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To my friends: Sandy Bass, Renee van den Berg, Ginny Keller and Kathryn van Rutten, thank you all for your excellent critiques of Chapter Closed. Your comments were much appreciated and have been passed on to Judith Bruni to use in her marketing campaign.  In addition to the work of these talented ladies, the manuscript went through the eagle eye scutiny of my friend and Proofreader, Sophie Conin. Not only did she catch my undotted i's and uncrossed t's, she improved my French and challenged a few scenes which in the end, were changed for the better. Merci, Sophie!

Now the process will take 2-3 months of reading and editing at the Agent's office and then the manuscript hits the marketing trail. When we have news from an interested publishing house, I'll update the blog. Until then...have a lovely summer! Kathy 

I'm thrilled to announce the alliance between, the Leslie Rivers International Literary Agency, and myself. The agency is located in Houston, Texas-USA, and I have been taken under the wing of the agency's founder, Judith R. Bruni. To read more about LRI's services, click on the comment box below. As always, your blog annotations are welcome. (Judith has also offered to represent The Butterfly Clinic, as well as, Chapter Closed!)  Regards, Kathy

P.S. Nederlands versie...klik 'view comments' beneden. Groetjes, Kathy

I want to take a moment to thank all my friends and colleagues from Farelcollege for stopping in and purchasing a copy of The Butterfly Clinic.   Also, a huge thank you to the, Dames van Amesz, for organizing the event, as well as the nice interview with, Mr. Woldring from the Rotterdam newspaper, De Ster.   And, of course, Dirk Izelaar for his role in this event. (Click through the photo gallery, and leave a comment by your photo. I'd love to hear from you.)

Please click on the 11-January square of the calander for details of the book promotion event at American Book Center in The Hague or visit their website below. Warm Regards,  Kathy
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With the publication of the novel, the author would like to start The Blue Butterfly Campaign, donating a portion of the profits from each book to finance the creation of much needed crisis shelters for abused women and runaways. " More than four million women were battered by their husband or partner this year in the USA, and according to medical journals, this is the leading cause of injury and death to American women. It is a crime committed every nine seconds, most often in the one place where they should feel safe, at home."

November 15, 2007

Thank you all so much for your words of encouragement (and purchases) at the book signing party. It was a complete sell-out! Some of you had requested additional copies of  The Butterfly Clinic...If you are unable to make it to the book signing at J.Amesz on 24-November, please let me know and I will be happy to reserve a copy and deliver it to you. We had a great time and hope you did, too.  The photos turned out really nice; special thanks to the photographers, Hans van den Berg and Dirk Izelaar.