AMC Star Pens Emotional Memoir
Cady McClain (Dixie, ALL MY CHILDREN; Rosanna, AS THE WORLD TURNS) is self-publishing her memoir, titled Murdering My Youth. And the actress is having a contest in which fans can vote on what the final cover will be! Click here to pick your favorite!
“The book is a series of my memories about growing up in an alcoholic environment,” McClain shares with Soaps In Depth. “It is also a raw, brutally honest look at what being in ‘show business’ can entail for a young girl and the extremely close relationship I had with my mother.”
The two-time Emmy winner says that she’s been told that the book should come with a warning. “There’s a lot of violence in it,” she allows.
What led McClain to join the list of soap stars who’ve chronicled their life stories? “I was inspired by a woman who asked me to be the keynote speaker at her writers’ conference in Kansas City called Write The Dream,” she says. “She had followed my blogs throughout the years and offered to help me self-publish this book. Her encouragement was a huge part of me letting this story out into the world. I hope it inspires others to tell their story or at least to not feel so alone with their experiences.”
McClain will be signing copies of Murdering My Youth at the Write The Dream Conference in Kansas City, MO, on Friday, March 7. Click this link for more information. And as the keynote speaker, she will be encouraging her audience to find their voice via a method she calls “dreaming your way to a great, personal story. It’s basically like taking a person’s psyche and putting it in the structure of a fairy tale or myth.”
McClain say that she loves to teach and interact with other creative minds. Curious what else has been going on in her head? Then check out Flip Fantasia, her trippy short film about four young urban men coping with the tragic after-effects of a wild night out in New York City, when it screens as at the Macon Film Festival. Catch it at the Cox Capital Theatre in Macon, GA, on Friday, February 28 a 4:14 p.m. or you can watch it on YouTube by clicking this link!
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