"Well written and touched me deeply as I too had to wait until my mother (and her whole generation) in our family had passed on to write a memoir. It reminds me what memoirist Adair Lara teaches...the wait ten years rule...before writing about any…"
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Five Questions for Victoria Costello on Pub Day for her Memoir, A Lethal Inheritance
by Laura Fraser, best-selling memoirist and memoir teacherVictoria Costello took a memoir writing class with me a few years ago at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and I was so impressed with her fearlessness, writing about the touchy subject of mental illness in her family. I believed that using her science background to investigate that history, along with her personal story, would make a great read and important contribution to the field--and I am delighted that A Lethal Inheritance has…See More
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A Book Giveaway for my new memoir, A LETHAL INHERITANCE on Goodreads!
A Lethal Inheritanceby Victoria CostelloGiveaway ends January 05, 2012.See the giveaway details at Goodreads.Enter to winSee More
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"I'm happy to share the book trailer for my memoir. Prometheus Books got it into bookstores 4 weeks earlier than planned. So it's OUT NOW!"
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This video trailer previews the book, A LETHAL INHERITANCE, in which Victoria Costello tells parallel personal and scientific stories. She offers new researc...
Victoria Costello commented on the blog post 'Five Questions for ... Cinderella Ate My Daughter Author Peggy Orenstein'
"I especially appreciate the question and answer about combining so many voices - intimate, social-political, psychological - as women who write and think we do this all the time. Brava to Peggy for writing in this mega-voice and to Elline for…"
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- Who I am:
- I am a journalist, science writer, mental wellness advocate, reader and a mother.
- Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
- http://www.alethalinheritance.com
http://wwww.MentalHealthMomBlog.com
@VCpsych
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Child & Adolescent Psychology, with child psychiatrist Jack C. Westman (2011)
The Complete Idiots Guide to Writing a Memoir (2011)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Chemistry of Love, coauthored with evolutionary psychologist Maryanne Fisher, out in Dec from Alpha Books/Penguin.
Previously...published by Adams Media
The Everything Guide to a Happy Marriage (2009)
The Everything Parent's Guide to Childhood OCD (2008)
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- PsychologyToday.com, PsychCentral.com, Yahoo Health & Wellness, Scientific American Mind, Brain World,
- My writing is:
- Nonfiction, Memoir, Journalism, Blog Posts
- Services I offer to other writers:
- Ghostwriting nonfiction and self help books, Nonfiction book proposal writing/editing
- My professional associations:
- Author's Guild
National Association of Science Writers
Association of Journalists and Authors
- I found out about She Writes from:
- a friend
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Five Questions for Victoria Costello on Pub Day for her Memoir, A Lethal Inheritance
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:00am 0 Comments 1 Like
by Laura Fraser, best-selling memoirist and memoir teacher
Victoria Costello took a memoir writing class with me a few years ago at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and I was so impressed with her fearlessness, writing about the touchy subject of mental illness in her family. I believed that using her science background to investigate that history, along with her personal story, would make a great read and important contribution to the field--and I am delighted…
Continue A Book Giveaway for my new memoir, A LETHAL INHERITANCE on Goodreads!
Posted on December 26, 2011 at 11:45am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Ghostwriting... equal parts priestess-confessor, therapist, con-artist, artist
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 2:02pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
It’s nice to be back in my own skin. I’ve just spent four months dwelling in the mind, body and spirit of another human being, which is to say that among the professional hats I wear, one is ghostwriting. After delivering a 45,000 word first draft this morning, I find myself wondering what this process of entering the psyche of another person reveals about those of us who do it for a living.
Certainly for psychotherapists the act of entering someone else’s mind is an everyday… Continue
Certainly for psychotherapists the act of entering someone else’s mind is an everyday… Continue
The fine points of rejection...
Posted on August 4, 2010 at 3:56pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
My favorite rejection ever: "I just read a big chunk of the novel, and I'm afraid it might be just too tough in this fiction environment. It's so multi-layered and intelligent, which in today's world are not the benefits they should be. Also, though I'm sure i sound like a bigoted yahoo, the emphasis on the lesbian marriage and such will also work against it as a popular novel. This is a very sophisticated work that will be offered to a very unsophisticated world. Sorry to be so jaded. You have… Continue
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- At 9:37pm on September 3, 2010,
Kelli Swearingen said… - Welcome to Mother Writer,Victoria! If you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself, browse our threads, or start one of your own. And again, welcome to Mother Writer.
kelli rodin
(admin)
- At 8:20am on August 22, 2010,
elyse mesina said… - Hello Victoria- Thanks for asking. I was a neuro linguist in university and hospital setting for 25 years (NYC vicinity) dedicated to the rational/objective scientific way, until an evil little meningioma put an end to that— a situation that turned even the “I think therefore I am” philosophy, if you’ll excuse the pun, on it’s head for me! Now I am in the midst of writing a first person narrative from the perspective of clinician & patient (!) wherein elements of what can be described as “scientific memoir” are contained. As you can image, your project “A Lethal Inheritance” sounds very appealing on many levels. I look forward to its release. Regards, Elyse
- At 4:43pm on June 10, 2010,
Jill Starishevsky said…
- Hi Victoria,
I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when you have some time.
Thanks in advance.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/talking-kids-sexual-abuse-10255396
Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com
- At 6:43pm on January 22, 2010,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - >..are there real gatherings or are they virtual...any writing groups?
there are people in the group looking for writing groups. take a look. and I have in mind to have a coffee or something, probably in San Francisco, and not until I get my revised novel off to my editor, so think mid-february for that.
- At 4:51pm on January 22, 2010,
Julie Jeffs said… - Hi Victoria,
Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. Please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index.
I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent.
Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Look forward to reading your posts.
Warm regards,
Julie Jeffs
Beginning a Life at 50
http://juliejeffs.blogspot.com
- At 2:18pm on January 22, 2010,
Julie Mihaly said… - Welcome to the Baby Boomers Group, Victoria, and kudos on the remarkable work you've done in the past. I hope you'll consider contributing to BoomUnderground.com, particularly the "Mind," "Hitched," and "Offspring" sections, but I fear you may be out of our league as we have no shekels for writer compensation at this stage of the game. That said, I look forward to any contributions your up for making to our group and I'm headed to your links to read some of your work forthwith! Welcome again, and all best.- Julie Mihaly
- At 2:02pm on January 22, 2010, Meg Waite Clayton said…
- Welcome to She Writes, Victoria. Love to have you join us in the SF Bay Area group, if you'd like.
Meg Waite Clayton
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