Retrospective on an Anniversary of Sorts By Eliza C. Walton Sixteen years ago today, on May 15, 2009, I woke in the morning a 53-year-old married mother of three, our youngest still in high school, halfway through my MFA in fiction. By noon, I’d received the biopsy results: rectal cancer. I’d set my thesis novel, […]

Author Deanie Yasner shares how becoming an author and the publication of Essie Rose’s Revelation Summer have affected her life. Questions include: How has being a published author affected her personality? How do the book’s themes of courage, loyalty, and goodness apply to our post-pandemic world?

Once upon a time in the American Jim Crow South, a little Jewish girl was faced with a moral dilemma. In a minute, I will tell you how Queen Esther and the ancient Purim story gave Essie Rose the courage to do the right thing. But first, let’s hear more about Essie Rose’s problem.   Meet […]