What's Next?

Look for My Girl, Mary Pearl in your favorite bookstores in 2012. A collection of oral histories from Alabama School for the Blind, Alabama School for the Deaf, and Alabama School for Negro Deaf and Blind, it takes a look at a vanishing culture. Do you know any alumni from those schools? Have them contact me by email or telephone -- I want to hear their stories! Read an excerpt now.

 

More from the Contractor's Book of Excuses...

...Karyn Kay Zweifel was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, a small town chiefly known as the home of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. For miles around, friendly signs on the major roads advise motorists not to pick up hitchhikers -- they may be escaping convicts.

 

Thanks for coming to the Local Authors Expo Saturday!

Friends of the Birmingham Public Library hosted a Local Authors Expo on Saturday, December 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dozens of local authors were at the downtown library, selling and signing their books. I was there with all my books: The Contractors' Book of Excuses, Alabama Arts, Covered Bridge Ghost Stories, Dog-Gone Ghost Stories, Gorgeous Georgia, The Big Bad Book of Ghosts and Southern Vampires.

Books make great Christmas and holiday gifts -- easy to wrap, simple to ship, and who doesn't love a new book? I've found about a half-dozen first editions of my first three books, and I'm so pleased to be able to offer them for sale here on my website. I will be happy to autograph them and personalize them, too. But shop early -- there is only a limited quantity available!These are autographed, first edition books at a great price. Shop now and feel smug later when everybody else is all in a tizzy finishing out their holiday shopping.

Read more about the Local Authors Expo.

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I know you're thinking about Christmas, but really, Valentine's Day is going to be here before you know it! Take care of it now & there will be no need to panic later. Commission a poem written especially for your sweetheart...put this writer to work! For less than a dozen roses, you can have a poem composed especially for your sweetie. Click and buy it now!

True life, truly funny

Have you ever had a leaky faucet, a broken window or a squeaky step? Then you're prepared for Karyn's newest book, The Contractor's Book of Excuses. A generous 7-1/2" square gift book, it has eighty-six pages of outrageous reasons why the person you needed the most didn't show up. "I had to take my mother to Florida;" "Would you believe the plumber's helper did it?" "I had to bail my girlfriend out of jail" and more, all true and truly funny. Buy it now...

What's your story?

If you have a story to tell, let Karyn write it. Features, books, editorials, personal essays, ghosted or not. Her next book (to be published in 2010 by Gallaudet University Press) is a collection of oral histories from alumni of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. She has ghostwritten several projects and is always open to new projects. Past books include Southern Vampires, selected by the American Library Association as a "Quick Pick," Great American Golf and The Big Bad Book of Ghosts. She regularly contributes to several regional magazines and ezines.

Say it online

Everybody's doing it. If you need a personal or professional website, Karyn can help. Working as part of a new media team, she can provide you with content that shines. Website content differs from other corporate communications in a number of ways. Organizing the information for multiple entry points, choosing and incorporating key words and creating interactivity are just a few factors. This site was written and designed by Karyn Zweifel. If you're nice to her, she might work on your website too.

A yarn to spin

Karyn is a passionate believer in the power of words. Myths, fairy tales, ghost stories, folk tales: she loves 'em all. If you've got an audience, she has a story for them, young and old.