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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The Measure of a Lady

Book #2 is scheduled to release in June 2006. It's title:

The Measure of a Lady

The back cover "blurb" isn't written yet. That usually gets written by a person in the marketing department. But one of my editors used to work in marketing and one of his responsibilities was writing back cover copy. So, he wrote the back cover copy for Bride and he will do the same for Lady.

Until then, here's my "blurb":

In 1849 California there were no respectable women. The forty-niner was lonesome for this crinolined creature, yet he knew when she arrived his hell-raising, gambling and shooting-iron saloon life would end and in its place would be promenades, lending libraries and church socials.

Gold fever took widower Jacob Van Buren and his three children to the shores of San Francisco, but Van Buren died before ever seeing the elephant--leaving his three children orphaned. Rachel Van Buren, the eldest of the three, puts on her sunbonnet, squares her shoulders, and rises to the challenge of civilizing if not San Francisco, then at the very least, the saloon owner next door.

The real one will be much better, but that gives you a "sneak peek" anyway.

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posted by Deeanne at 1:36 PM

4 Comments:

Barb said...: Any algorithms in this book? Where did that idea come from anyway, to make Constance a math brain? Are you an algorithmic chick?
Deeanne said...: How 'bout we use that as tomorrow's blog topic?
Barb said...: Yer the boss! :oD
ValMarie said...: Sounds like a great read, Dee. I'm definitely looking forward to it. :-)