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“The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell – A story of murder, adultery and regular church attendance. The year is 1920, prohibition is in full-swing, women are clamoring for the vote, and a narrow-minded intolerance is on the rise. We meet Belle Cantrell as a beautiful young widow with a rebellious streak, years before she will become grandmother to Sissy LeBlanc. Belle’s shocking conduct and desire to get on with her life rocks her small Southern town. Sexy, sassy, with laugh-out-loud humor and a cast of witty characters you won’t be able to forget, The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell is a page-turner. But on a deeper level, this is a story about a woman struggling to find her moral center and stand up to the forces of intolerance that are determined to destroy the soul of the town and the people she loves.” |
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“The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc –
a big, comic love story set in the South at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s about the choices we make, the moments we regret, the prejudices we cling to and the rules we live by.”
The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc was a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection and was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. |
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Rule 101: You can't change the past, but a smart girl won't let that stop her.
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“Here in one little book are all Sissy’s Southern Belle rules and then some. Learn how to attract a man and how to handle him once you’ve got him, because even the best men, need handling.”
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Novelist Loraine Despres is a recovering screenwriter, best remembered for writing that icon of pop culture, the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of DALLAS. Her first novel, THE SCANDALOUS SUMMER OF SISSY LEBLANC, published by William Morrow in 2001 became a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick as well as a national best seller and engendered its companion, THE SOUTHERN BELLE'S HANDBOOK. THE BAD BEHAVIOR OF BELLE CANTRELL was an official selection of the Pulpwood Queens, America's Largest Book Club with chapters across the country and across the world. Loraine lives with her husband, writer-producer Carleton Eastlake, in Beverly Hills where she continues to enjoy bad behavior.
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