"Birth Mother" my memoir from Shebooks is now available for purchase!

Amazed and grateful.

 I have a lot of people to thank.

Here's the link:  "Birth Mother" by Denise Emanuel Clemen

I love this cover--it's perfect!

You can also buy it on Amazon and for the Nook.

A Publishing Contract!

Shebooks, the fabulous new e-book publisher, will be publishing an excerpt of my memoir. The date is not nailed down yet, so you'll be hearing more from me about that soon. I'm thrilled to be in the company of some very fine writers.

You can read more about Shebooks HERE. I've been devouring them.

A Drink in the Land of the Parched.

Rejection has been the lay of the land lately. Not personally, but in my writing life. "Thank you very much...but no." Which is kind of personal. Mostly my way of dealing with this is to go wholeheartedly into the disappointment and then forget about it as best I can. So I was really thrilled when I got a "We are very pleased to let you know...." email the other morning. I have a short piece that's been accepted to the Mom Egg literary journal & it will be coming out in May. I wrote this piece in May of 2009 while I was taking a writing/hiking trip in Greece. I'm going on that trip with AstraGreece again this spring. This year we will go to the island of Naxos. There are words taking shape inside me right now that will emerge there. I can't wait to meet them.  http://writersconf.org/memdir/members/I00020.php
I believe there are still one or two spaces available.

Waiting for a Sign

"What are you going to do now that you've got your Master's Degree?" people have asked.
 "I'm going to write," I say. And I am. I have a memoir to shop, a novel and 2 short story collections to finish.
But also, I feel like I'm waiting for a sign. My post-divorce life has been so completely filled and shaped by being in school that I feel a little bit lost.

Another Essay Published

Every time an essay of mine makes it out into the world, this new life I'm living feels a bit more real.

http://www.themomegg.com/themomegg/Current_Issue.html

Published!

http://www.literarymama.com/creativenonfiction/archives/002363.html

I have another non-fiction piece that is out there in the world...

Published

I have an essay in the current Two Hawks Quarterly.

 

 http://aulapress.com/2008/11/14/light-by-denise-emanuel-clemen/#more-1328

Eye Q

My eye continues to heal.  For the first time in a week, I won't have to check in with the doctor tomorrow.  I can drive in the light of day without weeping and I haven't had an Advil in more than 24 hours.  I can even take off my sunglasses and work at my computer with both eyes open.  I have a nibble on another piece from a very nice online lit mag and I just finished editing it. 

Ta Da!

I got word that a personal essay I've been trying to place has been accepted at Two Hawks Quarterly which is an on-line lit journal.  I like the piece a lot and it's cool that it's found a home. It's an excerpt from my second memoir (the one about the you-know-what) and it chronicles part of the road trip I took with my older daughter right after Mr. Ex delivered the news.  I miss C. a lot a the moment so it's especially nice to have her present via that story.

It will come out in November--so that means very soon.