The Stories We Read Become Part of Our Own Stories Cathie Beck does not present herself as a cautionary tale or a triumphant exception. She is a fifty-four-year-old freelance writer and public-relations specialist who still meets deadlines and manages clients. Yet the path that led to Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship is impossible to separate from who she is. The book is about a powerful friendship with a woman who lived with multiple sclerosis, but the larger story is Beck’s own refusal to let the manuscript die on a shelf. She was a teenage mother who raised two children alone. That fact sits underneath everything that followed. When the traditional publishing route stalled, she did not wait for permission. She made her own noise, absorbed the cost, and kept moving. Read More: https://writeupcafe.com/the-stories-we-read-become-part-of-our-own-stories