Media Kit
Overview
Thank you for your interest in Memphis and the work of author Holly May Cormier. This media kit offers everything you need for interviews, event planning, press coverage, and collaborations—including Holly’s bio, speaking topics, press-ready images, and contact details.
Holly’s work explores powerful themes like trauma, identity, emotional abuse, women’s autonomy, and personal transformation. Her debut novel, Memphis, is a gripping domestic thriller that blends emotional depth with social commentary—making it a compelling read for book clubs, classrooms, podcasts, and literary events.
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Author Bios
Super Short Bio
Holly May Cormier is a Canadian author and multidisciplinary creative based in Toronto. Her debut novel, Memphis, explores themes of trauma, resilience, and self-discovery through a gripping domestic thriller.
Short Bio
Holly May Cormier is a Canadian writer based in Toronto and the author of Memphis, a domestic thriller. With a background in marketing and the arts, she brings emotional depth and creative range to her storytelling. When she’s not writing, Holly enjoys the outdoors, music, and spending time with her family and pets.
Long Bio
Holly May Cormier is a Canadian writer and the author of Memphis, a gripping domestic thriller. Based in Toronto, Ontario, she lives with her partner, daughters, and a crew of beloved pets. A lifelong storyteller, Holly has been creating since childhood—writing songs, poems, and exploring narrative in all its forms.
Though she earned a degree in E-Commerce Management with a focus on marketing communications and online audience building, Holly has always balanced her professional path with a deep love for the creative arts. Over the years, she has worked as an actress, songwriter, model, and web designer—embracing a variety of artistic expressions that continue to influence her voice as a writer.
Her debut novel, Memphis, took three years to complete and reflects her fascination with emotional complexity, human resilience, and the secrets that shape our lives. Drawing from her diverse background in both the arts and business, Holly crafts stories with emotional depth, vivid characters, and a strong sense of place.
When she’s not writing, Holly finds inspiration in nature—whether she’s hiking, fishing, boating, or soaking up Canada’s fleeting summer sun with a good book in hand. A devoted music lover, she’s known to dominate a game of “Name That Tune” and delights in discovering emerging artists. Her literary influences include Chevy Stevens and Margaret Atwood, whose mastery of suspense, character, and atmosphere continue to inspire her own work.
Contact
Via email at hollymaycormier@gmail.com
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Memphis
Cover and Description
Category and Genre
Domestic Suspense
Crime Thriller
Psychological Thriller
Women’s Fiction
Short Description
A woman’s desperate bid for freedom from her abusive marriage sparks a cross-country odyssey of self-discovery, love, and reckoning with the family secrets that have held her captive.
Full Description
A run-down suburb of Nashville, Tennessee is home to the Freedman family – a tight-knit clan of hard-drinking men who grind their women to dust beneath their boots. From the first moment she meets him, Memphis Monroe, a soft-spoken choir-girl, is overwhelmed by Johnny Freedman’s attention and reputation. Her mother, Doris, who partied with Johnny’s old man back in the day, wants to secure a future for her daughter outside of the trailer park and pushes Memphis to marry him. When the novel opens in the late 70s, Memphis has been married to Johnny for ten long years, and is too worn down by his drinking and violence to hope for a brighter future for her and her son, Michael. Until, that is, the day Johnny goes too far and Memphis is faced with a choice: live as a lion for one day or a sheep for a lifetime. With her son beside her in her husband’s prized Mustang Shelby, Memphis escapes and embarks on an epic journey from Nashville to Los Angeles in search of shelter and safety. What she finds instead is the voice she’s quelled for so long, a new love, and answers to questions that have plagued her her whole life. When Johnny and Doris track her to Los Angeles, Memphis finds herself caught in a web of lies spun long before she ever met her abusive husband – leading to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back. Memphis explores the generational impact of alcoholism and violence on families, and the early days of abortion rights in America.
Reviews
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Speaking Topics
Living Through Trauma: Turning Personal Pain into Creative Power
Narcissistic Abuse in Intimate Relationships: Recognize, Name, Survive
Domestic True Crime and Fiction: Why These Stories Need to Be Told
The Evolution of Abortion Rights: From Silent Struggles to Public Battles
Historical Feminism and the Modern Woman: How Far We’ve Come—And What Still Holds Us Back
The Psychology of Control: Understanding Power, Fear, and Escape in Abusive Dynamics
Empowered on the Page: Writing Women Who Reclaim Their Voice and Identity
Fiction as Feminist Resistance: How Novels Like Memphis Open Eyes and Start Conversations
Generational Trauma and Inherited Silence: Breaking Cycles Through Storytelling
Mysticism, Intuition & Female Empowerment: Exploring the Unseen in Women’s Lives