Jun 5, 2010
…and now to bed…
Thank you, coffee-timers! It’s been fun to share a day with you and I hope you find lots of books to keep you entertained AND challenged–whichever or whatever combination you want at the time. I do have a website www.marthamoody.net which I will update soon with links to this blog and other articles. (I pay a company in Seattle to do this because computers are not my thing.) I’m... read more
Jun 5, 2010
excerpt from The Office of Desire
Love it or hate it, this book: “I didn’t talk much about my missing leg–it wasn’t interesting, really–but I expected it to bring me some respect. By and large, my lovers came to my house. My day-to-day leg was basically a metal post down to the foot, certainly not made for intimacy or sleeping, and, whether or not someone was with me, I always took it off when I went to... read more
Jun 5, 2010
excerpt from Sometimes Mine
“I know that people like talking about gazing into their loved one’s eyes, but it was never exactly Mick’s pupils that I looked into. The inner canthus is the notch in the eye next to the nose, and there was a dip in the arc from Mick’s inner canthus to the top of his eyelid that moved me. No matter how widely Mick smiled, he still had that aching arch. That visible ache made... read more
Jun 5, 2010
philosophical question: do you read for comfort, or a challenge?
Hi, readers– Not along ago I was seated next to another woman fiction writer at a book-signing. Since no one was looking at our books (sigh) we had a lot of time to talk. This woman writes happy-ending books with delightful, admirable characters. I write books with more ambiguous endings and complicated characters who may behave badly. I’ve heard the complaint that my characters are... read more
Jun 5, 2010
hobby month
I like goofing around with my goofy sons I like hanging out with my husband, Marty (yes, we are Marty and Marti) I also like… I have a very lucky life. Every day I think that. If I died tomorrow, it would be fine. Martha MoodyI live in Dayton, Ohio with my husband and four sons ages 15-21. I'm a semi-retired physician and often have medical characters in my novels.Website - More Posts... read more
Jun 5, 2010
Best Friends
This is my first novel (published in 2001) and I still hear from readers about it. It’s the story of two young women who meet in college in the 70′s. One is a middle-class woman from the Ohio (Clare), the other a wealthy girl from LA (Sally). The two become best friends, and the book follows them through twenty-odd years in their complicated lives. They are still best friends in the... read more
Jun 5, 2010
my latest novel, Sometimes Mine
Sometimes Mine is the story of Genie Toledo, a work-obsessed cardiologist, and her long-term affair with Mick Crabbe, a married college basketball coach. Mick gets sick, Genie meets his family, and everything changes. People say this book makes them cry. I think it’s my favorite because it shows people in difficult circumstances pulling their lives together. I often have doctors as characters... read more
Jun 5, 2010
The Office of Desire
The Office of Desire is my second novel (of three). It’s about five people in a small medical office in Ohio who delight, bore, and torment each other. It’s a sad story. Honestly, I didn’t know I had so much grief in me. One of the people in the office is much more troubled than the others realize, which I think is something that happens in real life. People either love or... read more
Jun 5, 2010
Martha MoodyI live in Dayton, Ohio with my husband and four sons ages 15-21. I'm a semi-retired physician and often have medical characters in my novels.Website - More Posts read more
Jun 5, 2010
good morning-ish, readers!
Hi, my name is Martha Moody, author of Sometimes Mine (recent and my favorite) and and The Office of Desire (my grief book, but some people love it) and Best Friends (my big seller, now “old”). I’m in Dayton Ohio where I live with my husband of 25 years, Martin Jacobs, and four lovable and nerdy rascal sons, ages 15 to 21. (Actually two of the sons are off in college, but right now... read more
