Maryanne Steitz – Author

After the six-week Getting Started course (see previous post), I joined some writing groups, one run by Tina Baker, my tutor, called The Half Finished Book Club. In this group, participants share their writing, give critique and feedback, and encourage each other. So, I critiqued other people’s work while struggling to remember all the rules…

The seed was planted many years ago when a family I was close to experienced a series of traumatic events that ultimately tore them apart. I witnessed firsthand the grief, anger, shock and resentment, and found myself wanting to understand what it must have been like for each person involved. I’m talking severe physical disability,…