Anne H. Putnam is a freelance writer and editor living in London. Her literary pursuits in the UK and abroad are currently represented by Caroline Hardman at Christopher Little Literary Agency (you can contact Caroline here).
Care to get more personal than that? Just keep reading (and, hopefully, eventually buy the book)!
Likes: animals, baking, seeing movies at the theater (that’s a serious indulgence these days!)
Dislikes: severe allergy to animals, tendency to gain weight at the mere sight of baked goods, having to wear glasses to see a subtitled film.
Current Project:
Navel Gazing:
A memoir about what happens when turning your insides around doesn’t turn your world upside down.
When I was barely 17, I underwent Gastric Bypass surgery; in the subsequent year I lost over 100 pounds. Nine years later and ten sizes smaller, I’m still facing down the monster in the mirror, and I’m finally starting to understand that just because the body changes doesn’t mean the mind (or the world) will naturally follow suit.
Straightforward, honest, and oftentimes shameless, Navel Gazing is the no-holds-barred story of one woman’s physical and mental journey from morbidly obese to unpleasantly plump, with all the stops along the way: the funny, the painful, and the downright awkward.
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I’m delighted to announce that Faber&Faber have acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Navel Gazing! You can read more about that here. Suffice it to say, I’m beyond thrilled to be working with such a reputable house and to be collaborating with so many clever and lovely people.
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To read the excerpt of Navel Gazing that was published in the 2011 City U Creative Nonfiction Anthology, click here.
For a more in-depth dig through the workings of my post-GB mind, check out my body image blog, My Earlobes Still Feel Fat.