Monday, September 10, 2007

You Oughta Know: Author Patricia Pickett

For the month of September, ChickLitGurrl is giving props to three Pilot Publishing authors, Patricia Pickett, Leila Jefferson, and Anjel.



This week, CLG spotlights author Patricia Pickett as her YOU OUGHTA KNOW author. Come learn about Patricia and her debut novel, HEARTS NEVER LIE.


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CLG: QUICK, you have 50 words - pitch us your debut novel, HEARTS NEVER LIE, and make us want to race out and buy it!

PP: Hearts Never Lie is a story about winning in life, especially in love and in happiness. It’s a story about growing up after making bad choices then learning from them by deciding that life is too short. It’s about family and loyalty and everything else that makes us human.

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Wanna learn more about HEARTS NEVER LIE? Read the description below!


Mariposa Sota knows all too well the pain of dreams deferred. Whether dealing with the disappointment of being abandoned by her daughter's father, working tirelessly at a dead-end job only to lose it, or watching helplessly as those she loves the most fall victim to the same streets they are all trying to escape, one thing is clear to Mariposa: Whenever she puts her all into something heartbreak is sure to follow. For Caesar Simpson life had always been lived behind the eightball. The firstborn child to an absentee father and drug-addicted mother, Caesar is the only real parent his younger siblings knew. With the love of his homies and an unbridled love for 'the life' Caesar maintained despite hardship. After a five year prison term he's back in Denver and is intent on living right. When Caesar runs into Mariposa, the beautiful woman that had somehow blossomed from the silly little girl that use to follow him around neighborhood, he knew he had found the only good thing that life would ever show him. Problem is, she is his best homies little cousin which makes her off-limits. Despite his efforts, Caesar can't help loving her. For Mariposa the return of her first crush, a man she has loved all her life, makes her more vulnerable than ever. They say hearts never lie, but people do. Will heartbreak, pain and death keep them apart or will their feelings for one another rise above all else?



Wanna learn more about Patricia? Then check out CLG's interview with her at ChickLitGurrl's blog: (http://chicklitgurrl.blogspot.com/)