Margaret C. Murray

You’re a work of my teenage literary angst, a time where I was in free fall, a teenager with a bad case of sour grapes who rejected love the more she wanted it, who wouldn’t be caught dead writing the commonplace salutation, ‘Dear Diary’. There’s a reason you’ve been buried for fifty years in assorted cardboard boxes stacked in dark closets and damp garages, moved from my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA to all the places I’ve lived. Yet now every day when I start to write I hold . ..

It was June 9th, 1962 when I began writing in you, dear diary. I had a new bright yellow Easyrite notebook with all the pages blank. “BITCH BITCH BITCH,” I wrote. I’m sorry to admit that my mother was the object of my fury. Why was I so angry with her? That June day I was furious because my mother had “banned” yet another of my precious books. But “BITCH BITCH BITCH” may be the only really compelling line in the whole diary. I don’t know because the truth is I can only bear to read a little at a time. Dear diary, I confess . . .

In my book readings, I’ll be calling up the power of music as well as story. As I wrote Dreamers, I heard music all the time. I put that music into the book. There’s 32 pieces of music named in all. Listen to this great ’60s song.

Margaret C. Murray is honored to be one of the authors featured in the 2nd annual Northern California Storybook and Literature Festival. Come celebrate books, reading and literacy with her. Experience Native Californian Maidu culture too. It’s all happening at the Maidu Library and Community Center in Roseville on April 14th, 2012.

NEW!  WriteWords Press is set to launch two more books in 2011!  In addition to Sundagger.net, WriteWords Press will publish: Dreamers, an interracial romance of the ’60s, by  Margaret C. Murray Floating Point, Endlessly Rocking Off Silicon Valley, a memoir by Shelley Buck WriteWords Press began on a gray day four years ago.  It was [...]