Come and support Politics & Prose, a wonderful DC bookstore, and the Writer’s Center, a great resource for local writers. I’ll be reading at both locations in November, along with poet, Dan Gutstein.
I had a great time at the Baltimore Book Festival! I spent time at the Johns Hopkins Writing Program booth and at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House booth. Sold more than I expected — thank you to everyone who purchased a book. I signed every one. So, if you bought a book, please drop me a note here and let me know what you thought of it. If you loved it, write a review on amazon.com or at Good Reads or at least share with your friends.
Thanks again for all the love you gave me in B-more!
Hope to see you this weekend at the Baltimore Book Festival. I will be at the Johns Hopkins booth from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, and at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House booth, 3-5 p.m. Should be a great event!
Mark your calendars for 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6 at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C.; and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13 at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md. I will be reading from my debut novel, The Color of My Soul.
Washington Writers’ Publishing House is thrilled to announce the publication of its 2011 Fiction Prize winner: The Color of My Soul by Melanie S. Hatter.
The Color of My Soul takes the reader on a journey through race and culture, family loyalty and selfhood through a young woman’s discovery of a secret about her father.
Excerpt:
How could he be alive, this man she had always believed to be dead? She shook her head. She wanted a vodka and tonic. “I don’t understand why you didn’t say anything.”
“I’m sorry.” Her mother’s apology slid to the floor. Kira wasn’t listening. That her father was alive and wanted to see her spun around her mind, but she couldn’t grasp the thought to make it real. Her mother’s voice came back to her.
“I didn’t think he would ever come back, and I didn’t want you to hope that he would.”
Available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
Published by the Washington Writers’ Publishing House
In the heat of the jungle, love can change lives…
When freelance photographer Diana Lee Ross is taken hostage by Colombian drug runners, they think her American publisher will pay handsomely for her return. But Diana’s freelancing for a nature book, not Newsweek, and her chances of rescue are slim. In the stark conditions of a rebel camp, fear and longing are her closest companions, until she’s rescued from the hands of a gunman by an unlikely rebel, a white man with an American accent.
Stone is a cold-blooded killer, an American working for the Colombian rebels. He has his own issues to deal with, and falling in love with a prisoner isn’t one he needs. But through Diana, something of his old humanity begins to resurface, and together they’re pushed past boundaries they never thought they’d cross…
Taking The Shot, a short e-book now on sale by Etopia Press. You can also download it to your e-reader.
Taking the Shot, e-Book Excerpt
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