Grrl Talk Testimonials

Comes now some twenty-six women to dissect these roles as daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow, and friend. With the enticing title, Grrl Talk: Sass, Wit, and Wisdom from the Austin Writergrrls, they have put their testimonials into an anthology for those who still try to discover their whole selves...Among the thousands of words, there is both realistic and touching writing. You'll be a better and more creative woman for having read it!"

~ Liz Carpenter, former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson during the LBJ administration, author of numerous books and works, nationally renowned speaker and historian, and honorary Austin WriterGrrl.

 

Although entitled GRRL TALK, the stories in this book were written by women. Real women, whose tales reveal the strong and tender responses to life its very ownself. There's power on the pages, and I can't get enough.

~ Mary Gordon Spence, humorist, public radio personality, and author of Finding Magic in the Mundane.

 

GRRL TALK is a kaleidoscope of wonderful stories that are sassy and heart-rending, irreverent and gritty, comforting and close to the bone. The women in these pages provide the best kind of talk-honest, personal and pithy. I'm already looking forward to Volume Two!

~ Laurie Lynn Drummond, multi-award-winning author of Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You and Director of Fiction, Creative Writing Program, University of Oregon.

 

GRRL TALK is as warm, funny and satisfying as the real thing, and that's saying a lot. Many of the pieces in this comradely collection will remind you of moments whispering into your kindergarten gal pal's ear between swoops on the swing set; tenderly wiping some teary mascara trails from your high school best friend's cheeks; sharing donuts, coffee, beer, a cigarette with your college girlfriends and later passing on a cherished colic remedy to a fellow new mom. It's in our nature to nurture each other, through all the twists and turns of our lives, and this anthology does a grand job of rendering the sorrow and the glory of it all.

~ Karen Stolz, author of World of Pies, a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection, and Fanny and Sue.

 

From love to loss, humor to heartache, birth to death, and every spot on the map in between, there's no place the Austin WriterGrrls fear to tread. A compulsively readable collection that touches the core of what it is to be not only female, but human.

~Marsha Moyer
The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch and The Last of the Honky-Tonk Angel