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Writing a bombsh**** of a book where you hang out to dry your family's dirty laundry for all to see comes with its challenges. And this is the troublesome situation that Mary L. Trump found herself in with Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man. |
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These demands include conducting comprehensive research, recalling events during which you were not present, reconstructing dialogue, intimate conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, and a***ociates. a***embling these into a compelling narrative is no simple accomplishment. Yet, the author pulled it off without putting me to sleep. |
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Because I was dazzled by Rachel Cusk's trilogy,Outline, Transit, Kudos, I bought her collection of essaysCoventry.Although Iwroteabout the novels in this blog, Katy Waldman did a much better job inThe New Yorker. |
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She wrote they "represent an attempt to remake the novel, to establish a blueprint for a form of negative literature. Cusk believes that traditional fiction is broken; she seems to long for an alternative that is wholly unauth****d, without artifice. |
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In the service of that vision, she dispenses with every convention she can think of: plot, dialogue, interiority. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, John Marquis. John has been a journalist for 50 years, has published several books, including Blood and Fire, his acclaimed study of the murder of baronet Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas in 1943. |
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He has also published Papa Doc, about the brutal reign of Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier in Haiti, and My Very Good Friend Bert Lawrence, a personalised profile of the writer D.H.Lawrence. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Sara Winokur. Sara is a geneticist, researcher, and author of the mystery thriller Double Blind: The Icelandic Ma****cript Murders. |
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She has a master’s degree in cytogenetics and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics. She has worked on DNA analysis of human genetic diseases and was part of the team that discovered the genes a***ociated with Dwarfism, Muscular Dystrophy, and Huntington’s Disease. |
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Dozens of her articles have been published in scientific journals. Her research has appeared in Human Molecular Genetics, Nature Genetics, and Cell Stem Cell. |
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According to her website, eight years ago, after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Sara took a step back from research to focus on her health. She took the opportunity to reinvent herself by combining her pa***ion for science with her love of reading and writing crime and historical fiction. |
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When asked about what her readers can expect from hernovel, she revealed that her audience will be met with suspense, a learning experience, and thought-provoking writing. Sara is now cancer free. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest author, entrepreneur, and businessman, Greg Wyss. Greg was well-known on the small-press scene in the 1970’s where his poems and stories appeared in dozens of literary publications. A collection of his work,Sit Down Have a Beer, was published in 1977 by Realities Library in San Diego, California. A graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, Greg retired in 2015 to resume his writing after the wireless communications company he co-founded was purchased by a compet**or. Greg and his wife Barbara live in Houston, Texas.When Life Was Like a Cuc***beris Greg’s first novel. |
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Bookpleasures.com once again welcomes as our guest Michael J. Merry. Michael has published nine novels. Michael is here today to talk about his most recent novel, Six Honest Serving Men. |
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Bookpleasures is excited to have as our guest, Wendy Nicole Duong. Wendy is the author of three novels, Mimi And Her Mirror, Daughters of the River Huong and Postcards from Nam. |
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Mimi and Her Mirror, won the Multicultural Fiction International Book Award in 2012. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, former New York Times sports reporter and author of The Chosen Ones, Lisa Luciano. The Chosen Ones won multiple awards in advance of its release in May 2020 including Best Sports Fiction in the NYC Big Books Compet**ion. |
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Lisa was also a television producer and director who received national recognition for excellence in educational programming. A teacher with 40 years of experience, Lisa taught English, TV Production, Technology, and Digital Literacy and most recently worked as a Library Media Specialist. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Rabbi Rachel Adler. Rabbi Adler is the David Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Inst**ute of Religion, Los Angeles Campus. |
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She is the author of Engendering Judaism, the first book by a female theologian to win a National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. She has recently published Tales of the Holy Mysticat: Jewish Wisdom Stories by a Feline Mystic. |
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Rabbi Adler has a PhD in Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California, rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College. |
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Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest the celebrity chef, television personality and author, David Ruggerio |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Adriana Gavazzoni author of Hidden Motives: Behind the Door,Lara´s Journal, The Brilliant Game, and her most recent novel , Sketches of Life. |
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Adriana is a Brazilian writer, a former professor of law and has been a practicing lawyer for 30 years. Her first series of self-published novels,Hidden Motives: Behind the Door,Lara´s JournalandThe Brilliant Game, |
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Her books have won won several writing contests, gathered five gold medals, one bronze medal, five honorable mentions and was finalist of many great contests (B.R.A.G medallion (Gold Medal); Book Excellence Awards (Two Gold medals); e-lite awards (Gold medal), Golden Book Award (Gold Medal); IPPY AWARDS (Bronze Medal), Readers Favorite (three honorable mentions); Paris Book Festival (Three honorable mentions); Eric Hoffer Book Award (Finalist); American Fiction Awards (Finalist); Indie Excellence Awards (Finalist); Independent Author Network (Finalist); Indie Excellence (Finalist); The IAN book of the year awards (Finalist); The Kindle-book award (semi-finalist). |
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How to Market a Book with a Virtual Event |
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When it comes to learning how to market a book, a lot has changed recently in terms of author events and book signings. We’re all having to get used to virtual events, camera lenses, and planning around kids and spouses being home. (2) |
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If you’re like most authors, you’ve probably had events get canceled or postponed. This can be troublesome for people who are attempting to market their book. Everything from author signings to writer’s conferences has been pushed off till the Fall or, in some cases, have been pulled altogether. So what’s an eager author to do? |
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Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Chad Lehrmann author ofThe Sawyer Shepherd Chronicles Rites of Pa***ageandThe Cla*** They Remember. |
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After eleven years in ministry, Chad became a public school teacher in College Station, Texas, at College Station High School, where he is currently the Psychology, Sociology, and a Social Studies teacher and founder of LEADS, a middle-grade leaders***p program that he oversees. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest author, international keynote speaker, and expert on successful aging and modern retirement lifestyle. Adriane Berg. |
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Adriane is the founder of Generation Bold Consulting to reach the boomer, mature, and caregiver markets. She acts as Director of The Kitalys Inst**ute for a healthy lifespan and the Metabesity Initiative, an annual conference on the delay and prevention of age-related diseases. |
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She has auth****d 13 books that have been translated into many languages, including The Retirement Income Explosion; Have More. Spend Less. Live Better (2020), How Not to Go Broke at 102: Finding Everlasting Wealth, Wiley, and The Totally Awesome Money Book for Kids and Their Family, The Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids and Their Family. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Karol Hoeffner. Karol is the Chair of Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She has penned several novels including the upcoming release of Knee Deep. |
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Karol also has fourteen film credits including Mary Kate and Ashley's Winning London, MTV's All You've Got, several Danielle Steel adaptations, a television mini-series Harem, movies-of-the-week based on true stories – The Making of a Hollywood Madam and Miss America: Behind the Crown. |
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Among her other credits are the original movies, Voices from Within and Burning Rage. |
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Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, Katia R.V. Reed. Katia is a highly creative multi-artist with a diverse ability and background in the arts. She has just released her first novel, The Foretold Story Book 1: Part 1 of a 4 part trilogy. Katia informs us that it was 19 years in the making which came to her when she was ten years old. |