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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Karen de
Balbian Verster is the author of Boob, A Story of Sex,
Cancer & Stupidity. Anne Tyler read an excerpt
of Boob and wrote, “‘Mother’s Day’ made me laugh out loud.” Another excerpt, “Tabula
Rasa,” appeared in The Breast: An Anthology and Publishers Weekly called it a “fluid, moving story.” (Select Book Excerpt #1 to read the first chapter.) She is
currently working on two novels:
Desperately
Seeking Dutch (select Book Excerpt #2 to read the first
chapter) and WYSIWYG (select Book Excerpt #3 to read the first chapter).
[Karen
is taking a blog break in order to concentrate on her fiction writing.]
For info
on Brian Delate and his film, Soldier's Heart, select "Family."
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PUBLICATIONS
Karen deBV’s
essay, “Her Eighth Gray Hair,” will appear in the anthology, Of a Certain Age: Voices of Experience, to be published Summer
2009 by Turtle House Ink.
Karen deBV’s
essay, “Anne Frank Redux,” will appear in the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks, to be published Spring 2009 by the
University of South
Carolina Press.
“The Bad Seed,”
an excerpt from Karen deBV’s second novel, Desperately
Seeking Dutch, won Honorable Mention in UNO’s Third Annual Writing Contest.
PHOTO (LEFT): KAREN DE BALBIAN VERSTER WAS THE FEATURED SPEAKER AT THE 6th ANNUAL BREAST CANCER
FUNDRAISER LUNCHEON AT DELAWARE WATER GAP COUNTRY CLUB, 10/08. PROCEEDS BENEFITTED THE PENNSYLVANIA BREAST CANCER COALITION (TO
WHICH 20% OF BOOB SALES THAT DAY WERE ALSO DONATED).
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