Abigail--I love your book's title: (The Alchemy of Loss) and cruised your homepage (http://www.abigailcarter.com/) and blog. Brave, inspiring work you are doing--I have 3 children and a high octane high adrenaline husband...I've often steeled myself against/flashed on life without (god forbid) and here you have actually walked through such an experience and managed to share it with others in an uplifting manner. Frustrating that US publishers responded as they did...I hope that changes down the line. Been on She Writes just a couple of months, getting ready to teach again after being home with kids for 8 years; taught a tiny writing class over the summer and it was good to be back with students/writers again. Glad to find you here.

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
www.amazon.com
www.B&N.com

Hello Abigail,
I am 'brand new' as well on SW.
I read on your profile information that you have written the'The Alchemy of Loss, 2008' so could you send me the link if it is available on the internet at all?I'd love to read it.

Sagarika