Hi there! Thanks for your note. I'm working on three books at the moment, one of which is non-fiction. But the day job (not the acting, the other one!) is taking up a fair bit of my time!! x, isabelle

Hi there, I hope you've found your way onto the blog index by now? If not, find Julie Jeffs, who is the current admin for the Bloggers group. Good luck!! : )
-Laura

Did you figure out how to get the badge yet? I had a hell of a time, but I was over-thinking it. If your blog is Blogger it's just adding HTML code to a gadget on your page. You get the code by clicking "Get Badge," bottom right under badge.

Hi "A" -
I don't usually do this but I thought I'd drop you a link to one of my blog posts, which is all about my finding the father I never knew, and discovering this big complicated family that I have. It can really be an amazing journey. I wish you all the success in the world, and I hope your outcome is a beautiful one. I am very grateful for mine.
http://hollyedexter.blogspot.com/2010/03/gift-of-unexpected-family.html

Hi Aimee,

Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. Please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index.

I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent.

Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Look forward to reading your posts.

Warm regards,
Julie Jeffs
Beginning a Life at 50
http://juliejeffs.blogspot.com

Hi! I see that you went to Bennington & I've been strongly considering applying. How was your experience there? Do you know much about the fiction program? Thanks!

Hey A. Anderson, Welcome to the Southern Writers Group. Jump on over, introduce yourself, add to a discussion or start one! Great to have you here. Best, Nicky

Dear Book Lover:

You may not know me or my work, but I am the national bestselling, award winning novelist of six critically acclaimed novels who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.

“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”


I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And yes, KINDLE purchases count.

If you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.


Peace & Light,

Bernice L. McFadden
www.bernicemcfadden.com
www.firstborngirl.blogspot.com
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