In The Shadow of the Lone Star

Bateman, BJ

ISBN 10: 1463717164 / ISBN 13: 9781463717162

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

About this Item

A White nineteen year old girl is adopted into a Black community in Texas-there are adjustments to be made. She is confronted with situations that make her feel vulnerable both emotional and physically.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In The Shadow of the Lone Star
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1463717164
• ISBN 13: 9781463717162
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 1 pound
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Nineteen year-old Hallie Jess Milburn has found herself some trouble. Trouble keeping her Uncle Fred at arms length. Trouble finding work in the Negro community she's been adopted into. Trouble controlling her feelings for Cleveland Carper, the young colored man she's falling in love with. But these troubles pale in comparison to the trouble she finds herself in when Cleveland's brother Roy James is about to be hung for a crime he didn't commit.

About the Author

B.J. Bateman After BJ quit her day job, she got serious and won a Non-fiction award in the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference and a first place fiction award and a first place nonfiction in Willamette Writers’ Kay Snow writing competition. She has had three short stories published in the literary magazine Perceptions, an essay in Our Turn, Our Time, an essay appeared in one of the Cup of Comfort series and one was included in Cup of Comfort Favorites. A short story placed in Oregon Writers’ Colony competition. Her most recent essay was published in November of 2010 when she was a winner in the Women Who Write national competition and her essay appeared in their Calliope, an anthology of winners. BJ has been a member of Willamette Writers for several years as well as a member of the same writers’ group for over ten years where Lone Star was born. She has taken workshops and classes from Northwest writers Molly Gloss, Tom Spanbauer, M. K. Wren, Craig Lesley, Sallie Tisdale, and Whitney Otto. In the Shadow of the Lone star is her first novel. She’s currently working on a memoir.