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Please Welcome Poster Girl


Dear Friends,


A special welcome to Shelley Blanton-Stroud's latest and final in the Jane Benjamin series — Poster Girl.


It's just out today! Over the last two years I loved seeing the story develop and get written and revised as Shelley is in my writing critique group.


Here's my blurb: "A high-wire, ripped-from-vintage-headlines series ender." And that it is. The entire Jane Benjamin series (Copy Boy, Tom Boy, and Poster Girl) has been a hoot of a good ride! With crisp dialog, fantastic historical details, beautiful scene-setting, and a fabulous device using Jane's dead twin brother speaking to her from the beyond, Shelley has mapped a fun, fast, and meaningful look at one woman's journey from growing up an Oakie, migrating to San Francisco to become a copy "boy" in a San Fran newsroom, to covering a Wimbledon champion's fall from grace overseas, and, in Poster Girl, to infiltrating the WWII women welders building ships in Richmond, CA. Oh, and plenty of dead bodies!


Take a listen as Shelley and I talk about her new book. And then buy the book for yourself.


Let me know if you enjoyed this kind of conversation with a fellow writer.



 

Just Announced


The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy

named:

Best Indie Book of the Year

in Family Biography

2023


Image of BIBA 2023 award winner
 

And for your Thanksgiving Hors appetizers, how about the latest SPAM recipe from this month's Bon Appetit, in essence:


Pick a flavor; cut in cubes; place a slab of Brie on top; add a little whole mustard and a cornichon and pin together with a festive toothpick!


SPAM seems to be making an upscale come-back -- who knew?


Here's to a fun, happy, and restorative Thanksgiving long weekend for each of you! I'll be back the week after.


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Photo of Thanksgiving bounty

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