LtoR: Jo Ann Hoffman, Margaret Maron, Diane Chamberlain, John Pagliuca, Brenda Witchger aka Brynn Bonner, Sarah Shaber, Steve Shaber. Photo by Bob Witchger
Writer-friend Diane Chamberlain has just released her twentieth novel. Quite a milestone. A bunch of us celebrated with her as she launched The Midwife’s Confession at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh this past week. The book is getting wonderful reviews in both the print sector and in the blogosphere. I know a bit about it since this group regularly brainstorms plots and concepts and picks through tricky questions of character and motivation during our occasional lunches and writers’ retreat, but I can’t wait to read the finished work. Diane worked for years as a therapist before she began her writing career, so she knows whereof she writes about complicated human relationships. I can only say that she’s as good a writer as she is a friend, and that’s meant as a high compliment indeed!
