Elizabeth Fackler
Finalist 2016 Biography-Memoir New Mexico Book Awards.
Winner 2009 Best Historical Novel in New Mexico Book Awards, Finalist in 2007.
Author of sixteen novels including the Seth Strummar series, Billy the Kid, Texas Lily, and My Eyes Have A Cold Nose featuring Elizabeth Garrett. Also the Frank James and Devon Gray detective series, a poetry collection, and Grand River Highway: One Woman's Journey to Autonomy, a memoir of my youth published in October 2015 and honored in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Most recently, In the Shadow of Crazy Cat, my second memoir, offers a portrait of an author's life in the midst of professional and personal tumult.
Works
In the Shadow of Crazy Cat
Gleaned from her journals, this memoir is a chronological tale of an acolyte author pitting herself against the grist wheel of the international conglomerate the publishing industry became midstream in her career. She delved deeply into her subconscious where spirits guided her waking work, helping her write twelve novels in the course of this time in which she also shuffled literary agents, lost her personal mentor and reader, nurtured her husband, dealt with the repercussions of her dysfunctional family, and persisted through the onerous toil of publishing her work. The author of eighteen novels, short stories and poems, she has published a previous memoir, Grand River Highway: One Woman’s Journey to Autonomy (a finalist in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards of 2016) which shares her formative years leading her to become a writer.
GRAND RIVER HIGHWAY: ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY TO AUTONOMY
Awards and Recognition
- 2016 Finalist New Mexico Book Awards, Biography-Memoir.
- 2009 New Mexico Book Awards Best Historical Fiction 2007 New Mexico Book Awards Finalist Best Historical Fiction
Location
La Veta, CO
Category
Fiction & Literature, Mystery & Crime, Poetry, Biography & History