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Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
718
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 01:37 pm: |   |
True Blue Forever
Second Edition
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available to order from Author's Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Includes Bonus Feature--"On The Way to Forever"
For those of you who haven't read it already, here's one of my favorite reader reviews:
Ms. Scarbrough has a wonderful storytelling skill that is evident from the first page of this delightful little gem, True Blue Forever. The characters are three-dimensional, completely believable, and I know I will miss them when I'm done.
Ms. Scarbrough has a wonderful grasp on the structure of dialogue between her characters, and one forgets while reading that he is, in fact, reading--one of the great true tests of a good writer. And the character development is as good as I've seen from any author, even the most well known in our pop culture.
The many emotional and psychological layers explored in the lives of her characters and in the relationships they share add so much depth to this story and render every relationship in this book full of life and color. Wade is reprehensible--we know that--but Wade has a history with Jeana, one that transcends a flippant tossing him off as a thug or a jerk. We care about Wade, even in his imperfection. And Ms. Scarbrough's natural ability to weave such a spectacular and multi-layered story is to blame. It's her fault. 
Thanks again to LaurieAnne for believing in my first born!
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough |
Harry Simenon
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
804
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 02:11 pm: | |
That's great news Toyce, Joyce, Ms. Scarbrough! |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2898
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 03:05 pm: | |
And at $13, a much better buy than your former publisher...
Unfortunate that it's still sold on Amazon by them.
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Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
719
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 03:39 pm: | |
Actually, Todd, the only thing available on Amazon.com is one used copy of the former version at a whopping price of $61.42! Don't know what the deal is with that, but I don't think anyone will be buying it!
Yes, Harry, I'm a multi-monikered woman, and that wasn't even including my husband's favorite nickname for me--Busty LaRoux (borrowed from Homer Simpson). 
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available from Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and check out Champagne Books http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
4151
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 04:23 pm: | |
That's wonderful Joyce. I'm so happy for you. Love the cover too.
The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
My Name is Esther Clara - coming soon
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Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
Post Number:
1639
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 05:05 pm: | |
Woo-hoo!
The cover is great!
Gloria
Gloria
The Butterfly Game
Shades of Silence
Flowers for Megan (Now available)
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2899
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 05:42 pm: | |
Darn, there goes my plan of selling the copy I have, and buying four more of the new one...
:-P
May your new version sell millions, dear...
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Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1824
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 07:27 pm: | |
Congratulations Joycie-poo!
Jennifer Lynn
www.jenniferlynn.ca |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1534
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 07:49 pm: | |
Looks good JT...
Hope it experiences a better fate with this publisher than with Brand X.
Lots of luck with it, Joyce. I know what the story means to you.
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Nancy Mehl
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2290
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 09:23 pm: | |
Wonderful news, Joyce!
Nancy
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Frederick A. Babb
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
406
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 03:23 am: | |
Great Joyce!
I am sure this time around the book will be given the chance it truly deserves!!!!!!
Preview books: http://www.frederickbabb.bravehost.com |
Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
272
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 05:30 am: | |
$61??? I'd better dig out my copy. I'm pretty sure it's autographed...I'll be rich!
Good on you, Toyce.
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
tracy sutterer
Wandering Member
Post Number:
142
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 10:39 am: | |
It looks great, Joyce! I wish you the very best!
Tracy |
Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2145
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 - 05:15 am: | |
my prayer is that you enjoy great success
http://www.perrycomer.com
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F.E. Mazur
Wandering Member
Post Number:
137
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 - 05:39 am: | |
Yes, Joyce, the best of luck this time around with TBF. After we exchanged earlier this year, I took your story with me to New York to read, but got sidetracked by countless other things just as I began it. So I've got it with others for reading this winter. But I can tell you right now, that based on the couple of chapters I did read during the summer, if I were still teaching junior high, I would be inclined to order your book for the class (although I would certainly finish it first). I hope there are teachers out there still practicing who will do the same, based on some of the recommendations from others.
Again, good luck.
Spine
The Buckseller |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
720
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 - 11:43 am: | |
Thanks, everyone, for all the encouragement and support!
Frank, most of my promotional efforts this time will be aimed at getting schools to use it for a novel study since it's reasonably priced now. However, I'll be concentrating on high schools because I know middle schools in the South would balk at the sex and profanity, mild as it is.
My daughter read it when she was 12 and we had some great discussions about abstention, teenage drinking, responsibility, etc., but too many parents seem to avoid that kind of stuff at all costs. Sure, let them hear about it from their peers and the mindless teenage idiot movies out there, right?
BTW, the wild-haired Billy Joe lookalike on the cover is my son TJ, and the batter with the hot legs is my husband in high school. (He's also one of the football players.) LA gets all the credit for coming up with the cover idea and the artwork.
Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
Coming from Authors Ink Books
November, 2005
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Senior Editor
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1280
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2005 - 01:33 pm: | |
I miss the big hair era. Does anyone still rat their hair?
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1539
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 08, 2005 - 04:32 pm: | |
Fred,
Joyce doesn't have rats in her hair, but she does have these tiny little bugs she can't get rid of. What? Oh, that's not what you said? Sorry.
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
275
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 06:46 am: | |
Trying to pick a fight with Joyce, Bill? Looks like you drove Sheila off. Where is she, anyway?
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1540
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 08:17 am: | |
One does not pick a fight with Joyce, one arms oneself to the teeth and waits.
Sheila was destroyed in the picture battle. She surrendered in disgrace and limped home.
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
721
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 08:51 am: | |
Bill, at least I have hair!
That was just too easy.
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available to order from Author's Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and check out Champagne Books http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1285
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 12:39 pm: | |
You're with Champagne Books, aren't you? I'm still trying to get a publisher for my latest manuscript. I might fare better if Yukon Jack Canadian Whisky had an imprint.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1541
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 03:21 pm: | |
You would deride the condition on an unfortunate who suffers being follicle challenged? What kind of person are you?
By the way, what did you do with Lee Ann?
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
722
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 04:52 pm: | |
Hey, you started it, Bill. Lee Ann is busy editing the 97 manuscripts Jenn assigns to us each release period.
Fred, maybe you could take up writing in a nearby stream and submit to Whiskey Creek Press. 
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available to order from Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and check out Champagne Books http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2901
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 06:19 pm: | |
I find it tough enough to edit one...97? Yikes.
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Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
725
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 08:12 am: | |
Well, I might have exaggerated a little.
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available to order from Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and check out Champagne Books http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1825
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 11:29 am: | |
(raises an eyebrow) A little???
Jennifer Lynn
www.jenniferlynn.ca |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2905
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 04:36 pm: | |
We know you're a slavedriver, Jenn...
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1291
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 09:46 pm: | |
Make them pull as a team. For those who may be unfamiliar with the Canadian dialect, the proper commands are: Mush (forward), Whoa (stop), Gee (left) and Haw (right).
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
276
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 06:57 am: | |
Really? I always thought gee was right, haw was left.
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1544
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 09:24 am: | |
Remember, Tom, they are north of Mason-Dixon.
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2913
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 02:05 pm: | |
Be careful...no one likes to be have their gee-haw'd mixed up...
*boooooo, hissssssss*
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1546
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 02:16 pm: | |
Todd,
You are so right. I got a haw mixed up with a gee once and, well, I want to tell you it took a long time to get the woman and the cat down from the tree.
And there is no use even talking about the ostrich feathers. Shee. They were completely ruined.
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
279
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 08:01 am: | |
Yes Bill - you only use them on mules.
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
LA
Unity Member
Post Number:
2125
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 09:58 am: | |
Wow. It's been...what...two months almost since I popped in over here, hasn't it? I shouldn't even be on the computer right now. I have a pile of manuscripts yet to get through. So, here's a "Howdy!" from little ol' me.
Joyce, honey, thanks for the credit, but I'd say it was an awesome fair split.
Any woman who reads True Blue Forever had best have a decent package of tissues handy. As for you guys, I won't even insinuate that you might spill water from your eyes. My husband refuses to be my guinea pig for that test. But I know that none of my reading group made it through TBF in one piece.
Anyhow, the 2-hour choir practices are done, the Christmas Cantata has been successfully performed, my voice made it through without cracking, and I'm looking forward to actually seeing my desk uncovered. (And since I have the next week off of the day job--that's right, the first I've had more than 1.5 days since early 2002--I should actually be able to make a little headway.)
Well, I see it's been pretty quiet around here, and I'm not sure when I'll have an opportunity to pop back in again. I believe that my 15 minutes of free time for the day are efficiently used up.
Blessings all,
LA
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SHADES OF SILENCE, Gloria Davidson Marlow ISBN 0-9722385-6-5 |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
731
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 02:37 pm: | |
Hee hee... I live to make readers cry! 
Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Senior Editor
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2936
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 03:45 pm: | |
So, you're still using a baseball bat to shatter their knees?
hee hee
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Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
734
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 08:26 pm: | |
Whatever it takes, Flyboy! Hence the hunky batter on the cover.
BTW, I'm on chapter 19 of FID!
Toyce
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Now available to order from Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and check out Champagne Books http://www.champagnebooks.com |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2940
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 11:30 am: | |
Glad to hear it...
That gives me some time to finish up all the other things I have to do before jumping back in to writing mode.
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
3807
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:32 am: | |
Sometimes, it's just interesting to read some of these older threads...
Joyce, how's this book doing nowadays?
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Joyce Scarbrough
Unity Member
Post Number:
1258
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 07:50 pm: | |
Still making tough guys cry and grown women swoon over Billy Joe. Here's the most recent review I got from Carolyn Howard-Johnson for MyShelf.com:
"That True Blue Forever, by Joyce Sterling Scarbrough, is set in Alabama decades ago is the reason this book feels so nostalgic; it's also the reason the story rings true. It is hard to find a book quite like this one these days, because life is different now. Many say that truth is stranger than fiction. Here is a coming-of-age story, a romance, a high school romp. It is like many I have read and yet so unlike them. Told from Jeana Russell's point of view, it recalls a time that now seems lost in fog. A time when pregnancy was the major fear, and when young people cared at least as much about one another as they did about the college they might attend. It is full of rah-rah stuff and personalities. The jock. The intellectual. The kid who has trouble getting the girl in spite of a personality and a sense of humor so memorable that I am still in love with him weeks after reading the book.
The thing that makes True Blue so unusual is the way Jeana handles the problem she faces. To tell you what that is might prove to be a spoiler. Let's just say that it appears that her approach to it seems so improbable that one has to believe it. It sets the reader to wondering why a bright young girl would make the decisions our protagonist did. At first I thought Jeana's decisions curious because she lived in a different time, but that didn't set quite right. The answer I settled on was influenced by the recent UCLA study that shows the matter in our frontal lobes is not fully developed until we are about 25 years old. (It’s a bit earlier for girls but not early enough to save them from some very bad decisions in high school). That brought the story up-to-date. It is highly unlikely that the human brain will begin to mature more quickly anytime soon, so it goes back to that lack-of-judgment thing. Teens then and now might react as Jeana did. Flawed reasoning might get them into a whole lot of hot water."
~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
ISBN 0-9722385-3-0
Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com
Read the first chapters: http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog: http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com
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