Hi Andrea,

 

I hope you are doing well.  Please feel free to reach out if you need anything.

 

All the best,

 

Jill Starishevsky

Author, My Body Belongs to Me

http://www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com

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

Andrea, how are you? Miss you on She Writes. Drop me a line any time, and let me know what you might like to see here to make it a supportive, productive place to be.

Warm best,
Kamy

Hey, you! I'm back in town - let's eat! GG

I'm interested for sure. Did you get my email I sent you about Lauren and Karen?

Oh please, anybody who thinks they deserve all the props will be alone VERY QUICKLY! :)

oh gosh, no idea how to do that but I will add it to my list.

I updated the profile questions, btw. I am going to send a message to the screenwriting group about it. If you go back to your page and hit "edit" next to where it says "profile information," you can see what I did.

Most writers should have answered the question about genre, it's the only one we made mandatory. At the same time I am going to encourage everyone to take advantage of the text boxes on their pages, where you can add whatever you want to your page -- bio, pics, anything. Any more thoughts on movie posters? We'd love to get them into the rotation, which we just updated for the first time in our one-week history. :)

warm best,
Kamy

Maybe you can reach out to Hope Edelman, who is our LA salonniere and has a wonderful network there. But there is always room (especially in a town like LA) for more, and tomorrow I am going to post about how to start a salon!