Beauty - by Susan Wilson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>t painted, she discovers the current occupant, Leland Crompton, has agreed to the job under duress. Severely disfigured by acromegaly, Leland lives as a recluse, with a housekeeper as his only companion. When Alexandra's feeling evolve from friendship into love, Leland refuses to believe that such a thing is possible. It is the Beast, not the Beauty, who must find the lovable man beneath his hideous exterior. National ads/media.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Every reader is familiar with the popular tale of Beauty and the Beast. But what if the fairy tale came true? Beauty tells the story of a modern woman who learns to love the deeper man, beyond all appearances; it is a totally credible, contemporary retelling of the classic tale. First serial to Good Housekeeping.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Entertainment Weekly" Lovable.<br><br>"People" Wilson has recast the classic story with a modern setting..."Beauty" sails along.<br><br>"Women's Own" Beauty...will leave tears in your eyes and hope in your heart.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>From the time I was a little girl, the word writer held a special significance to me. I loved the word. I loved the idea of making up stories. When I was about twelve, I bought a used Olivetti manual typewriter from a little hole in the wall office machine place in Middletown, CT called Peter's Typewriters. It weighed about twenty pounds and was probably thirty years old. I pounded out the worst kind of adolescent drivel, imposing my imaginary self on television heroes of the time: <i>Bonanza, Man from U.N.C.L.E.</i> and <i>Star Trek.</i><br>Those are my earliest memories of my secret life of writing. For reasons I cannot really fathom, I never pursued writing as a vocation. Although I majored in English, I didn't focus on writing and it wasn't really until I was first married that I hauled out my old Olivetti and began to thump away at my first novel. This was, as I recall, an amorphous thinly plotted excercise in putting sentences together and has mercifully disappeared in some move or another. I didn't try anything more adventurous than some short stories and a lot of newsletters for various things I belonged to until we moved to Martha's Vineyard and I bought my first computer. My little Collegiate 2 IBM computer was about as advanced as the Olivetti was in its heyday but it got me writing again and this time with some inner determination that I was going to succeed at this avocation. I tapped out two novels on this machine with its fussy little printer. Like the first one, these were wonderful absorbing exercises in learning how to write.<br>What happened then is the stuff of day time soap opera. Writing is a highly personal activity and for all of my life I'd kept it secret from everyone but my husband, who, at the time, called what I did nights after the kids went to bed, my typing. Until, quite by accident, I discovered that here on the Vineyard nearly everyone has some avocation in the arts. Much to my delight, I discovered a fellow closet-writer in the mom of my kids' best friends. For the very first time in my life I could share the struggle with another person. I know now that writers' groups are a dime a dozen and I highly recommend the experience, but with my friend Carole, a serendipitious introduction to a real writer, Holly Nadler, resulted in my association with my agent. Holly read a bit of my novel and liked what she read, suggested I might use her name and write to her former agent. I did and the rest, as they say, is history.<br>Not that it was an overnight success. The novel I'd shown Holly never even got sent to Andrea. But a third, shorter, more evolved work was what eventually grew into <i>Beauty</i> with the guidance of Andrea and her associates at the Jane Rotrosen Agency.<br>The moral of the story: keep at it. Keep writing the bad novels to learn how to write the good ones. And, yes, it does help to know someone. Andrea might have liked my work, but the path was oiled by the introduction Holly Nadler provided.<br><i>Hawke's Cove</i> is my second published novel, although there is a second second novel in a drawer, keeping good company with the other first novels.
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