Author: mereditheobrien

advance praise for ‘mr. clark’s big band’

51wqj1y-rbl-_sx326_bo1204203200_Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and University of Massachusetts journalism professor Madeleine Blais has praised Mr. Clark’s Big Band. Blais is the author of several books including the award-winning In These Girls, Heart is a Muscle and Uphill Walkers: Memoirs of a Family:

A drumroll, please, for Meredith O’Brien’s endearing and inspiring Mr. Clark’s Big Band. Modeled in part after Tracy Kidder’s Among Schoolchildren, this book focuses on one school band in one small town after the sudden death of one of its members. In the end, music is the main character: the joy, the hope, and the solace it delivers to a bereft community.

Image credit: Amazon.

my nonfiction book’s cover … revealed

mr-clarks-coverMy publisher, Wyatt-MacKenzie, has revealed the cover of my latest work of nonfiction, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Tears, Laughter and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room. 

Gorgeous work Nancy Cleary!

Be sure to check out the book blog for updates on the spring 2017 release.

 

springfield ‘republican’ reports on book deal

photoThe Springfield (MA) newspaper, The Republican and its web presence, MassLive, wrote about me signing with Wyatt-MacKenzie to publish Mr. Clark’s Big Band in June 2017:

West Springfield native (and former staff member at The Republican) Meredith O’Brien will be out with her next book, Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter, Tears & Jazz in a Middle School Band Room, next year.

Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing has picked up the title for release in June. This is O’Brien’s third book, following her novel, Mortified, and her humor and parenting columns, Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum.

 

welcome to meredith’s writing blog

typewriterimageIf you’re looking for information on Boston area writer and journalism educator Meredith O’Brien, you’ve come to the right place.

Please feel free to look through some of my articles, books and educational experiences.

I’ll be posting updates on my new publishing and teaching endeavors here as they occur.

Until then, I’m off to tend to my two bickering rescue dogs and getting ready for the next Red Sox season.

The main image for this web site is from the Hess Collection, of Leopoldo Maler’s burning typewriter. I have a thing for typewriters.