Tucson Festival of Books

The Writer's Life


Join two authors and a longtime publicist as they explain the joy and heartache of being a writer and promoting their works. What is their writing process? How did they find a publisher? And how have they promoted their finished work?


Panelists
Mary Lou Falcone

Mary Lou Falcone, author of "I Didn't See It Coming: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia," is internationally known as a classical music publicist/strategist who for 50 years has helped guide the careers of celebrated artists - Van Cliburn, Gustavo Dudamel, Renee Fleming, Sir Georg Solti and James Taylor....

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Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including "Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell," "Later: My Life at the Edge of the World," "The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship....

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Joel Waldman

Joel Waldman is the co-host of the hit true-crime podcast and now book, "Surviving the Survivor," and an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist who worked most recently as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News, covering national politics from Capitol Hill....

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Books:
I Didn't See It Coming
Scenes of Love, Loss and Lewy Body Dementia
Mary Lou Falcone
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
East End Press
October 2023
ISBN 9781734526899
304 pages
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Song So Wild and Blue
A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
Paul Lisicky
History / Biography
HarperCollins
January 2025
ISBN 9780063280373
272 pages
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Surviving the Survivor
A Brutally Honest Conversation about Life (& Death) with My Mom: A Holocaust Survivor, Therapist & My Podcast Co-Host
Joel Waldman
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Post Hill Press
May 2024
ISBN 9798888452387
320 pages
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