Gretchen Haertsch
Gretchen Haertsch teaches graduate and undergraduate writing classes at Arcadia University, including courses in writing for children and magazine writing. She also mentors students in novel writing and research.
Gretchen’s Young Adult historical novel is set in Philadelphia during the influenza pandemic of 1918 when a seventeen year-old girl volunteers to help fight the deadly virus. GRACE RISING is about prejudice and courage in the face of overwhelming world events.
A freelance writer for more than 25 years, Gretchen’s work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and textbooks.
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Gretchen-
I am linking your “Conversation with Maberry” article to my Friday’s blog posting. Hopefully I can send some traffic your way!
-CYM
I really enjoyed your excerpt and wish you luck with the publishing process. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help as a fellow YA author.
Hi Gretchen,
I found your blog. I am not writing an historical novel, or a novel of any kind. I am writing a book on the composer, Mozart. For the last six years, I’ve been researching Mozart, at Princeton Unversity, the NYC Performing Arts Division, and at archives online all over Europe. The book is being written with a college professor from Cornell and Ithaca College and should be published in the spring of 2012. The publisher is Pendragon Press, specializing in music literature. It’s consumed my life for the last six years or so, but it’s been worthwhile. The book features new images found of Mozart’s students, singers, musicians, composers, patrons, and associates, and will be a biography of his entire life. I was able to get a publisher through the help of an important Mozart scholar on the board of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
I’d love to hear more about your literary endeavors. Through my Mozart work, I’ve met an author of historical novels, Stephanie Cowell, who wrote “Marrying Mozart”, and just came out with a novel about Monet. She’s a former opera singer, gone literary. Just two weeks ago, I went to a talk with her at a library about her book and enjoyed it so much. She even sang!
I have no imagination for doing a novel, but I love reading them!
Catherine Sprague