Sunday, December 22, 2013

Four Walls and a Leaky Roof  is Available


Three dollars of each purchase will be donated to a domestic violence program.


A couple of weeks ago I opened my door to find the second proof copy of Four Walls and a Leaky Roof  but also a box containing fifty copies of the first proof. Very complicated. Since my husband thought I was neurotic when I found errors in this first proof, I was relieved that he was not  home. After I calmed myself, I called Createspace, who immediately acknowledged their error. A few days ago fifty copies of the corrected novel arrived on my doorstep.

Four Walls and a Leaky Roof will be available at Nicola’s Ann Arbor bookstore, Createspace, and Amazon Books. Or, I have fifty copies—and fifty proofs. I'm wondering, should I sell the proofs at a discount or would people laugh at the six obvious errors?


READING: NICOLA’S BOOKSTORE ANN ARBOR SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9th 3:00p.m.


The following is an announcement for Nicola's bookstores website.

For Walls and a Leaky Roof is a psychological novel about an abused woman’s growth and redemption. It begins on an icy winter night, when Tulip stuffs clothing in paper bags, gathers her three young children, and flees her husband. Set in Ypsilanti, Michigan in the late 1960s, Tulip is terrified of her abusive husband and also of the serial killer John Norman Collins.
Tulip impulsively purchases a dilapidated house, the eyesore of the neighborhood. Her genteel neighbors are appalled by this brassy woman and her unrestrained children.
Will Tulip’s feisty can-do attitude, her hard work, courage and humor be enough to revive “Old Grouchy” and create a home? Or will she need help from an unexpected source?

About the Author:
Brenda Meisels is a retired social worker psychotherapist living in Ann Arbor with her husband Murray Meisels. In 2009, she published Family at Booknook, about a reclusive, single mother’s love and her feisty daughter’s determination. Ms. Meisels states that she writes to keep sane but that her husband chuckles and states that it does not work.