Diane Frank: Contra dancing novelist

Novel by Contra Dancer!
Blackberries in the Dream House by Diane Frank

Diane says: "My second novel has been spinning into being - 102 pages so far. It is
absolutely a contra dance novel, and like Blackberries, about the journey of
love and art. The title is, The Yoga of the Impossible."

Blackberries in the Dream House, the forbidden love story of a geisha and a
Buddhist monk in Kyoto, Japan 150 years ago, introduces a new voice in American
Prose Fiction. The author is an award-winning poet, and her novel is deeply
feminine, erotic and metaphysical. Blackberries has the intrigue of Memoirs of
a Geisha but is set in an older, artistically flowering Japan. Because of the
beauty and power of its language, Blackberries has been nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize. The author researched her novel in the geisha districts of
Kyoto, but added her unique artistic flair in the genre of magical realism. This
exotic love story will turn you on and heal your heart!

"Feisty, healing, sensual water to pour on the world right now."
Caroline Casey, Visionary Activist, KPFA

Pierre DeLattre, author of Walking on Air and Tales of a Dalai Lama,
describes the book like this: "What would happen to us if we were to undertake the
discipline of turning our life entirely and self-consciously into a poem?
Through Yukiko, who becomes both a contemplative Buddhist and a geisha skilled in
the refinements of sensuous pleasure, Diane Frank allows us to live within the
soul of a young woman who has undertaken to create a life imagined and
expressed as a poem, in every moment, waking and sleeping, making love or meditating.
With its power of language, Blackberries in the Dream House will seduce many
readers into considering whether a prosaic life is the only choice we have."

"Blackberries in the Dream House made me weep from its beauty. The language
is breathtaking, and the book is filled with light."
Jennifer Hawthorne, Bestselling Author
Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

The exotic story appeals to even those who are not literary types. Seduced by
the beautiful language, readers will come to realize the sacredness of both
the sensual and the spiritual within themselves.

"Blackberries concerns the deepest meaning of love. Filled with the sensual
delights of two bodies in love, this novel flows with color and texture."
The Santa Cruz Sentinel

Books are available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and many
Independent Book Stores. For credit card orders, call 21st Century Bookstore...
1-800-593-2665 or log onto www.21stbooks.com.

You can also order the book directly from my publisher with this link:
http://store.yahoo.com/1stworldlibrary/blindrho.html

Author: Diane Frank * Tel: 415-665-7978 * GeishaPoet@aol.com
ISBN: 1-887472-68-1 Price: $17.95
Distributor: Ingram
Publisher: 1st World Library
Website: www.dianefrank.net

To schedule book tour events, contact:
Publicist: Brianna Delott Tel: 641-472-0284 Cell: 641-919-4488
brianna@lisco.com (Brianna Delott)

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