On My First 9/11
You all know my story, the word terrorism that brings a shiver to our bones, the dark and unnatural date of 9/11/76 that left me a widow, and twenty-five years later, the date that caused fear and...
View ArticleCarfare
March wind whipped at my skirt and I thought about the warm restaurant and the pie that comes around on a carousel, but when my father crossed the street he didn’t say hello. He lit up a Camel with...
View ArticleSanta
My mother and the boys were asleep, Chris in a big-boy bed to avoid any more stunts he’d devised trying to climb out of his crib. While I sat at the side of his bed I thought about our visit to see...
View ArticleA Writer’s Highs and Lows
The momentum began with Salon.com, a story they called Meeting My Husband’s Killer, which delivered 20,000 hits. Then the HuffPost contest, the one I didn’t care much about but entered a story in my...
View ArticleMy Memory of Mario Cuomo
Mario Cuomo stood at the window of his offices on the 58th floor of One World Financial Center watching a tugboat stream along the Hudson toward the Statue of Liberty. Below, the financial district...
View ArticleWords with Writers
Q&A With Writer Kathleen Murray Moran “I write to know what I think, to remember how I feel, to form the words that would otherwise go unremembered.” 1. Why do words matter? Words move and sway the...
View ArticleHuffPost Finalist
I am pleased to let you know that our judges have chosen your submission as one of the finalists for the HuffPost 50/AARP memoir contest. Ten finalists were chosen from a pool of more than 2,400...
View ArticleShopping for Film/TV
The Widow and the Hijacker is being shopped by a Hollywood production company. Updates to follow. The post Shopping for Film/TV appeared first on Kathleen Murray Moran, Author of The Widow and the...
View ArticleCroatian Sympathy
In the last few months I have received a half dozen notes from Croatians who have offered their sympathy and best wishes. It has been almost forty years, and yet people from that gentle country have...
View ArticleThe Atlantic named my NPR podcast top 50 of 2015
In 2014 an excerpt of my memoir, The Widow and the Hijacker, went viral on Salon.com, coming in as the #3 story of the year. 2015 brings another top rating, this time for the NPR Snap Judgement...
View ArticleRO Literary announces the latest addition to our agency~
Welcome Kathleen Murray Moran to our family of authors! Tell me a story, my daughter would say when I tucked her in at night. I began telling stories I had forgotten until that moment. In the telling,...
View ArticleTime and Again
New York City, 1880. We are along side Simon Morely, as he navigates a city he’s known all his life, only it’s one hundred years ago and anything north of 59th Street is a remote part of the city...
View ArticleAlyson Richman, Huntington, L. I. local and favorite author
My love affair with Alyson Richman’s books began with A Mask Carver’s Son, a story written in simple and beautiful language and steeped in 20th century Japanese culture. The reader comes to understand...
View ArticleForty Years Later
September 11, 1977 The first anniversary of my husband’s death loomed ahead. As soon as the calendar rolled around to September, the dread began to build. I needed to plan something to get me through...
View ArticleHow to Sell a Book
I wrote a book. I have an agent. Now, I realize, I must market myself so that when the book comes out people will want to read it. I’m on Facebook and Twitter, sometimes, but don’t really know how to...
View ArticlePUBLISHED!
Look for my memoir on 10/10/17. The post PUBLISHED! appeared first on Kathleen Murray Moran, Author of The Widow and the Hijacker.
View ArticleLife Detonated: The True Story of a Widow and a Hijacker
My memoirs have a new title. NIne months to gestate and get all pretty, then in your hands October, 2017. The post Life Detonated: The True Story of a Widow and a Hijacker appeared first on Kathleen...
View ArticleCelebrating a Loss
There was a time when my wedding anniversary held the same trepidation as the anniversary of my husband’s death. As the anniversary drew near, that old uninvited gnawing began, a presence that demanded...
View ArticleThe Impossible Road to Publishing
Part I of a Series Stories circled my mind since I was a little girl with a diary. At first they were amusing stories about roller-skating on South Bronx streets in the middle of the night, or about...
View ArticleThe Impossible Road to Publishing – Part II
Part II – What Now? Okay, so I have a story and I’ve written hundreds of pages of a first draft. What now? Although I was pretty sure since I taught writing and had a degree in editing that I could...
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