JUST ONE LOOK, <\/span><\/span>&<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019LL BE SEEING YOU<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n by <\/span><\/span>Joanne Kukanza Easley<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Family Saga \/ Women\u2019s Fiction \/ Historical Fiction <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Red Boots Press<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Pages: 279 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publication Date: September 17, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2019 Wisdom-Faulkner Award finalist<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n 2020 Adult Fiction winner Texas Author Project<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n 2020 Sarton Award Finalist<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n 2020 Eric Hoffer Award Short List<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n A drunken mother makes childhood ugly. Jane runs away at sixteen, determined to leave her fraught upbringing in the rearview. Vowing never to return, she hitchhikes to California, right on time for the Summer of Love. Seventeen years later, she looks good on paper: married, grad school, sober, but her carefully constructed life is crumbling. When Mama dies, Jane returns for the funeral, leaving her husband in the dark about her history. Seeing her childhood home and significant people from her youth catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n | Amazon<\/a> | Barnes & Noble<\/a> | Book Depository<\/a> | <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n | IndieBound<\/a> | Kobo<\/a> |<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Family Saga \/ Women\u2019s Fiction \/ Historical Fiction <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Red Boots Press<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Pages: 293 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publication Date: September 17, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n May 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Pick<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Shelf Unbound 2021 Notable 100 Best Indie Books<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Recommended by the US Review of Books<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n In 1965 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Dani Marek declares she\u2019s in love, and you best believe it. This is no crush, and for six blissful years she fills her hope chest with linens, dinnerware, and dreams of an idyllic future with John. When he is killed in action in Viet Nam, Dani\u2019s world shatters. She launches a one-woman vendetta against the men she seeks out in Rush Street\u2019s singles bars. Her goal: break as many hearts as she can. Dani\u2019s ill-conceived vengeance leads her to a loveless marriage that ends in tragedy. At twenty-four, she\u2019s left a widow with a baby, a small fortune, and a ghost\u2014make that two. Set in the turbulent Sixties and Seventies, Just One Look explores one woman\u2019s tumultuous journey through grief, denial, and letting go.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n | Amazon<\/a> | Barnes & Noble<\/a> | Book Depository<\/a> |<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n | IndieBound<\/a> | Kobo<\/a> |<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Family Saga \/ Women\u2019s Fiction \/ Addiction & Recovery \/ Historical Fiction <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Red Boots Press<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Pages: 227 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publication Date: August 28, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The new release from Joanne Kukanza Easley, the multi-award-winning author of Sweet Jane and Just One Look<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n A saga spanning five decades, I\u2019ll Be Seeing You, explores one woman\u2019s life, with and without alcohol to numb the pain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Young Lauren knows she doesn\u2019t want to be a ranch wife in Palo Pinto County, Texas. After she\u2019s discovered by a modeling scout at the 1940 Fort Worth Stock Show Parade, she moves to Manhattan to begin her glamourous career. A setback ends her dream, and she drifts into alcohol dependence and promiscuity. By twenty-four, she\u2019s been widowed and divorced, and has developed a pattern of fleeing her problems with geographical cures. Lauren\u2019s last escape lands her in Austin, where, after ten chaotic years, she achieves lasting sobriety and starts a successful business, but happiness eludes her.<\/p>\n Fast forward to 1985. With a history of burning bridges and never looking back, Lauren is stunned when Brett, her third husband, resurfaces, wanting to reconcile after thirty-three years. The losses and regrets of the past engulf her, and she seeks the counsel of Jane, a long-time friend from AA. In the end, the choice is Lauren\u2019s. What will she decide?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n | Amazon<\/a> | Barnes & Noble<\/a> | Book Depository<\/a> | <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her multi-award-winning debut, Sweet Jane<\/em>, was named the adult fiction winner at the Texas Author Project and shortlisted for the Sarton Award and Eric Hoffer Award, among others. Just One Look<\/em>, Joanne\u2019s second novel was a May 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Pick. I\u2019ll Be Seeing You<\/em>, her third novel, features characters from Sweet Jane<\/em>. Her prize-winning short stories and poetry have appeared in several anthologies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n | Website<\/a> | Amazon<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> |<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n | Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | Goodreads<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> |<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Giveaway ended November 17, 2022<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click to visit participating blogs.<\/b><\/p>\n Those in bold are direct links to the blitz stops & bonus reviews and will be live on 11\/11\/22<\/b><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/cover_1_sweet_jane.jpg\")
Sweet Jane<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Just One Look<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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I’ll Be Seeing You<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: <\/b>A retired registered nurse with experience in both the cold, clinical operating room and the emotionally fraught world of psychiatric hospitals, Joanne lives on a small ranch in the Texas Hill Country, where she writes fiction about complicated, twentieth-century women. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/giveaway_easley_blitz.jpg\")
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