“Unraveling Secrets of the Heart: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann’s Journey in ‘Lost Found Kept’ Reveals the Power of Redemption”
LL: Finally, I am curious about your path to publication. Can you touch on that a bit before we end? And also, if there is anything else you would like to add that I may have forgotten?
DDK: This is my first book, so I guess I’m a bit of a late bloomer. In the fall of 2020 after I finished the manuscript, I started out querying for an agent (I’d gotten one after my first “Modern Love” column in 2007 who didn’t work out and we parted ways before my second “Modern Love” appeared in 2014). Along with that, I worked to write and place essays based on the book. The Nashville Review accepted “Churn” in 2021 and that essay also appeared in Memoir Monday that year. The chapter “What We Hold On To” from the memoir appeared in 2022 in The Woven Tale Press. Then in the spring of 2023 “Drowning in Debris” ran in Psychotherapy Networker.
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