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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 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…

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Added by Victoria Costello on January 23, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments

A Book Giveaway for my new memoir, A LETHAL INHERITANCE on Goodreads!

A Lethal Inheritance

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Added by Victoria Costello on December 26, 2011 at 11:45am — No Comments

Ghostwriting... equal parts priestess-confessor, therapist, con-artist, artist

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

Added by Victoria Costello on November 15, 2010 at 2:02pm — No Comments

The fine points of rejection...

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

Added by Victoria Costello on August 4, 2010 at 3:56pm — No Comments

My take on why the culture still denies there's a disease called depression...on psychologytoday.com

I've been disturbed of late by a print media trend towards what looks an awful lot like a reactionary bandwagon on mental illness. A prime example was the NY Times Magazine story of 2.28.10 titled, "Depression's Upside."

If the reader can get past the feeling of revulsion that depression need have an "upside," there's plenty more in this story to anger anyone who's ever battled this disease or dealt with it in a family member.

This block quote sums up Jonathan Leher's main… Continue

Added by Victoria Costello on March 11, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

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