about me

Hi I am Spigner (Cookie) Gawain. I started out a nerdy, quirky kid, and was weird looking, too. I have made little progress. I am also a painter, I work in water color and acrylics. I have a good sense of humor.

I majored in psychology, minored in sociology, and have a GREAT love for anthropology. Writers definitely have the most impact upon society and the way in which it evolves. Writers shape everything we read, and hear.

The tv, the news, the videos, the movies, the raps, the screenplays, everything was written by someone. Then it influences what we hear cause people talk about what they hear, which is mostly what they have read, and quote what is heard/read in the news.

The masses take whatever they hear or read in the media, and then form their opinion around that news, thinking their thought is original and then rebroadcast the same news in their personal lives, and opinions forgetting they ever heard it or read it.

Personally writing is an escape into an abyss of an idea that can grow into an epic. You will either like my books or hate them. I write in spurts and need my real time, you can get stalemated being closed in all day.

Freshness comes from being out with regular people, living in the real world. **I also can afford to be as weird, idiosyncratic, or quirky as I like with financial independance.**

I don't have as much for the site now, but I try to visit for at least 20 -30 minutes a day, if not more. I usually ask for a return read if I happen to back your book, but any backing is of course, up to the reader, (works for me)
**If you back Being, and I miss reading yours, let me know.

**I changed Being back to the orginal title uploaded on 2/26/10 which was 'A Book of Being.' Being is complete in plot, so it is a complete read, and so isTatterings. I also have put a few chapters naming the girl, her mother, and sibling

Thanks, and best wishes to all.. Cookie

View the video trailer for 'Being' and 'Tatterings' on website below:

favourite books

Rich Man, Poor Man 1st ed 1971 by Irwin Shaw; Prince of Eden 1st ed 1978 by Marilyn Harris; The Bluest Eye 5th ed 2000 by Toni Morrison (nobel prize winner)

Authors whose books I loved because I had to read them more than once to grasp. Each reread was fresh, they held took hold of my attention and did not let go. I also like Beggar Man, Thief ? ed 1977 by Irwin Shaw

my websites

http://www.cookiegawain.web.officelive.com