Almost Paradise
by Corabel Shofner

A middle grade novel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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About Corabel

Corabel Shofner is wife, mother, attorney, and author. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a degree in English literature, and was on Law Review at Vanderbilt University School of Law. Her first novel ALMOST PARADISE was published on 7/25/17 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and her shorter work has appeared or is forthcoming in Willow Review, Word Riot, Habersham Review, Hawai’i Review, Sou’wester, South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, and Xavier Review.

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ALMOST PARADISE — ACTUAL PARADISE

Folks ask me to reveal middle grade covers from time to time. Sometimes I say yes. Sometimes I say no. If you ever happen to be interested in my doing so then the following elements should ideally be combined:

A nun
A smarmy man with a mustache (handlebar preferred but not required)
An unnerved woman staring at the smarmy man with the aforementioned mustache
A pig
Admittedly, it’s only once in a blue moon when I can find such a book jacket to premiere, but when I can . . . magic!!

Rewriting Hell

Always remember mama: Even if Ruby Clyde was terrible (which it obviously isn’t), even if it was unreadable (which it obviously isn’t), even if you couldn’t even string three coherent words together (which you obviously can), even if you were a babbling idiot in some 19th century insane asylum somewhere (which I suppose we can’t rule out), even if ALL of that were true, Markham, Jesse, Pop, me, and many, many other people in this world still love you more than words can express.

Interview with Lois Sepahban, author of Paper Wishes

PAPER WISHES by Lois Sepahban Middle Grade Historical Farrar, Straus and Giroux January 5, 2016 Middle Grade Historical It is March of…

Walk on the Wild Side with Sonja Yoerg

If this weren’t such a good book I would play Hollywood Agent and say THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE is Love Story meets Deliverance. There I said it anyway, couldn’t resist.

Blue Ridge Books, Waynesville, NC

Cold Mountain, made famous by Charles Frazier’s book and movie by the same name, is about 15 miles south east of Waynesville. The town was founded by Revolutionary War hero Colonel Robert Love who named the town after his commander, the explosive and fiery personality General “Mad” Anthony Wayne.

The Book Shelf, Tryon, NC

The Book Shelf has always been owned by women. It offers national and regional bestsellers in fiction and non-fiction, as well and cards and gifts. You are also invited to have coffee and spend your afternoon with a book in their comfortable reading nook. And did I mention their senior citizen discount?

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Elizabeth Copps
Copps Literary Services
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