Linda Joyce Ott

Open Wounds, Secret Obsessions (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Themes of fractured dreams, poignant memories, and loneliness unite the fourteen short stories in "Open Wounds, Secret Obsessions".

In this debut collection, you'll meet a variety of eccentric characters including a young traveller who is duped by a charismatic thief in Rome, a woman who obsessively attends strangers' weddings, a son who gets to really know his father only after he has died, and a woman whose mother's puzzling disappearance has tainted her life.

In each of the stories, a deceptively smooth surface cracks open to reveal ogres and monsters below. The characters mysteriously pass from normalcy into serious obsession, if not madness, with the reader never quite able to say when this happens.

The stories show young people providing perceptive insight far beyond their years, while older ones often appear naïve. Many of the characters are broken, badly hurt by life and by the passage of time.

The author's special talent for writing instinctively with enormous gut-feeling gives these poignant stories their amazing power. Her refined sense of understatement, direct style, and a keen eye for the telling detail combine to reveal complete worlds of inner turmoil. Vivid descriptions reveal a writer who is observant, savvy, and possesses a wicked sense of humour.

The author tells a good story with dazzling simplicity and the reader will delight in discovering this unique voice in these emotionally intense stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780986583650
• Artikelnr.: 45444531

Autorenporträt

Linda Joyce Ott is the author of a memoir, "I AM - My Journey To A Creative Life", the dystopian novel "The Naked Law" and a collection of short stories "Open Wounds, Secret Obsessions". She is also an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist working in photography, painting, collage, textile art, assemblage and video. Linda lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Linda honed her creative writing over the course of a successful career as a writer, editor and communications consultant. She has an Hons BA in English from McMaster University. Mentored by the late Paul Quarrington, she earned a Certificate in Creative Writing from The Humber School for Writers. Linda also took part in a workshop with Isabel Huggan at The Humber School for Writers.

Linda has published sixteen photo art portfolios: "A Rainbow of Irises"; "All Dolled Up"; "Auto Parts"; "Flowers of Hope"; "Hard Core: Hornby Island Rocks"; "Hood Ornaments"; "Hood Ornaments 2"; "Magnificent Mums"; "Mexico Obscura"; "Orchidaceous!"; "Outside Art"; "Signs of the Times"; "Strands of Time"; "The Earth Laughs in Flowers"; "Transcending Time" and "Tree Totems". They are available print-on-demand from lindajoyceott.magcloud.com

Linda's art and photos have been exhibited in solo and group shows in Hamilton, Toronto and Alberta, including the Female Eye Film Festival, Artist's Inc, Index G, the Toronto Outdoors Art Exhibition, Hugh's Room and Visual Arts Ontario. Her photographs have been published in Art Focus, Photo Life, and Camera Canada magazines, and in The Hamilton Spectator.

In 2019, four photos from Linda's Orchidaceous! portfolio, juried into the Royal Botanical Gardens' Annual Orchid Show Art Exhibit won 1st, 2nd (2x) and 3rd prizes in their categories. In 2018, four photos won 1st and 2nd prizes in their categories. In 2017, the photo White Orchid won Best in Class (Photography) and 1st prize. In 2016, two photos placed 1st and 2nd in their categories at the exhibit.

In 2015 Linda was selected to be the Featured Artist at McMaster Innovation Park 's18th juried Art in the Workplace exhibition (Aug - Nov 2015) in Hamilton.

Linda received Ontario Arts Council exhibition assistance grants for five solo exhibitions at the Hamilton Public Library's Gallery4: Strands of Time (2017) Orchidaceous! (2016); All Dolled Up (2015); Urban Fresh (2013); The Earth Laughs in Flowers (2012).

In 2011 "Auto Parts", her photo portfolio of de...