Carole Bumpus

Stories that Must be Told

Not all writers come to the blank page knowing exactly what to write. In my case, I had no clue, but I did have stories I couldn’t leave alone. I knew they must be shared. What genre was I going to choose? Biography? Fiction? Memoir? In my journey of taking one writing class after another, I found my answers.

How about you? How do you find the direction you want to take in your writing?

We’ll be talking about these topics, and more in our discussion.

• How did I decide to turn a biography into fiction?
• Was my own memoir imbedded in the story?
• What is it like to write historical fiction?
• What is it like to mix genres by writing a series of memoirs in the form of a culinary/travel series?
• What was the draw of food in all my books?

All these questions and more will be answered in conversation with Linda Joy Myers and me during her NAMW teleseminar.

Carole Bumpus published her historical novel, A Cup of Redemption (2014) and Recipes for Redemption: A Companion Cookbook to A Cup of Redemption (2015). Her multi-award-winning Savoring the Olde Ways series (including Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Books One and Two; and A September to Remember: Searching for Culinary Pleasures at the Italian Table) won a gold-medal for best non-fiction series in 2021 Independent Publishers Book Awards. She is presently finishing up her sixth book about three treks through Provençe. To be published Fall 2024. www.carolebumpus.com