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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Save the Date: Thursday, March 21, 7:00 PM EST <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>BOE Book Launch for March 2024 featuring Annie Chiappetta and her YA contemporary fiction novel, <i>Imperfections</i> © 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Available from all eBook sellers in hard and soft cover print, Kindel and eBook from Smashwords/D2D <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Amazon link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4m3ntcyn">https://tinyurl.com/4m3ntcyn</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Smashwords:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1531127"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1531127</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>About the book:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>For Lainie, feeling unwelcome is only the beginning of her struggles. Her mom is addicted to painkillers, her stepfather is a felon, and her dad traded her in for a new family. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> So what if she’s kicked out of high school? Determined and attractive, Lainie sets out to make her own path.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Shane, the young man she begins dating and believes is trustworthy, transforms into a possessive and cruel boyfriend. When Efren, Shane’s older cousin, enters her life, Lainie grasps onto a shred of hope, falling in love. Shane’s obsessive and abusive treatment of her, however, casts a deep shadow over Efren and Lainie’s chance to find safety and a future free of the fear of Shane’s sadistic retribution. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Will their love persevere, or will Shane’s pervasive and negative influence push Lainie and Efren apart, forcing them to love secretly?</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>About the author:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Ann Chiappetta, M.S. Poet and author <o:p></o:p></span></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Ann’s award-winning poems, creative nonfiction, and essays have appeared internationally in literary journals, popular online blogs, and print anthologies. Her poems have been featured in The Avocet, the Pangolin Review, Plum Tree Tavern, Magnets and Ladders, Oprelle, Western PA Poetry Review 2024and Breath and Shadow. Ann’s short story, <i>The Misty </i>Torrent appeared in the <i>Artificial Divide anthology</i> published by Renaissance Press (2021). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Ann is the recipient of the 2019 GDUI Excellence in Writing award and the WDOMI 2016 Spirit of Independence award.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Independently published since 2016, the author’s six volume collection includes poetry, creative nonfiction essays, short stories and contemporary fiction. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span class=MsoHyperlink><i><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></i></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span class=MsoHyperlink><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Diagnosed in 1993 with a rare form of progressive retinal disease, Ann accepts vision loss as part of her life but doesn’t let it define her as a whole person.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Contact Ann by visiting her website:</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'></span></span><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com"><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>www.annchiappetta.com</span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'></span></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'></span><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2'></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span 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style='mso-bookmark:WinZmBookmark_z6675F'>Find your local number: </span><a href="https://zoom.us/u/adyL9fk9yV"><span style='mso-bookmark:WinZmBookmark_z6675F'>https://zoom.us/u/adyL9fk9yV</span><span style='mso-bookmark:WinZmBookmark_z6675F'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:WinZmBookmark_z6675F'></span><a name=WinZmBookmarkEnd></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ann Chiappetta, MS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>President, Friends In Art, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:president@friendsinart.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>president@friendsinart.org</span></a> <a href="http://www.friendsinart.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.friendsinart.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>914.393.6605 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.annchiappetta.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Metropolis-Regular;color:black;background:white'>Trust your dreams. Trust your heart and trust your story. Neil Gaiman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>