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Carmen Shirkey

Carmen Shirkey

About

CarmenShirkey was born in Staunton, VA. She received her degree inRhetoric and Communications from the University of Virginia (she’s acrazy Wahoos fan) where she was also a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Shethen proceeded to become a gypsy – moving from city to city. Currently, sheresides in VA, but who knows where she’ll turn up next. Her cat, Pooh Bear,would prefer to stay in one place so he can adequately mark his territory.

Asidefrom writing, Carmen’s passion is for travel. She once got a fortune cookiethat told her that she would “step on the soil of many countries,” and she tookit seriously. She hopes that enough people will buy her book so she can go onpermanent vacation, instead of packing all her travel into two measly weekseach year. That’s the amount of vacation time she gets in her full-time gig asa Web editor.


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Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>

Story Behind The Book

Media Links

2009 Indie Book Award Press Release

🔗 http://www.1888pressrelease.com/richmond-virginia-author-named-as-romance-category-winner-o-pr-120253.html

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Examiner.com Interview

🔗 http://www.examiner.com/x-2533-Romance-Novel-Examiner

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Book of the Week Challenge on Denise Robbins' Blog

🔗 http://deniserobbins.blogspot.com/2009/05/book-week-challenge-reading-list-by.html

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Quill Magazine (pdf)

🔗 http://www.alphaxidelta.org/clientuploads/PDFs/QuillSpring09.pdf

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Richmond Book Examiner Interview

🔗 http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14223-Richmond-Books-Examiner

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Reviews

<strong>2009 Indie Book Award Winner: Romance Category!<br /><br />FOUR STARS</strong> It’s a light read and certainly a happy one. I can picture it being made into a movie and featured alongside How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Runaway Bride. Totally different themes but same spirit and certainly as entertaining. I love how it took a common idea that many women have (the list) and turned it into a sweet parody of that idea. So in the spirit of the novel I must ask… what’s on your list? <br />Excerpt of full review from <a href="http://www.loveromancepassion.com/review-the-list-by-carmen-shirkey/">Love, Romance, Passion</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>FOUR CUPS</strong> &quot;The List is a downright funny read! Anyone who wants to find Mr. Right, has a list detailing the qualities of Mr. Right, and has actually been disappointed when a guy did not meet the criteria of your list must read this book. Having once lived in the suburbs of D.C. myself, I tried the dating scene and reported all of the horrific tales to my best friend. So I can relate to Candace and her frustrations! However this triumphant book assists the reader into actually thinking of putting away their list and enjoying the pleasures of dating...if only for a little while.&quot;<br />Excerpt of full review from <a href="http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/BookReviews/Thelist.html">Coffee Time Romance</a><br /><br /><br />&quot;All in all the book was a fun read that I have quite enjoyed. <strong>Recommend it?</strong> Chick lit, light reading, funny at times. It reminded most of Kinsella's books, so if you like the genre you might want to try this one too :)&quot;<br />Excerpt of full review from <a href="http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2009/03/the-list-carmen-shirkey/">Kay's Bookshelf</a><br /><br /><div style="color:#000000;font-family:inherit;"><br /><br />&quot;What woman does not love her lists! In the case of author Carmen Shirkey's heroine Candace, we find a quirky, lovable character who proves that a list is, in fact, ever evolving. Bravo to the men who have figured that out and can match wits amongst this entertaining group of friends.&quot;</div>-- Tammi Wark Marcoullier, author of <strong><em>Driving Forces: Inside the First U.S. Women's Olympic Bobsled Team</em></strong>