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Rebecca Elswick

Rebecca Elswick

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I am a child of Appalachia. I live in the Southwest VA coal fields where I was born the daughter and granddaughter of coal miners. I am married to my high school sweetheart and we have 3 children and at last count, 4 dogs.
I teach Writing and Photojournalism. I am a teacher consultant for the Appalachian Writing Project at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. My work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Mama's Shoes is my debut novel.

Size Zero (Visage Book 1)

Size Zero (Visage Book 1)

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<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot;</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Lee Smith, author of twelve novels and four collections of short stories including <em>Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger </em>had this to say. “From its perfect first paragraph straight through to its hard-won resolution, <em>Mama’s Shoes</em> is an absolutely wonderful novel, its setting a beautifully realized small Appalachian coal town, its characters so vivid they’re practically jumping off the page. There’s conflict aplenty here too – between mother and daughter, truth and lies, rich and poor, past and present – as thirteen year old Sassy tries to determine the truth of who she really is.”<span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span></span>Amy Greene, author of <em>Bloodroot</em> said, “<em>In Mama’s Shoes</em>, immensely talented debut novelist, Rebecca Elswick weaves an intriguing tale of buried secrets, at times both haunting and humorous, with a cast of strong Southern women so real that I could almost hear them speaking to me.”</span></p>