Katherine Dean Mazerov talks about the inspiration behind her new novel -Summer Club.
“I’m a life long career journalist. I worked as both a writer and an editor and I had never considered writing a book…especially fiction because I come from the nonfiction world. Quite a few years ago I decided to stay at home with my young son. Much like the protagonist, Lydia Phillips in Summer Club.
I found myself immersed in volunteer work… eventually I found myself as president of our women’s tennis club. .., pretty run down, cracked tennis court, leaky pool. My husband begged me not to do it, but I did it. And through out the course of the summer in addition to all the physical issues with the club… I mean the constant complaining, and the drunken soirees, and the politics and the helicopter parents, and the cheating on the tennis court. It’s just crazy, And I kept saying to myself ‘ You can’t make this stuff up I’ve got to write a book.’ So I did, ,,,Sort a memoir of one crazy summer.”
“I’m a life long career journalist. I worked as both a writer and an editor and I had never considered writing a book…especially fiction because I come from the nonfiction world. Quite a few years ago I decided to stay at home with my young son. Much like the protagonist, Lydia Phillips in Summer Club.
I found myself immersed in volunteer work… eventually I found myself as president of our women’s tennis club. .., pretty run down, cracked tennis court, leaky pool. My husband begged me not to do it, but I did it. And through out the course of the summer in addition to all the physical issues with the club… I mean the constant complaining, and the drunken soirees, and the politics and the helicopter parents, and the cheating on the tennis court. It’s just crazy, And I kept saying to myself ‘ You can’t make this stuff up I’ve got to write a book.’ So I did, ,,,Sort a memoir of one crazy summer.”
I am an editor. But, everybody needs an editor, even an editor.
The mistakes are a fact of life, it is the response to the error that counts.
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