I recently checked to see if my thesis (which was the baby version of the Strega's Story) was entered into my alma mater's library computer system yet. Seems it wasn't even at the library and they had never heard of it, or me. I sent an email to The Library Powers That Be; they had to search around the for it everypalece. Finally they found it in some cataloguing backwater and entered it into the system. Now something I wrote is in the library, with my name on it! It is a proud moment for this Nerd Extraordinaire.
I have some thoughts tonight on blowing my cover in this way--I realize it's entirely possible to find out my real name if someone is even slightly persistent. It's odd to promote a book and yet not be able to say who I am--one of the reasons I hide out is because I have a bonafide stalker (not the two crazy folks who read this blog and report back
My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.

To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:
ashaveilbook.blogspot.com
An excerpt from The Pleasure Palace, my romantic comedy, can be found here:
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