The Pearlsong Letter January 2012 -- New ebooks & a Conversation with Mary Saracino

Healing the World One Book at a Time | January 2012

New Year, New Ebooks, & A Conversation with Mary Saracino

Happy New Year!

Pearlsong Press is celebrating not only the beginning of 2012, but the release of two new ebooks now available exclusively in Amazon's Kindle store—Large Target & Taking Up Space .

Large Target by Lynne Murray is the second volume in the Josephine Fuller mystery series. Jo travels to San Diego to encounter a slain defense contractor, a kidnapped admiral, and a world-class dysfunctional family.

Taking Up Space: How Eating Well & Exercising Regularly Changed My Life by Pattie Thomas, Ph.D. with Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A. is a sociological memoir about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people. Making her own life a case study, medical sociologist Thomas, with the help of her co-author & husband, Wilkerson, outline how stigma limit and shape the life chances of all people and are supposed within culture.

Both ebooks are enrolled in Amazon's Kindle Select program, which means people with an Amazon Prime membership can borrow them at no charge. Buy them or borrow them, and tell your friends!

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Join me this coming Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 5p.m. Eastern/ 4p.m. Central for a Pearlsong Conversation with Mary Saracino, author of The Singing of Swans & other books. Lynne Murray, Leslie Moïse, Lauri J Owen, Tracey Thompson & possibly other Pearlsong authors will be on the teleconference call as well.

There's no cost to participate, other than any long distance charges that might apply. To receive the teleconference call details (phone number & access code), send an email to pearlsongconversations @ pearlsong.com. The call details will be automatically emailed to you. The Conversation will be recorded and available for listening/downloading afterward, but we'd love for you to join us live if possible.

Mary is a novelist, poet, & memoir writer who lives in Lafayette, Colorado. Her most recent novel, The Singing of Swans (Pearlsong Press, 2006), was a 2007 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Mary's short story "Vicky's Secret" earned the 2007 Glass Woman Prize. Her other book-length work includes the novels No Matter What & Finding Grace & the memoir Voices of the Soft-bellied Warrior (Spinsters Ink, 1993, 1999 & 2001). She is the co-editor of the soon-to-be-published anthology She is Everywhere, Volume 3, a compilation of writings and artwork in womanist/feminist spirituality. Her poetry was nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Poetry Prize for "Best of the Small Presses." Mary is a writing coach and writing teacher. As the founder of MOTHEROOT, she leads workshops and embodied art-making and creative writing classes centered on the Dark Mother/Divine Female. For more information, visit www.marysaracino.com.

The Singing of Swans tells the story of Madalene Ross, a thirty-year-old American who "lives in her head," cut off from her body, her heart, and her sense of purpose in the world. Her story is interwoven with the lives of three women: Rosalina, a priestess of Persephone in 70 B.C.E. Sicily; Ziza, a strega (Italian witch) in 16th century northeastern Italy, and Ibla, an herbalist and painter in 18th century southern Italy. Sicily's Lake Pergusa and the Black Madonna also act as a portal to the rich tradition of pre-Christian spirituality that lies beneath Church dogma.

The Singing of Swans is available in trade paperback & ebook (including Kindle) from Pearlsong Press & your favorite booksellers.

For more information about Pearlsong Conversations and a link to previous recordings, check out the Pearlsong Conversations webpage.

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Unfortunately I had to cancel last month's Conversation with Leslie Moïse, author of the new memoir Love is the Thread: A Knitting Friendship, due to a family emergency. We have rescheduled for next month.

That gives you plenty of time to check out the trade paperback or ebook of Love is the Thread. The memoir centers on the friendship between two women—one snared in a lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder, the other reweaving her life after an abusive relationship—and traces the way one spiritual friendship can change all our relationships.

I hope you'll put Larget Target, Taking Up Space, The Singing of Swans & Love is the Thread on your reading list, and join us in this Sunday's Pearlsong Conversation.

In Joy,

Peggy Elam, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Editor & Publisher
Pearlsong Press

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Instead they make wishes for themselves.
I like this much better than resolutions,
because resolutions set us up for failure,
which none of us really need.”

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