Ex-Rich Girl Tells All
My Truth Behind Closed Doors
by Kami Corban
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Pub Date Oct 24 2012 | Archive Date Dec 07 2012
Description
In her high-velocity memoir, Ex-Rich Girl Tells All, Kami Corban lays bare the high life and dark times of a Los Angeles girl who had every possible advantage, only to see it ripped from her in record time. What was left in the place of privilege and promise takes her on a journey of survival, resilience and mystery. It’s a must-read for anyone who thinks money may be the answer—or who is having a hard time mustering up the necessary reserve of hope to truly enjoy life.
As Kami sets out to graduate from Duke University and live happily ever after with her college boyfriend Tucker, she finds herself instead at the receiving end of a letter from her mother declaring divorce, and her own prospective husband decamping to England. This quickly propels the author into an onslaught of misadventures that span the resorts of England, the mountains of North Carolina, and her lavish hometown of San Marino, California.
Along the way, the bodies accumulate as her spirit wanes, from a brutish Brit named Philip to the scholarly Rhodesian Chitsaka and the tormented Cherokee Chane. When events evolve that force Kami to take a more somber look at her life’s lot, what emerges from the chaos is another chance at peace and enrichment. However hard-won her serenity is, it’s lasting, deep, and real. It’s also ballast enough for her to take on her own confusion, as well as that of the family members around her who reel from their own psychological poverty. With the onset of her parents’ divorce, Kami must cope with the fallout financially and emotionally, while she learns the tools to forge a new sense of self that brings with it a brand of happiness that she had not previously envisioned.
As this refreshingly frank heroine hones in on the unvarnished truth of her life circumstances, readers experience the unlimited resources of hope that can shore up the most spiritually destitute, and discover a rewarding, new road to personal fulfillment. With its fast-paced litany of dashed expectations and dazzling surprises, Ex-Rich Girl Tells All is a searing, redemptive story that demonstrates how a full heart is entirely independent of a full wallet. This story will resonate with anyone who may question whether money is really the answer.
Advance Praise
Kirkus Review is forthcoming in December.
Marketing Plan
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Vermont
Studio Center
o http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org
o http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/writers/
o http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/alumni/
o The alumni page suggests posting on their Facebook pages, according to the month and year of your residency. Since I had three residencies, there are three opportunities to post a book announcement.
o I’ve had three writers’ residencies at VSC—in 2001, 2008, and 2011. I received financial awards to defray much of the cost for the first two residencies. Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers awarded me the first ALSCW/VSC Fellowship in 2010 for an excerpt of “Ex-Rich Girl Tells All,” which was then titled “Little Lives.”
· Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW)
o http://www.alscw.org
o http://www.alscw.org/ByMembers.html
o ALSCW has a page that lists publications by members. There’s an opportunity to post a book announcement. Also, I could request to be featured in their online publication Literary Imagination as a follow-up to their article that was published in 2011.
o http://www.alscw.org/LiteraryMatters_4-2.pdf (search on Kami Corban)
· Kirkus Review is forthcoming in December 2012
· I registered for the PW Select program through Publishers Weekly. Their staff may or may not select my title for a review.
· Mike Purdy, former classmate in San Marino High School, emailed 250 alumni alerting them to the publication of my title. He has a following of 100 people on Facebook, and he announced my book there as well. In addition, Mike agreed to write a book review and post it on Amazon.
· Contest Entries – I’m submitting my book to eight contests that accept titles published in 2012.
· Thomas Lickona, author of “Educating for Character: How our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility,” has agreed to read my book and comment on it. If the comments are favorable, I will ask his permission to post his review.
· Margot Livesey mentored me in 2011 during my VSC residency. I list her in the Acknowledgements, and will send her the paperback in December. If she likes the book, she may be willing to post a review.
· Glenn Stillion, a retired dean at Western Carolina University, is listed in the Acknowledgements for “his wisdom, which dates back to 1976 at the time of my employment at the university. I will send him the paperback in December. If he likes the book, he may be willing to post a review.
· Duke University and University of California at Davis offer ways for alumni to notify them of their accomplishments. I can submit news of my publication.
· Availability of eBook and paperback versions (Paperback will be available in late November or early December)
Author Bio: Kami Corban grew up in San Marino, California, a city that Forbes Magazine ranked as the sixty-third most expensive area in the United States. The author has a bachelor of arts in psychology from Duke University and a master of arts in English from University of California at Davis. She is the recipient of the first ALSCW/VSC Fellowship, a residency program for writers, awarded to her for her manuscript "Little Lives." This fellowship allowed her to spend a month at Vermont Studio where she spent countless hours crafting the story of her life. She lives in Oregon and is working on a novel.
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| ISBN | 9781624880230 |
| PRICE | $7.99 (USD) |
