Dr. Lucy Daniels

Dear Readers,

Welcome to my website and thanks for your interest in my writing. I'm delighted to welcome fans of my earlier works and hope that you will enjoy my new novel, The Eyes of the Father. In a unique publishing decision, I'm also simultaneously offering a new non-fiction work, Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom.

Following the enormous success of my first novel, Caleb, My Son, a New York Times best-seller and a Guggenheim fellowship-winner published in several countries, writing became much more difficult for me. As a high-school dropout hospitalized for five years during adolescence with severe anorexia nervosa, I did not feel as good as the reviewers said Caleb was. After my second novel, High on a Hill (1961), I stopped writing altogether. Although my greatest wish was to be a writer, my feelings of shame and fear crystallized in severe writer’s block that lasted nearly forty years. Only in 2002 did my breakthrough memoir, With a Woman’s Voice, reveal the struggle for emotional and creative freedom that had allowed me to return to writing.

Now, at last, my first novel since overcoming this block is available. So is Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom, a documentation of the two-mirror (dreams and work) process that freed me to write again. My hope is that readers will find in it a road map with which to maximize their own creative freedom and empowerment.

Sincerely,


Lucy Daniels, PhD