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Terri Laxton Brooks spends her whole life feeling —but it's only after divorcing her husband and moving to an entirely new city on her own that she's finally able to confront the trauma of loneliness that's haunted her for years . . . and learn to embrace and heal from it.
Info autore
Terri Laxton Brooks grew up in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, a farm town of one-square-mile surrounded by cornfields. The first in her family to go to college, she majored in journalism and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1960s. Her first job out of college was as a Metro reporter for the
Chicago Tribune. After four years at the
Tribune, she moved to New York City, where she became a professor and then chair of the journalism department at NYU for nineteen years. She later served as dean of the Penn State college of communications. The author of three other nonfiction titles—
Bittersweet: Surviving and Growing from Loneliness, Women Can Wait: The Pleasures of Motherhood After 30, and
Words’ Worth: Write Well and Prosper—Terri has also published hundreds of articles in publications including the
Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Harper's, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Columbia Journalism Review, and
Writer’s Digest. She has a wonderful son who serves as a Lieutenant Commander on Destroyers in the U.S. Navy. She currently lives in New York City.
Riassunto
Terri Laxton Brooks spends her whole life feeling —but it’s only after divorcing her husband and moving to an entirely new city on her own that she’s finally able to confront the trauma of loneliness that’s haunted her for years . . . and learn to embrace and heal from it.
Prefazione
o online press release to announce book’s publication (including wire services, especially AP where I know someone)
o social media feeds of news events that relate to the book
o TV/radio appearances
o Twitter feeds
o author speaking engagements
o online promotion and engagement with book clubs across country
o Connect with GoodReads and similar groups. (Goodreads gave the first edition of this book a “Must Read” recommendation.)
o Magazine excerpts published before book is available for sale
o Book Reviews
o Twitter buzz
o e-press releases for interviews/ articles in arts/features sections and radio/TV segments in places where I’ve lived --- New York City; Wisconsin (hometown and University); Santa Fe and Annapolis (grad student )
o St. Johns College); Chicago; Pennsylvania (a dean at Penn State)
