Best-selling author Priscilla Cogan visits Glen Arbor
From staff reports
From a northern Michigan village, best-selling author Priscilla Cogan launches her latest novel, Clinging To The Moon and engages in a whirlwind book tour from Maine to Minnesota and states in between.
The novel tells an unexpected love story and centers on the theme “that accidents can happen to anyone,” says Cogan. “Clinging To The Moon is a book about there being no guarantees in life, which is why my motto is to live intensely, love fiercely, and to always have two Shelties.”
You can catch up with Priscilla Cogan at one of her many book events including locally at The Glen Arbor Women’s Fair on July 17 and at Evolve Books and Gifts on July 30 from 1-3 p.m.
Cogan is also the author of the award-winning Winona’s Web, published by Doubleday, and translated into 10 other languages. Winona’s Web continues to excite interest from film companies. Cogan wrote a screenplay adaptation.
It was a natural evolution for Priscilla Cogan to follow her career as a clinical psychologist into writing novels. Married to Duncan Sings-Alone, Cherokee storyteller, psychologist, and Native American healer, she became a practitioner of Pipe and Sweat lodge ceremonies. The cultural differences between the Lakota spiritual perspectives and modern psychological perspectives raise interesting questions as to the very nature of reality, illness, and the process of healing.
All but one of her novels reference the Leelanau Peninsula, as Priscilla’s family has roots here dating back to 1890. Having traveled widely, she continues to assert that there is no more beautiful place that this area of Michigan.
