The Strega's Story: One Writer's Life

My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.

To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:

ashaveilbook.blogspot.com

An excerpt from The Pleasure Palace, my romantic comedy, can be found here:

santaverde.blogspot.com

Saturday, July 25, 2015

The Way of Leaving Behind

I withdrew my retirement account today from San Jose State's program for those of us who did not work full-time. It is what I have to show for the time I spent there. I will be tucking some of it away for airfare to Poland should I have the good fortune to get ther

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Joan McMillan: I am a writer whose work has been published in several literary magazines, including Poetry, Catamaran, Paterson Literary Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Connotation Press, Santa Clara Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, and many others. In addition to my true crime novel, I am writing a romantic comedy, The Pleasure Palace, set in my hometown of Santa Cruz. My email is: poetlore@gmail.com

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