Heather Seller's unpretentious, vernacular prose allows Georgia
a persuasive mix of innocence and experience. These are miraculous
stories of survival, perhaps even forgiveness. To some of us
Georgia's life would be unthinkable. Sellers makes us believe it is
well worth living.
"Heather Sellers writes delicious, dangerous prose. She starts
you twenty-three floors up in condo squalor, nips across for
dysfunction in Disney country, threatens incest in Hotlanta, and
comes to grief on the Gulf. The dead-credible life of Georgia
Jackson--ineffably sweet, thoroughly in love with her own luscious
body, half in love with her lush of a father--skids at the edge of
the surreal. Her story had me laughing through the lump in my
throat. An original. A knockout debut."-Janet Burroway
Marketing Plans
Author tour in Sellers' hometowns in Michigan and Florida
Brochure and postcard mailings
Advertisements in key literary and trade magazines
Heather Sellers was born and raised in Orlando, Florida and
received a Ph.D. in Writing from Florida State University. Her work
has appeared in "Indiana Review, New Virginia Review, The Hawaii
Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Women's Review of Books," and
"Sonora Review." Her story "Fla. Boys" is anthologized in "New
Stories from the South, 1999: The Year's Best." She received a
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1999. She
currently lives in Holland, Michigan, where she's an associate
professor of English at Hope College.Excerpt From "Georgia Under
Water"
From the short story, "Spurt"
I spent those days watching myself in every reflective surface
known to Daytona Beach.
My knees weren't knobs anymore. My knees were lush transitions.
My thighs shone golden-brown; my shins, paler, but long and strong.
My ankles were slim, bony in a fetching way, my feet suddenly
inches too long for my slaps and sandals. My hair swung in a shiny
curtain behind me; my legs were in constant motion,
counterpoint.
"You've had a growth spurt," my mother said. "Your shorts are
way too short. When did this happen?"
"I think yesterday and/or the day before," I said. We were
in
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