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JUNE 2014
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PNWA Summer Conference: July 17-20
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Elizabeth Fountain's second novel, You, Jane, was released June 2 by BURST Books, as an e-book on Amazon and other e-book retailers. Jane Margaret Blake's real problem isn't her drinking. It's the reason she drinks: she writes stories that come true and wreak havoc in her life. In her "fables," animals, people, angels, and the Universe itself conspire to destroy Jane's last chance to be with her old love, or, just maybe, to bring her into the arms of a new love. As her drinking and writing spiral out of control, Jane must finally discover how to write her own happy ending.

 

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Diane L. Huffman announces the release of her new book,
A Less Than Perfect Beginning. The book was inspired by the author's own raucous childhood that was filled with secrets and psychos, but also humor and hope.
Little Beth, the spunky protagonist, realizes that her friends' families resemble the idyllic ones portrayed on TV shows like Leave It To Beaver, while hers is like an evil version of the Munsters, riddled with alcoholism, poverty, and insanity. To make matters worse, Beth is treated like an unwanted outsider by her own kin. But Beth has a positive attitude, a secret escape plan, and eventually the knowledge that explains her black sheep status. Beth survives dysfunctional parents and villainous siblings to prove that the School of Hard Knocks doesn't have to ruin you for life.

 

Kirkus Reviews described A Less Than Perfect Beginning as "An exhilarating, unsentimental story of one woman's triumph over a devastating childhood" and named it a "Best Books Recommendation."

  

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Published in April this year, The Aging Gracefully Pathway: A Toolkit for the Journey is likely the only book on aging written by a periodontist. Dr. Cheryl Townsend Winter helps turn back the age clock with expert aging advice so we can tap into our personal power to change the face of aging: Genetics only account for one-third of how we will age. This book takes the other two-thirds in hand and teaches us how to age well.  Adding aging-specific research to her years of experience in the health sciences field, Winter hunted down the enemies of aging and the practical ways to combat them.  Now over sixty herself, Dr. Townsend  is finding her own legacy path in order to make a positive difference for her fellow humans.

 

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Diane Duca is pleased to announce that she has won first prize in the adult category from the EPIC Writers Group in Edmonds, for her short story, "The Plastic House." Congratulations, Diane!

 

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PNWA member and hometown author, Carew Papritz, with his award-winning book The Legacy Letters, will be on his Washington state book tour, "The Legacy Letters: Wild, Wonderful, and Washington 'First Evers' Book Tour." The "First Evers" refers to the first ever book signings on top of a volcano, in kayaks on the Puget Sound, while rafting down the Skagit river, while on a Washington State Ferry, and a few more surprises.

Carew describes his book as a "love story about life." Rediscovered private letters from a dying father to his children -- and his wife -- ultimately reveal a passionate and powerful practical, moral, and spiritual guidebook to life. The Huffington Post describes it as, "A Must-Read Book of Wisdom for Life... exquisite, intimate, passionate, humorous, and genuine..." 
 

 

Check out all of Carew's upcoming July tour dates at thelegacyletters.com   

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