Look for My Girl, Mary Pearl in your favorite bookstores in 2010. 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!
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. She began writing almost immediately. Her first literary project, at age six, was a puppet show, featuring brown paper bag puppets. All the characters were dead by the end of the show.
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...
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.
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.
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.