I haven't been on this blog in years, I started a whole new life in Provincetown MA and am very happy here. I do though, birds these days, which I see as kin to angels. Using glazes of saturated color and gilded backgrounds give them the aura of medieval icons. Wise, alert, often provocative, talismans and avatars; they are still archetypal messengers and guardians. They exist in the borderland between mystery and fantasy — as do my mixed media pieces on wood, which also contain birds in their innate if elusive narrative.

With them in mind, I have created a new website and hope you will join me there, I think you will like it!

www.maureenmccarron.com

So the problem with writing a memoir is there's always some new development that needs to be dealt with.

First rejection from the long list of agents I compiled, that's out of the way now.

First query sent for the memoir. It went to a small press publisher. I have a long list of agents to contact as well. This is the hard part, the self-promotion, although I'm pretty good at doing it for my artwork.

The memoir is done and being read for typos. The challenge now is to number the pages of an existing document on a Mac. It appears the only way is to copy the 28 chapters into a new blank book and number them in one chunk. But what about the Appendix section, which is about 60 pages? Do I include them with the text? Don't them get roman numerals? Decisions, decisions.

I'm back. Been working on a memoir. I was almost finished, then there were a couple major developments and I had to wait to see how they turned out. After that, I basically had to rewrite big chunks of the book. But now it's done. It has an open ending so anything that happens later can be added by an editor as a footnote. Being proofed for typos now. Typed up a synopsis this morning after writing it four times by hand. Query letter is rolling around in my head. Have a lead on a small publisher, should I contact them first or the agent who showed an interest back when I started the book two years ago?

I'm back. My iMac died and I've been using a borrowed PC that could not retrieve my old data but I just got a Macbook Air (I adore it) and through the magic of modern technology, voila, here I am. So what have I been doing the last year and a half? Painting mostly, but I've also started a memoir and am about 80 readable pages into it. Even had a nibble from an agent who only wants to see it when it's finished. So I'm hopeful and grateful and busy.

In the meantime, here's one of the paintings I've been doing. I had a small weeklong solo show in Provincetown this summer and have another scheduled for January 2019. I'll attach a link to my website, which is under my real name.

They're all birds. They're also all squares and little. I see them as guardians and messengers. 

This one is titled Lancelot.

www.maureenmccarron.com