HeyJaredNever Too Late
Sharing my journey from writing to publishing later in life. Never Too Late invites writers who are scared or timid, who have delayed pushing the submit button, to find the courage to begin & keep going.
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From Family Therapist to Family Saga Novelist (opens the original)
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In May 2023, I published my first novel, About the Carleton Sisters. This work came into being during my thirty-fourth year as a marriage and family therapist. This was my second career; my first was teaching in a community college. Dissatisfied with educational politics, I studied and became a psychotherapist, not specifically but serendipitously. This career change dovetailed with my “other” love, writing.Marrying the two professions—writing and psychotherapy—has been a natural relationship fo
Willy Vlautin meets Ann Patchett (opens the original)
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On July 7, 2026, I received an unexpected ticket to the best literary conversation I’ve heard in all the years I’ve been attending these events. Two in the most unlikely pairings I could have imagined came together: Willy Vlautin, veteran novelist of underdog stories and Ann Patchett, who writes middle America. As I sat there listening to their opening salvo about early fears of dying, I was struck by how both Willy acknowledged and Ann confirmed the fear of dying to be a secret obsession of the
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