Author Series Launching

Heather and I are excited to announce the date of the first Author Series! Please mark your calendars: on Saturday, February 27, 2-4 p.m., the NRAS Writers Workshop will welcome author Randy Susan Meyers (The Murderer’s Daughters, St. Martin’s Press, January 2010) for a writing seminar, followed by a reading and a Q&A. More details to come in 2010…

Here is an advance review of her novel, from the Library Journal:

Lulu and Merry, ages ten and six, respectively, live with parents for whom marriage is a permanent battleground. One summer day in 1971, their father fatally stabs their mother in their Brooklyn apartment near Coney Island. Merry is also attacked but survives. When their father goes to jail, the sisters are shuffled from relatives to a group home to foster care. Lulu forever blames herself for her father's crimes, and Merry inexplicably continues to carry a torch for her father. How will they come to terms with their horrific past? Readers will follow them well into adulthood, hoping for the best. VERDICT First novelist Meyers draws on the eight years she worked at a batterer intervention program. Much like Janet Fitch's White Oleander or Jacqueline Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean , her book takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride. Readers, get out your handkerchief and prepare to care.-Keddy Ann Outlaw, Houston

For more information about Randy, please visit her Website: www.randysusanmeyers.com.