Progress with Promotion

If I only do one thing each day to promote my book, A Shocking & Unnatural Incident, I'll be doing well.

So far I'll be speaking in Seneca Falls, NY next March for Women's History Month. The Seneca Falls Historical Society will set it all up: speak at the school, Rotary, Senior Citizen event. I especially hope to visit an AP English or AP history class and discuss how modern young women's opportunities have improved over those of Tess, Beany and Lucy.

I'm also hoping to get in on a program for young girls at Pomegranate Books and participate in the Pearl Girls Academy program, both here in Wilmington. Pearl Girls learn how to deal with violence, friendships, self image. My character Tess would be an enlightening model for those issues.

A Shocking & Unnatural Incident

I've been working on this book since the winter of 1991. The first manuscript I sent to potential publishers was nothing like the final product I sent to Dog Ear Publishing--17 years later. No wonder none of them wanted it. But THIS manuscript is good. Very good. I'm proud of it.

The story features three young girls whose lives reflect the three issues leading up to the First Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848: temperance, abolition and women's rights.

So, Tess is the daughter of a drunken handyman; Beany the daughter of a runaway slave; Lucy the daughter of a wealthy abolitionist attorney. Once my Web site's up, I'll link to it and you can learn more about the girls and their adventures and traumas.

In the meantime I'm reading Brian Jud's Beyond the Bookstore, learning everything there is to know about marketing.