....The World Shares Its Grief,
Letters November 1963
Author Interview, Review, and Giveaway
GIVEAWAY ENDED
DEAR MRS. KENNEDY,
THE WORLD SHARES ITS GRIEF
LETTERS NOVEMBER 1963
BY JAY MULVANEY and PAUL De ANGELIS
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received over one million letters. They came from political luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Charles De Gaulle; from Hollywood stars like Lauren Bacall, Vivian Leigh, and Gene Kelly and foreign dignitaries like Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Monaco. Distinguished artists, writers, and well known society figures—Ezra Pound, Noel Coward, Babe Paley, Langston Hughes, Oleg Cassini, Josephine Baker—offered heartfelt condolences. “Ordinary” citizens of this country and many others wrote as well, as did children, often with the most heartbreaking sincerity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Paul De Angelis served more than three decades in the book publishing business as Editor, Editorial Director, or Editor-in-Chief of such publishing companies as St. Martin’s Press and E.P. Dutton and Kodansha America. After becoming an independent editor in 1996 he founded Paul De Angelis Book Development, which assists authors, agents, publishers and organizations in turning ideas & manuscripts into books. Since 1997 Paul has edited, contributed to, and co-published the quarterly guide to the Rhinebeck-Red Hook-Hudson area of the mid-Hudson Valley, AboutTown. In the past few years his main writing and research interest has been American culture and politics in its intersection with the wider world.
Volunteers reading and sorting condolence letters. Nancy Tuckerman is standing at the back of office, leaning on the desk, with her face turned slightly towards the camera. Jacqueline Kennedy’s office in the Executive Office Building, December 11, 1963. (JFK Library)
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:
1. Welcome, Mr. De Angelis! It is an honor to have you on my blog today. To start this interview, can you share a little bit about your life and work?
I’ve written and wanted to have published books since the first mystery I wrote when I was in fourth grade. My first novels were pretty unpublishable, and I became a book editor in New York City. A few years ago I started ghostwriting on a regular basis; DEAR MRS. KENNEDY is the first book on which I have a public author credit. It’s also very meaningful to me, since I grew up in the suburban Washington DC area and my parents were stalwart FDR Democrats who, from my perspective (being born in 1949) finally had a hero for president when JFK was elected in 1960. For more on my professional background people should go to my website, pauldeangelisbooks.com, or the website of the Independent Editors Group I belong to, bookdocs.com.
2. It must have been so interesting to be able to read all the letters of Mrs. Kennedy. Were there any letters that you remember more than others? If so, why is it?
I only wish I could have reads all the letters by Mrs. Kennedy. She was a notoriously private person and tried to keep as little as possible from being published, and her estate continues to withhold permission to publish most of her letters and writings. I specifically wished to include some responses she wrote: to Richard Nixon for his condolence letter about the assassination, to Earl Warren, to Bess Truman years later about the death of Harry Truman (Mrs. Kennedy wrote truly wonderful condolence letters, including an eight-page one to Katherine Graham).
Of the letters that were written to Mrs. Kennedy (collected in my book), I of course remember every single one that is given either in full or part in the text, especially since I had to go through an extended process of obtaining permission to publish each one, which meant I became acquainted with the person and/or estate/relatives of the letter writer. It has been a FASCINATING journey. Each letter not only reveals the personality of the letter writer, but the relationship of that writer to Jack or Jackie Kennedy, whether through personal connection or from afar. Each is its own pearl.
I also remember very well those letters for which I gained permission but was NOT able to include in the book for one reason or another (many of them can be found on my website; I particularly like the ones from John Carl Warnecke, who became romantically involved with Jackie Kennedy after the death of JFK; and that from Sarah Blanding of Vassar College, partly because it describes the Vassar campus right after the assassination, and I live quite near it and am so familiar with it). I also remember well those letters I WANTED to include but for which I could not locate the writer; only in one or two instances was I refused permission or asked for a sum of money (usually from the agent of some famous person) beyond my permissions budget.
3. I was reading on your website about your book THE NOBEL BOOK OF ANSWERS. I wonder if you might like to share about that book as I think it is quite unique and how did you come up with the idea?
THE NOBEL BOOK OF ANSWERS is one of the books I translated with my wife, Elisabeth Kaestner. It originated as a series of articles/interviews with Nobel Prize Winners put together by freelance journalist Bettina Stiekel. The series first ran in the weekend magazine of the German newspaper the Süddeutsche Zeitung and was so popular that it turned into a book published in Germany, the rights for which were bought by an editor at Simon & Schuster in the USA. In her foreword, she describes going to a conference of Nobel laureates on Lake Constance in Switzerland in order to conduct interviews: “I don’t know exactly how I recognized them, the smartest people of our era. Perhaps it was something about their eyes. The way Nobel laureates look at the world seems focused and directed outward while at the same time focused deeply inward: an expression that is curious yet restrained, almost introverted.”
4. What questions were children allowed to ask and was there a particular question you are fond of and Nobel Winner’s answer that you might share with the readers?
Bettina Stiekel selected the questions that many kids of her friends and associates posed, particularly those of a boy named Johnny who was the son of one of her closest friends. My favorite questions were “Why is the sky blue?” and “Why can’t I live on French fries?” My favorite answer was the one given by Nobel laureate for literature Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese novelist, to the question: “Why do we have to go to school?
5. With DEAR MRS. KENNEDY, you took over the writing when Jay Mulvaney died suddenly. How difficult was it to then finish the book and make it your own?
Jay had completed one of the trickiest parts of any book project, which is writing a proposal that is eloquent enough not only to convince the publisher to advance money on the project, but effectively conceptualizes the book, providing a kind of “end goal” or vision that I was able to hook into at various times in the actual writing to provide guidance about where I ought to be heading. Of course, it helped that I was in real sympathy with Jay’s writerly aims, even though I had never met the man, and we otherwise had very different backgrounds and interests as writers. In the way I think I complemented some of Jay’s interests and vice versa: he had a real background in fashion and design and Hollywood personalities and I had more of a background in American politics and history. And it was good that Jay had only suggested a number of possible ways to organize and/or write about the letters in the book without ever having made a stab at doing a real outline. This left the field pretty clear for me to take it in hand and run with it as I saw fit—along with the expert guidance of my editor at St. Martin’s Press, Charles Spicer.
6. In the book 9-11, what were your feelings while you were translating the first hand accounts from the Der Spiegel team?
Well, INSIDE 9-11 was a very emotionally draining and tricky book to translate. First of all, we were dealing with a text that had been reported in German, but was often based on interview material that had originated in English. We of course had no access to the interview material, and I’m sure that in any event it was heavily edited to turn it into a coherent story . . .. . So it was essential that the text be idiomatic and fresh and capture the immediacy of the terrible things that were happening inside the buildings during the tragedy, but at the same time be impeccably accurate, since we were really establishing the historical record of a unique event. DER SPIEGEL of course was in a very good position to report about the terrorists who carried out the operation since they had been based in Hamburg. Because my wife is German, she kept careful watch that when I made something idiomatic I didn’t at the same time distort its original meaning. And, also, she herself had worked for many years in one of the World Trade Center buildings, so it was a doubly disturbing—but ultimately also rewarding—venture for her to be revisiting this locus of her earlier professional life which had now disappeared forever.
7. What books would you say have made the biggest impression on you, especially starting out? What are you currently reading?
When I was a teenaged boy I loved HOT ROD and STREET ROD by Henry Gregor Felsen as well as political thrillers like ADVISE AND CONSENT and SEVEN DAYS IN MAY. I later became a real fan of fantastic literature, often of the Latin American variety, but also fell in love with Leonora Carrington’s THE HEARING TRUMPET, which I published when I worked as an editor at St. Martin’s press back in the mid-1970s. Right now I’m reading Steven Weisman’s DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN biography in letters and diaries, THE THREE ROOSEVELTS by James McGregor Burns and Susan Dunn and TWITTER POWER 2.0 by Joel Comm.
8. What is the next or current book/project you are working on?
I’m fascinated by the great sea change in American popular opinion from 1920s isolationism to 1940s internationalism, and I’m hoping to write about the dual role played by Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt in provoking, responding to, sometimes leading and sometimes being led by the American public (and contemporary opinion makers on right and left, cultural and political). Also, of course, how people and events outside the USA shaped their and our response. What lay underneath the genuine but superficial rhetoric of patriotic togetherness? I think we project back onto that WWII era a lot more black-and-white thinking than what was actually the case, and we tend to dismiss the isolationists and pacifists, but they re-emerged in different form during the Cold War and are REALLY re-emerging now, I believe, in a world in which the USA is no longer the unquestioned international leader.
9. What is your advice to anyone, including young people, who want to be writers?
Do it: blog, articles, journalism, stories, poetry, whatever. But do it with and for an audience, whether a writing group or a class, or a local publication, or make some agreement with other bloggers that you’ll mutually criticize each other . . . because without feedback a writer is most likely to become discouraged and unfocused.
I’ve written and wanted to have published books since the first mystery I wrote when I was in fourth grade. My first novels were pretty unpublishable, and I became a book editor in New York City. A few years ago I started ghostwriting on a regular basis; DEAR MRS. KENNEDY is the first book on which I have a public author credit. It’s also very meaningful to me, since I grew up in the suburban Washington DC area and my parents were stalwart FDR Democrats who, from my perspective (being born in 1949) finally had a hero for president when JFK was elected in 1960. For more on my professional background people should go to my website, pauldeangelisbooks.com, or the website of the Independent Editors Group I belong to, bookdocs.com.
2. It must have been so interesting to be able to read all the letters of Mrs. Kennedy. Were there any letters that you remember more than others? If so, why is it?
I only wish I could have reads all the letters by Mrs. Kennedy. She was a notoriously private person and tried to keep as little as possible from being published, and her estate continues to withhold permission to publish most of her letters and writings. I specifically wished to include some responses she wrote: to Richard Nixon for his condolence letter about the assassination, to Earl Warren, to Bess Truman years later about the death of Harry Truman (Mrs. Kennedy wrote truly wonderful condolence letters, including an eight-page one to Katherine Graham).
Of the letters that were written to Mrs. Kennedy (collected in my book), I of course remember every single one that is given either in full or part in the text, especially since I had to go through an extended process of obtaining permission to publish each one, which meant I became acquainted with the person and/or estate/relatives of the letter writer. It has been a FASCINATING journey. Each letter not only reveals the personality of the letter writer, but the relationship of that writer to Jack or Jackie Kennedy, whether through personal connection or from afar. Each is its own pearl.
I also remember very well those letters for which I gained permission but was NOT able to include in the book for one reason or another (many of them can be found on my website; I particularly like the ones from John Carl Warnecke, who became romantically involved with Jackie Kennedy after the death of JFK; and that from Sarah Blanding of Vassar College, partly because it describes the Vassar campus right after the assassination, and I live quite near it and am so familiar with it). I also remember well those letters I WANTED to include but for which I could not locate the writer; only in one or two instances was I refused permission or asked for a sum of money (usually from the agent of some famous person) beyond my permissions budget.
3. I was reading on your website about your book THE NOBEL BOOK OF ANSWERS. I wonder if you might like to share about that book as I think it is quite unique and how did you come up with the idea?
THE NOBEL BOOK OF ANSWERS is one of the books I translated with my wife, Elisabeth Kaestner. It originated as a series of articles/interviews with Nobel Prize Winners put together by freelance journalist Bettina Stiekel. The series first ran in the weekend magazine of the German newspaper the Süddeutsche Zeitung and was so popular that it turned into a book published in Germany, the rights for which were bought by an editor at Simon & Schuster in the USA. In her foreword, she describes going to a conference of Nobel laureates on Lake Constance in Switzerland in order to conduct interviews: “I don’t know exactly how I recognized them, the smartest people of our era. Perhaps it was something about their eyes. The way Nobel laureates look at the world seems focused and directed outward while at the same time focused deeply inward: an expression that is curious yet restrained, almost introverted.”
4. What questions were children allowed to ask and was there a particular question you are fond of and Nobel Winner’s answer that you might share with the readers?
Bettina Stiekel selected the questions that many kids of her friends and associates posed, particularly those of a boy named Johnny who was the son of one of her closest friends. My favorite questions were “Why is the sky blue?” and “Why can’t I live on French fries?” My favorite answer was the one given by Nobel laureate for literature Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese novelist, to the question: “Why do we have to go to school?
5. With DEAR MRS. KENNEDY, you took over the writing when Jay Mulvaney died suddenly. How difficult was it to then finish the book and make it your own?
Jay had completed one of the trickiest parts of any book project, which is writing a proposal that is eloquent enough not only to convince the publisher to advance money on the project, but effectively conceptualizes the book, providing a kind of “end goal” or vision that I was able to hook into at various times in the actual writing to provide guidance about where I ought to be heading. Of course, it helped that I was in real sympathy with Jay’s writerly aims, even though I had never met the man, and we otherwise had very different backgrounds and interests as writers. In the way I think I complemented some of Jay’s interests and vice versa: he had a real background in fashion and design and Hollywood personalities and I had more of a background in American politics and history. And it was good that Jay had only suggested a number of possible ways to organize and/or write about the letters in the book without ever having made a stab at doing a real outline. This left the field pretty clear for me to take it in hand and run with it as I saw fit—along with the expert guidance of my editor at St. Martin’s Press, Charles Spicer.
6. In the book 9-11, what were your feelings while you were translating the first hand accounts from the Der Spiegel team?
Well, INSIDE 9-11 was a very emotionally draining and tricky book to translate. First of all, we were dealing with a text that had been reported in German, but was often based on interview material that had originated in English. We of course had no access to the interview material, and I’m sure that in any event it was heavily edited to turn it into a coherent story . . .. . So it was essential that the text be idiomatic and fresh and capture the immediacy of the terrible things that were happening inside the buildings during the tragedy, but at the same time be impeccably accurate, since we were really establishing the historical record of a unique event. DER SPIEGEL of course was in a very good position to report about the terrorists who carried out the operation since they had been based in Hamburg. Because my wife is German, she kept careful watch that when I made something idiomatic I didn’t at the same time distort its original meaning. And, also, she herself had worked for many years in one of the World Trade Center buildings, so it was a doubly disturbing—but ultimately also rewarding—venture for her to be revisiting this locus of her earlier professional life which had now disappeared forever.
7. What books would you say have made the biggest impression on you, especially starting out? What are you currently reading?
When I was a teenaged boy I loved HOT ROD and STREET ROD by Henry Gregor Felsen as well as political thrillers like ADVISE AND CONSENT and SEVEN DAYS IN MAY. I later became a real fan of fantastic literature, often of the Latin American variety, but also fell in love with Leonora Carrington’s THE HEARING TRUMPET, which I published when I worked as an editor at St. Martin’s press back in the mid-1970s. Right now I’m reading Steven Weisman’s DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN biography in letters and diaries, THE THREE ROOSEVELTS by James McGregor Burns and Susan Dunn and TWITTER POWER 2.0 by Joel Comm.
8. What is the next or current book/project you are working on?
I’m fascinated by the great sea change in American popular opinion from 1920s isolationism to 1940s internationalism, and I’m hoping to write about the dual role played by Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt in provoking, responding to, sometimes leading and sometimes being led by the American public (and contemporary opinion makers on right and left, cultural and political). Also, of course, how people and events outside the USA shaped their and our response. What lay underneath the genuine but superficial rhetoric of patriotic togetherness? I think we project back onto that WWII era a lot more black-and-white thinking than what was actually the case, and we tend to dismiss the isolationists and pacifists, but they re-emerged in different form during the Cold War and are REALLY re-emerging now, I believe, in a world in which the USA is no longer the unquestioned international leader.
9. What is your advice to anyone, including young people, who want to be writers?
Do it: blog, articles, journalism, stories, poetry, whatever. But do it with and for an audience, whether a writing group or a class, or a local publication, or make some agreement with other bloggers that you’ll mutually criticize each other . . . because without feedback a writer is most likely to become discouraged and unfocused.
MY REVIEW and THOUGHTS:
I’d like to think we all are able to look back at times from our youth when we were carefree and life had no limitations. All was right and good with our world. For those of us who are now it seems the much talked about, baby boomers, the 1960‘s were about peace and love, flowers in our hair, standing up for civil rights, Woodstock and Hendrix and Joplin. Even if we thought we had the weight of the world on our shoulders, we were still going to “ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country“ because we were led, protected, and inspired by our young and vibrant leader who told us that, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Kennedy family became known as our American Royalty. With this new, young President and his elegant, trend setting, fashionable wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and their two precious children, Caroline and John, Jr. (John-John), we were a country in love with our leader. But as I found out in high school on this day 47 years ago, the life we knew was about to change forever. President Kennedy was assassinated and the whole country, and most of the world, stood still. In shock and disbelief, we watched as over the next week, we walked around in incredulity, staying near the ones we loved, sheltering our feelings as best we could. For over one million people, the way to express our love, sympathy, and concern, to our First Family, was to write to Mrs. Kennedy. To put down in words our feelings and share our sympathies, we wrote. Brought together by this tragedy that unfolded before our very eyes over that week, the world wept. And these letters poured into the White House and as we knew she would, Mrs. Kennedy took on the responsibility to heal our hearts while hers was breaking. She promised the people that the letters would be preserved in a future Kennedy presidential library. And that is where they have been for the past 40+ years.
Now we can all, young and old, read about this time in our history and experience the feelings of so many, through these letters because of an amazing book from Jay Mulvaney and Paul De Angelis. In fact, Mr. Mulvaney passed away before the book was finished and Paul De Angelis took over and completed it on his own, and now DEAR MRS. KENNEDY, The World Shares Its Grief - Letters November 1963 is an amazing work in which you can witness the grief and sorrow of world leaders, celebrities, politicians, but also every day men, women, and children, who felt the need to write. Mrs. Kennedy promised to acknowledge them all and with the help of over 3,000 volunteers, in the days before computers, these letters were organized into groups and Mrs. Kennedy sent out responses all on the same day some weeks later thus making sure no one person felt their thoughts were any less important than someone else.
This is truly a unique and extraordinary book. As I read the first part with the details all flooding back about those days in November, I would often wipe a tear as I remembered it so well. I was in high school that day where my sister happened to be teaching next door to the class I was in when that final announcement was made that President Kennedy was dead. I was not surprised to see our teacher in tears, or to witness the big football player next to me, stoic as tears slid down his cheeks. I was fortunate to have my sister there giving me at least the security of family nearby on that horrific day. Just as years later, again in school but this time on the teaching end, I experienced the explosion of the Challenger where my students could literally see the fiery trail in the sky south of our Florida school, I knew that would be their “time stood still” memory from their youth, or later on when I carried on teaching rather than scare the children even after I heard about the first tower falling on 9-11. Those days in 2001 were eerily familiar as we as a nation, and the world, once more came together as one, experiencing the shock and sorrow. This book made all those thoughts come back but what touched me most about DEAR MRS. KENNEDY is that I could tell by reading all the letters that I had not been alone…no, rather, far from it. I thought some of the children’s letters got to me the most but for some reason, the one from Sir Winston Churchill touched me deeply because he was so eloquent in his sympathies. The book is history but it is also human feelings written for us all to experience thanks to Mulvaney and De Angelis. I know with a book like this around we can still think about the Kennedy family’s time in the White House as the famous Lerner and Lowe musical so put it when we all became enamored with OUR King and Queen and their Camelot . Thank you, Lisa and TLC Tours, for sending me this book, and Mr. De Angelis for his time and patience…and more so for DEAR MRS. KENNEDY because with it we can always understand those words from Camelot…
“Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot,
For one brief, shining moment
That was known as Camelot.”
The Kennedy family became known as our American Royalty. With this new, young President and his elegant, trend setting, fashionable wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and their two precious children, Caroline and John, Jr. (John-John), we were a country in love with our leader. But as I found out in high school on this day 47 years ago, the life we knew was about to change forever. President Kennedy was assassinated and the whole country, and most of the world, stood still. In shock and disbelief, we watched as over the next week, we walked around in incredulity, staying near the ones we loved, sheltering our feelings as best we could. For over one million people, the way to express our love, sympathy, and concern, to our First Family, was to write to Mrs. Kennedy. To put down in words our feelings and share our sympathies, we wrote. Brought together by this tragedy that unfolded before our very eyes over that week, the world wept. And these letters poured into the White House and as we knew she would, Mrs. Kennedy took on the responsibility to heal our hearts while hers was breaking. She promised the people that the letters would be preserved in a future Kennedy presidential library. And that is where they have been for the past 40+ years.
Now we can all, young and old, read about this time in our history and experience the feelings of so many, through these letters because of an amazing book from Jay Mulvaney and Paul De Angelis. In fact, Mr. Mulvaney passed away before the book was finished and Paul De Angelis took over and completed it on his own, and now DEAR MRS. KENNEDY, The World Shares Its Grief - Letters November 1963 is an amazing work in which you can witness the grief and sorrow of world leaders, celebrities, politicians, but also every day men, women, and children, who felt the need to write. Mrs. Kennedy promised to acknowledge them all and with the help of over 3,000 volunteers, in the days before computers, these letters were organized into groups and Mrs. Kennedy sent out responses all on the same day some weeks later thus making sure no one person felt their thoughts were any less important than someone else.
This is truly a unique and extraordinary book. As I read the first part with the details all flooding back about those days in November, I would often wipe a tear as I remembered it so well. I was in high school that day where my sister happened to be teaching next door to the class I was in when that final announcement was made that President Kennedy was dead. I was not surprised to see our teacher in tears, or to witness the big football player next to me, stoic as tears slid down his cheeks. I was fortunate to have my sister there giving me at least the security of family nearby on that horrific day. Just as years later, again in school but this time on the teaching end, I experienced the explosion of the Challenger where my students could literally see the fiery trail in the sky south of our Florida school, I knew that would be their “time stood still” memory from their youth, or later on when I carried on teaching rather than scare the children even after I heard about the first tower falling on 9-11. Those days in 2001 were eerily familiar as we as a nation, and the world, once more came together as one, experiencing the shock and sorrow. This book made all those thoughts come back but what touched me most about DEAR MRS. KENNEDY is that I could tell by reading all the letters that I had not been alone…no, rather, far from it. I thought some of the children’s letters got to me the most but for some reason, the one from Sir Winston Churchill touched me deeply because he was so eloquent in his sympathies. The book is history but it is also human feelings written for us all to experience thanks to Mulvaney and De Angelis. I know with a book like this around we can still think about the Kennedy family’s time in the White House as the famous Lerner and Lowe musical so put it when we all became enamored with OUR King and Queen and their Camelot . Thank you, Lisa and TLC Tours, for sending me this book, and Mr. De Angelis for his time and patience…and more so for DEAR MRS. KENNEDY because with it we can always understand those words from Camelot…
“Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot,
For one brief, shining moment
That was known as Camelot.”
GIVEAWAY
THANKS TO LISA AT TLC TOURS,
I HAVE ONE COPY OF THIS VERY
SPECIAL BOOK TO GIVE AWAY
TO ONE LUCKY WINNER
RULES:
--U.S. AND CANADIAN RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES
---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!
--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TO
COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!
HOW TO ENTER:
--NO P. O. BOXES
---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!
--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TO
COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!
HOW TO ENTER:
+1 ENTRY: IF YOU WERE ALIVE ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, COMMENT ON WHERE YOU WERE AND WHAT YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THIS DAY 47 YEARS AGO. IF YOU WEREN'T ALIVE, COMMENT ON WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS TRAGIC AND SAD TIME IN OUR COUNTRY.
+1 MORE ENTRY: BLOG OR TWEET ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY AND COME BACK AND LEAVE A LINK THAT I CAN FOLLOW
+1 MORE ENTRY: GO TO PAUL De ANGELIS'S WEBSITE HERE AND COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU FIND INTERESTING THERE.
+1 MORE ENTRY: GO TO PAUL De ANGELIS'S BLOG HERE AND READ SOME OF HIS INTERESTING POSTS. COMMENT THERE ABOUT READING ABOUT HIS BOOK ON BOOKIN' WITH BINGO WHILE YOU ARE THERE.
GIVEAWAY ENDS AT
6 PM, EST, DECEMBER 6!
6 PM, EST, DECEMBER 6!
GOOD LUCK!
