Point of Departure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781553692768)

Carol Ohmart Behan, a lifelong resident of Upstate New York and an unapologetic "child of the Sixties," devoted twenty-five years to raising a family and teaching high school English. Along the way she nurtured her writing life through journal writing and mentoring the creative writers among her students.

She credits a synchronistic encounter with the young adult writer, Robert Cormier, at a teachers' conference in 1990 as the catalyst to taking herself seriously as a writer. He signed her program that day with the words, "Start writing that novel for me."

Ten years and two "practice novels" later she left fulltime teaching to pursue her life's passion. Point of Departure is the result. In addition to her writing, she now teaches workshops in creative writing, personal empowerment and labyrinth.

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