Meet Eva Pasco, multi-award winning author of Contemporary women's fiction

Today I want to introduce readers to a passionate, multi-award winning author of contemporary women's fiction, Eva Pasco.
Her books are page-turners and the covers are enticing.

Author Bio:

Midlife restlessness prompted a retired elementary education teacher to rekindle her passion for storytelling.
Eva Pasco is a multi-award winning author of Contemporary Women’s Fiction she categorizes as “lit with grit”.
Her flawed, feisty females over forty confront and come to terms with their drama, demons, and dilemmas along life’s precarious day-to-day journey.
A native Rhode Islander, she integrates historic landmarks, geographic entities, cherished institutions, and regional culture in the local setting of her novels, as well as her non-fiction memoir collection.

UNDERLYING NOTES:

Carla Matteo copes with life by "taking to the bottle"--glass goddesses funneling perfume!
During a midlife renaissance, the "juice" offers an incentive for Carla to find her own niche, while the ominous rose note in Paloma Picasso forces her to confront a troubled past, redefine friendships, sort out matters of the heart, and come to terms with the tenets of her life.
Underlying Notes is available on Amazon.

AN ENLIGHTENING QUICHE:

An heirloom quiche recipe and baking rivalry turn up the heat within the French-Canadian mill town of Beauchemins, Rhode Island.
Rife with secrets and scandals--misconceptions, misdeeds, and maliciousness wreak havoc on those caught in the crossfire of a tragedy precipitated by reckless behavior.
An Enlightening Quiche is available on Amazon.

100 WILD MUSHROOMS: MEMOIRS OF THE ‘60s:

While the mushroom cloud of the Cold War hovered over us, my sister and I carried on as kids do regardless of world events.
Serious, sentimental, or silly revelations set aside: you know better than to duck and cover under a school desk for protection against nuclear fallout.
You can find 100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the 60's on Amazon.

ONCE UPON A FABULOUS TIME:

A co-authored anthology of reimagined fairy tales for grownups where dreams really do come true—if you believe!
Eva Pasco’s novella, “Mr. Wizardo”:

(Baxter Springs, Kansas) – A twist of fate! Ten years after graduating from Franklin High, four troubled individuals indebted to their guidance counselor, Oscar Wizardo, wend their way back home to attend his funeral.
Grappling with their demons, dilemmas, and despair—Doreen Gale, Scott Crowe, Lyle Forrest, and Tim Woodman follow that figurative yellow brick road, walking a fine line between realism and magic.
Discover what destiny holds in store for each of them.
THe book is available on Amazon.

You can find Eva at the following websites:

Authors Den

Goodreads

Google+

Eva’s Bytes – Blogs @WordPress

In Their Own Words: a Guest post by Ann Richardson

I would like to tell you about my books. I write books where people talk about some important aspect of their lives in their own words.
They feel a bit like a written version of a TV documentary.
I start with 25-30 interviews, which are conversational in style and allow the people interviewed to talk as long as they like on a subject and add issues of their own.
These are recorded and fully transcribed.
Because the subject matter is always something of significance to them, those interviewed invariably have interesting things to say – and often say them with great flair.
It makes reading each book feel like you are talking to a friend who is explaining something important to them in an honest and intimate way.
The first book was originally published by HarperCollins in 1992 but re-launched this year.

Wise Before their Time is about mostly young people living with AIDS/HIV when it was a life-threatening disease.
They talk about coping with the difficulties involved, such as the stigma associated with HIV at the time or telling their parents and friends. They also talk about what they have learned, knowing that their lives will be short.
Sir Ian McKellen wrote a Foreword in which he said: “these true stories are as powerful as any great classic of fiction”.
The book is available on Amazon and Books2 Read.

Life in a Hospice is the second. It is about what it is like to work in end-of-life care in various capacities, such as a nurse, doctor, chaplain or even a cook.
Life in a Hospice was published by Radcliffe Books in 2007 and re-launched in 2017.
It was Highly Commended by the British Medical Association and has a Foreword by the late Tony Benn, MP.
Those interviewed talk about why they love being involved with people at this important time, some challenges experienced and how this work affects their lives.
The Book is available on Amazon and Books2Read.

The third book is about what it is like to be a grandmother.
Celebrating Grandmothers covers the joys and challenges of this role.
Women talk about the pleasures of experiencing children again in later life, some of the conflicts that can arise within families and much more. It was independently published in 2014.
The Book is available on Amazon and Books2Read.

To help potential readers to see whether they would like to read these books, I have created a short ‘taster’ book, with a very brief introduction and two pages from three or so chapters from each book. You can download this for free from MY WEBSITE.

GUEST BLOGGER: ANN RICHARDSON