Home Street Home - The Virginia Beach Chronicles
for
AltDaily.com Hampton Roads Spring Group Read Selection.
WE WON!
SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT ON ALTDAILY.COM
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT! BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT, HOME STREET HOME WILL SOON BE READ BY ALL OF HAMPTON ROADS!
SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT ON ALTDAILY.COM
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT! BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT, HOME STREET HOME WILL SOON BE READ BY ALL OF HAMPTON ROADS!
The AltDaily.com cultural bunch is selecting a novel set in Hampton Roads for a region-wide group read.
My book, Home Street Home - The Virginia Beach Chronicles, has been nominated. It would be a dream come true for me to win the contest. Personally, it would be a validation of my writing, but even better, it would be an opportunity to spread a better understanding of homelessness among the public. Imagine if there was a huge grassroots public outcry about the problem, what impetus that would add to the efforts now underway to end homelessness in our area and maybe even in the nation. Yes, perhaps a win would even result in national attention and resources to add with our own to end homelessness! It never hurts to dream!
And that's where all of you come in. Please Vote for Home Street Home - The Virginia Beach Chronicles. I will add the link to the ballot RIGHT HERE ON THIS BLOG just as soon as it is published on Friday, March 23.
My book, Home Street Home - The Virginia Beach Chronicles, has been nominated. It would be a dream come true for me to win the contest. Personally, it would be a validation of my writing, but even better, it would be an opportunity to spread a better understanding of homelessness among the public. Imagine if there was a huge grassroots public outcry about the problem, what impetus that would add to the efforts now underway to end homelessness in our area and maybe even in the nation. Yes, perhaps a win would even result in national attention and resources to add with our own to end homelessness! It never hurts to dream!
And that's where all of you come in. Please Vote for Home Street Home - The Virginia Beach Chronicles. I will add the link to the ballot RIGHT HERE ON THIS BLOG just as soon as it is published on Friday, March 23.
WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING ABOUT
HOME STREET HOME - THE VIRGINIA BEACH CHRONICLES
"...it certainly appears to be a very honest and descriptive account of the lives of the homeless community."
William D. Sessoms, Jr., Mayor of Virginia Beach
"...a uniformly rugged but redemptive novel about life among the homeless in Hampton Roads."
Bill Ruehlmann, Book Columnist
at The Virginian-Pilot and Professor Emeritus of Journalism
READ Dr. Ruehlmann's review of Home Street Home here:
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/08/homeless-scribe-writes-what-she-knows
"The book is realistic. It's not amatuerish, nor does it seek sympathy. There is definitely a market for this."
Anne Meek, board secretary for the Cultural Alliance of
Greater Hampton Roads
"Stephen King has nothing over Georgia Saunders, and the horrors Ms. Saunders writes about within Home Street Home aren't figments of the imagination."
John Zunski, author of Cemetery Street and Shangri-La Trailer Park
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Read John Zunski's new interview with yours truly, Georgia Saunders
http://johnzunski.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/drag-out-the-chair/
HOME STREET HOME - THE VIRGINIA BEACH CHRONICLES
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| Mayor William D. Sessoms, Jr. |
"...it certainly appears to be a very honest and descriptive account of the lives of the homeless community."
William D. Sessoms, Jr., Mayor of Virginia Beach
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| Dr. Bill Ruehlmann |
"...a uniformly rugged but redemptive novel about life among the homeless in Hampton Roads."
Bill Ruehlmann, Book Columnist
at The Virginian-Pilot and Professor Emeritus of Journalism
READ Dr. Ruehlmann's review of Home Street Home here:
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/08/homeless-scribe-writes-what-she-knows
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| Anne Meek |
"The book is realistic. It's not amatuerish, nor does it seek sympathy. There is definitely a market for this."
Anne Meek, board secretary for the Cultural Alliance of
Greater Hampton Roads
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| John Zunski |
"Stephen King has nothing over Georgia Saunders, and the horrors Ms. Saunders writes about within Home Street Home aren't figments of the imagination."
John Zunski, author of Cemetery Street and Shangri-La Trailer Park
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Read John Zunski's new interview with yours truly, Georgia Saunders
http://johnzunski.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/drag-out-the-chair/
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| Ginny Sorrell and husband, Ron. |
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| Ro Goodman |
"I want to commend Ms. Saunders for not sugarcoating the harsh reality of homelessness" - Ro Goodman, author of Snow Escape
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| Jeff Andrews and wife, Mary Lou |
"She provides an authentic picture from what I know of homelessness on the streets. Her story puts a human face on the whole issue of homelessness."
Jeffrey Andrews, retired Marine Corps major and president of Hope in the Upper Room, a non-profit devoted to giving the homeless a "hand up", not a "hand out".
Please vote for
Home Street Home
The Virginia Beach Chronicles
March 23 - March 29
BALLOT link will be posted on this BLOG as soon as it is published on AltDaily.com
Thank you in advance for your support in getting this literary work on homelessness out to the public.
More reviews and information about Home Street Home can be found at:
My Website
Amazon
Home Street Home is available in print and kindle.
There are also copies available at every public library in Virginia Beach and Norfolk
