{"id":3198,"date":"2014-09-02T12:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:48:54","slug":"fionas-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"FIONA’S ON FIRE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fun never stops. \u00a0Junior is preparing to attend university, I’m entering the final stages of proofreading the novel and will be able to order copies for the launch Oct. 2 while intensively programming this year’s Visible Verse Festival. My gig at the Visitor Info Centre just finished and so I’m pounding the pavement as well. Here’s the press release for the book launch. I hope to see you there.<\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE TOWN SLUT’S DAUGHTER <\/strong><\/p>\n

Book Launch Party<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thurs, Oct. 2, 7:30 pm<\/p>\n

Slickity Jim’s-3469 Main St, Vancouver<\/p>\n

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THE TOWN SLUT’S DAUGHTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not even punk rock could save her<\/em><\/p>\n

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With a staccato narrative style and singular descriptive cadence, Canadian poet Heather Haley’s debut novel, “The Town Slut’s Daughter,” engages the reader through deftly drawn characters and a series of startling events.<\/p>\n

Fiona Larochelle flees a harrowing home life only to land in Vancouver’s violently blazing punk rock underground. Music provides a catalyst when she mines a talent for singing and songwriting to form an all-girl band, the Virgin Marries. After the group breaks up, Fiona is stranded in the U.S. and forced to navigate a minefield of vice, drug abuse, jealous lovers and predatory record producers as she works to rebuild her dream. She discovers that although rage may have facilitated her quest in the beginning, it cannot deliver her. Amid the tumult of the LA Riots, Fiona bolts from her cocaine-fueled marriage to a modern-day Bluebeard. Throughout it all, a fierce, indomitable spirit prevails.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaley chronicles the punk scene with insight gleaned from the mosh pit, backstage and onstage fronting her band the Zellots. It was a grimy few years when poverty was a style and anyone with the guts to get onstage could be a star. Haley has written a coming-of-age-novel in which Holden Caulfield is a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.\u201d-Les Wiseman, Vancouver Magazine<\/em>, Bloodied But Unbowed<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cQuick and nervy, this book vibrates with the intensity of the punk scene it describes.\u201d- Janice Erlbaum, author of GirlBomb<\/em> and Have You Found Her: A Memoir<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Town Slut’s Daughter<\/em> is a wild romp through the madness of youth, a pagan celebration of life and living. But be warned Heather Haley is no lady. She’ll kick the ball right in your face and it will hurt.”-Chris Walter, author of East Van<\/em> and Chase the Dragon<\/em><\/p>\n

CONTACT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Howe Sound Publishing<\/p>\n

778 868-5845<\/p>\n

howesoundpublishing@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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