Award Winning Author Mary Troy Comes To Shasta College (Edited by Clayton)

By Katie Goltz
kgoltz@sclance.com
Staff Writer
Award Winning author and director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at University of Missouri-St. Louis, Mary Troy will be presenting writing workshops and signing books on the Student Center Stage on March 2nd and 3rd.
Shasta College is extremely fortunate to have Ms. Troy visit campus and any student interested in pursuing a career in creative writing or is simply interested in creative writing and the novel writing process would be wise to attend.
Ms. Troy will be hosting a lecture and discussion period centered around the topic “Writing a Novel” from 10:00am to 11:00am Monday, March 2nd on the Student Center Stage.
Later that evening, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm Ms. Troy will be reading and signing her new novel, “Beauties”, in room 802.
A press release from University of Missouri explains the main plot of Troy’s “Beauties,” "Beauties" follows cousins Bev, who has one leg, and Shelly, who is a former model, as they open Alibi Cafe. The two go on to transform the way each understands success in cooking, business, longing for parenthood, love and beauty.”
“Beauties” is the winner of USA Book News' Best Books 2010 Award for Literary Fiction.
According to University of Missouri, St. Louis’ online Newsroom Ms. Troy found out about her book’s success from a congratulatory email from a colleague.
In an interview in early November 2010, shortly after her novel hit the presses Troy said, “I opened my e-mail one morning last week and saw a note of congratulations from a friend and fellow writer from New York, that’s how I knew about the award. I’ve been smiling ever since.”
Ms. Troy is also the author of three short story collections.
According to the same University of Missouri press release Beauties" further develops characters and settings first introduced in her successful story collection "The Alibi Cafe".
Leia Menlove from ForeWord Reviews says about “Beauties,” “An audience seeking a stately, involved read about human relationships and the meaning of beauty—in all its forms will enjoy this beauty of a novel.”
Troy will be holding a writer’s workshop on Tuesday, March 3rd on the Student Center Stage from 12:30pm to 1:50pm with special emphasis on “Getting Started” and “Life of a Writer”.
Troy’s appearance was made possible by generous donations from the Shasta College Foundation as well as the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
The public is welcome to attend all of Ms. Troy’s appearances.