Kathleen Glasgow
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166 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Kathleen Glasgow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm still with Krista and Julie to this day because they they both like they get it and they understand the types of books that I write. Yeah, they're incredibly funny and encouraging. So, you know, my my story is kind of. I was very lucky. I was really I was really lucky with that first book. And I was I was very lucky when it came out.
That so many people responded to it because I did not expect like that response at all that so many kids would be reading that book. And that, I mean, it was published in 2016 and we're in 2024 now. And the book has always done well and resonated with people. And it's really kind of amazing. Like, I can't believe it.
It doesn't matter because they're all standalones. They're all separate stories, like characters don't appear in one book and then another one. And a lot of adults do. They read my books. And I think it's because they went through those same things when they were younger and they didn't have anyone to talk to about it. And they didn't have any books like that when they were teens.
And so the books resonate with them because they're working through their stuff. Like I said, you can work through stuff while you're reading a book. And I always hope that the story is good. I don't start any book with a message or anything. I just start a book because I'm interested in thinking about how that character would deal with that thing.
And people, you know, they're like, well, is Charlie Davis' story in Girl in Peace is your story? And it is not my story. I can start with a kernel of something real that happened to me, like with Girl in Peace's self-harm and depression. But, you know, I'm a writer, so other things take over. And I'm not interested in, like, putting my story on the page. I'd rather do it through fiction.
And so I tell people... I gave Charlie Davis my scars and I gave her my thoughts and feelings about self-harm and depression and what it's like to feel alone in the world.
My after I turned in the draft of I signed a two book deal with Girl in Pieces. OK. My editor had said to me on the phone before the contract, she said, do you think you could write another book? And I was like, sure, I guess I'll give it a shot. I guess I'll try again. All right. I'll try to write another novel. And so I did have a two book contract.
And so the second book was actually How to Make Friends with the Dark.
And then You'd Be Home Now is after that.
I know. It's Target's book of the year. And they gave it The Sprayed Edges and this ombre cover. And it's so pretty. It has this great stuff inside. It's so beautiful.
And I feel like I'm so excited that like Target named it a book of the year because I personally have spent a lot of time in Target, wandering the aisles, weeping softly, you know, drinking the Starbucks and enjoying myself and checking out the end cap specials. And I'm like, Target is finally recognizing my deep devotion to them. That's how I feel about that. So thank you, Target.
I feel I feel seen.
Well, if we rewind a little, my mother and my sister have passed away. And my sister died five days after my son was born. And I didn't really have time to fully sit with that because I was trying to take care of this baby. And you know, like with your first child, I don't know how to take care of a baby.
And there are some like aspects of my life where no one told me, how do you take care of a baby or how do you be like a good, attentive, loving parent? So I was like, I had to do that. Right. And then You know, then my mother died and then I felt utterly alone. And I you don't like grief never leaves you. It's always there.
And so when it came time to write the second book, I thought I'm going to write about grief because I'm really thinking about it right now. And it's really, it's like, I miss these people and I miss like what our lives could have been like if we were all together again.
And I thought I'm going to write about that because even though I'm an adult now and I lost them both as adults, I have some tools that, to manage my grief as much as it can be managed. But what if that had happened to me when I was a teenager? Like, what if, like Tiger says in the book, the one person who could help me through this would be my mother? But she's dead. What then?
What happens to you, especially when, as Tiger... As it happens to Tiger, her father, who she's never known, is in prison. Where does she go? What happens to you when you have like no one and you've lost the one person? And I really want to talk about grief from the aspect of a teenager who's like in it.
And so I, I wrote that book and it was very, it was, I would, for me, I would say that's the saddest book that I wrote because I like grief. We don't really talk about grief a lot. People tell you, or you'll heal and you'll get past this. But to a kid, that's absolutely the worst thing that could happen to you. Like you don't get over it. You can't get past it and you are not going to heal.
You're just going to paper over your wound for a little bit and try to get through every day. But everything is going to be a reminder. Your first day is like junior year. Your mother's not there. Your first date, your mother's not there. If you go to college, your mother's not there. Those people will never be there. And so you can't get beyond that feeling of being without them forever.
And I wanted to talk especially about those emotional issues, but also feelings. Talk a little bit about what it's like for kids in the foster care system and what happens to them and how they can get bounced around. And I wanted those kids to have a voice. So I gave Tiger all these kids that she meets like Thaddeus and Leonard and all the other kids that she meets in foster care.
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