Fire Season: A Memoir

(Paperback)

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Author has been invited to read at several storytelling salons in Los Angeles upon release of the book, including The Speakeasy, Muse, Spark, and Womens Voices

Author teaches writing workshops and speaks at conferences such as the San Miguel Writers Conference, Women at Woodstock, and others, and participates regularly in readings; she will increase her participation in these events as the books pub date draws closer

Author will arrange book tour in several West Coast cities, from LA to San Francisco to Seattle

Author will reach out again to the radio shows she was on previously for promotion of her last book, Dancing at the Shame Prom

Authors interview about the book on Huffington Post Live has gotten more than 230,000 views; author will reach out again to Huffington Post when book is released

Author has written about the book at MariaShriver.com and will write another column when the book is released.

Author will promote the book at her blog Navigating Disaster (part of the BlogHer network), which will include weekly articles on how to survive and thrive through loss

Author will repeat the two blog tours she did to promote Dancing At the Shame Prom

Author will host a giveaway on her blog and offer a special discount on a signed first edition of the book for anyone who subscribes to her newsletter

Reviews

Hollye Dexters book made me cry and laughsometimes all within one paragraph. She tells her story with power and punch, and a truth that is unsettling and astonishing and ultimately uplifting. There isn't a soul who can't relate to her memoir. It is filled with revelations, humanity, poignancy, balls-out courage, and humor. She is a role model extraordinaire.
Amy Ferris, screenwriter (Mr. Wonderful, Funny Valentines), playwright, and author of Marrying George Clooney


In Fire Season, Hollye Dexter gives me no choice but to experience fully and passionately the horrors of a house on fire, and to remember that how we face tragedy often defines who we are. As I read about a childhood fraught with loneliness and pain, and how she fought with valor to attain the love and trust she deserved, I was reminded of the phoenix. Dexter did what so many of us can only imagine: literally rising from the ashes and beginning anew. This memoir is a reminder that the joys of life are based not on what we possess, but what we appreciate."
Victoria Zackheim, author of The Bone Weaver and Exit Laughing

Fire Season will take your breath away and singe your fingertips from turning the pages so quickly. Like Dexter, youll fall madly in love with her husband, Troy, who could rock the world off its axis and right it again. Musician that she is, Dexter's prose sings in this beautiful and complicated love story, a story that inspires both tenderness and courage, and a deep belief that we can all, like the phoenix and the author, rise from the ashes."
Amy Friedman, author of Desperados Wife: A Memoir

Author Bio

Hollye Dexter is the author of two memoirs and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press), praised by best-selling author Gloria Feldt (former CEO of Planned Parenthood) as a brilliant book that just might change your life. Her essays and articles about womens issues, activism, and politics have been widely published in anthologies, as well as in Maria Shrivers Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, and more. She teaches writing workshops internationally and for at-risk youth in LA, where she lives with her husband and a houseful of kids and pets. Learn more about Dexter at www.hollyedexter.blogspot.com.