Hi! I'm a YA novelist and all-around book lover.
My books are
Ophelia and the newly-released
Two Girls of Gettysburg, both published by Bloomsbury USA.
Ophelia is my revision of
Hamlet, and
Two Girls of Gettysburg is a Civil War story (think
Gone With the Wind meets
Killer Angels).
Due out later in 2009 is
Lady Macbeth's Daughter. I love Shakespeare and I love historical fiction! And reliving my youth (without the teenage angst) by reading all sorts of YA novels.
Visite my website:
www.authorlisaklein.com
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My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, and I am writing because I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your thoughts on Amazon.com (or some of the other book review sites). If you're interested, I'd be more than willing to send you an e-book version by e-mail. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com
Ophelia is such a great book! I was so happy to see the Hamlet story told from a female's point of view.