My Best Girl's Book Signing to Benefit SARA

Linda Kay Simmons, my significant other and a novelist with special skill, will sign copies of her new book "Pissant and Cinderella: The Fairy Tale That Wasn't" Friday, Oct. 29, 2-5 p.m. for the benefit of SARA.

Author Linda Kay Simmons 

SARA, located at 3034 Brambleton Avenue in Roanoke (near the Coffee Pot bar), is the organization--celebrating its 10th anniversary under director Teresa Berry this month--that counsels rape and other sexual abuse victims. 

It is a truly effective, efficient, beautifully-run group with many volunteers and solid support from private individuals and organizations. It also gets some government funding, but every dollar counts at SARA.

"Pissant and Cinderella" is a blunt, forcefully-detailed, beautifully-written account of sexual abuse within a family that can be hard to read because it is so straightforward and honest. It is based on true events and Linda Kay is a master at delving into the underbelly of difficult situations, as she has done in the past with "Lightening Shall Strike," "Cahas Mountain" and "Lamb on a Tombstone," all ballads with a Roanoke Valley setting and a national appeal.

Linda Kay will donate $5 per book sold at the event to SARA. The cover price is $15. If you can't make the signing, you can find Linda's books at on Amazon.com.