BORN UNDER A LUCKY MOON: A PREVIEW AND GIVEAWAY

BORN UNDER A LUCKY MOON
BY DANA PRECIOUS

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Smart, touching, and utterly engaging, Born Under a Lucky Moon is a polished gem of contemporary womens fictionand it boldly announces the arrival of author Dana Precious, who immediately takes her place at the winners table beside Rebecca York, Jennifer Weiner, and Rebecca Wells. Not unlike Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood and other beloved works of southern womens fictionexcept set in the American MidwestBorn Under a Lucky Moon is a story of family, love, murder, sex scandals, and new beginnings that is, at once, intelligent, endearing, and delightfully quirky.

Born Under a Lucky Moon is the tale of two very important (but distant) years in the lives of Jeannie Thompson and her (embarrassing, crazy) colorful family members to whom "things" just seem to happen. From the Great Lakes of Michigan to Los Angeles and back again, it is a story of surprise marriages, a renegade granny, a sprinkler system cursed by the gods, and myriad other factors Jeannie blames for her full-tilt, out-of-control existence. But it's also about good surpriseslike an unexpected proposal that might just open Jeannie's eyes to her real place among the people she loves most in the world . . . the same ones she ran far away from to begin with.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dana Precious lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. She has two dogs: a small border terrier named Thompson (as in Hunterlong story) and Bella, a very large bull mastiff whose activity of choice is sleeping on the couch and watching Oprah. Prior to writing, Dana worked for several major film studios.

Dana says on her website, "The novel Born Under A Lucky Moon, while fictional, is based on real life events in my life. The story that takes place in 1986 is largely true. It noodled around in my head for decades until I knew I had to write it down just to stop thinking about it. I did compress some events to fit into a specific time frame."

YOU CAN WATCH OTHER VIDEOS OF DANA READING FROM BORN UNDER A LUCKY MOON BY GOING TO HER WEBSITE HERE!

EXCERPT:
Prologue

All roads in my hometown lead to water. I used to think they were all dead ends. It is a four-block-wide bit of land with one main road, Ruddiman, running its length. From this road, every other road marches off in strict perpendicular fashion to stop abruptly at Muskegon Lake or, on the other side, Bear Lake. Ruddiman does get a good running start before it hits Lake Michigan a few miles down.TO FINISH READING THE PROLOGUE, GO HER E!
GIVEAWAY

THANKS TO MEGAN AND THE GOOD FOLKS
AT HARPER COLLINS, I HAVE TWO COPIES
OF THIS SOON TO BE RELEASED NOVEL
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GIVEAWAY ENDS AT
6 PM, EST, FEBRUARY 8
(THE SAME DAY THE BOOK RELEASES)
GOOD LUCK!
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