Book Buy Link: Currently unpublished
Author Bio:
Wendy A. Warren writes upmarket historical and horror-adjacent fiction set in the Pacific and Inland Northwest. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Bright Flash Literary Review, HerStry, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, Birdland Journal, and elsewhere. She is presently querying her award-winning, unpublished novel, The Butcher’s Apprentice, and at work on two more novels and several short stories. Wendy supports a variety of organizations. She lives in Seattle, Washington where she tends her family and a history-filled urban garden.
Wendy grew up in the historic foothills of Western Washington. On a small family farm, she raised and slaughtered her own animals and cultivated a garden. This connection to and intimacy with life in rural America gave her a deep appreciation for well-raised animals and food, and the people who produce them. She was involved in 4-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA) throughout childhood, but never tipped cows.
As a young adult, Wendy traded muddy boots for a business suit and moved to the city. She was an HR professional and an operations manager in the high-tech and insurance industries. Her business writing has been viewed by thousands of jobseekers and healthcare recipients.
Wendy has written creatively since 2016. Her instructors include well-known authors, artists and scholars such as Michael Cunningham, Anastacia-Reneé, Karen Russell, Natanya Ann Pulley, Jeffrey Ford, Steve Almond, Michele L. Simms-Burton, Ph.D., Gish Jen, and J. Ryan Stradal. Wendy’s fiction explores the lives of women and girls in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and often involves the spiritual side of farm life.
Wendy is a Master Beef Advocate, a long-term carnivore and animal lover. She lives in the city, but prefers the quiet parts of Washington. Wendy is a member of the Horror Writers Association, Women Writing The West, and her state and local historical societies in an effort to preserve and re-interpret the stories of the Pacific and Inland Northwest.
Editorial Review:
The Butcher's Apprentice Review (the author optioned out to have the full review published before publication of her book - below is an excerpt of the 5 star review)
The Butcher’s Apprentice, a novel about a tomboy named Josephine Hansen, her parents, Don and Marlene, a half butcher and his grieving son, a man who is not whom he seems, an Atari 2600, Star Wars, and an Oldsmobile Cutlass. The author keeps several story threads going at the same time and ties them all into one big satisfying bow at the end. This heartwarming story touched on issues society still grapples with today: Broken families, wartime PTSD, poverty, struggling to survive everyday life, grief, and trying to discern fact from fiction in the people around us.
*****
“The Butcher’s Apprentice” by W. Warren received 5.0 stars and a highly recommended by the Historical Fiction Company.
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