LEGENDS MAGAZINE REVIEW OF FORSAKING MIMOSA
Review by - Bill Scaggs
May / June 2012 issue of Legends magazine
Review starts on page 65
...”Good stories draw the reader into the world created by the author. As this “non-review” demonstrates, Winn succeeded with this reader. And exactly when did Max “forsake Mamosa?” He didn’t. Mamosa went with him to boot camp and beyond. But I guess that’s Winn’s next book.”
VALERIE WINN ENJOYS MULTIFACETED CREATIVE OUTLETS
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Gulf Live
in July 2014
Valerie Winn of Gautier is a busy lady. In addition to being the office administrator of Palmetto Dental Care in Gautier, and being the published author of Forsaking Mimosa, a novel published in 2012 by Dogwood Press, she is also a photographer and an artist.
MARY C. READS! ENCOURAGES READING
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Sponsors: Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce
Ocean Springs School District
in February 2013
We at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center for Arts and Education are very excited about this community reads project slated for March 16! Books may be purchased at Hillyer House, Gina’s, Lee Tracy, The Pink Rooster, Coffee Fusion, the Mary C., and the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce office.
WINN TO HEAD MARY C. LITERARY ARTS
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Ocean Springs Gazette
in January 2013
Winn says she hopes to bring a variety of authors to the Mary C., particularly southern authors who are willing to share their writing processes. "Part of the goal is to create a place for independent booksellers to promote regional titles."
MARY C. READS— SEE WHAT’S IN STORE!
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Ocean Springs Gazette
in January 2013
Mary C Reads! is directed at the Mary O' Keefe Cultural Center by Valerie Winn. It's a new community program to encourage the love of reading, with a March 16 event featuring a novel that channels Walter Anderson.
VALERIE WINN INTERVIEWS FOR THE MISSISSIPPI ARTS HOUR
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Interviewed by Diane Williams
Mississippi Public Broadcasting
on 23th September 2012
Diane Williams talks to author Valerie Winn. Winn's novel is titled Forsaking Mimosa; it's a coming of age story set in the 1930's in the mythical southwest Mississippi town of Mimosa. Winn also talks about being a recipient of the Mississippi Arts Commission's literary artist fellowship.
PERSEVERANCE PAYS OFF FOR 'FORSAKING MIMOSA' AUTHOR
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Written by Susan Ruddiman
The Mississippi Press
11:07 PM, on 8th April 2012
GAUTIER - Valerie Balser Winn has a notebook full of rejection letters and so many revised manuscript pages that she plans to make a totem pole of the stack. The creative process she started more than 18 years ago is finished. Now, Winn, 59, is a published writer, ready to travel the state.
‘FORSAKING MIMOSA’ COMING OF AGE NOVEL SET IN STATE
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Written by DIOCESAN NEWS
on 23rd March 2012
JACKSON - Valerie Balser Winn, niece of Father Edward Balser, a retired priest of the Diocese of Jackson, is a resident of Gautier. She officially becomes a Mississippi author with the release of her first novel, “Forsaking Mimosa” and she’ll sign copies at Lemuria in Banner Hall at 5 p.m.
‘FORSAKING MIMOSA’ COMING OF AGE NOVEL SET IN STATE
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REVIEW — By Sheri Krause
on 23rd March 2012
Sheri Krause - You’ll struggle awake with Max each day at four a.m. to do his chores, drive his dad to town to his railroad job, then chauffeur himself and his brothers and sisters to school in a broken-down Ford. You’ll see how Max and his family meet the challenges, sorrows, and everyday happenings in their new rural life.