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Diane Wald

Diane Wald is an award-winning poet and novelist who has published five chapbooks, four full-length poetry collections, two novels, and more than 250 poems in literary magazines. Her most recent books are The Warhol Pillows (poetry), Gillyflower (novella), and My Famous Brain (novel). Her next novel, The Bayrose Files, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing. She lives near Boston with her husband, the writer and educator Carey Reid, and their cats O'Toole and Joey, named for Peter and Biden, respectively.

The Bayrose Files

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Some writers suffer from imposter syndrome, but ambitious twenty-six-year-old journalist Violet Maris was truly an imposter. Using a file of autobiographical stories written by a cooperating friend, she secured a residency at a prestigious artists/writers colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the mid-1980s, hoping to use her experiences there to write a riveting exposé of the place, thereby launching a successful journalistic career.

Early in the book, Violet describes how, since childhood, she has been able to sense when something of note is about to happen to her by the temperature of inanimate objects that she touches. She accepts this phenomenon as if it were one of her ordinary senses, and its occurrence signals important events in her story.

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"Diane Wald's concise narrative and character-driven plot make this novel a joy. With a colorful
combination of humor, romance, drama, and intrigue, the pages of The Bayrose Files fly past
effortlessly. I finished the book in a single sitting and enjoyed every moment. Wald's dry humor
hit all the right notes for me, and I found myself unexpectedly chuckling out loud at multiple
points in the story. The dialogue is witty, and all the character interactions feel organic. I love
how Wald makes Violet such a dynamic and layered character in a few pages. Overall, this was a
very entertaining reading experience, and I highly recommend this book."
—5-star review by Pikasho Deka for Readers’ Favorite

My Famous Brain

“My brain was famous, but I was not. Not every gifted child invents a pollutant-free fuel, paints a masterpiece, or finds the cure for cancer,” Jack MacLeod tells us. “Some of us just live out our lives.” Jack died in 1974; now, he’s ready to narrate his story from beyond the grave. Jack’s prodigious memory, which allows him to memorize books, and his penchant for psychic connections give him unusual insights into the events of his past life and make him fiercely curious about his current state of existence. Jack immerses us in interconnected tales of his childhood participation in a research study on the intellectually gifted, his dual career as a clinical psychologist and university professor, his participation in the unmasking of an unscrupulous colleague, his long-term health issues, his brief but life-changing love affair with a student, his deep friendship with another man, and his eventual acceptance and celebration of the circumstances of his fate. How Jack dies, and how he deals with the murder of someone close to him, mirrors how he has lived and grown, and marks the significance of everyone and everything that ultimately brings him to yet another level of brilliance.