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Taking the Helm:
Compass and Tides

Everything needed to consider the manuscript, in one place. Inquiries reach Timothy Bernard Cooney directly.

Length 91,000 words
Status Complete under submission
Category Memoir family history
Materials Ready below

THE PITCH

A memoir about inheritance and the things families decline to say. At twenty-one he sailed the Atlantic, and spent forty years measuring himself against it — asking what made him the black sheep. After his mother's death an archive arrived, and answered him: the question was older than he was. Written by a songwriter, painter, and photographer who brings all of it to the page.

MATERIALS

One-sheet — synopsis, bio, comparable titles

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Sample chapters — the first fifty pages

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Author bio — long and short forms

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Press photographs — high resolution, credit included

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Companion music — streaming links and credits

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PRESS & INTERVIEWS

The Collection
How I Spent My Summer — Digging Into The Archive
How I Spent My Summer — Digging Into The Archive

Eight weeks ago I started opening the archive one day at a time. Tens of thousands of strangers found their way in, and some of them stayed.

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Last Light on the Ridge — A Minute With Nature
Last Light on the Ridge — A Minute With Nature

A buck on the ridge in the last light of the day. No narration, no music. Just a minute of the Valley of the Moon doing what it does every evening whether anyone films it or not.

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What’s in a Polaroid - Behind the Lens
What’s in a Polaroid - Behind the Lens

Ten shots per cartridge taught me more about photography than anything since. What's the one photograph in your family that everyone knows without being told where it came from?

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Direct contact

Timothy Bernard Cooney

timcooney@sunturtlestudio.com

Sonoma County, California

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