Collette Shedd

—Debut Author—

Bair Ink Presents

Meet Collette

Novelist - Poet - Master Gardener

Dyslexic - Peculiar - Determined

My debut novel, Facing Lillia, is a story of determination to recover and persevere in light of repeated failure. It's a venture into the realm of courage and creative hope. An adventure of  courage and determination that offers the hope of becoming a fuller person.

I'm attracted to stories with tension between true beauty and unmentionable terror. I can't recall a when in my lifetime where I didn't see people thrown away. I kept asking myself who are these people? What did they do to get thrown away? To be pushed out and down? Ignored. Castoff without a voice.

I became particularly drawn to these castoffs who wander into the mental health system and became intrigued with the one-on-one process of healing.

I write to open that private door of therapy a bit more harboring a funny notion, believing that if something happens to me, it might be happening to others.

I wanted my writing to peer through the therapeutic window, listen in, and uncover how one-life-at-a-time can change. And yes, I have been both healer and healed.

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