(My Free PR ) The second edition of the Public Relations Writer's Handbook offers a
simple, step-by-step approach to creating a wide range of writing, from
basic news releases, pitch letters, biographies, and media alerts, to
more complex and sophisticated speeches, media campaign proposals,
crisis responses, and in-house publications. In addition, the
thoroughly expanded and updated second edition shows how to keep up
with the best practices of the public relations profession, as well as
with the speed made possible and required by the digital age.
The first three stories in No Marble Angels, set the summer and
fall of 1968, illuminate
the time in the Civil Rights movement after
the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy , after riots in
the cities, a time when people,
particularly the young, were looking to cross the borders that society had set
around them. Stories in the collection reflect other historic moments, such as
the Nashville sit-ins in 1960 and the
desegregation of schools in Little
Rock, Arkansas, in
1956.
The
Dark Path to the River expands the themes set forth in No Marble Angels into
the international arena. A political thriller,
it tells a love story of strong-minded men and women who do not see the
world in the same way. The novel, which moves between Wall Street and Africa, was a regional bestseller.
Both No
Marble Angels and The Dark Path to
the River have received excellent reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and
more.
Carolyn See in The Los Angeles Times called No
Marble Angels “A valuable philosophical
or political acquisition as well as a literary one,” which “should be sought
out and read.”
Barbara Kingsolver (author of the Poisonwood Bible and other bestsellers)
said, “I fell in love with the characters in The Dark Path to the River. I didn’t want the pleasure to end.” The
Washington Post said, “Joanne Leedom-Ackerman knows suspense
like Hitchcock…But what distinguishes the novel is its characters…[They] give
this fine novel its power.”
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman will be speaking
at bookstores and elsewhere about the new editions of her books during the
coming months. “In fiction,”
Leedom-Ackerman explains, “I’m interested in seeing the ordinary life in
extraordinary events. We often hear of the writer who renders ordinary life
extraordinary -- an equally worthy goal, and one I find more engaging in short
fiction. In the novel, where the narrator and the writer must go the distance
of 300 - 400 pages, I’m interested in finding the human face and heart in
extraordinary happenings. I like to walk along the edge of the world
discovering the bonds that keep us from falling off.”
Through her fiction, Leedom-Ackerman has
told stories that resonate today –
particularly, as we commemorate the historic events of 1968.
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