My guest, Debbie Weiss is an author, writer, and former lawyer who started writing after she lost her husband George in 2013.  He was, as she says, her one and only love since high school;  from prom–to cancer, and she had to start building a new life at age fifty, but didn’t know how. She knew she wanted to find love again, but soon discovered the absurdity that is dating at midlife.

Debbie began writing the award-winning blog, The Hungover Widow in 2016 in an effort to dispense empathy and advice on grief and dating after loss.

When she was first widowed, she wanted a book about women like her, who realized they'd disappeared into their marriage, and who needed, at fifty, to learn to be alone for the first time. Debbie wanted a full-hearted, darkly funny, unvarnished account of becoming your true self at middle age. That book didn’t exist so eventually she went back to college, earned her MFA in 2020, in creative  nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California and wrote that book herself.  Available As Is: a Midlife widow’s Search for Love was just released this September 2022.  Debbie’s greatest desire in releasing her memoir is to offer hope that life indeed can get better after a devastating loss. It just takes way longer than you think it will, and may not look the way you expected. 

She’s also written essays that have been published in The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, HuffPost, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Elle Decor, and Reader’s Digest, among other publications. 

You may contact Debbie Weiss regarding speaking engagements or book signings via:

Business email Address: 

[email protected]

Business website: 

https://thehungoverwidow.com/

Facebook Author page: https://www.facebook.com/debbieweissauthor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debbie_weiss_author/ Amazon: Available As Is

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