Nan McCarthy

author of Since You Went Away, Chat, Connect, Crash, & Live ’Til I Die

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Visiting Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal, MO yesterday inspired me to dig out this 1969 edition of The Complete Unabridged Texts of a Quartet of Enduring Masterpieces, Four Classic American Novels, which I probably read my senior year in high school (1978-79) in Ms. Ney's Advanced Lit class. #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn #MarkTwain #TheRedBadgeOfCourage #StephenCrane #BillyBudd #HermanMelville Inside front cover of my high school copy of The Complete Unabridged Texts of a Quartet of Endearing Masterpieces, Four Classic American Novels. Yes, I wrote in all my books back then. Nancy Johnson ---> Nan McCarthy #HighSchoolReading #TheScarletLetter #TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn #TheRedBadgeOfCourage #BillyBudd It appears the high-school version of me had not yet developed an appreciation for bookmarks. I hereby present evidence that I was once a corner-folder. 😱 (It also appears I still haven't finished reading #TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn, 45+ years later.) #MarkTwain #CrimesAgainstBooks #HighSchoolReading My hubs "painting" the white picket fence around Mark Twain's boyhood home. Gotta love a guy who's always up for new adventures. #MarkTwain #TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer #roadtrip #sidetrip #FirstEdition 1876 #TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer #MarkTwain #NormanRockwell preliminary sketch for #TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer #MarkTwain #FirstEdition #TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn #MarkTwain #MarkTwainMuseum These are just a few of my sisters in-law. I love them. #luckygirl #family #familytime In love with my great-nephews Lochlan & Finn. 😍 #greataunt #family #familytime #boysrock

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Featured Post

How I Got the Idea for Since You Went Away

A lot of people ask writers where we get our ideas. Here’s how I came to write my latest novel…

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  • How I Got the Idea for Since You Went Away
  • Buy: Since You Went Away (Part One: Winter)
  • Since You Went Away, Part One: Winter
  • Shit On a Shingle
  • Shot and a Beer
  • Live ’Til I Die: Student Interview
  • Vegetable Soup
  • Gooey Butter Cake
  • A Very Dry Martini
  • Bacon & Eggs
  • The Last Time I Saw My Dad Alive
  • My Favorite Scary Books
  • For Those Who Make Art
  • To My Sons: What I Would Like for Mother’s Day
  • New ebook editions of Chat, Connect, Crash now available
  • Buy: Chat (book 1)
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  • Buy: Live ’Til I Die
  • Chat: book one
  • Connect: book two
  • Crash: book three
  • Timeline: a publishing history of Chat, Connect, & Crash
  • A Hero’s Welcome: Parades & Promises
  • Summer Shandies
  • Nan’s Top Secret Extra Special Super Duper 
Philosophy on How to Write A Book
  • excerpt: Live ‘Til I Die: a memoir of my father’s life
  • Gray Hair
  • A Journey to the Center of Time

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