April Know Your Neighbor

Novelist, book promoter and intrepid blogger Kathleen Valentine will be featured

at the April Know Your Neighbor at the Sawyer Free Library

in Gloucester on April 28, 2008.

Her novel The Old Mermaid's Tale has received praise both for its

literary quality and its preservation of a unique time in American history,

the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway to international commerce in 1959.

Read reviews and purchase the book on Amazon or visit the book's web site.

More recently her blog, Parlez-Moi Blog was instrumental in the exposé of the

Misha Defonseca literary hoax, widely acknowledged as the biggest literary

Holocaust hoax in history.

Valentine will talk about the writing of her novel and short stories and how she is

using the internet to promote them including the online video. She will also read from

her forthcoming novel, Each Angel Burns and talk about how she and two other bloggers

uncovered the Misha Defonseca hoax.