Official Publication Day! 

Meli's Way
by Meredith Sue Willis

Today is the official publication date for my 

new young adult novel, Meli's Way. It is being published by an excellent small press,Montemayor Press, and it has already received some excellent reviews that you can look at here.

Publication day, of course, is a fiction-- the imaginary day when a book is available everywhere. I'm using the day to announce it to you, and ask you to consider reading the opening here.

It would be a great favor, if you know or are related to a teacher, a librarian, or a young teen, to pass on the word about the book.

It can be ordered from the publisher's web site or from the usual online suspects,Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

For more information, contactmail@montemayorpress.com

ISBN 978-1-932727-15-9   •  Original Paperback  •   US        $15.95

     

 

IL TROVATORE with Ken and Linda!

We had a really nice day in the city yesterday with Ken and Linda who gave us tickets to Il Trovatore, my new favorite opera.  All melodrama!  The best people dead at the end!  Jealousy/woman-as-territory-to-conquer-and-hold!  Anna Netrebko in incredible rich voice as Leonora, a young guy named Yonghoon Lee as a slim, energetic, powerful Manrico, and the possibly dying baritone with the white hair and brain tumor Dmitri Hvorostovsky so excellently, torturedly, evil.  Big crowd scenes of soldiers and gypsies, the Anvil chorus!  What fun!

And dinner and good conversation afterward at La Mirabelle a family owned bistro up on 86nd Street and Columbus with charming small older françaises dishing out excellent food and saying bon appetit.

Beautiful day in spite of bursts of spitty rain.