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July 20, 2023
Stunning read!
Hi Caitlin, I have just finished Kennedy Girl. Sitting here feeling wowed at your deeply moving story. I read A LOT and rarely do I need to just sit and absorb the feelings of the characters and the profoundly moving story. The tragedies of the 60’s don’t seem to have taught us much by looking around societies today. Stunning read!
Awesome work and no doubt bound for success!
Odessa (Bromley) June 9, 2023
______________________________________________________Isn’t that why we read fiction?Every story is an “escape” story. And in Caitlin Hicks’ Kennedy Girl, escapes are in progress on many fronts. The protagonist, Annie Shea is escaping childhood. Her black boyfriend, Lucas, is running from the L.A.P.D. in the immediate aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1968. And Annie’s brother, Bart, is hell-bent on reaching Canada to escape the Viet Nam war. It’s a time for growing up and discovering who you are—and the clock is ticking.
Annie’s battles with family and society testify to the preeminent human struggle between being safe vs being free. I love Annie because she’s a freedom fighter all the way. Her life reminds me of the saying, “A boat is safest in the harbour, but that’s not what boats are for.” Annie Shea needed no coming-of-age crisis to figure that out, but she gets one anyway.
Readers will love this Annie Shea encore. It’s the same Annie whose relentless antics captured our hearts in Hicks’ previous novel, Theory of Expanded Love. Neither author nor protagonist explain much in either book, instead we’re trapped inside Annie’s monkey mind. The reader can only go along for the ride and isn’t that why we read fiction.
~ PJ Reece, June 26, 2023 https://pjreece.ca/
I read Kennedy Girl in June 2023 along with it’s precursor, A Theory of Expanded Love. My work suffered, the laundry languished as I devoured these wonderful books.
The two novels follow the transformation of Annie Shea from a gawky twelve year old, desperate to make her mark as # 6 in a Catholic family of thirteen children (fourteen by the novel’s end), into an unstoppable seventeen year old as Kennedy Girl, the sequel of A Theory of Expanded Love. The novel opens in Pasadena California in 1968.
Kennedy Girl
1968. What a year to be seventeen. Hair is opening on Broadway. Bobby Kennedy is campaigning to run for President on a social reform platform. The assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King have unsettled America’s self image for many people, including Annie Shea.
Annie is cast in a musical revue of songs from Hair, directed by lecherous Father Sullivan and starring Lucas, a charismatic black dancer from a Catholic School in Watts. Annie’s older sister, the rebellious Madcap, is dating a Jew against her parents wishes. Annie’s older brothers are enlisting to fight in Vietnam with the enthusiastic support of their father, a former Commander in the US Navy. What can go wrong when Annie sneaks out of the house to join Madcap and Lucas in working on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign?
Kennedy Girl hits all the high points of that idealistic, troubled and iconoclastic year. Feminism, abuse of power, assassination, racism, war, loyalty and duty—these themes effortlessly unfold in this believable multi-layered narrative.
Caitlin Hicks has come to these novels following a distinguished career as a Canadian playwright, performer, and screen-writer. She has toured internationally in one woman monologue productions. This lived experience as a performer of what she writes has guided the dialogue, diary entries, and self-examination of Annie as she navigates the transition from teen to young woman, from the structured safety of home to the wider world.
I loved both books, I hope you will too.
Carole Harmon, July 15, 2023 https://www.caroleharmon.ca/
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“A fascinating story that will keep you wondering about the outcome until the very end”I enjoyed reliving American history of the tumultuous 60’s through the eyes and emotions of Annie Shea in Caitlin Hicks’ new novel Kennedy Girl Annie is the compelling protagonist in Caitlin’s first best-selling novel A Theory of Expanded Love.
In this sequel novel Annie is getting ready to go off to college, although she and her Conservative Catholic father don’t see eye to eye on where she should go.
Annie begins to keep secrets from her family. She has a great singing role in the production of Hair. Her parents don’t really know what that’s about, or that Annie’s fallen in love with the charismatic Lucas, a talented black boy in the production.
This is a time when race relations are simmering dangerously, ready to explode. Annie is volunteering for Bobby Kennedy’s campaign to become president; she becomes a Kennedy Girl, one of the young women who support him for president, another secret Annie is keeping from her Republican parents.
There are many twists and turns in the narrative: hope for the future of social justice is shattered with the assassination of Bobby Kennedy; one of Annie’s brothers goes AWOL from the army and she helps him get to the safety of Canada. By that time Lucas is in need to escaping too, so Annie helps them both leave.
All these events and more are tied together in a fascinating story that will keep you wondering about the outcome until the very end.
– Kay McCracken, author, July 17, 2023 https://www.kaymccracken.com/
July 14, 2023
First GOODREADS review: “I simply loved both books”
Review by Carole Harmon of Writer’s Radio
Other reviewers of Caitlin Hicks’ inspired novels have often burst into superlatives. I feel much the same way.
The two novels follow the transformation of Annie Shea from a gawky twelve year old, desperate to make her mark as # 6 in a Catholic family of thirteen children (fourteen by the novel’s end), into an unstoppable seventeen year old as Kennedy Girl, the sequel of A Theory of Expanded Love.
Kennedy Girl
1968. What a year to be seventeen. Hair is opening on Broadway. Bobby Kennedy is campaigning to run for President on a social reform platform. Annie is cast in a musical revue of songs from HAIR!, directed by lecherous Father Sullivan and starring Lucas, a charismatic black dancer from a Catholic School in Watts. Annie’s older sister, the rebellious Madcap, is dating a Jew against her parents wishes. Annie’s older brothers are enlisting to fight in Vietnam with the enthusiastic support of their father, a former Commander in the US Navy. What can go wrong when Annie sneaks out of the house to join Madcap and Lucas in working on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign?
Kennedy Girl hits all the high points of that idealistic, troubled and iconoclastic year. Feminism, abuse of power, assassination, racism, war, loyalty and duty—these themes effortlessly unfold in the believable and inevitable unfolding of this story. No spoiler alerts here.
A Theory of Expanded Love
This is the second edition of this book which was Caitlin Hicks’ debut novel. It won many awards when it was released by Light Messages in 2015. The most auspicious, to my mind, was its inclusion on Book Riot’s 100 Must Read Books About Women & Religion along with many of the world’s most famous novelists: A.S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Ann Patchett, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neil Hurston, Arundhati Roy, Alice Hoffman…..
This charming book is much more than a pretty face. The author is also from a large Catholic family, as is her husband, renowned Canadian visual artist, Gordon Halloran. These two families provided the inspiration and background knowledge for two books which ring with the authenticity of lived experience. Twelve year old Annie Shea aches to be good, to be seen, to do what’s right rather than what’s proper. This book makes me remember my own twelve year old self and all the repressed and urgent passion, idealism and hesitancy of that age.
Caitlin Hicks has come to these novels following a distinguished career as a Canadian playwright, performer, and screen-writer. She has toured internationally in one woman monologue productions. Again, it is this lived experience which seasons the dialogue, diary entries, and self-examination of Annie.
I simply loved both books.
Do yourself a favour, order both books at once and save on shipping.
Both books are also available as E-Books in both Kindle and Apple Books. A Theory of Expanded Love is available as an audio book from the author’s website: https://caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/
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July 9, 2023
Reviews: an essential way to connect
One of the first people I shared my first novel with (A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE ), George Payerle, said something that I will remember for the rest of my life. I had given my manuscript to him to read because I didn’t know if it was any good at all. And I was told that George would know.
George was a writer – who figured in the Canadian writers landscape; he was one of the founders of The Writer’s Union of Canada; he had lots of experience, a lot of writers knew who he was. I didn’t know him personally but I hoped if he gave me the green light – If my story at least had ‘promise’, I could carry on.
The novel contained humorous musings of a twelve year old girl in an enormous Catholic family in 1963, desperate to be noticed. And I had no idea if it qualified as a ‘novel’, or if anyone would be interested in it at all, especially not a guy like George. But he read it – and when he’d finished it, “I have to meet you”. We agreed to share a coffee at The Gumboot.
“I love it!” he gushed. I was flabbergasted. What? He loves it? And then he looked at me directly in the eyes and said: “I don’t think you realize how good this is. It’s very, very good.”
So that was a rush of dopamine!
And it was my start with A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE. My start, my beginning – with this story – to connect with readers through the finished work. George Payerle is not with us anymore, and neither is Deborah Hining or Gord Smedley, but these readers – these generous-hearted beings gave me early feedback that I will never forget.
Deborah Hining, award-winning author of SINNER IN PARADISE, was an author with my publisher (at the time), Light Messages who lived in North Carolina; I’d never met her in person. She died last year, but her words of encouragement still echo.
I just finished A Theory of Expanded Love, and thought it was just WONDERFUL!!! My favorite book so far this year, and probably will be for the whole year!”“
Gord Smedley was a local journalist connected on Facebook. “Hicks distills God, love politics and family to their essence through the eyes and ears of Annie, the insouciant centrepiece of an early 60’s fleet of Catholic Navy brats. Yes, I’m a middle-aged, male atheist, but Hicks made me feel for a time that, “Je suis Annie”. I later saw Gord interviewed on CBC TV about his drug use in the middle of the overdose crisis. He visited me during a book signing at Barnes & Noble and both of us felt like super-fans of the other. Later, CBC informed us that Gord had died of an overdose, and by that time, I felt that I had lost a friend.
Every review created a friendship.
Each person who took the time to read my creation, my novel, my book, and opened themselves up with their feedback became people I noticed, paid attention to, felt close to. Many of these reviews you can read here: https://caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/reviews-for-a-theory-of-expanded-love/
From a review of A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE: by Carole Harmon“This is the second edition of this book which was Caitlin Hicks’ debut novel. It won many awards when it was released in 2015. The most auspicious, to my mind, was its inclusion on Book Riot’s 100 Must Read Books About Women & Religion along with many of the world’s most famous novelists: A.S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Ann Patchett, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neil Hurston, Arundhati Roy, Alice Hoffman…..”
And now, the 2nd novel featuring that quirky gal, Annie Shea, the one the readers connected to – has just been released. It’s called KENNEDY GIRL; it takes place in that wild year, 1968 in California and I know that no matter how good it is, your reviews will make the difference between the novel being personally discovered and read – and being just another title.
Right now, The Review is all I’ve got.
You’re all I’ve got.
Your review can be the difference in opening the door to being noticed – and read – or putting the book back on the shelf.
You don’t have to love itYou just have to read itAnd tell me how it affected you. And then, pay it forward – make your voice be heard on AMAZON and GOODREADS.
For authors, reviews on AMAZON and GOODREADS encourage others to give your book a try. Each review is the big push your book needs to be seen and read and recommended. T H A N K Y O U!
July 8, 2023
Our first Amazon & Goodreads reviews
reviewed by Carole Harmon
Other reviewers of Caitlin Hicks’ inspired novels have often burst into superlatives. I feel much the same way.
The two novels follow the transformation of Annie Shea from a gawky twelve year old, desperate to make her mark as # 6 in a Catholic family of thirteen children (fourteen by the novel’s end), into an unstoppable seventeen year old as Kennedy Girl, the sequel of A Theory of Expanded Love.
Kennedy Girl: What a year to be seventeen. Hair is opening on Broadway. Bobby Kennedy is campaigning to run for President on a social reform platform. Annie is cast in a musical revue of songs from Hair, directed by lecherous Father Sullivan and starring Lucas, a charismatic black dancer from a Catholic School in Watts. Annie’s older sister, the rebellious Madcap, is dating a Jew against her parents wishes. Annie’s older brothers are enlisting to fight in Vietnam with the enthusiastic support of their father, a former Commander in the US Navy. What can go wrong when Annie sneaks out of the house to join Madcap and Lucas in working on Bobby Kennedy’s campaign?Kennedy Girl hits all the high points of that idealistic, troubled and iconoclastic year. Feminism, abuse of power, assasination, racism, war, loyalty and duty—these themes effortlessly unfold in the believable and inevitable unfolding of this story. No spoiler alerts here.
A Theory of Expanded Love:This is the second edition of this book which was Caitlin Hicks’ debut novel. It won many awards when it was released in 2015. The most auspicious, to my mind, was its inclusion on Book Riot’s 100 Must Read Books About Women & Religion along with many of the world’s most famous novelists: A.S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, Ann Patchett, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neil Hurston, Arundhati Roy, Alice Hoffman…..
This charming book is much more than a pretty face. The author is also from a large Catholic family, as is her husband, renowned Canadian visual artist, Gordon Halloran. These two families provided the inspiration and background knowledge for two books which ring with the authenticity of lived experience. Twelve year old Annie Shea aches to be good, to be seen, to do what’s right rather than what’s proper. This book makes me remember my own twelve year old self and all the repressed and urgent passion, idealism and hesitancy of that age.
Caitlin Hicks has come to these novels following a distinguished career as a Canadian playwright, performer, and screen-writer. She has toured internationally in one woman monologue productions. Again, it is this lived experience which seasons the dialogue, diary entries, and self-examination of Annie.
I simply loved both books.Do yourself a favour, order both books at once and save on shipping.
Both books are also available as E-Books in both Kindle and Apple Books. A Theory of Expanded Love is available as an audio book from the author’s website: https://caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/
June 26, 2023
A few words on KENNEDY GIRL: Isn’t that why we read fiction?
“I love Annie because she’s a freedom fighter all the way.’
Every story is an “escape” story. And in Caitlin Hicks’ Kennedy Girl, escapes are in progress on many fronts. The protagonist, Annie Shea is escaping childhood. Her black boyfriend, Lucas, is running from the L.A.P.D. in the immediate aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1968. And Annie’s brother, Bart, is hell-bent on reaching Canada to escape the Vietnam war. It’s a time for growing up and discovering who you are—and the clock is ticking.
Annie’s battles with family and society testify to the preeminent human struggle between being safe vs being free. I love Annie because she’s a freedom fighter all the way. Her life reminds me of the saying, “A boat is safest in the harbour, but that’s not what boats are for.” Annie Shea needed no coming-of-age crisis to figure that out, but she gets one anyway.
Readers will love this Annie Shea encore. It’s the same Annie whose relentless antics captured our hearts in Hicks’ previous novel, Theory of Expanded Love. Neither author nor protagonist explain much in either book, instead we’re trapped inside Annie’s monkey mind. The reader can only go along for the ride and isn’t that why we read fiction.
~ PJ https://pjreece.ca/
“deeply moving story.”
“Hi Caitlin, I have just finished KENNEDY GIRL. Sitting here feeling wowed at your deeply moving story. I read A LOT and rarely do I need to just sit and absorb the feelings of the characters and the profoundly moving story. The tragedies of the 60’s don’t seem to have taught us much by looking around societies today. Awesome work and no doubt bound for success! – Odessa”May 30, 2023
Word on the Lake Writers Festival: In good company
We’re not done yet. We are still breathing; it is still our time. Those of us whose hearts are still beating after all the recent onslaughts, we are living our lives second by second. There is only now.
And yet. A writer writes things down, and by necessity, these events take place on the page, and the act of writing puts them in the past.
Word on the Lake Writer’s Festival in Salmon Arm. I had been invited to give the Keynote. Twenty years ago, I had been invited as a playwright to the first festival here. Gord and I, we weren’t time-traveling, it was really twenty years later and we had to get in the car and see the swollen, white- capped Fraser River, sit dwarfed by the steep mountains, smell the smoke in the air from Alberta. Drive under the avalanche bridge, read the “Chain Up” signs, the “High Mountain Road: Expect major weather changes”. Notice the multitude of construction crews alongside the highway, see the huge pipeline, orange cones, enormous cranes and earth diggers: the manifestation of tax dollars and political willpower.
I know I’m committing the sin of writers: I’m Telling here: the drive was stunning.
I met so many people.
First, there was host Paula (pickleball player) at the magnificent High Hopes B & B in Hope, our first stop. And Eva, a guest at the B & B, whose daughter is an avid reader.
Down the hill, Hope’s librarian Claire MacDonald had made some room in her schedule to invite me to do a reading.
I met a man who was inspired by Gord’s book covers to resolve a deep issue about his own origins in a goose-bumps way.
You never know when your art works.
A woman who attended at the library (next to the rec centre), laughed at the all the right places and then wrestled with the computer to type in the necessary information to request both titles, A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE and KENNEDY GIRL in the Fraser Valley library system. Here is her kind face! By the drop box outside at Hope Library.
Then, hours later, the hotel in the bird sanctuary, the excitement of ‘about to begin’. A few people managed to buy my books in advance of the activities. I was skedded to do a 5 minute read alongside the other writers featured at the conference for the evening’s LIT CAFE. In such good company! Andrew Buckley, Jacqueline Guest, Chris Humphreys, Brian Thomas Isaac, M.D. Jackson, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski, Theresa Kishkan and Howard White from the Sunshine Coast, Miranda Krogstad and Valdy.
Of our Gracesprings Collective: Deanna Kawatski, her daughter Natalie Kawatski, Shirley De Kelver, Craig Bruhanski, Kay McCracken. Mike Jackson, who helped create the website for Gracesprings.
Kay Johnson and Gloria, Debra Turner, and others. Wendy Robinson Weeson, a virtual friend and fan since 2015. A poet.
I had been looking forward to meeting Valdy.
Years ago, a woman named Melanie Carpenter was in the news because she had gone missing and I wrote a piece that was broadcast on CBC radio, called A WOMAN’S BODY. Valdy had written me a note, telling me through the CBC how much he appreciated the essay. I brought a copy of it with me, in case he remembered. That night, he regaled us with his onstage energy, his red shoes and his new songs. I read BRIDES OF CHRIST from A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE and the audience laughed in all the right places.
Word on the Lake Writers Festival: Keynote, in good company
We’re not done yet. We are still breathing; it is still our time. Those of us whose hearts are still beating after all the recent onslaughts, we are living our lives second by second. There is only now.
And yet. A writer writes things down, and by necessity, these events take place on the page, and the act of writing puts them in the past.
Word on the Lake Writer’s Festival in Salmon Arm. I had been invited to give the Keynote. Twenty years ago, I had been invited as a playwright to the first festival here. Gord and I, we weren’t time-traveling, it was really twenty years later and we had to get in the car and see the swollen, white- capped Fraser River, sit dwarfed by the steep mountains, smell the smoke in the air from Alberta. Drive under the avalanche bridge, read the “Chain Up” signs, the “High Mountain Road: Expect major weather changes”. Notice the multitude of construction crews alongside the highway, see the huge pipeline, orange cones, enormous cranes and earth diggers: the manifestation of tax dollars and political willpower.
I know I’m committing the sin of writers: I’m Telling here: the drive was stunning.
I met so many people.
First, there was host Paula (pickleball player) at the magnificent High Hopes B & B in Hope, our first stop. And Eva, a guest at the B & B, whose daughter is an avid reader.
Down the hill, Hope’s librarian Claire MacDonald had made some room in her schedule to invite me to do a reading.
I met a man who was inspired by Gord’s book covers to resolve a deep issue about his own origins in a goose-bumps way.
You never know when your art works.
A woman who attended at the library (next to the rec centre), laughed at the all the right places and then wrestled with the computer to type in the necessary information to request both titles, A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE and KENNEDY GIRL in the Fraser Valley library system. Here is her kind face! By the drop box outside at Hope Library.
Then, hours later, the hotel in the bird sanctuary, the excitement of ‘about to begin’. A few people managed to buy my books in advance of the activities. I was skedded to do a 5 minute read alongside the other writers featured at the conference for the evening’s LIT CAFE. In such good company! Andrew Buckley, Jacqueline Guest, Chris Humphreys, Brian Thomas Isaac, M.D. Jackson, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski, Theresa Kishkan and Howard White from the Sunshine Coast, Miranda Krogstad and Valdy.
Of our Gracesprings Collective: Deanna Kawatski, her daughter Natalie Kawatski, Shirley De Kelver, Craig Bruhanski, Kay McCracken. Mike Jackson, who helped create the website for Gracesprings.
Kay Johnson and Gloria, Debra Turner, and others. Wendy Robinson Weeson, a virtual friend and fan since 2015. A poet.
I had been looking forward to meeting Valdy.
Years ago, a woman named Melanie Carpenter was in the news because she had gone missing and I wrote a piece that was broadcast on CBC radio, called A WOMAN’S BODY. Valdy had written me a note, telling me through the CBC how much he appreciated the essay. I brought a copy of it with me, in case he remembered. That night, he regaled us with his onstage energy, his red shoes and his new songs. I read BRIDES OF CHRIST from A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE and the audience laughed in all the right places.
May 23, 2023
Keynote at Word on the Lake Writer’s Festival
This moment. The stage set with all the microphones and cords and gear for Valdy. For all of us.
Blu Hopkins, who worked as sound tech standing there behind his big beard patiently calculating prior to showtime.
The night before we flippantly asked Alan Harrison, the Mayor of Salmon Arm, to keep it concise, so I could use the short time deliver the keynote with confidence (!). We were tongue-n-cheek. He had invited Gord to play tennis at 9 AM and Gord is nothing if not obsessed with tennis. I had desperately wanted him instead, to sit as audience for me, Keynote Speaker. In my mind: Stay with me. Listen in your director’s head about what works and what doesn’t. The doubles players teased him: tennis? or marriage?
So he got behind the cell phone camera and took this one for ‘Keynote Caitlin’ as he began to call me. Five minutes to opening, and I could only try to be calm; wondering what the delay? not realizing that the Mayor had not yet arrived. Soon the stage was cleared.
So they introduced Louis Thomas, Knowledge Keeper of the WEYTYK, as the first speaker and he spoke about ‘truth telling’ writing. By this time, the mayor arrived. He wished us well and then I stepped onstage to deliver my essay, “Why We Write”. Afterwards, Louis and I, we congratulated each other. My keynote speech: a virtual homage to “things that cannot be said”.
Kevin Gooden, the man pointing in the top pic, featured in my subsequent workshop “What’s Your Story?” with a tale of his own.
The other person in this photo is Ray Hudson, friends with all, who carried around the lenses, the black heavy camera, and throughout Friday’s activities, stared close up, at everyone’s faces as they read, as they performed. He had the closest look to capture us and in doing so, celebrate us. He had been scheduled at the gala Saturday event to perform as M.C. How long after this photo was taken did a stroke collapse him in the middle of everything?Throughout the rest of the festival, he just held on in intensive care. Everyone who knew him whispered, sorrow and dread and love in their voices. Is he still with us?
May 16, 2023
KENNEDY GIRL arrives with ‘BABY LOVE’ book cover
The day was scorching and the woman’s name was Darcy, who has been delivering packages on the Sunshine Coast for about seven years. She’s really strong. The boxes were heavy. But she wrapped her arms around them and hoisted them up, like nothing. My books arrived with her, all dressed up in these excellent covers designed by Gordon Halloran. When I look at that little peanut on the cover, the attention-grabbing image of those two hands entwined, I can only be grateful and excited for these books to be born into the world. And read, and discussed, and shared.
Here’s what it looks like in my garden, blasting sunshine!
Getting ready for the Word on the Lake Writers Festival in Salmon Arm, where I will give the keynote speech at breakfast on Saturday morning. I know a number of the presenters and have some exposure to their work and was invited to perform a variety of lit jobs at the conference, (workshops, panel discussions, Open Mic, Blue Pencil). Valdy is going to be there. Theresa Kishkan and Howard White (from the Sunshine Coast)! Gail Anderson Dargatz. Deanna Kawatski, whom I have recently ‘met’ through her work, the best way to meet anyone, in my book. Kay McCracken, Shirley Dekelver, Alex Forbes, Craig Bruhanski and – after reading Deanna’s early book Wilderness Mother, her daughter, Natalia Kawatski seems like a movie star to me. These are new friends, writers and members of the Gracesprings Collective, which I am now a member.
Don’t forget! The LAUNCH takes place at The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Friday, June 2nd at 7 PM. I will read from both books and make you giggle.
May 7, 2023
RFK words to live by in 2023 – from KENNEDY GIRL
“Thomas Jefferson once wrote that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. But if I’m elected President . . . don’t try it.” Bobby was talking to me, I could hear the message through the words to his adoring crowds. When he asked ‘What difference can one individual make?’ I felt he was talking diretly to me, stirring up rebellion in my heart and soul. ” – Annie Shea from KENNEDY GIRL, a new novel by Caitlin Hicks.
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