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1 Since You Went Away, Part Four: Fall

  • November 13, 2020
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Family · fiction · Military life · Since You Went Away (Part Four: Fall) · Titles

Since You Went Away, Part Four: Fall 
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2020) 308 pages
F I C T I O N

In the spectacular conclusion to her Since You Went Away quartet, Nan McCarthy delivers jaw-dropping plot twists that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. McCarthy deftly weaves multiple plot threads with surprising reveals until the very last page, wrapping up each character’s storyline with a heart-stirring, satisfying finale.

Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war in the year 2008 and featuring a deeply human cast of characters, readers will find themselves immediately drawn into the realistic yet entertaining orbit of the Mahoney family. While most war stories focus on the drama on the battlefield, Since You Went Away shines a light on the battles being fought on the homefront, lifting the curtain on the most challenging and emotional period in the life of a military family: deployment. Suspenseful and surprisingly funny, McCarthy creates a world that’s eminently relatable to readers both inside and outside the military.

Propelled by a plot that accelerates with each book in the series, Since You Went Away portrays in intimate detail the effects of a distant war on the families and returning veterans at home. At once poignant and darkly funny, it is a fly-on-the-wall account of the innermost workings of a military family—their fears and hopes, their struggles and disappointments, their unexpected moments of joy and comfort and laughter.

This is Part Four of a novel released in four parts.

N O W   A V A I L A B L E  

 

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about the author:

Nan McCarthy is the author of the Since You Went Away series, Chat, Connect, & Crash, Live ‘Til I Die, and Quark Design. The Chat, Connect & Crash series, originally self-published, was acquired by Simon & Schuster and published in trade paperback in 1998. Nan regained the rights to the series and released new editions in 2014. A former magazine editor & technology writer, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 29 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons. Nan wrote Since You Went Away after taking a ten-year break from full-time writing to care for the family during her husband’s frequent military travels.

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0 Since You Went Away, Part Three: Summer

  • September 24, 2019
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Family · fiction · Military life · Since You Went Away (Part Three: Summer) · Titles

Since You Went Away, Part Three: Summer
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2019) 216 pages
F I C T I O N

School’s out but the Mahoney family’s summer is anything but lazy. As they inch closer to the halfway point of Liam’s year-long deployment to Iraq, tensions heighten each time he goes outside the wire, challenging Emilie’s ability to keep it together. Meanwhile Finn and Rory find themselves in some unorthodox situations, providing comic relief for the makeshift family Emilie has assembled in Liam’s absence.

Wade and Isabel’s marriage is on the rocks again, even as Wade makes strides toward personal recovery with the help of the VA and a strong support network. Aunt Dottie’s boyfriend Joey struggles with retirement as his memories of the Vietnam War and a troubled past resurface. Danger closes in on Fakhir’s family in Baghdad as they anxiously await their visas. Unexpected events prompt Fakhir to confide in Emilie, revealing his secrets one morsel at a time. And when it comes to secrets, Agnes shares some whoppers that blow everyone’s preconceptions to pieces.

Propelled by a plot that accelerates with each turn of the page, Since You Went Away portrays in intimate detail the effects of a distant war on the families and returning veterans at home. At once poignant and darkly funny, it is a fly-on-the-wall account of the innermost workings of a military family—their fears and hopes, their struggles and disappointments, their unexpected moments of joy and comfort and laughter.

This is Part Three of a novel released in four parts.

C O M I N G  S O O N:  Part Four: Fall.

 

about the author:

Nan McCarthy is the author of the Since You Went Away series, Chat, Connect, & Crash, Live ‘Til I Die, and Quark Design. The Chat, Connect & Crash series, originally self-published, was acquired by Simon & Schuster and published in trade paperback in 1998. Nan regained the rights to the series and released new editions in 2014. A former magazine editor & technology writer, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 29 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons. Nan wrote Since You Went Away after taking a ten-year break from full-time writing to care for the family during her husband’s frequent military travels.

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Cover art by GreyLilac (lily pads & flower) + JBOY (dragonflies) / Shutterstock.

 

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1 Since You Went Away, Part Two: Spring

  • October 28, 2017
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Family · fiction · Military life · Since You Went Away (Part Two: Spring) · Titles

Since You Went Away, Part Two: Spring
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2017) 226 pages
F I C T I O N

The story continues as winter turns to spring and the Mahoney family faces situations at once heartbreaking and heartwarming. Not yet halfway through Liam’s year-long deployment, Emilie keeps a close eye on news from the Middle East as she attempts to maintain a sense of normalcy for everyone around her. She tries—but doesn’t always succeed—to be both mother and father to Finn and Rory, who must deal with the usual pressures of high school while worrying about their dad’s safety in a war zone.

Meanwhile, Fakhir becomes part of the family, providing comic relief with his language mishaps but still unable to open up about the past he left behind in Baghdad. The family welcomes Lucia into the fold, a would-be high-school dropout whose saucy exterior belies a new-found determination to do whatever it takes to keep her life on track.

Wade carries on the fight to save his marriage to Isabel, all while battling his personal demons and navigating a system ill-prepared to care for its veterans. The quirky and vivacious Aunt Dottie enters the scene with her leisure-suit-wearing boyfriend Joey, a Vietnam veteran devoted to Dottie and her tyrannical Jack Russell Terrier, Jacques.

Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war in the year 2008, Since You Went Away portrays in intimate detail the effects of a distant war on the families and returning veterans at home. With an undercurrent of suspense, it is a fly-on-the-wall account of the innermost workings of a military family—their fears and hopes, their struggles and disappointments, their unexpected moments of joy and comfort and laughter.

This is Part Two of a novel that will be released in four parts.

C O M I N G  S O O N:  Part Three: Summer.

 

about the author:

Nan McCarthy is the author of Since You Went Away, Chat, Connect, & Crash, Live ‘Til I Die, and Quark Design. The Chat, Connect & Crash series, originally self-published, was acquired by Simon & Schuster and published in trade paperback in 1998. Nan regained the rights to the series and released new editions in 2014. A former magazine editor & technology writer, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 29 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons. Nan wrote Since You Went Away after taking a ten-year break from full-time writing to care for the family during her husband’s frequent military travels.

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2 How I Got the Idea for Since You Went Away

  • April 12, 2017
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Blog · Books · Family · fiction · Military life · Publishing · Since You Went Away (Part One: Winter) · Titles · Writing
A lot of people ask writers where we get our ideas. Here’s how I came to write my latest novel, Since You Went Away.
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In 2008, my husband was on a year-long deployment to Iraq. Staying home on a Friday night, I happened upon a 1944 film on Turner Classic Movies called Since You Went Away. Produced by David O. Selznick and starring Claudette Colbert, it’s about a mom and two daughters fending for themselves on the homefront while the dad is off serving in World War II. The film is at once poignant, lighthearted, and somber. I immediately fell in love with the story.

Further research led me to the 1943 novel (of the same name) by Margaret Buell Wilder, on which the movie is based. Discovering Wilder had written the book in epistolary form (one of my favorite genres), I couldn’t help but fall even more in love with the story.

My first thought was, why has no one updated this story for modern times? Since You Went Away is an unusual kind of war movie in that it focuses completely on what’s happening with the family back at home. You could say it’s a war story without the war. I loved the idea of creating a modern-day story that gives readers an intimate glimpse of contemporary military family life in a way that’s accessible and—above all—entertaining. That’s what I set about doing when I started writing the four-part series in 2012.

(The entire quartet of the Since You Went Away series is now available via the links below and wherever books are sold.)

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5 Since You Went Away, Part One: Winter

  • April 6, 2017
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Family · fiction · Military life · Since You Went Away (Part One: Winter) · Titles

Since You Went Away, Part One: Winter
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2017) 172 pages
F I C T I O N

Set against the backdrop of the Iraq war in the year 2008, Since You Went Away portrays in intimate detail the effects of a distant war on the families and returning veterans at home. With an undercurrent of suspense, it is a fly-on-the-wall account of the innermost workings of a military family—their fears and hopes, their struggles and disappointments, their unexpected moments of joy and comfort and laughter.

When her husband Liam leaves on a year-long deployment, Emilie Mahoney strives to be a source of strength for Liam and their two sons. Yet she doesn’t always succeed. Holding down a full-time job, raising two teenage boys, and running a household with a menagerie of pets—all while hosting an Iraqi combat interpreter who comes to live with them as he acclimates to life in the U.S.—Emilie frequently finds herself retreating to her bedroom with a Party Size bag of Lay’s to watch back-to-back episodes of Snapped.

Featuring a deeply human cast of characters ranging from Wade Miller, a charming, charismatic retired Marine officer who watches over the family in Liam’s absence as he struggles with secrets of his own, and the amiable, enigmatic combat interpreter Fakhir al-Azzawi who worries about the safety of his family back in Baghdad as he comes to terms with trauma from his past, to the wacky and bothersome neighbor Agnes Hawkins who always manages to say the wrong thing and whose favorite pastime is watching the goings-on at the Mahoney house from her living-room window, Since You Went Away is at once darkly funny, poignant, and un-put-downable.

This is Part One of a novel that will be released in four parts.

C O M I N G  S O O N:  Part Two: Spring.

 

about the author:

Nan McCarthy is the author of Chat, Connect, and Crash, Live ‘Til I Die, and Quark Design. The Chat, Connect & Crash series, originally self-published, was released in trade paperback by Simon & Schuster in 1998 and has been widely translated. Nan regained the rights to the series and published new editions in 2014. A former magazine editor & technology writer, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 29 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons. Nan wrote Since You Went Away after taking a ten-year break from full-time writing to care for the family during her husband’s frequent military travels.

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Cover art by Larry Jacobsen.

 

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3 Chat: book one

  • March 25, 2014
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Chat: book one · fiction · Titles

Chat: book one
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2014) 132 pages

In the days before Facebook, Skype, and Twitter…

Two strangers begin a conversation online. It’s 1995, and the Internet is new and uncharted territory. No status updates, no photos, no tweets, no video chats. All they have to share with one another are their words.

Max, a restless advertising copywriter who’s new to the online world, boldly strikes up an email conversation with Bev, a tough-minded book editor who’s been online since the ’80s. With charm, wit, and persistence, Max chips away at Bev’s reluctant façade until the two are sharing secrets they wouldn’t dream of telling anyone in “real life.”

Hailed as “Silicon Valley’s Story of O,” the story of Bev and Max’s relationship gradually becomes more intense, unfolding entirely through their online messages. Since Chat’s first publication in 1995, readers have found themselves unable to resist the temptation to “eavesdrop” on Bev and Max’s increasingly intimate correspondence as she slowly opens up to him and he becomes more fascinated by her.

This newest edition of the acclaimed Chat, Connect, and Crash series offers a snapshot of the emerging technology and online culture of the 1990s, but the story of Bev and Max is—above all else—entertaining, compelling, and timeless.

 

critical praise for the original chat, connect, crash series:

“This is Chekhov for the ’90s: lust, romance, and adultery, cyber-style.” — Mademoiselle

“Silicon Valley’s Story of O. From the first page, we’re hooked.” — House Organ: A Magazine of the Arts

“Draws you from page to page. Sequels are on the way, and I can hardly wait.” — The New York Times

“You won’t need a modem to appreciate the charm of this virtual romance.” — Glamour

“[Bev and Max’s] mingling is electric.” — Washington Post Book World

“A hip look at the Internet cyberculture and how it has changed the dynamic of present-day relationships.” — The Review Zone

“Fully drawn, believable characters. There’s a very warm body at the end of each cold computer connection.” — The Orange County Register

“A lively, free-flowing, spontaneous outburst of curiosity, anxiety and hope.” — Syracuse Herald-American

“A love story that is completely modern, full of passion, wit and fun.” — Central PA Magazine

“[McCarthy] gives the headstrong-girl-meets-self-sufficient-boy story a refreshing twist.” — Publishers Weekly

“So authentic—down to the convoluted stumbling that takes place in cyber-relationships—that it’s unexpectedly entertaining.” — St. Louis Post Dispatch

“McCarthy has brought 18th-century epistolary novels into modern times.” — Atlanta Journal Constitution

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1 Connect: book two

  • March 25, 2014
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Connect: book two · fiction · Titles

Connect: book two
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2014) 132 pages

The story of Bev and Max continues…

In the second novel of her acclaimed series, author Nan McCarthy continues the wild ride that began in Chat. It’s now 1996, and Bev and Max, two strangers who met online, find their lives unexpectedly intertwined. As their words and actions propel them into unexplored territory, Bev and Max’s relationship grows more intense—and complex—than they ever imagined.

Praised as “a lively, free-flowing, spontaneous outburst of curiosity, anxiety and hope,” the story of Bev and Max unfolds entirely through their online messages. Readers once again find themselves unable to resist the temptation to “eavesdrop” on the pair’s sexually charged, humorous, and thought-provoking exchanges. In a time before Facebook, Skype, and Twitter, when there were no status updates, no photos, no tweets, no video chats, all Bev and Max have to share with one another are their words—or so it may seem.

In this newest edition of her Chat, Connect, and Crash series, McCarthy offers up a snapshot of the mid-1990s Internet culture and its changing dynamic of human interaction. As Bev and Max gradually reveal themselves by what they choose to say—and leave unsaid—their seductive, addicting, and all-too-human adventures will draw you from first page to last.

 

critical praise for the original chat, connect, crash series:

“This is Chekhov for the ’90s: lust, romance, and adultery, cyber-style.” — Mademoiselle

“Silicon Valley’s Story of O. From the first page, we’re hooked.” — House Organ: A Magazine of the Arts

“Draws you from page to page. Sequels are on the way, and I can hardly wait.” — The New York Times

“You won’t need a modem to appreciate the charm of this virtual romance.” — Glamour

“[Bev and Max’s] mingling is electric.” — Washington Post Book World

“A hip look at the Internet cyberculture and how it has changed the dynamic of present-day relationships.” — The Review Zone

“Fully drawn, believable characters. There’s a very warm body at the end of each cold computer connection.” — The Orange County Register

“A lively, free-flowing, spontaneous outburst of curiosity, anxiety and hope.” — Syracuse Herald-American

“A love story that is completely modern, full of passion, wit and fun.” — Central PA Magazine

“[McCarthy] gives the headstrong-girl-meets-self-sufficient-boy story a refreshing twist.” — Publishers Weekly

“So authentic—down to the convoluted stumbling that takes place in cyber-relationships—that it’s unexpectedly entertaining.” — St. Louis Post Dispatch

“McCarthy has brought 18th-century epistolary novels into modern times.” — Atlanta Journal Constitution

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10 Crash: book three

  • March 25, 2014
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Books · Crash: book three · fiction · Titles

Crash: book three
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2014) 126 pages

Featuring the original ending—never before seen in print!

Bev and Max can’t turn back now… or can they?

The unforgettable adventure chronicled in Chat and Connect, the first two novels in Nan McCarthy’s cyber series, continues in a third installment that’s as fast-paced and addicting as ever. The year is 1997, and readers are once again invited to “eavesdrop” on Bev and Max’s private correspondence.

When their story began, the unlikely pair—two strangers who met online—had nothing to share but their words. Now, following the path set in motion by their increasingly intimate exchanges, they must contemplate the consequences of their deepening relationship. Filled with sexual tension, suspense, and humor, Bev and Max’s messages arouse in them a desire to do and say things they’d never have dreamed of before their lives intersected.

This newest edition of the trilogy features McCarthy’s original ending to Crash as it was written in 1997. Its first time in print, the uncut conclusion offers readers an insider’s glimpse of Bev and Max as they were meant to be seen—at their most human, vulnerable, and authentic.

Heralded as “Chekhov for the ‘90s,” with “fully drawn, believable characters,” the story of Bev and Max’s electric mingling—with its jaw-dropping conclusion—serves as a powerful reminder that life may be fleeting, but love is forever.

 

critical praise for the original chat, connect, crash series:

“This is Chekhov for the ’90s: lust, romance, and adultery, cyber-style.” — Mademoiselle

“Silicon Valley’s Story of O. From the first page, we’re hooked.” — House Organ: A Magazine of the Arts

“Draws you from page to page. Sequels are on the way, and I can hardly wait.” — The New York Times

“You won’t need a modem to appreciate the charm of this virtual romance.” — Glamour

“[Bev and Max’s] mingling is electric.” — Washington Post Book World

“A hip look at the Internet cyberculture and how it has changed the dynamic of present-day relationships.” — The Review Zone

“Fully drawn, believable characters. There’s a very warm body at the end of each cold computer connection.” — The Orange County Register

“A lively, free-flowing, spontaneous outburst of curiosity, anxiety and hope.” — Syracuse Herald-American

“A love story that is completely modern, full of passion, wit and fun.” — Central PA Magazine

“[McCarthy] gives the headstrong-girl-meets-self-sufficient-boy story a refreshing twist.” — Publishers Weekly

“So authentic—down to the convoluted stumbling that takes place in cyber-relationships—that it’s unexpectedly entertaining.” — St. Louis Post Dispatch

“McCarthy has brought 18th-century epistolary novels into modern times.” — Atlanta Journal Constitution

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1 Live ‘Til I Die: a memoir of my father’s life

  • December 6, 2001
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · biography/memoir · Blog · Books · Live ’Til I Die · Titles

Live ’Til I Die: a memoir of my father’s life
Nan McCarthy
(Rainwater Press, 2001) 246 pages, $14.95

In its opening pages, the final days of 39-year old Ben “Buddy” Johnson’s life are chronicled in excruciating detail through the eyes of ICU nurse Maggie Quinn. Here is the story of an alcoholic who doesn’t come out the other side—a brilliant, charismatic young man who comes of age on Chicago’s South Side in the 1940s and ‘50s, rises to prominence in his career as a trade-show executive at the Chicago Amphitheatre and McCormick Place in the 1960s, and dies horrifically of alcoholic cirrhosis in 1971, leaving a wife and two young daughters.

Thirty years later his youngest daughter sorts through the pieces of her father’s life by interviewing his boyhood friends. Through their alternately humorous and heart-wrenching stories, she learns about the man her father was before his mind and body were overcome by alcoholism. At once harrowing and hopeful, Live ‘Til I Die confronts the physical and emotional devastation wrought by chronic alcohol abuse—yet manages to offer up love, laughter, and tears while allowing a daughter to restore the memory of a father she barely knew.

“Studs Lonigan meets The Liar’s Club”

“Charts new territory in the field of addiction memoirs”

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Chat: a very modern love story

  • August 3, 1998
  • by Nan McCarthy
  • · Blog · Books · fiction · Titles

Chat: a very modern love story (Book 1)
Nan McCarthy
(Simon & Schuster, 1998) 123 pages, $6

Bev, a tough-minded book editor who’s been logging online for years, cautiously begins corresponding with Max, a restless advertising copywriter who strikes up an email conversation with her. With each email exchange, two people who are at first faceless come vibrantly alive through their sometimes serious, frequently entertaining, and always believable messages.

Readers won’t be able to resist the temptation to “eavesdrop” on Bev and Max’s intimate correspondence as she becomes less inhibited, he becomes more fascinated, and their relationship grows more intense. A tantalizing adventure, Chat brings romance into the age of technology with startling results.

“This is Chekhov for the ’90s: lust, romance, and adultery, cyber-style.” —Mademoiselle

“Draws you from page to page… Sequels are on the way, and I can hardly wait.” —The New York Times

“You won’t need a modem to appreciate the charm of this virtual romance.” —Glamour

“Bev and Max’s mingling is electric.” —Washington Post Book World

“A refreshing twist.” —Publishers Weekly

“Silicon Valley’s Story of O. From the first line, we’re hooked.” —House Organ: A Magazine of the Arts

“Takes a surprising, satisfying turn in a cliffhanger climax.” —Newcity Chicago

“A lively, free-flowing, spontaneous outburst of curiosity, anxiety and hope.” —Syracuse Herald-American

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