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book review: family plots – Love, Death
I'm sitting here at my computer know where to start this review, should I start with history in the book or story book. As the two tales are convincing!
Launch Convention review the window, I think I'll start end. Mary Patrick Kavanaugh is undoubtedly a very creative lady, over the years, I met all kinds of unique marketing strategies, but I have never seen used before Mary. After working tirelessly on his autobiographical novel, she discovered the harsh reality of the industry publishing, it is almost impossible for a first time author to find a publisher willing to take the chance on an unknown.
I heard countless authors relate this sad situation for me. A friend of mine author claims he spent more time looking for a publisher that he wrote the book. In a classic demonstration of masochism, he decorates his office with rejection letters! Mary took his book in exactly 16 New York based publishers, and scored just 16 releases.
His dream of landing the perfect publishing deal has been broken, was written it seemed just another fork in the road of life that was at an impasse. Mary has decided that if the project was dead, then it should be given a proper send off, a funeral to mark the end of another idea. She has urged the companies that rejected his manuscript. You read all the gory details on his website.
His eventual solution was to take the path that many authors first take, self publish, and thus, Family Plots finally arrived at the library's virtual Amazon and others.
With a background like that WHO could resist reading the book? Billed as an autobiographical novel, Mary has taken some of the major events of his life and with a certain amount of embellishment has created a rich word painting.
There's humor, although I'm not sure I agree back cover with the quote from laughing out loud, the humor is very dark, the gallows variety.
The quality of writing is very high, and his character development and the circumstances of the master.
Our heroine Mary stands a relationship not only apparently bounced into another marriage destined to oblivion. Dan seems at first sight as the capture of the decade, suave, debonair, oozing charm and money. However, it gradually became obvious that Dan is not all it seems, its trading partners leave much to desired, and while he is still flush with cash, the source of his income is a bit mysterious.
scheme after scheme to "murder big" to fail. Partners who are embezzlement, bad banking practices legal, strange encounters in strange places, all weigh heavily on Mary. Even if she wants to face his nightmares, Dan is a master of deflection, and able to prevent its efforts at every turn, persuade his place "to stay by her man.
Piece by piece little Mary began to put the puzzle together, but it a long and laborious. When she seems to be gaining another calamity comes to rain, Dan has cancer. T she ever find the answers she seeks?
Touring family also contains a number of plots under curious, the two Mary's and Dan's parents provide the improbable adventures. Dan's parents Ralph and Minnie in particular, are an adventure in the eccentricity and dark family secrets.
This book is worth the search, I found a good read. Ms. Kavanaugh argues that nearly two thirds of the book is based on real events, all I can say is she led a very interesting life. You can obtain a copy of the Amazon, or from its website very amusing.
(Initially published at Blogger News Network and reprinted with permission of the author, Simon Barrett).
About the Author
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. Now semi retired in the depths of Mississippi he has plenty of time to read books by up and coming authors.
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