!!!! THE CROWN OF SNOW, my latest short story is shortlisted for the 2014 Annual WOW! Anthology award--Galway Ireland (Yeah!). I may actually attend the February 28, 2014 launch at the Crane Bar Sea Rd Galway Ireland. The WOW! (WordsontheWaves) Anthology prize is sponsored by WordsontheStreet Publishers, Galway, Ireland.
Crown of Snow:
A thick veil of ice particles hung heavily in the air leaving the cathedral trees a white impression of shiny glass windows. Around the side of the ranch house, a grove of birch trees shape themselves into cathedral windows. When the trees are bare, white to the bone, they become pointed cathedral windows. From the attic, the cathedral trees gave view to the crown of snow; a range of craggy peaks shooting 14,000 feet into Colorado’s thin North Park atmosphere.
Grandfather wandered from the ranch house, across the junk-filled yard to the shed on the far side of the dirt road. Bundled against the cold in a fur-lined jacket and baggie jeans, his slow walk and the fading of his figure into the ice fog gave the sense of a massive prehistoric being wandering lost within the image of a world.
Welcome
I'm a writer lucky enough to live in beautiful Colorado. My first book, A Short Time in Luxembourg, was published in 2004. A Short Time in Luxembourg is a powerful depiction of adult disappointments stemming from youthful decision-making. One reviewer noted: "Part Elizabeth Berg...part Nora Roberts, Macdonald deftly weaves together these two genres as she follows the trials and turmoil of Dr. Anna Haggarty, a 40-something professor in a Colorado university.
My short stories have appeared in Matter: Journal of Literature, Art, & Movement, Blue Earth Review, the Belletriste Review, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers anthologies and more. Presently, I'm studying the 19th Century Anglo-Irish writer, Maria Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth is most famous for Castle Rackrent. However, her novels and short stories rival the best of Jane Austen, a contemporary. I'm working on an article on this fantastic, but overlooked author.
I've also completed two more novels, After the Riots and The Distilled Essence of America. After the Riots is a novel about 40-year old government secrets and one young woman's struggle between loyalty to a dying father and the responsibilities of a citizen.
Distilled Essence of America is about political loyalty and responsibility. However, Daniel O'Brien's struggles are quite whacky as he bounces between fame and disgrace; winning and losing; past and present. The Distilled Essence of America is all about elections, sex and the American way.
Check out my most recent story in Matterhorn, a local Fort Collins newspaper.
I can usually can be found writing, working, studying at the BeanCycle Coffee house in Colorado.
I'm a writer lucky enough to live in beautiful Colorado. My first book, A Short Time in Luxembourg, was published in 2004. A Short Time in Luxembourg is a powerful depiction of adult disappointments stemming from youthful decision-making. One reviewer noted: "Part Elizabeth Berg...part Nora Roberts, Macdonald deftly weaves together these two genres as she follows the trials and turmoil of Dr. Anna Haggarty, a 40-something professor in a Colorado university.
My short stories have appeared in Matter: Journal of Literature, Art, & Movement, Blue Earth Review, the Belletriste Review, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers anthologies and more. Presently, I'm studying the 19th Century Anglo-Irish writer, Maria Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth is most famous for Castle Rackrent. However, her novels and short stories rival the best of Jane Austen, a contemporary. I'm working on an article on this fantastic, but overlooked author.
I've also completed two more novels, After the Riots and The Distilled Essence of America. After the Riots is a novel about 40-year old government secrets and one young woman's struggle between loyalty to a dying father and the responsibilities of a citizen.
Distilled Essence of America is about political loyalty and responsibility. However, Daniel O'Brien's struggles are quite whacky as he bounces between fame and disgrace; winning and losing; past and present. The Distilled Essence of America is all about elections, sex and the American way.
Check out my most recent story in Matterhorn, a local Fort Collins newspaper.
I can usually can be found writing, working, studying at the BeanCycle Coffee house in Colorado.
Bio
I grew up in Southern California, graduated with a degree in History from U.C. Berkeley, moved to Colorado for a M.A. in History, then to Seattle for my MLS. I'm a business librarian, conducting research for high tech startups and working as a counselor for the local Small Business Development Center. On a completely different front, I recently received a diploma in Irish Studies from the National University of Ireland in Galway and Regis University in Denver. My nonfiction includes Foreign Investment in the American and Canadian West 1870-1914, and the impact of public policy on literature--which circles around to long-neglected Maria Edgeworth and the 19th Irish literature question.
Please contact me if you have any questions about my writing, writing in general, or life, the universe or anything.
Please contact me if you have any questions about my writing, writing in general, or life, the universe or anything.
