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I love your wardrobe here. Perfect for television. I would though find someone to apply a light tint to your face (not caramel in color in January ), powder, blush, brush the eyebrows and apply a shade to the lids or mascara to the eyelashes. tv is different.

Men do it.

Of course I will be watching. My aunt will be, too!

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I think you look perfect in the above photo!

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I just received this review from one of my booksellers in Saratoga Springs. We’re spreading the news!

Nancy Scheemaker (nscheemaker@northshire.com) from Northshire has submitted a review/blurb for The Waters. You can also see this review on the Edelweiss site in the 'Reviews' tab.

Nancy submitted this review directly to Indie Next List

Nancy submitted this review directly to Best of Edelweiss Fiction Community

Summary: Highly Recommending

Review:

The women portrayed in Bonnie Jo Campbell's latest novel, The Waters, are a rugged and enchanting lot who live reclusively on Massasauga Island, accessible only by a floating narrow drawbridge, designed to keep the local men out and the landscape unscathed by heavy boots and human carelessness. Hermine Zook has long been the "witch" and town's healer in remote Whiteheart, Michigan, revered and loathed for her hand in assisting women and now raising 11 year old Donkey, left by her own beautiful daughter Rose Thorn, who suffers from a mysterious past. Read this novel for the exceptional associations drawn between women and nature, its lucid portrayal of a rural town community, and Donkey's awakening - a passion for science, the familial ties that bind, and also the Massasauga rattlesnake.

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take the blowout!

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I'm so excited for you! I would be OBSESSING over what to wear. I think yours is a great choice. I agree with Gina--let them put natural looking makeup on. I went on a local TV show when I was young, dew-y, and insisted on no make-up. I looked like a ghost! Never again, and although the makeup looked "stagey", it looked natural under the lights. Break a leg!

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Just be quintessential you in word and appearance and you will be fine. Both you and television hosts are about Storytelling, and you are a superb one. So relax, have fun and enjoy the time with a storyteller of another genre.

Still reading Waters. I love how the tale flows around local native plants.

great humor too, as in the Zook name for the New Directions church.

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Your outfit choice is lovely! Be your intelligent, lovely self and all will be well. Sending lots of love and good juju!

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Perfect. Everything. Waters scarf you don't want to waste time talking about. Joslin, I can't decide about jeans. They might seem more on purpose than those quiet pants, like you left a donkey offstage. The TV people will help!

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I will be watching you. I'm thrilled that your work will reach a wider audience. The New York Times sent me to your book Once Upon A River, then I ordered the rest of your books. As a Michiganander, I was amazed by your accurate depiction of the rural rust belt. I also crowned you Queen of Simile. Reading your short stories, I would stop reading and stare at my surroundings, thinking it would take me all day to come up with one of your descriptions.

I'm seriously thinking of taking my mom, and schlepping across the state to KZoo to go to your book signing.

As a girl with big feet, why are the "appropriate" shoes always tight. We wear them but rue the day.

Enjoy your time in NYC

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I love the outfit you have on in the photo above. Would your “waters” scarf work with this as well? You will be absolutely amazing- just be you.

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