I’m always happy to speak with book clubs, universities, grief therapy groups, and businesses, answering questions about writing, communication styles, and creative solutions.
If interested in having me speak with your book club, students, or employees…
I’m always happy to speak with book clubs, universities, grief therapy groups, and businesses, answering questions about writing, communication styles, and creative solutions.
If interested in having me speak with your book club, students, or employees…
Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Owner at Pawkett Whole Mental Health Counseling PLLC
“Alycia is an amazing writer who really “gets” grief. Her beautiful work, Wind Over Tide, not only carries on the legacy of her stepfather, Joe, it also allows us to experience her depth of emotions and the waves of mourning a loved one. If you wish to be validated in your grief and have a supportive companion along with you, I highly recommend reading this book. We hear the challenges of grief, how it shatters our world and how we can begin to pick up the pieces to reinvest in our life. Her attention to detail, love for Joe, 80s pop-culture references and use of humor make this read hard to put down. I would go so far to say that Wind Over Tide should be mandatory reading for any person who is in the field of grief and loss. It is equally wonderful for book clubs and individual readers who want to feel understood in their own grieving.”
“Traveling With An Eggplant is an incredibly bizarre book yet so beautifully written that you never feel confused…it takes you on a journey from the present to the past, to a dream world and back again. Ripley has done a splendid job of writing a novel that not only acts as an escape but as a catalyst for examining our own lives.”
–Danielle Feliciano, Reader Views
“A lysergic head trip of a novel, The Final Alice is the rare tale that possesses equal measures of heart, wit, and inspired, demented madness. Alycia Ripley’s fine novel deserves to be read, re-read, analyzed, debated, and perhaps become the sacred text of a passionate cult.”
– James Ponsoldt
Director of The Spectacular Now, Smashed, & The End of the Tour
“Ripley’s undeniable, infectious love for these characters is superpowered. Alice is back with her motley crew of supernatural karma commandos in tow. Battle-tested, wiser and more complex as a team, the new dynamic serves as rocket fuel for the author’s unmistakable voice to shine. Filled with wild imagery, fierce action, genuine emotion and pure whimsy, few authors can so effortlessly glide between a high-velocity narrative and complete phantasmagoria.”
– Michael Wandmacher
Film Composer: My Bloody Valentine, The Last Exorcism: Part II
“Wind Over Tide is a heart-wrenching memoir that takes the reader through the emotional waves of mourning a loved one. The author’s penned letters are a tribute to Joe, the man who raised her, keeping his spirit, significance, and lessons alive. Ripley’s words are both validating and healing. We learn, as she did, how to continue living even when faced with darkness and layers of loss. A must read that is hard to put down.”
– Michelle Pawkett
MA, LMHC
