Barbara has been a long time member of the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild and her book promises to be fantastic.
About “Lying In”:
Lying In tells the story of Telly Barlow, a woman in Appalachian Virginia in the early 1900s who makes her living helping families during the month-long “lying in” period after the mothers’ hard home births. She is something of an outcast due to a disfiguring disease. In October 1918, the world is at war and is facing a strange new disease. As she enters the home of her next family, she encounter four hungry children and a very sick momma. Over the next seven month her story, and the children’s, unfolds through struggling, loneliness, and possible separation.
David Eddings wrote to fiction writers: “Write a million words–the absolute best you can write, then throw it all away and bravely turn your back on what you have written. At that point, you’re ready to begin.” Over the last twenty years, Barbara Tucker has exceeded that million through nine previous novels, many short stories, and many more discarded drafts, so she hopes that number 10 is the charm and she has finally gotten this business of novel writing right.
Joking aside, Lying In comes from a deep place of family stories, historical research, and years of studying the craft of fiction. Barbara will be launching this tenth novel at four venues in the area, with Local Coffee in East Ridge as her last on June 8, 2:00. Please join her for a talk about the prompting and process behind the book and Q & A about writing fiction. Barbara holds a Master’s degree in writing from UTC and a doctorate in Adult Learning from UGA.
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