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Author Interview from BookStopCorner...

Author Q&A Session : With Mona Rodriguez



Welcome to an all new author interview session, and today I present you the author who has spun a family saga which is thoroughly compelling. Inspired by her own family story, Mona Rodriguez wrote her very first book, "Forty Years in a Day", and she is here on BookStopCorner to talk about those family secrets, her book, her journey and her life beyond books.
 Read the interview to know more about this incredible first time author.
 Read the review of Forty Years in a Day

Thank you Aditi Saha at BookStopCorner!

ARBITER NEWS INTERVIEW...

Thank you Laura Sesana and Arbiter News!

Meet the Author: Forty Years In A Day by Mona RodriguezPosted by Arbiter Bookworms on February 15, 2015 in Meet the Author | 23 Views | Leave a response

We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mona Rodriguez, author of   Forty Years In A Day.

ANOTHER ANGEL...

I am deeply saddened by the loss of mydear friend and cousin Dianne Vigorito.I am fortunate to have had the pleasure of working with Dianne on Forty Years In A Dayand sharing in this extraordinary journey with her.Her warmth and friendship will be missed.I know heaven has been blessed with another angel.

New Review from BookStopCorner..."the book is devastatingly beautiful"

BookStopCorner
"A thought-provoking family saga set in New York in the
1900s, which is so good that it will pull you into its deepest
core of pain, love and grief!

In a nutshell, I would like to say the plot is exceptionally
fantastic, and the authors not only take us back in time and
era, but also take us to our favorite city in the world-New
York-and they have captured New York very vividly with their
exquisite words and visual way of story-telling!"

                                                                                              ...Aditi Saha

READ ENTIRE REVIEW

WHAT BOOKS DO FOR THE HUMAN SOUL...

IT SAVES YOU TIMEIt looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver — because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.IT MAKES YOU NICERLiterature performs the basic magic of what things look like though someone else’s point of view; it allows us to consider the consequences of our actions on others in a way we otherwise wouldn’t; and it shows us examples of kindly, generous, sympathetic people.Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system — the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side — they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-conscious, and cynical world.IT’S A CURE FOR LONELINESSWe’re weirder than we like to admit. We often can’t say what’s really on our minds. But in books we find descriptions of who we genuinely are and what events, described with an honesty quite different from what ordinary conversation allows for. In the best books, it’s as if the writer knows us better than we know ourselves — they find the words to describe the fragile, weird, special experiences of our inner lives… Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves, so that we can travel in them more reliably and with less of a feeling of paranoia or persecution…IT PREPARES YOU FOR FAILUREAll of our lives, one of our greatest fears is of failure, of messing up, of becoming, as the tabloids put it, “a loser.” Every day, the media takes us into stories of failure. Interestingly, a lot of literature is also about failure — in one way or another, a great many novels, plays, poems are about people who messed up… Great books don’t judge as harshly or as one-dimensionally as the media…

SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFER!

We are trying to get the word out and increase feedback about
our book on the web. Therefore, we are offering the first
20 readers a FREE SIGNED COPY and BOOKMARK 
(plus free shipping) if they are able to write a review on
AMAZON about our story. Please note that this offer is
only available in the 48 contiguous United States.
Please go to AMAZON  to write your review, and just send a link to your review via the Contact Form our website or directly to fortyyearsinaday@gmail.com with your name and address, and we will send you a free personalized signed copy.    
 GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT IDEA!

If you have any other questions or comments, please don't hesitate to ask. Happy Holidays,
Mona Rodriguez and Dianne Vigorito

Woohoo!

“This astonishing and powerful debut novel begins in 1900 and follows the incredible journey of a young mother and her four children as they escape from Italy into the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Victoria strives for betterment and a taste of the great American dream. Spanning forty years of triumphs and disappointments for Victoria and her children as they strive for betterment and a taste of the great American dream, Rodriguez and Vigorito’s finely observed tale is riveting. As a reflection of immigrant life in the early 1900s, it’s altogether epic, sweeping the reader along on a journey that’s both inexorable and poignant.”

THE REVIEW...

Today Lisl reviews Forty Years in a Day, a novel of family written by a cousin duo, Mona Rodriguez and Dianne Vigorito, and she has **two** copies for giveaway! Simply comment at the review or here at **this**thread.


The Review Group: Lisl Reviews: Forty Years in a Day - thereviewgroup.blogspot.comhttp://thereviewgroup.blogspot.com/2014/08/lisl-reviews-forty-years-in-day.html

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