News From the Author

The HooK has done it again, great supporters of the arts that they are. Thank you, Editor Spencer, for posting ‘the best debut novel review’ item and referencing the Copley News Service national review of White Lies. And continued thanks to New Dominion Bookstore for carrying the book and suggesting it to book clubs, fiction readers, and parents. They’ll be handling sales at the Keswick Club Book Club luncheon in late September. Without the enthusiastic support of booksellers and reviewers books would languish on the shelves. Even the one sentence reviews on Amazon by Amazon customers helps spread the word to other readers, book clubs, and libraries. So thanks to all my readers. Second book has gone to the editor in hopes that it can be released in 2008.

Kim Stagliano has posted a provocative comment on the web and the comments are pouring in. Cover up, she says. While medical authorities differ, the government doctors at the omnibus hearings hurt their credibility by insisting there’s no rise in autism, while they say at the same time that they have redirected their studies to autism in the last ten years. Why would a doctor do that if there was no rise in the disease???? 

Bend, Oregon’s weekly newspaper printed the Copley News Service review the day it was posted on Copley. Who knew that Bend, Oregon was a literary smorgasbord? When I head west on book tour, I’m going there. Thank you, Bend.

Next week we’re off to the ocean in Massachusetts, with a stop on the way for a book club on Nantucket. Peach roses hugging trellises across cobalt ocean panoramas, my kind of heaven. Suffolk co-ed book club hosted me at dinner in June and were as well read a group as I’ve had. I’ll be available for more Virginia book clubs in September. and Washington, DC friends can hear me speak at the Capital Book Fest at the Maryland Capital Center on Saturday October 6.

Here’s what another reader says about White Lies:

Inspired by an actual case, attorney-turned-author Sarah Collins Honenberger brings to light the reality of vaccine injuries and the controversies over the government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund in her new novel, White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception.

The author has beautifully combined an expose of a tragic national issue with the impact it has on the lives of the protagonist lawyer, her family, and the woman and child she represents. The characters are alive, and the settings of towns and courtrooms are believable because they are drawn with such exacting care. But it is the story itself that is riveting. The struggle to get justice for a child hopelessly damaged by medical incompetance and bad policy is told competently and quietly, and will not fail to engage and enrage the reader. This easy-to-read and hard-to-forget book belongs on every parent’s bookshelf.

Thank you to Shirley of Shirley’s Wellness Cafe(online).