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CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
info@fiction-addiction.com
http://www.fiction-addiction.com
Book Your Lunch with South Carolina Author Rose Senehi
 Greenville, SC, January 27, 2012 - Book Your Lunch with South Carolina author Rose Senehi on Thursday, March 8th, from 12-2 pm at The Lazy Goat in downtown Greenville. Tickets are $25 each and must be purchased in advance at http://www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.
Rose Senehi brings us the third "stand-alone" novel in her Blue Ridge Mountain series, Render unto the Valley (KIM Publishing, paperback, $15.95). The novel tells the story of Karen Godwell, a curator for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who must make peace with her past when her family's Blue Ridge farm is threatened.
Rose Senehi's latest romantic thriller, Render unto the Valley, is a contemporary novel cloaked in the rich history of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, and tells of a woman's struggle to bridge the divide between the staunchly independent mountain culture she comes from and the sophisticated world she has become a part of--all while concealing the ugly secret that drove her away.
Karen Godwell reinvents herself at college and doesn't look back until her clan's historic farm is threatened. The gutsy curator and New York's Metropolitan Museum returns to the mountains only to come face to face with who she was and what she did.
Descendants of the early settlers still have a grip on the farmlands deep in the folds of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, but the ground is shifting beneath their feet. Cousin Bruce, the town historian, sees life through the family's colorful 200-year past; Tom Gibbons, a local conservationist, keeps one eye on the mountains and the other on Karen; and Karen's nine-year-old daughter, Hali, is in the throes of the mission her dying father sent her on.
Render unto the Valley is the third "stand-alone" novel in Senehi's Blue Ridge series, and takes place in the mountain farming community of Fairview, North Carolina, just outside Asheville. Senehi, who is noted for weaving environmental issues into her historically accurate thrillers, has successfully imbued the characters in her story with the independent nature and indelible sense of place that the early settlers of this mountain valley passed on to the generations that followed them.
 Rose Senehi is originally from Michigan, but she landed in Syracuse, New York, after attending Syracuse University. She worked as a reporter for several years before becoming the corporate marketing director of The Pyramid Companies, for whom she opened shopping malls throughout the Northeast. She drew from this highly charged environment to write her second novel, Windfall.
The whole time she was racing from town to town opening malls, she lived on a hundred-acre farm outside the small village of Cazenovia, NY, where she raised her two children, Jessica and David. She tried to inject the unique and wonderful flavor of the people of this small farming community into the characters in Shadows in the Grass, her first novel.
One cold, hard winter's day in 1996, a headhunter called Rose. It was ten degrees in Upstate NY; she was overspent on her mall snow removal budget, and it was only January. She glanced at the USA Today map and saw it was 70 degrees in Myrtle Beach and jumped at the offer to manage the Myrtle Beach Factory Stores. Her third novel, Pelican Watch, reflects her warm feelings for the South and the wonderful people she's come to know in Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet. She is a very active real estate agent specializing in oceanfront condominiums and homes, which is a profession that goes well with writing. She wakes every morning at four and writes until eight when she heads for the office.
Rose has owned a place in the mountains since 2004 and has centered her fourth, fifth, and sixth novels--In the Shadows of Chimney Rock, The Wind in the Woods, and Render unto the Valley--around Western North Carolina's Hickory Nut Gorge and the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains. They are the first in her Blue Ridge series. She has tried to write with empathy about the universal desire to hold onto one's land and heritage against the forces that are changing the places we love. It is her hope that this series will not only entertain people and create a fascinating mosaic of the history of the area, but paint a broad picture of the pressures on the Southern Blue Ridge and those who are working to preserve it.
If you cannot make the event, you can reserve a personalized copy of many of Ms. Senehi's books by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.
ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. For more information, visit our website at http://www.fiction-addiction.com or call us at 864-675-0540.
 ABOUT BOOK YOUR LUNCH The Book Your Lunch author event program was launched in September 2009, and is a new way to bring authors and readers together -- right here in Greenville. This luncheon series provides the ultimate food for thought with a wide range of authors -- from mystery writers, to award-winning regional novelists to nonfiction and cookbook authors. Jill Hendrix, the owner of Fiction Addiction, founded the event program and is responsible for booking the authors. Book Your Lunch is co-sponsored by Greenville's independent restaurant group, Table 301. For more information about Book Your Lunch, please visit our website at http://www.bookyourlunch.com.
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