Bill
Moyers says, "I
guarantee that once you start, you will not stop, and when you are
done, you will have discovered the healing power of Love
Cemetery,"
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china galland
is offering
one-to-one sessions to help you:
Bring your
creative project to fruition
Cut through
whatever is "blocking" you
Integrate your
life with your creativity, including spiritual practice and family
life
Turn obstacles
into sources of creative energy
Discover the
story that’s yours to tell
Establish a
metaphorical container for your work, such as an altar
Learn to sit
with what is unknown and/or uncomfortable
Play with
movement, voice and paint to stretch your work with language
by drawing on her thirty
years experience as:
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Award - winning
author (Penguin, Riverhead, and HarperOne.)
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Buddhist -
Christian Practitioner
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Internationally
recognized authority on the Black Madonna
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Pilgrim and
leader of pilgrimages to sacred sites
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Wilderness guide
(rivers and mountains), author of Women in the Wilderness
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Interviewer
(H.H. The Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa, Jose Ramon Horta)
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Public speaker,
university lecturer, professor-in-residence at CARE/Graduate
Theological Union)
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Photographer
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Storyteller
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Wife, mother,
and most recently, grandmother
And for writers with book
projects, she will help you:
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Create a book
proposal
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Find
a literary agent
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Learn the nuts and bolts of bringing a book
into the world including: permissions; art work and design;
web-research; documentation; organizing and indexing files and data
storage
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Establish
and maintain productive and supportive relationships with your
publishers/editors
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Effectively
promote your book
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Become
a powerful presenter and reader of your own work
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Understand
the deep engagement with life that comes with putting your work out
in the world
For information
about scheduling, fees, shared sessions and anything else, please
email writer@chinagalland.com or
call (415)
451-7497.
With
Longing for Darkness, Tara and the Black Madonna, Galland
tapped a great spiritual hunger for the feminine face of God. (It was
the first book published on the Black Madonnas in the U.S..) This
June, 2007, Penguin brought out a new edition of this ground-breaking
classic (first published in 1990). Her next book, The Bond Between
Women, a Journey to Fierce Compassion (Riverhead) gave voice to
the passionate lives of women activists struggling spiritually and
physically to overcome violence and hatred in Brazil, India, Vietnam,
and the U.S. Her newest book, Love Cemetery (HarperOne) tells a
quintessential American story of race, land theft, environmental
destruction, and family, The story of Galland’s response to a request
from an African-American elder to help her get back into Love
Cemetery, an historic communal burial ground, reveals the many ways
that the shadow of slavery continues to bind us to a past many would
forget or deny. Yet, for us "to have a common future we have to
reconstruct our common past." The story of Love Cemetery points the
way to our shared future and opens up a path to reconciliation.
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