tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52948543232045100682024-03-13T12:38:09.635-07:00THE SEA IN WINTER a novelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294854323204510068.post-69898283820151975432012-05-10T07:43:00.002-07:002012-05-10T07:43:31.500-07:00BOOK NEWS THIS MONTH!<div style="text-align: center;">
THE SEA IN WINTER and SOLVING LONELY now available at <a href="http://amazon.com/">AMAZON.COM</a>.</div>
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BOOK EVENT at West 7th COMMUNITY CENTER, June 7, 2012, 6:30 PM, </div>
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Call Center to Register</div>
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651-298-5493. </div>
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Books available on loan from W 7th Library branch. For sale at Community Center, $15. each with $5. of each purchase going to support Community Center programs. An evening of sharing stories, discussion of Deborah's novels and time to talk about the writing process!</div>
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To purchase books directly from Deborah Padgett, email <a href="mailto:deborahpadgett@mac.com">deborahpadgett@mac.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294854323204510068.post-9697488119886168882012-01-11T13:41:00.000-08:002012-01-11T13:53:58.921-08:00A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF SOLVING LONELY....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;">The Sea in Winter</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 200%;"> tells the
story of a vigorous and vital woman coming fully into her own in her
mid-seventies at the crossroad between two centuries and two continents. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It </i>is
a story of love, war, survival and hope.
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the lessons learned and the legacy left by one long and deep-living woman whose
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<span style="font-family: "Bell MT"; font-size: 11pt;"> ISBN # 978-1-105-35126-6</span><br />
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Look for it online at <a href="http://www.lulu.com/">www.lulu.com</a> or <a href="http://www.padgettstudios.com/">www.padgettstudios.com</a></h1>
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Available at local retailers as early as February 2012</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Deborah is available for book groups and
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">$15.00</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><span>Author's Bio</span></u></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Deborah McWatters Padgett has been
writing and painting her entire adult life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her background includes a concentration in Literature from the
University of Minnesota and a participating membership in the Loft Center for
Literary Arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her instructors have
included Alexs Pate, Faith Sullivan, Jonis Agee, Mary Gardener, Carol Bly and
Patricia Weaver Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a
lifelong avid reader of literary and commercial fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading has served as primary educator to her
writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Her first novel, SOLVING LONELY,
was published by LULU Press in 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
short fiction has appeared in SPOUT, GYPSY CAB and SING HEAVENLY MUSE. Her
essays and articles have been published in national and regional arts
publications, as well as, <u>Ceramics Monthly</u>, <u>Ceramics Art and
Perception, </u>(Australia) and in the Minneapolis <u>Star Tribune</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She currently writes a monthly column titled “Living,
Loving & Laughing…. Dear Deb”, for Saint Paul, Minnesota’s non-profit
COMMUNITY REPORTER. She is mother to four grown children and grandmother to
twenty-one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her work celebrates the
ordinary and attempts to hold dear the present moment in all its joy and
sorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Deborah lives with her husband, ceramic artist
and emeriti professor of art, Michael Padgett in Saint Paul, Minnesota.</span></div>
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