RUNNING FOR MY LIFE by Ann Gonzalez

• Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
• Publisher: WestSide Books
• Release Date: March 25, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934813-00-3
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

RUNNING FOR MY LIFE is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteen-year-old who struggles to cope with her mother’s schizophrenia. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and the absence of a psychotic parent. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager’s attempts to manage the changes that have shaken her life. With courage, strength, and the loving support of her friends, her father, and her therapist, Andrea finds salvation through running. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE represents a breakthrough effort in portraying the challenges children deal with when they have to protect themselves from a guardian.

Ann Gonzalez

The Author: Ann Gonzalez
Location: Seattle, WA

After writing RUNNING FOR MY LIFE during the 30 days of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) 2007, Ann Gonzalez realized she is a nano-novelist. Stories she writes in thirty days have more heart than ones she labors over. Ann holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, and she teaches and supports writers as an instructor at North Seattle Community College and via an on-going online course, Writing for Teens and Tweens.

Author Visit Information

Ann Gonzalez is willing to travel nationally.

Example presentations and workshops

• Emersion Writing – Writing a novel in 30 days
• Teens Write – The time to start your writing career is now. (geared toward teenage writers.)
• Where to Begin – Looking closer at how stories begin.
• Writing One’s Way Through Trauma – Healing through words

Honorarium and fees

$150.00 plus travel expenses when the traveling outside of Washington.

Contact Information:

• Official web site: http://www.anngonzalez.com
• Blog: http://anngonzalez.wordpress.com

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