GIANT STEPS
Available as a NOOK book at Barnes & Noble (
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now an eBook available from the iTunes Bookstore for only $2.99
My mom, a talented writer and my mentor, wrote a young adult novel several years ago. She briefly tried to find an agent, then set the book aside. After I started writing, we collaborated on revisions, editing, and all that. We were thisclose to having it published when she died unexpectedly in June this year.
I finished the final editing...and the book is now published and in my hands. I couldn't and wouldn't let it die with her.
It's called Giant Steps, and is about two sisters--one 12, one 18, who lose their parents in a fire, and what happens to them afterwards. While it's young adult, it's not fluff, and adults will find it very readable.
Marilyn Stacy, a Dallas psychotherapist, family and marriage counselor, and Professor Emeritus of Richland College , says, This book surprised me. It is not only a good read, it is one that everyone experiencing loss and grief could learn from. The main inhabitants of this story are young, but they have very grown-up problems to deal with. Barbara and her sister Kyla come alive through the attention to detail and humor that the author(s) use. I cared about them. And I think everyone who reads this book will care, too. Read it, give it to a friend, and if you have a young person in your life, make a gift of this delightful book.
LaVern Spencer McCarthy says: I found it exceedingly well-written and I could not put it down when I started to read it.
Cover price $12.00. Also available as an eBook through the iTunes link.
If you're interested, you might think about ordering from me directly--postage for one book would be $2.75. ($14.75 total)
If you're in Texas, I have to charge a buck sales tax --which would make it $13 total.
(Texas residents can buy direct from Lulu and not pay sales tax.)