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....authors of the newest release from Pearlsong Press, Measure By Measure. In 1997 Rebecca Fox & William Sherman coped with the stress of near-weekly visits to her ailing mother by creating a soap opera set in a size acceptance organization. Their imaginings became a cyber-serial in Dimensions magazine online. Now the couple's sudsy story has been polished and published as the novel Measure By Measure ($25, Pearlsong Press, June 15, 2009), taking on new life as a Tales of the City for the fat and fabulous. On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 you have a chance to hear Fox & Sherman (a.k.a. Becky & Bill) talk about their new robust romance novel as they join me for a Pearlsong Conversation teleconference call. If time and technology permit, you'll be able to ask questions and join in the fun.
The line will handle up to 96 participants―first come, first served. There's no cost for the call other than your usual long distance charges. In co-creating their 384-page novel, Fox & Sherman were inspired by both Armistead Maupin's San Francisco tales and their local chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). The couple are longtime NAAFA supporters and had established a chapter of the fat advocacy organization in Central Illinois in the 1990s. They created a fictional NAAFA in Measure By Measure's RADFAm (Respect And Dignity for Fat Americans). Memories of friends and conventions fleshed out their fictional characters with a Windy City flair. Fox & Sherman met at a wedding in 1982, fell first in lust and then in love, and ultimately married beneath the June skies at the Temple of the Trees in Central Illinois. In 2007 they moved to the Gila Valley of Arizona, where Bill has worked as a family therapist for a child welfare agency and Becky creates jewelry, designs graphics, and sells items on eBay for their home-based business, OakHaus Designs. They have authored romantic and fantasy fiction individually and in tandem, as well as critical essays on body esteem and pop culture. More info on Measure By Measure | Read an excerpt | More info on Rebecca Fox & William Sherman We are recording these Pearlsong Conversations and making them available for listening online or downloading after the call. You can find links to the previous Conversation recordings on the Pearlsong Conversations webpage. For more info, see www.pearlsong.com/pearlsongconversations.htm. To go ahead and request the call-in number & access code, email pearlsongconversations@pearlsong.com. I hope I'll hear your voice―or at least you'll hear Becky & Bill's and mine―on June 10! In Joy,
Peggy Elam
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