Listen to the interview about White Medicine Woman here:
When Irene wakes in the middle of a forest, she can’t remember anything—how she got there or her own name. A young Indian brave stumbles upon her and takes her to his tribe. She is adopted by Magic Dove, the tribe’s medicine woman, and over time Irene’s memory comes back. Unable to return to her former life, Irene becomes a permanent member of the Bear Clan, and is given the name Magic Moon. She learns the ways of her new family and is even given the choice between two of the clan’s warriors to take as her husband. But not everyone wants to have a white woman be part of an Indian tribe. When Magic Moon is kidnapped by a Spirit Seer, she must prove her own bravery and find her way back to her clan so she can claim her place as its new White Medicine Woman.
Gladys Swedak is a senior living in Vancouver with her husband and two cats. She started writing a number of years ago after telling her husband she had a story for a prompt in a biweekly paper. He told her there is a computer downstairs and to go and write it. She didn’t win the contest but it got her back into writing. She likes writing fiction and usually writes from a line prompt or even a picture.
Gladys is the author of White Medicine Woman and The Wild Ones (about gentling wild horses without their knowledge of being trained). The Wild Ones is from the horse’s point of view.
Gladys has a story in Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul and two stories in Crossing the Rainbow Bridge.
Here are some writing prompts from Gladys.
