The Pianist’s Solely Daughter: A Memoir obtained a 4+ star assessment, making it an IndieReader Authorised title.
Following discover an interview with writer Kathryn Betts Adams.
What’s the identify of the e-book and when was it printed?
The Pianist’s Solely Daughter: A Memoir, printed Nov. 14, 2023
What’s the e-book’s first line?
Prelude (2019)
Within the constructing’s hallway, I can already hear faint piano music.
What’s the e-book about? Give us the “pitch”.
The Pianist’s Solely Daughter: A Memoiris a frank, humorous, and poignant exploration of getting old in an getting old skilled’s circle of relatives. Kathryn Betts Adams was the one daughter of colourful and gifted mother and father: her mom, an English scholar and poet, and her father, a live performance pianist and music professor. Their dramatic emotional lives, marital instability, and eventual break-up offered the backdrop for her Nineteen Sixties and ’70s youth.
Almost thirty years after they have been divorced, her newly single father and her never-remarried mom, by then recognized with Parkinson’s illness, have reconciled and determined to dwell collectively once more. As her mom’s situation deteriorates, Kathryn has to step in to assist handle her care. Regardless of her experience as a gerontological social employee, she finds that outdated household dynamics and disappointing limitations to accessible companies for older adults make each care determination a troublesome one. Within the face of generally overwhelming accountability, Kathryn marshals accessible assets to assist her mother and father keep their high quality of life and distinctive humanity regardless of the relentless results of time and power sickness.
Grounded in insights about well being and psychological well being, The Pianist’s Solely Daughter touches on common themes of getting old, parent-child relationships, inventive expression, love, and loss via the intimate story of 1 household.
What impressed you to put in writing the e-book? A specific particular person? An occasion?
I began writing The Pianist’s Solely Daughter: A Memoir when it dawned on me simply how powerful it was to be a caregiver to my mother and father—regardless that I’m a social employee who makes a speciality of follow and analysis with older adults! Beginning with a couple of incidents I needed to put in writing about, I felt a form of calling to share the story of my caregiving journey with others who is likely to be coping with comparable points with older family members.
What’s the primary motive somebody ought to actually learn this e-book?
Individuals who have been via an identical scenario with older mother and father, who fear about their very own or their mother and father’ getting old, or who’re within the area of getting old. Additionally, individuals who grew up with mother and father who have been high-achieving, gifted “powerful acts to comply with” or who have been youngsters of divorce – anybody with these life circumstances will relate to this e-book. Nonetheless, I take pleasure within the craft of my writing and consider this e-book stands as a worthy learn merely by itself.
When did you first determine to change into an writer?
I used to be a tutorial author of papers reporting on research – however hadn’t written memoir earlier than. As a teenager, I wrote fairly a little bit of poetry (some is within the e-book) and I started with writing essays about getting old and midlife – private essays that associated to my area of gerontology. This memoir grew out of that.
Is that this the primary e-book you’ve written?
Sure.
What’s an excellent piece of recommendation which you could share with fellow indie authors?
Try for high quality. Make sure you have a number of beta readers, or higher but, be a part of a writing group the place you’ll get suggestions. Use a minimum of one actually good editor for the entire e-book earlier than you self-publish. The method of self-publishing has change into straightforward, however producing a top quality, fantastically written and arranged e-book takes a whole lot of work. It actually helps to have others offer you suggestions and level out points in your writing or construction of the e-book.