As promised, today I’m sharing a DELETED SCENE FROM MY UPCOMING NOVEL I AM NUMBER 13 /May 31, 1986/ My father died today and took my whole adulthood with him. I idled in front of Nashville’s Parthenon, its concrete columns wavy through the lens of my tears. I found himContinue Reading
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO PUT ONE’S CREATIONS OUT THERE When I was a teenager, I wanted to study abroad. I’m sure a gap year existed, but taking a year off between high school and college never occurred to me. Besides, my parents weren’t fans of my living with foreignContinue Reading
“It can be difficult to find a writer with a fresh voice that draws the reader in and inspires a genuine feeling of pleasure from the act of reading. In Andra Watkins’ second book, Not Without My Father: One Woman’s Walk of the 444-Mile Natchez Trace the reader will not be disappointed.” – The Huffington PostContinue Reading