one ill, problems wit healthcare, or if you just want a good laugh and cry..... |
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Loving Joe Gallucci |
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Love between a man and a woman is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and spiritual exchanges between two human beings. It is also one of the most tragic, particularly when alcohol, drugs, dysfunctional families, and a life-threatening liver disease are thrown into the mix. Loving Joe Gallucci is one such love affair. It is the extraordinary romantic tale of Meg Flaherty, daughter of an eminent Massachusetts senator, and Jimmy Romano, a blue-collar boy always trying to prove himself to the imperious Flaherty clan. Taking place over a period of thirty years, this novel chronicles the tumultuous courtship and marriage of a husband forever struggling with heroin and cocaine, and a wife whose fidelity to him—throughout his addictions, and later, through his bout with hepatitis C—is extraordinary. More than anything, Loving Joe Gallucci is a story of redemption, of the resurrection of the Romano family through the triumph over adversity, and through faith, hope, and unconditional love. In its final analysis, this book is a call to arms against a liver disease so subtle and yet so damaging that it could perhaps be called the AIDs epidemic of the twenty-first century. |
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About Kate Genovese
Kate is a registered nurse who lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area of the United States. She is the mother of three grown children, one still in college where she spends many cold winter nights in hockey rinks watching her son play (and get injured) Her hockey life with her kids has gone on for almost thirty years and will come to an end in 2009.
Kate's first book, THIRTY YEARS IN SEPTEMBER, A NURSES MEMOIR was mainly written in a rink, waiting for her sons to get out of practices and between periods watching games at the local high school.
Her first book was a success in the nursing world and she decided to pen another book- LOVING JOE GALLUCCI. This novel is based on a true love story; her and her husbands story and another couples-their lives are all intertwined. Most of the proceeds of this book go to the liver foundation for its studies with the hep C virus.
Lastly, her latest novel, TWO WEEKS SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION, which is fiction, is a dramatic family saga of a large Irish caholic dysfunctional family. Every baby boomer should read this one.
For more information visit Katye website www.kategenovese.com
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Reviews - Two Weeks Since My Last Confession
This riveting book, although fiction, presents readers with a true picture of the perils of drug addiction, incest, physical and sexual abuse, and the dark secrets of a family. But it is also a story of hope and restoration. The author includes valuable resources in regard to childhood sexual abuse and incest that many will find useful. This book is a “must read” and recommended for all adults.
Betty Corbin Tucker
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Reviews - Loving Joe Gallucci
This riveting book, although fiction, presents readers with a true picture of thA love story that I could not put down! full of hope, inspiration and informative regarding the hepatitis c virus that affects more then 4 million americans <Back>
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In her spare time, which is never, she reads Tarot cards for fun and has friends over for soltice and Equinox parties throughout the year. Kate also has her own REIKI business which is a form of hands on healing.
"I also love to jog" states kate, "I've been a runner since I was 28 years old and that and writing has saved my life emotionally." Kate states she'll always be a writer/storyteller but will take time out to go dancing with her husband Gary and friends on Saturday nights.