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My sincere gratitude goes to these dear inspirational women who have been a gift to me: Jill Crusey, Minna Lopez, Susan Rapp, Tania Pryputniewicz, Paula Herring, Tinsley Correa, Dottie Laub, Leigh Akin, Tanya Peters, Rebecca Chaama, Debra Bandera, Leslie Meads, Lynn Cooper, Lisa Hampton, Banoo, Karen Begin, Meline Cox, Marti Hess, Lisa Laube, Carol Leimbach, Patti Wassem, Pat Fitzmorris, Holly Foster, Sandy Baine, and Stephanie Tsuruda.
I’m eternally grateful to my siblings Todd Greentree, Sandy Greenbaum, and Leslie Zwail for your love and encouragement. Gratitude to Phil Johnson and Seth Krosner for always believing and being there for me. To my Westminster family, especially Tom Haine, Megan Cochran, and of course my soul brother Corey Pahanish, I thank our blessed stars for bringing us together.
A special thank-you goes to my readers—because of you I keep writing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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JILL G. HALL is the author of a dual-timeline trilogy about women searching for their place in the world, connected by vintage finds. The first of the series, The Black Velvet Coat, was an International Book Award Finalist, and the second, The Silver Shoes, was a Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including A Year in Ink, The Avocet, and Wild Women, Wild Voices. Hall is an instructor at San Diego Writers, Ink, as well as a seasoned presenter at readings and community events. Her career as a public-school educator spanned over twenty years. She holds a doctorate from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. In addition to writing, she practices yoga, gardens, and fashions whimsical mosaics using found objects. On her blog, Crealivity, she shares her poetry and musings about the art of practicing a creative lifestyle. Learn more at www.jillghall.com.
SELECTED TITLES FROM SHE WRITES PRESS
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The Black Velvet Coat by Jill G. Hall. $16.95, 978-1-63152-009-9. When the current owner of a black velvet coat—a San Francisco artist in search of inspiration—and the original owner, a 1960s heiress who fled her affluent life fifty years earlier, cross paths, their lives are forever changed . . . for the better.
The Silver Shoes by Jill G. Hall. $16.95, 978-1-63152-353-3. Distracted by a cross-country romance, San Francisco artist Anne McFarland worries that she has veered from her creative path. Almost ninety years earlier, Clair Deveraux, a sheltered 1929 New York debutante, becomes entangled in the burlesque world in an effort to save her family and herself after the stock market crash. Ultimately, these two very different women living in very different eras attain true fulfillment—with some help from the same pair of silver shoes.
Portrait of a Woman in White by Susan Winkler. $16.95, 978-1-938314-83-4. When the Nazis steal a Matisse portrait from the eccentric, art-loving Rosenswigs, the Parisian family is thrust into the tumult of war and separation, their fates intertwined with that of their beloved portrait.
The Great Bravura by Jill Dearman. $16.95, 978-1-63152-989-4. Who killed Susie—or did she actually disappear? The Great Bravura, a dashing lesbian magician living in a fantastical and noirish 1947 New York City, must solve this mystery—before she goes to the electric chair.
Beautiful Garbage by Jill DiDonato. $16.95, 978-1-938314-01-8. Talented but troubled young artist Jodi Plum leaves suburbia for the excitement of the city—and is soon swept up in the sexual politics and downtown art scene of 1980s New York.
Start With the Backbeat by Garinè B. Isassi. $16.95, 978-1-63152-041-9. When post-punk rocker Jill Dodge finally gets the promotion she’s been waiting for in the spring of 1989, she finds herself in the middle of a race to find a gritty urban rapper for her New York record label.