.03
AUTHOR
Lucinda is a writer, everything she undertakes in any medium is storytelling. She has a blog: www.derelictmom.com. She has also written several non-fiction books, and short stories in a variety of genres. One day she will write that memoir, one day she will write that novel.
"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment" - Rumi
ISLAND FEVER
Non-fiction 264 pages
Released December 2025
When Covid-19 was first detected in China in late 2019, few contemplated the disastrous global pandemic to follow. This low probability high consequence event changed the course of Bermuda history: it took an immense toll on society and the economy, residents faced unprecedented job losses and extraordinary choices, lives were changed, in sometimes devastating and irreversible ways.
Lives and jobs were lost. The tourism industry evaporated: businesses closed, never to open again. Bermuda would never be the same. Island Fever examines the dozens of major policy decisions faced by political, business, medical, and scientific leaders. High-impact choices were made on public health and the economy. Each had consequences.
Island Fever is also the story of how Bermuda leveraged its knowledge, skills and people and produced hero’s who limited deaths and mitigated the pandemic’s economic and societal impact. The non-profit sector responded in a herculean way.
This record of a once-in-a-century event was written as it happened. Island Fever- a nation alone against a pandemic. A story of ruin, resolve and recovery.
WWW.DERELICTMOM.COM
An irreverent mom blog.
In an attempt to have it all, an extremely average woman takes on the impossible: working and having a baby at the same time, and she falls flat on her face, trailing a breast pump, two vicious miniature dachshunds and the snickering audience of an extended family in what amounts to a hilarious, honest and touching account of the colossal belly flop, which was the first years of her daughter's life.
Out of the Ashes: The Story of Butterfield & Company.
400 pgs.
The story of Butterfield & Company on the surface is the record of building a successful wholesale food business in a small competitive marketplace. Beneath the surface it is the tale of generations of Butterfields, each one enterprising, each one facing challenges particular to their era: a fire, major acquisitions, forays into other businesses, the great recession and the new frontier of technology. It is a sum of a company and the people involved, and for an audience it is like looking through a keyhole into a family company that has defied the odds to stand the test of time.
The Stories we tell:
Anthology of science fiction, fantasy and horror
My speculative fiction short story "The Story She Tells," is included in this 2017 anthology.
TAKE THIS JOURNEY WITH ME
: ANTHOLOGY OF MEMOIR AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION
My short memoir, "A Real Mother" is included in this anthology, published in 2014.