Letter to My Daughter

Letter to My Daughter Featured at American Library in New Delhi, India

Thanks to the American Library at the US Embassy in New Delhi, India, for featuring Letter to My Daughter as one of their “Check It Out” picks.

Don’t know if the American Library knows it or not, but I lived in India from 2005-2007.

Here’s their summary and link:

Letter to My Daughter: A Novel
By George Bishop, Ballantine Books, ©2010

Elizabeth runs away from home on the eve of her 15th birthday after being slapped by her mother, Laura Jenkins, during an argument. While the parents are waiting for news of their daughter’s whereabouts, Laura decides to write a letter to her daughter telling her the truth about how a girl grows up. She recounts her own forbidden love with a high school senior against her intolerant parents that resulted in her transfer to a Catholic girls’ school. Find out what else the mother of a missing daughter writes in a book-length letter, written in a single night.

And here I am visiting a government college in, I believe, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India:

India College Visit

Book Signing at the Jackson Assembly Antiques and Art Show

I’m looking forward to revisiting Jackson, LA, my boyhood home, for a book signing this Saturday at the annual Jackson Assembly Antiques and Art Show.

Jackson is a town of about 4,000 in East Feliciana Parish. It takes its name from General Andrew Jackson, who’s said to have stopped there at Thompson’s Creek on his way home after his victory over the British at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans.

Here, oddly, is the photo that Google spits up when you type in Jackson, Louisiana. I’d have to say it seems about right, though.

Jackson

Jackson is also known as being the home of East Louisiana State Hospital, a large, plantation-style mental hospital that opened in 1848 as the State Insane Asylum. It continues to operate there today, although on a much smaller scale.

elahospital

Super Cheap at Amazon

I’d normally recommend that book lovers patronize their local independent bookstore, but I see that the bargain price has returned for the hardcover edition of Letter to My Daughter on Amazon.com, and it’s hard to beat: $8.00.

That’s less than a pizza.  Also, you can read it again and again, but a pizza you can only eat once.

Here’s the Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Letter-My-Daughter-A-Novel/dp/B007K4JZOG/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1

Good People at Goodreads

Thanks to all the good people at Goodreads who are reading and recommending my book. Like Melissa, who recently wrote:

“I was a little iffy about picking up this book. I wasn’t too sure that a male author could really write a book based on a female’s point of view and make me want to read it.  I was completely surprised to find that Mr. Bishop did exactly that.  From the moment I picked this book up I couldn’t put it down . . . ”

Thanks, Melissa, wherever you are.

http://www.goodreads.com

LOUISIANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE + TEEN VAMP

Enjoyed meeting librarians and signing books (my book, that is) at the Louisiana Library Association’s conference in Shreveport on Thursday.
Last time I was in Shreveport was two decades ago, for the filming of that little known but much beloved movie classic, Teen Vamp.