Donna Meredith
Novelist and freelance journalist
Donna Meredith is the author of two novels, The Glass Madonna, and The Color of Lies. They won back-to-back awards from the Florida Writers Association.
Photo by Dave Terry
Rhett DeVane, Donna, and Peggy Kassees at launch for The Color of Lies at the Mockingbird Cafe. Photo by John Meredith |
_____________________________ The LeRoy Collins Leon County Library System now has traveling book kits available for The Glass Madonna. If your club is interested, visit this link to the library. If invited, Donna would be happy to visit with your book club. She will Skype with distant clubs or groups. _____________________________ The Glass Madonna won first place for unpublished women’s fiction in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, sponsored by the Florida Writers Association, and runner-up in the Gulf Coast Novel Contest in 2009. The Glass Madonna is now available at Tamarack in Beckley, WV. The novel was selected by a juried panel for inclusion in a showcase of "The Best of West Virginia." Whoo-hoo! Her second novel, What's Cooking in the Faculty Lounge, also won first place in the RPLA contest for women's fiction (unpublished) in 2010. It was published as The Color of Lies in the fall of 2011. Donna's writing also has appeared in Tallahassee magazine, the Southern Literary Review, the Seven Hills Review, Columbia School Press Review, the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Midwest Review. She was president of the Tallahassee Writers Association in 2009-2010. She currently coordinates The Seven Hills Contest and edits The Seven Hills Review.
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~~~Released November 2010
Visit The Glass Madonnaweb page.In the Tallahassee area, buy at My Favorite Books in Market Square on Timberlane Rd., or Sweet Patina at 3030 Thomasville Rd. In West Virginia, buy at James and Law, Main St., Clarksburg; at the American Museum of Glass in West Virginia in Weston; and Tamarack in Beckley. Buy now! in print or ebook formats or Also available in ebooks from Smashwords.com.
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~~~Released November 2011
In the Tallahassee area, buy at My Favorite Books in Market Square on Timberlane Rd., or Sweet Patina at 3030 Thomasville Rd. In West Virginia, buy at James and Law, Main St., Clarksburg. Buy now! in print or ebook formats or |
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What's new
- April 2, Leon County Library on Park Ave. "The Color of Lies" with the adult book club
- April 24, WTXL, Channel 27, Peggy Kassees and I will talk about the Tallahassee Book Festival and Writers Conference
- April 27, WFSU Radio Fundraising Drive, On-Air Host., 8:30-10 a.m.
- May 3, 11 a.m.-noon "Perspectives" show on WFSU-FM Radio, along with authors Steve Berry and Rhett DeVane
- May 4-6, Tallahassee Book Festival and Writers Conference
- May 12, Downtown Book Fair, Ponce de Leon Park, 9:30 a.m.-noon
- May 21, 7:30 p.m. Faculty and Friends of FSU Book Club, "The Color of Lies"
- My third novel features a female hydrogeologist as the main character. Summer Cassidy will be a mystery series character. Tension and intrigue build as Summer's science clashes with powerful business interests. Loads of fun to write!
- A biography of Kelsey Murphy, an innovator in American cameo glass, is in the works. I visited Kelsey's Studios of Heaven near Huntington, West Virginia, to see how she and her partner Robert Bomkamp make their glass. Truly amazing art and technique! Check out Kelsey's website.
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Media Kit
and Resources - Color of Lies Synopsis
- Color of Lies recipes
- Q/A about the writing of Color of Lies
- Color of Lies Discussion Questions
- Glass Madonna Cover Image
- Glass Madonna Synopsis
- Glass Madonna Discussion Questions _________________________________
Presentations
- The Heroine's Journey in Literature: How We Got From Elizabeth Bennett to Lizbeth Salander
- The Heroine's Journey for Writers
- Magic in the Mountains: The Story of West Virginia Glass
- The Beat Goes On: Writing and Tagging Dialogue
- Plot Points
- Facts, Myths, Fixes: Building Consensus to Improve Education