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Menopause Sucks
By Elaine Ambrose
This national best-selling book describes the changes women go through during menopause, including why menopausal women sneeze, fart, and wet their pants all at the same time. Women sweltering in their own private tropical forest will find interesting facts surrounded by humorous anecdotes that will make them laugh instead of break something. And, it has a happy ending. Menopause eventually ends and women are free at last.
Available from elaineambrose.com and from amazon.com.
Drinking with Dead Women Writers
By Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner
This book won awards for Fiction, Best Cover Design, Best Author, and Best Interior Design from the Idaho Book Extravaganza Book Competition.
Idaho authors Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner share their talents for storytelling in a sassy new book about 16 famous dead women writers.
Most early female writers used pen names because women weren’t regarded as competent writers. Margaret Mitchell wrote only one published novel in her lifetime, but *Gone with the Wind *won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and sold more than 30 million copies. Emily Dickinson was so paranoid that she only spoke to people from behind a door. Carson McCullers wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at age 22. Her husband wanted them to commit suicide in the French countryside, but she refused. Ambrose and Turner explore these and other intriguing facts about the most famous women in literary history.
“I was completely enthralled by DRINKING WITH DEAD WOMEN WRITERS, as Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner took turns in a fantastical romp through literature and drink, tossing back cocktails with some of the greatest female voices in literary history, cracking wise, prodding for answers to insightful questions, allowing us to know these writers and their minds in essays both hilarious and thoughtful. A rare mix of cleverness and intellect, and a total blast to read.”
-Alan Heathcock, award winning author of VOLT
Ambrose is the author of Menopause Sucks and an author of five other books. Her short stories and feature articles appear in several anthologies and magazines. Turner is the creator of “The Writers’ Block” on Radio Boise. She writes a humor column for the Boise City Revue and served as a Writer-in-Residence.
Drinking with Dead Women Writers is available from Mill Park Publishing, local book sellers and Amazon.com in paperback or ebook format.
Drinking with Dead Drunks
By Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to share a drink with Ernest Hemingway or Jack London? Authors Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner take you on imaginary meetings with 16 famous – but dead – writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, John Cheever, and Willuam Faulkner. Their actual quotes are used to create clever cocktail conversations. This book is a sequel to Drinking with Dead Women Writers – a literary romp with 16 famous and equally dead women writers.
Both books are available for only $10 each plus shipping.
Little White Dress
Edited By Liza Long
This book won a Bronze Award in the Womens Issues Category from the 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards Program (IPPY).
A simple message on Facebook about observing used wedding dresses at thrift shops captured the attention and creative skills of 25 women who spontaneously gathered in one day to write their stories about “The Dress.” Six weeks later, Mill Park Publishing had compiled the stories into a book.
Award-winning author Alan Heathcock wrote this review for the back cover:
“If I learned something about women from this awesome little book, it’s that each has her own dress, her own story; some of hopes fulfilled, some tragic, some funny, all compelling. Little White Dress holds the truths of humanity stitched into every poem and story. It sometimes made me laugh, sometimes made me somber, but always made me consider how the value of the dress has little to do with the fabric.”
The book is available for $10.00 (plus Idaho sales tax) from Mill Park Publishing, Amazon.com, and some Boise stores.
Daily Erotica: 366 Poems of Passion
By Elaine Ambrose, G. Anderson, R. Hatch, L. Long
Looking for your lost libido? Read just one poem a day from this fabulous book!
Daily Erotica – 366 Poems of Passion was written by four women who met at a writer’s group in Eagle, Idaho. Their poems are to be read out loud, one for every day of the year, and shared with a true love.
Sample Poem:
November 23
Your whispers of love
sing in my ears
and turn to sweet music
that moves my soul
and joins the tempo of our hearts
to beat as one.
