But here’s what I love best: when readers share details of their lives and tell me how touched they were because they could relate to my stories and characters. Some even accuse me of eavesdropping! Wish I could take them all to lunch to say thanks (disclaimer # 2: lunch is out until my ass is no longer the same shape as my chair).
Now about this new novel: it took a year to write and revise, and there’s a good chance I went through so much paper we lost a tree in Oregon. But if it makes you laugh and cry and you end up loving it, let me know. Just as important, let your friends and family know. With fierce competition for attention from the three Is: the Internet, iPods and Idol, emerging writers like myself are getting lost in the shuffle. Your word-of-mouth praise can make all the difference.
Again, thank you for reading, writing, caring, and sharing. Otherwise I would be selling panty hose at Macy’s, not that helping women look ten pounds thinner isn’t a noble cause.
Best,
Saralee Rosenberg
Saralee@saraleerosenberg.com
www.saraleerosenberg.com
September, 2007
About the Author
SARALEE ROSENBERG is also the author of A Little Help From Above, Claire Voyant, and Fate and Ms. Fortune. She promises you laughter, or your money back (no, just kidding about the refund). For a good time, visit her website at www.saraleerosenberg.com.
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FATE AND MS. FORTUNE
CLAIRE VOYANT
A LITTLE HELP FROM ABOVE
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DEAR NEIGHBOR, DROP DEAD. Copyright © 2008 by Saralee Rosenberg. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by Saralee Rosenberg
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