The Writer’s Mind
We have written about grim events that required researching information we should not be thinking about the night before a physical. But we can’t help ourselves. We just think too much.
Continue reading →Cynthia Kraack
Cynthia Kraack is an author of fiction and nonfiction including The High Cost of Flowers, winner Midwest Book Award, and 40 Thieves on Saipan.
Cynthia Kraack on Mr. Media Celebrity Video Podcast
In The High Cost of Flowers, Kraack presents us with the Kemper family. They’re just like your family and mine, except the author gives the reader access to all of their secrets, warts and all.
Continue reading →The High Cost of Flowers Wins Two Midwest Book Awards
Cynthia Kraack’s latest novel The High Cost of Flowers won both the Contemporary Fiction and Literary Fiction categories of the 25th Annual Midwest Book Awards by the Midwest Independent Publishing Association.
Continue reading →Read about The High Cost of Flowers
The High Cost of Flowers is an American story as classic as suburbs, working parents struggling to raise decent kids and multi-generational confrontation.
Continue reading →The What, Why, and How of Author Cynthia Kraack
I’ve been a corporate professional because that was easy. I sing because music is like air. I have come to understand I write because life is so unsatisfying if I don’t. It wasn’t an easy lesson to learn.
Continue reading →The Reviews are In for The High Cost of Flowers
Cynthia Kraack’s fifth novel is a study of a family adrift, anchored only to itself by the individual memories of a shared past. The Kempers aren’t a pretty family at this stage in their lives, but the portrait Kraack paints is.
Continue reading →Author Cynthia Kraack
Cynthia Kraack has written five novels, some speculative fiction and one literary, has published short stories, and both her novels and stories have received awards. The High Cost of Flowers is Cynthia Kraack’s fifth novel…
Continue reading →Invite Cynthia Kraack to be a Speaker at Your Event
Cynthia Kraack enjoys speaking about writing and meeting with groups, book clubs, and classes. A member of the founding Board of Write On, Door County, she serves a faculty member of the new regional writing center.
Continue reading →Are You My Mother?
You may have been nurtured by a mother possessing all the perfection of Caroline Ingalls or struggled through childhood with a parent who took lessons from Hamlet’s Queen Gertrude. For most people growing up in Mom’s kitchen fell in a more safe and boring middle ground.
Continue reading →Midwest Book Award Finalist!
To have The High Cost of Flowers named a finalist in both the contemporary fiction and literary fiction categories in the twelve-state Midwest Book Award competition is an honor.
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