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Monica Holloway
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Monica Holloway

Monica Holloway is the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Driving with Dead People. She has contributed to the anthology Mommy Wars, from which her essay "Red Boots and Cole Haans" was described by Newsday as "brilliant, grimly hilarious." She... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. SLOW DOWN. (I repeat this several times a day in my head, but I never do it.)
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My life in 8 words: "Shockingly, yet happily, not what I expected - ever!"
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Cowboy & Wills will be released on June 08, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Cowboy & Wills will be released on October 06, 2009 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio
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Cowboy & Wills is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eBook, eAudio
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Monica Holloway Revealed

Monica Holloway Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. SLOW DOWN. (I repeat this several times a day in my head, but I never do it.) Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. Barack Obama Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be? A. To play the cello. Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be? A. A nine pump, nonfat, no water, easy foam chai latte from Starbucks Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. A polar bear. I'd be cute and not worry about my enormous butt. Learn more about Monica Holloway

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Newswise, February 17, 2010
...Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (2009), is on The New York Times’ best-seller list; • Author Monica Holloway, who will share her personal story about parent involvement in education for a special needs child, as told through her...
Washington Post, October 23, 2009
...COWBOY & WILLS By Monica Holloway Simon Spotlight Entertainment. 279 pp. $24 "Cowboy and Wills" is a charming memoir about a couple who come to their wits' end when they learn that their 3-year-old son...
Arizona Daily Sun, September 26, 2009
...that they are already fans of the author. But most authors are much more like Corrigan. Or, say, Monica Holloway. The Los Angeles-based mom got good reviews for her first book, the 2007 memoir 'Driving With Dead People.' Her second, 'Cowboy and Wills,'...
Washington Post, September 24, 2009
...that they are already fans of the author. But most authors are much more like Corrigan. Or, say, Monica Holloway. The Los Angeles-based mom got good reviews for her first book, a 2007 memoir called 'Driving With Dead People.' Her second, 'Cowboy and...
Pawfun, January 6, 2010
...in honor of the story of Cowboy & Wills, one of the all-time great dog stories. And author Monica Holloway has generously offered to give signed copies of her wonderful book to the six Pawfun readers whose dog stories are selected as winners of the My...
mummifiedtimesfive.net, January 5, 2010
...Keep reading to find out how you can win a copy of Cowboy and Wills, by Monica Holloway. I recently had the opportunity to read Cowboy and Wills, by Monica Holloway . This is the heartbreaking and heart-warming story of a mother struggling to coax her...
Bookin' with Bingo, January 1, 2010
...COWBOY & WILLS BY MONICA HOLLOWAY ABOUT THE BOOK: In this exceptionally touching memoir, critically acclaimed author Monica Holloway shares the extraordinary, deeply moving story of Cowboy, the golden retriever puppy who changed her son...
Missys Book Nook, December 30, 2009
...Memoir by Terri Cheney Never Let Me Down: A Memoir by Susan J. Miller Cowboy and Wills by Monica Holloway What about you? Will you join this wonderful stress-free challenge?...
Memoir Writing, December 30, 2009
...can change your life forever. Anyone who has loved and lost one will tell you without regret. In Monica Holloway’s Cowboy & Wills , we experience the slow and painful steps of her son Wills’s progress as a child diagnosed with high-functioning...
Nothin' but SocNET, December 18, 2009
...I'm giving away a book or 2 - Monica Holloway's memoir about her family's autism story: Cowboy & Wills: http://bit.ly/6tzFgg #autism. Just leave a comment and you're in the random drawing. Posted via web...
Book Blab, December 14, 2009
...and Wills!) and one that I ordered, "Thomas Riley" by Nick Valentino. (steampunk) Cowboy and Wills by Monica Holloway looks like a very heartwarming tale about an autistic boy who falls in love with a dog, and vise versa. My great nephew has...
Iron Caisson, November 14, 2009
...Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton Lyanda Lynn Haupt Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness Monica Holloway Cowboy & Wills Jane Jeong Trenka Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea Diana Joseph I'm Sorry You Feel That...
Iron Caisson, November 14, 2009
...Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton Lyanda Lynn Haupt Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness Monica Holloway Cowboy & Wills Jane Jeong Trenka Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea Diana Joseph I'm Sorry You Feel That...
The Book Zombie, October 2, 2009
...book I’m looking forward to with avid anticipation is Cowboy & Wills: A Love Story written by Monica Holloway. I’m so excited about this memoir that I just had to share it with everyone. The day Monica learns that her lovable, brilliant...