Social Workers in Fiction
Written by Kiersten Marek
Published April 04, 2004
Published April 04, 2004
Having seen a lot of dead people on gurneys from my two years working in the ER — people taken from this life by murder, suicide, fire, drowning, alcohol and drugs, car crashes — it takes a lot to make me cry. Keith Egawa did it, which means he gets the Soci Award for Most Grim and Tragically Realistic novel about a social worker. Thank you, Keith Egawa. Weep, weep, sigh.
Published in 1999, Madchild Running had been checked out 5 times since arriving at my public library, giving it a solid average of 1 read a year.
Given these averages, I am a bit consoled that no agent has been chomping at the bit to represent my novel about two Masters level social workers. Clearly, writing about social workers is a labor of masochism and/or love.
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- Published: April 04, 2004
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- Filed Under: Books: Women, Books: Romance, Books: Original Fiction, Books: Literature and Fiction, Culture: Original Fiction
- Writer: Kiersten Marek
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Hi
I have been looking for books with social workers as fictional characters for many years and so only have found this in the UK now.
I have published currently one book called Patience and Courage subtitled Stephanie Clover, Janus Publishing, 2005 and am using the romance genre to write about social work. My main character Stephanie Clover is dumped by her longstanding guy and enters the world of social work. The book is a mix of romance and social work characters. The follow up book subtitled The survival instinct should be available soon and I am currently in discussions with a New York agent re the third book with an aim at targetting film/ TV as the two main characters Stephanie Clover now Snow and her husband John [ a Journalist] work towards making a TV series with social workers as the central characters.
Look me up on Amazon in the UK and you will find the first book.
Best Wishes
Rachel