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It’s not your Grandma’s Gospel! Join us LIVE! for 1 hour of Compelling First-Person stories, chock-full of inspiration, passion, and truth. Manuscript Mentor’s Suze Allen interviews authors, who then read from their memoirs, followed by a moderated Q & A.
May 5 Lisa Stathoplos
4-5pm PT /7-8pm ET
CHIMERA is a kaleidoscope of intoxicating stories about a fierce and passionate woman, shaped by motherhood, mental illness, divorce, addiction, and soul expanding and crushing love.
This electrifying ride through the second chapter of Lisa Stathoplos’ life takes you on a journey through her dualling careers as an actor and special education teacher and her outreach as a mediator and activist, as seen through her unique lens of compassion, humor, transparency and rock and roll. Full of life lessons and gut-wrenching truths, CHIMERA, makes offerings and roads into forgiveness and hope.
June 2nd
Jeanne Drevas-Aplin
reading from her upcoming memoir Handmade House
July 7th Peter Welch
reading from his memoir, Kiss the Ground- a Maine Boy’s Life
August 4th Valerie O’Riordan
reading from her memoir, Every Three Seconds: The Last Lesson
(tales,
trials & titillations of my years as the drama director
at that all-boys’ Catholic high school in San Francisco)