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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
 Remnants ready for new life
- Scottsdale Author launched by Scottsdale Publishing Firm in
time for your Holiday Reading List
December 2009 – You may not know the name Kiki Swanson, but
chances are her books have been in your midst. Right where the
lump in your throat meets the place in your heart, she gives us
hope that retirement living in Scottsdale can be rewarding with
her new book Remnants – ready for new life.
WHO: Kiki Swanson, author
www.kikiswansonbooks.com discovers for us five women coming
together in Scottsdale after a life time of joy and heartbreak
to rekindle their lifelong friendships in their senior years
with her new fiction release.
WHAT: Swanson writes about these unsung heroines in her
new book Remnants – ready for new life. Those humble
types who live ordinary lives until circumstances such as
divorce, death widowhood or alcoholism force them to rise above
the grief and pain to discover greater truths such as “life is
for the living to the end.”
WHEN: Remnants - ready for new life, recently
released by Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ,
is being launched now in time for your holiday reading list.
WHERE:
www.kikiswansonbooks.com Kiki Swanson, Scottsdale, AZ author
kikiswan@cox.net
ISBN# 978-0-981-7881-4-2
WHY: People are yearning for earnest heartfelt stories
they can relate to and learn from and Swanson delivers. Our
society discounts the importance of the senior community in our
society, while other cultures admire and honor them. Swanson
kikiswan@cox.net aims to change all that with the 2010 launching
of her book Remnants – ready for new life.
HOW: Swanson seeks to find the extraordinary in what
appears to be ordinary lives. Her lead character has gentle
courage, a spunky and funny demeanor, while quietly doing the
“right thing”, to make us smile.
Her readers will see themselves in her subjects; their strength,
love and courage too. Swanson understands it is people’s lives
she is dealing with and that they are important to the
storyline. She peaks our interest often in short chapters that
tie together nicely.
AUTHOR INFORMATION: As a minister in senior issues at her
church, Swanson was an “advice source” for many. Now her advice
is on paper in a loving and humorous fashion. She never forgets
that even in this fiction work, she is writing about real people
in some way.
Many told Swanson about their stories of loss and grief in her
church ministry with seniors. She heard hundreds of stories –
probably thousands – over the years. It was almost a relief to
write Remnants so people would come up to her and talk more
about friendships.
Swanson did not want to write a personal “tell all” and feels
honored by those people in her life who trusted her to use their
stories. She knew she had to be sensitive, a trait she honed
during her many years as a practicing minister.
This is a book about women with friendships that span a half
century, says Swanson, because these women have too much to
offer at this age: love, friendship and wisdom.
She fills in critical details and emotions needed as she weaves
the lives of Daisy and her friends together like Remnants onto a
warm winter quilt. With the permission of her friends to
embellish their stories and change names to produce a “new
fiction” work, Swanson is cautious but strong in her pursuit of
a good read.
PUBLISHERS COMMENTS: Swanson’s goals were met. She is
emphatic, sensitive and touching in her portrayal of the women
and their connections to each other. She’s both girlish and
womanly in her revelations of these women and their issues later
in life.
Are Swanson’s books good? (See www.kikiswansonbooks.com for
others) Yes, some are dramatic, or inspirational, some spin a
life into an engaging narrative, and another is oddly
entertaining. Her books reflect our hopes of the world we want
to know latter in life; filled with love and friendship,
happiness and “busyness.”
With our country in two wars, a floundering economy and horrible
stories on the evening news, we can get inside Remnants for 60
short chapters about women who have stayed friends forever, men
who love and support them and a dog named Curly who teaches them
the importance of loyalty one more time.
It is with earnestness that Daisy bonds with her friends at La
Ventura and reminds us to stick to our convictions in laughter
and in tears. Thank you Kiki Swanson for a fine read.
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