Now scheduling a 1 week tour for Celestine: The Hour on rue du Maine by F.J. Wilson
The tour will run October 15-22
I am scheduling guest blogs, interviews, reviews and promo stops
A pdf is available for reviewers
To participate in this tour please send:
The tour will run October 15-22
I am scheduling guest blogs, interviews, reviews and promo stops
A pdf is available for reviewers
To participate in this tour please send:
Your blog name and url
A couple suggested dates during the tour
Type of stop you wish to host
About the Author:
Celestine: The Hour on rue du Maine
F.J. Wilson
F.J. Wilson
Genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance
Publisher: Chances Press, LLC
ISBN: 978-0988230217
ASIN: B0093U6Z48
Number of pages: 272
Word Count: 80,000
Cover Artist: Geronimo Quitoriano
Book Description:
In 1795 New Orleans, the Spanish controlled city struggles to
rebuild after two devastating fires, and a young teenage girl is just as
determined to leave her past behind and start anew. Celestine, the daughter of
a Mississippi River prostitute spends most of her time hating herself, her life
and the dirty men who rut with her mama.
When she turns thirteen and her mama informs her she’ll be
servicing the very men she hates and fears, she has no other option but to run
to the good nuns of the Ursulines Convent where for the first time she
encounters kindness and a different kind of life.
After meeting the dashing ship captain Maurice Dubois, a man with
his own past demons to reckon with, Celestine allows herself to be truly loved
for the first time.
But when a shocking turn of events leaves her once again with
nothing more than her own wits to survive, Celestine begins to realize the
power her intoxicating beauty gives her over men including the debonair and
infamous pirate Jean Lafitte.
It’s this very power that Celestine learns to capitalize on to
begin a new career...not as the common riverfront lady of the night her mother
had been...but as the most sought after courtesan in all of New Orleans.
F. J. Wilson was raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in
the fishing village and artist community of Ocean Springs, ninety miles east
New Orleans; the city far from her reach but close to her heart. Much of her
time growing up was spent reading under her grandmother’s big camellia bushes
hiding from housework and the inevitable call to come inside and help start
‘supper’. In a time when young girls dreamed of big weddings and picket fences,
she dreamed of the dangerous but darkly handsome Heathcliff and the English
moors of days long gone. With Hemingway’s Paris, Scott Fitzgerald’s language
and Margaret Mitchell’s South keeping her company, why would she ever want to
clean her room?
Raised with small town values but dreams of a bigger life,
she was more than ready to leave home in 1965 and began her education in the
Theatre Department of the University of Southern Mississippi. From there she
finally reached New Orleans and began a film career that sent her to New York,
where she co-wrote an episode of the Emmy award winning Kate & Allie.
Eventually her work in TV and film would take her to Los Angeles and all over
the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
Her passion for the South and New Orleans brought her back
to Mississippi in 2000. In 2007, her love for writing and her love of films
collided, and she wrote humorous articles for the Arts and Entertainment
Section of the Hattiesburg American newspaper. She’s been writing short stories
and novels about Southerners since her retirement in 2008.
F. J. Wilson has one son, Jason, who lives in Monroe, CT and
she now lives in Hattiesburg with her two Springer Hound Spaniels and is at the
time married to her computer and her love of writing.
You may email her at fjwilson@chancespress.com
No comments:
Post a Comment