Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy 2009. We've already got some wonderful reviews in from our first voracious readers of WITH VIOLETS. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their posts, and I look forward to hearing from more of you!
For all who haven't yet received an affirmative email from me along with your book, so sorry you weren't part of the random draw this time round. But the good news is that another chance to win a copy of a great new novel by a first time author.
Stay tuned for more 'surprise' early readers copy some members received for an exclusive first look. Also new videos, photos, book giveaways, and more coming soon.
I'm excited about 2009, and I hope you are too!
More soon, F.R.M.
Here's a teaser from one of our fabulous member reviewers -
"A few days ago I received a much awaited copy of With Violets by Elizabeth Robards to read and review. The timing was perfect as I had just decided I would try to read more this year, even with my failing eyesight so I began reading it the same evening.
With Violets is a fiction novel with an historic background. It is the story if impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot, set in late 1800's Paris which was a time of political and military unrest for the French capital and cultural center. While the novel focuses on the romantic relationship between the unmarried Morisot and the married Édouard Manet, a master painter in his own right, it is also filled with images of the privileged society to which the two belonged. The readers are given very real characters with a riveting, if frustrating, story.
It is also the story of a strong minded woman who, in many ways, was ahead of her time...."
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