Nan McCarthy

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

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The roses are starting to bloom. #rainywalk #walkwithmylove #springwalk #rosegarden #looseparkrosegarden #citygarden #kansascity #kcmo #nofilter
Writing fuel 🍵 ⛽️ 📝 My homemade iced matcha latté has been getting me thru some long writing days. • 1 c. vanilla almond milk, one c. reg milk, 10 drops liquid Stevia, 1 heaping T. matcha powder. Blend. Add crushed ice. Drink. Write. Repeat. • #amwriting #lovetowrite #writingfuel #icedmatchalatte #writersofig #writergram #sinceyouwentaway #SYWApart3
Imagine having to keep track of seven babies. 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥 #HappyMothersDay #MothersDay2019 #LoosePark #KCMO #KansasCity
Happy Birthday (a day late) to Robert Johnson born May 8, 1911. Elijah Wald’s 2004 Escaping the Delta is not for the casual blues fan. Somewhat academic & technical, the book is more about Wald’s research into the evolution of the blues while debunking popular mythology about Robert Johnson’s life and his impact on blues music. The book is better used as a reference work than one to read from start to finish. • While I’m not a huge Robert Johnson fan myself, I was incredibly excited to see his “stepson” Robert Lockwood Jr. perform in a club in Chicago in the 1990s when Lockwood was in his 80s. Lockwood is said to have been the only blues artist who learned to play guitar directly from Robert Johnson during the ten years Johnson lived with Lockwood’s mother when Lockwood was a boy. Seeing Lockwood perform live was one of the highlights of my lifelong interest in blues music. Another highlight was meeting and listening to Honeyboy Edwards—a contemporary of Robert Johnson’s—at the Printers Row book fair in Chicago in the ‘90s. • #RobertJohnson #EscapingtheDelta #ElijahWald #nonfiction #lovetoread #blueshistory #RobertLockwoodJr #HoneyboyEdwards #ChicagoBlues #bluesmusic #bluesguitar #deltablues #bookstagram
#spring2019 #onmywalk #loosepark #myhappyplace #quiettime #kcmo #urbanoasis
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This was a fun read. Sometimes you just need to read a good old-fashioned murder mystery. Snowblind is the first book in Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series featuring rookie cop Ari Thór. The unforgiving winter landscape of a snow-packed village in northern Iceland is as much a character in the novel as the small-town personalities who populate the narrative. Originally written in Icelandic, my only quibble with the book is the sometimes clumsy translation into English. Nonetheless I zipped through the story and am looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series. #Snowblind #RagnarJonasson #DarkIcelandSeries #IcelandicNoir #crimefiction #murdermystery #whodunit #lovetoread #bookstagram #booksofinstagram
1978. I was 16. Bad photos, good memories. What a loss. #NotreDame #NotreDameCathedral #ParisFrance
#LittleFreeLibrary #SandyRunLake #morningwalk

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Since You Went Away, Part Two: Spring

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  • Since You Went Away, Part Two: Spring
  • Student Interview: Writing & the Writing Life
  • 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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  • Chat: book one
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  • 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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