Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Trouble the Water by Nicole Seitz


This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

Trouble the Water

Thomas Nelson (March 11, 2008)

by

Nicole Seitz


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:



Nicole Seitz is a South Carolina Lowcountry native and the author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass as well as a freelance writer/illustrator who has published in numerous low country magazines. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism, she also has a bachelor's degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Nicole shows her paintings in the Charleston, South Carolina area, where she owns a web design firm and lives with her husband and two small children. Nicole is also an avid blogger, you can leave her a comment on her blog.

Seitz's writing style recalls that of Southern authors like Kaye Gibbons, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Sue Monk Kidd, and this new novel, which the publisher compares to Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, surely joins the ranks of strong fiction that highlights the complicated relationships between women. Highly recommended, especially for Southern libraries.



ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the South Carolina Sea Islands lush setting, Nicole Seitz's second novel Trouble the Water is a poignant novel about two middle-aged sisters' journey to self-discovery.

One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she's got it all together until her sister's imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne's Island.

Strong female protagonists are forced to deal with suicide, wife abuse, cancer, and grief in a realistic way that will ring true for anyone who has ever suffered great loss.

"This is another thing I know for a fact: a woman can't be an island, not really. No, it's the touching we do in other people's lives that matters when all is said and done. The silly things we do for ourselves--shiny new cars and jobs and money--they don't mean a hill of beans. Honor taught me that. My soul sisters on this island taught me that. And this is the story of true sisterhood. It's the story of Honor, come and gone, and how one flawed woman worked miracles in this mixed-up world."


"...a special sisterhood of island women whose wisdom and courage linger in the mind long after the book is closed."
-NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author SUSAN WIGGS


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Posting Information


The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595544003

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Nicole can be reached through the Contact link on her Website

39 comments:

Deborah said...

mine's up...and now i can go to bed :)

Jim Black said...

Mine is posted.

Deena Peterson said...

Posted and off to 'ping'!

Amy said...

posted with a review and an interview coming tomorrow...beautiful book!

David Meigs said...

postededed

Unknown said...

My post and review are ready to go at Bibliophile's Retreat. The post will go live later this morning and the review goes live Thurs morning.

Melissa

Ausjenny said...

posted and pinged

L. Diane Wolfe said...

Posted!

ReviewsbyHeidi said...

Up & running at
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ReviewsbyHeidi/503571/

Jim Thompson said...

Ready or not, here it comes.

Angie A. said...

I'm up with a review. Loved this book!

www.psmcmanus.blogspot.com

Tracy Ruckman said...

Posted! Beautiful book.

Kim said...

Posted with a review and pinged.

This book was special!

Kim

CeeCee said...

Posted.

Nicole Seitz said...

CFBA is a truly special place. The support you give novelists is priceless. Thank you for having me this week. It is a joy and honor.
Nicole

Erica Vetsch said...

Mine's up.

Susan Stitch said...

Posted at hisreadinglist.blogspot.com

Prairierose said...

Posted --

http://www.quiettimewithcarolyn.com/Serenity/2008/04/09/blog-tour-trouble-the-water/

Tami said...

A beautiful book. My review and post are up.
Tami from Tree Swing Reading

Jenny said...

I'm up!

Edgy Inspirational Author said...

Now I'm up, too.

http://edgyinspirationalauthor.blogspot.com

Vicki McCollum said...

Posted at Savvy Reviews! (http://www.vickitalleymccollum.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Vicki McCollum

storyline said...

Posted.

Marcia Lee Laycock said...

my post is up. Marcia

Brittanie said...

Posted.

Sonya said...

I'm up now and my review will go up Friday!

April Erwin said...

Mine's up at www.ProjectingA.blogspot.com

Vicki said...

Mine is up at www.overlookedorchids.com/vblog

~michelle pendergrass said...

mine's up in the right sidebar :)

Janna said...

I'm up with a review and giveaway.

Janna
http://www.cornhuskeracademy.blogspot.com

Gretchen Geyer said...

Posted!

Tyora Moody said...

I'm a bit late, but I have an interview with Nicole posted at: http://faithwebbin.net/share/authors/

Blessings,

Ty

Scrambled Dregs said...

Review up at Dregs and Novel Reviews. Also linked to a previous interview.

I did get Collins posted, too, but blogger didn't like my comment.

~ Brandilyn Collins said...

Info up at Forensics & Faith. Congrats, Nicole, on making #1 on Technorati!

Kimmy Rae said...

Sung to crazy frog...

Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping
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Blog Blog...

-The Kimmy

Janis Rodgers said...

Post is up at The Nearsighted Bookworm!

Marjorie Vawter said...

Posted

Pepper said...

Mines up

Courtney said...

up at amomspeaks.com