Finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards for
2012! Won the Eric Hoffer Award for Sassy Sweetwater for 2013 – Honorable
Mention Best ebook Fiction!
Book Title: The Story of Sassy Sweetwater
Author: Vera Jane Cook
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Publisher: Musa Publishing
Category: Southern fiction, Contemporary fiction, Women’s Fiction
Tour Date: July, 2013
Available in: eBook, 289 Pages
Synopsis:
After thirteen years on the run Violet McLaughlin
returns to Carter’s Crossing, South Carolina, in 1962, with her young daughter,
Sassy. The Crossing is right outside of Beaufort and the turmoil of the Civil
Rights movement will forever leave its scars on the young and impressionable
girl. As Sassy stands before the imposing white farmhouse for the first time,
with no knowledge of her history but that the McLaughlin’s are her kin, Sassy
begins a journey that will tear her apart before it heals her. Growing up among
secrets that will forever damage her relationship with her mother, she attempts
to make sense of her past. But will her passion for art and her love for Thomas
Tierney be enough to sustain her future? Will the puzzles she must solve to
discover who she is be worth the journey?
About Vera Jane Cook:
Vera Jane Cook, writer of Award Winning Women’s
Fiction, is the author of The Story of Sassy Sweetwater, Lies a River Deep,
Where the Wildflowers Grow, Dancing Backward in Paradise and Annabel Horton,
Lost Witch of Salem.
Jane, as she is known to family and friends, was
born in New York City and grew up amid the eccentricity of her southern and
glamorous mother on the Upper West and Upper East Side of Manhattan.
An only child, Jane turned to reading novels at an
early age and was deeply influenced by an eclectic group of authors. Some of
her favorite authors today are Nelson DeMille, Calib Carr, Wally Lamb, Anne
Rice, Sue Monk Kidd, Anita Shreve, Jodi Picoult, Alice Walker and Toni
Morrison. Her favorite novels are too long to list but include The Story of
Edgar Sawtelle, Cheri and The Last of Cheri, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wuthering
Heights, Look at Me, Dogs of Babel, The Bluest Eye, The Art of Racing in the
Rain, Body Surfing, Lolita, The Brothers Karamazov, She’s Come Undone, Tale of
Two Cities, etc., etc., etc.,
The Story of Sassy Sweetwater is a finalist for the
ForeWord Book of the Year Awards for 2012. Her first novel, Dancing Backward in
Paradise won the Eric Hoffer Award for publishing excellence and the Indie
Excellence Award for notable new fiction, 2007. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater
and Dancing Backward in Paradise received five stars from ForeWord Clarion
Reviews. The Story of Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem is her first
paranormal novel.
The author works by day for an education publishing
company as an account manager and lives on the Upper West side of Manhattan
with her long term partner, her Pomeranian, Daisy, her Basenji/Chihuahua mix,
Roxie, her Chihuahua, Peanut and her two pussy cats, Sassy and Sweetie Pie.
Vera Jane Cook’s Website: http://www.verajanecook.com/
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