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Taking the Helm:
Compass and Tides


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Length 91,000 words
Status Complete under submission
Category Memoir family history
Materials Ready below
Followers 5,000+ Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, including personal accounts
YouTube 190,000+ views 1.95M impressions
SoundCloud 243 recordings 196 followers
Exhibited Times Square painting series, 2023 and 2024
Book cover design option for Taking the Helm, Comfort and Tides

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


Sample chapters — the first fifty pages


Author bio — long and short forms


Press photographs — high resolution, credit included


Companion music — streaming links and credits


Direct contact

Tim Cooney

timcooney@sunturtlestudios.com

Sonoma County, California

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