Recently I got an email from my Aunt Francie: "CHECK THIS OUT!" Her link pointed to the web site of Jeanne Darst, Francie's third cousin and therefore, my fourth; who (from the hot vaudeville-esque web site alone) looks like a kickass writer. I got in touch with her to say hello, and immediately found out that (1) she's published in the October 2011 Vogue, and (2) she just released a book called Fiction Ruined My Family!
Francie is already reading it. So far, she says, "it's funny, clever and irreverent." I ordered it for my Kindle and can't wait to read it--maybe around Christmas, maybe en route to Belize?--when all of my novel research is done! But BRAVA, sharer-of-our-genes, and we Tietjens, Mers, Wysongs, Wieners and Byrnes wish you all the best! --MCB
She looks ridunkulously like Mary Anne in college in that picture!
Posted by: Julie | October 11, 2011 at 11:48 PM