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One of my personal goals for 2008 was to learn something new every day that I could. Now whether or not I’ll remember it is another matter, but here is what I learned today.

Coming Clean

When I sold my first mainstream novel to Samhain, my mother thought I’d written a “Mommy Dearest”. I told her to forget her fears of Joan Crawford, because LEAVING MAMA had nothing to do with her or anyone in our family—it was fiction.

“But it’s called Leaving Mama.” She was still confused.

“Mom, it opens with the main character sitting on her grandmother’s coffin in the middle of a rainstorm, and she’s smoking pot beneath a beach umbrella.”

“The grandmother?!”

sigh “No, Mom. Forget it. The book isn’t about us in any way, shape, or form. We don’t even have a beach umbrella.”

She sniffled. “Would you really leave your mama?”

“Mom. I’m over the age of forty – it’s a done deal.”

“You don’t have to get hateful about it.”

If I’d had a link at the time, I’d have told her to read for herself and see that these women love their mothers.