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Publicity funds for my current novel

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Since four years old, I've wanted to give back stories to readers that enrich them as the stories my mother read  enriched me.  Then Life happened in all of its wonderful ways, keeping me very much engaged. And not until I was mid-life, and a try at writing program at Columbia College Chicago opened me up because of the genius of its approach. So the stories I had waiting in me and ones I didn't know about yet  began marching out. And one was The Calling of Mother Adelli; and it needed to be a novel & more than twenty years to work itself out. In the meanwhile I wrote and published short stories but this novel set in a Catholic boarding school in the late 1940s outside Chicago needed to work out all of its questions & insights about religion, spiritual life & individual callings. Since March, 2014, it has found its way into thoughtful minds concerned with issues of personal life and the good of the community. Reviews on Amazon have been extrordinarily positive & uplifting. CM Curtis, fiction editor of The Atlantic Monthly, has called it "one of the great undiscovered novels in America." It's Kirkus Review. 2014, calls it "Powerful, dramatic and sensitive." And readers have already reported on its Amazon site  unexpected insights  for their own lives. My hope is for "The Calling of Mother Adelli" to reach more readers with its insights--as much a surprise to me as anyone else--and in some way be useful in the lives of others. So "Mother Adelli" needs a "longer reach," hopefully an international reach. Such an ambition takes funds to  "get the word out" and possibly to find a commercial publisher. Readers have commented that it would make a memorable motion picture or series as well.   Your donation can make it presentation possible to wider venues,  commercial publishers and screen witers. Please take a moment to see its Amazon reviews for yourself to get a sense of the deep effect this story already has had on readers. The Calling of MotherAdelli has to date made the "finals" in Forward Review's yearly contest. With additional funds, publishing services to advance its recognition may attract a commercial house and  "Mother Adelli" can reach more readers with what it has to offer.  The story wants to add good to readers' lives. With your help, that can be accomplished. You can find it on Amazon books for a look-see and current reader reviews. And thank you so much, whatever your decision,  for your interest.  Every blessing. Zoe Keithley

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