Brenda Corey Dunne has led a military
lifestyle for quite a number of years, and this aspect of her life is reflected
in her forthcoming novel, Dependent,
which will be released July 29, 2014.
Here is what Brenda has to say about this.
“Creatively, the military lifestyle has
had a huge influence on my writing. Twenty-five years of either wearing a
uniform or supporting one makes for a full bank account of emotions, opinions
and experiences. Dependent grew
directly from that account. It’s so much easier to write from a situation
that you know, and I know what it’s like to be a military spouse. Dependent gave me an outlet to voice my
worst fears: what would happen if…? Not something any spouse wants to think
about, but a very real possibility when you are a member of the military
community.”
And
now to reveal the book cover for Dependent.
When 45-year-old Ellen Michaels loses
her husband to a tragic military accident, she is left in a world of gray. For
25 years her life has been dictated by the ubiquitous They—the military
establishment that has included her like chattel with John’s worldly goods—his
Dependents, Furniture, and Effects. They—who have stolen her hopes, her dreams
and her innocence, and now in mere months will take away the roof over her head.
Ellen is left with nothing to hold on to but memories and guilt and an awful
secret that has held her in its grip since she was 19. John’s untimely death
takes away her anchor, and now, without the military, there is no one to tell
her where to go, what to do—no one to dictate who she is. Dependent
deals with issues ever-present in today’s service families—early marriage,
frequent long absences, the culture of rank, and posttraumatic stress, as well
as harassment and abuse of power by higher-ranking officials. It presents a raw
and realistic view of life for the lives of the invisible support behind the
uniform
Brenda originally trained as a
physiotherapist and worked several years as a Physiotherapy Officer in the
Royal Canadian Air Force before meeting the love of her life, RCAF Colonel Tom
Dunne, and becoming a military dependent herself. She has ridden the RCAF
posting train with her Air Force husband and family, living in such places as
Nova Scotia (Canada), Watchfield (England), and Elizabeth City (North Carolina,
US). She also volunteered on the Board of Directors at a Military Family
Resource Center.
Brenda
completed her first manuscript in 2008 as a bucket-list item and caught the
reading bug. Since then, she has self-published a YA historical fiction and is
working on multiple writing projects. Brenda currently resides on a small hobby
farm in Eastern Ontario, Canada, with her husband and three children.
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