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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’d like to invite you all to my book launch interview about my debut novel, <i>The Devil Drinks Monsoons</i>, with Annie Chiappetta on Thursday, November 6th at 8:00pm EST, 7:00pm CST, 6:00pm MST, and 5:00pm PST, Annie will be interviewing me, there’ll be a reading or two from the book, then a question and answer period. I hope you all can come and share this time with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sue Sparrow aka SueBird Sparrow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="http://www.SueBirdWrites.com">www.SueBirdWrites.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dark currents swirl just beneath the surface of everyday life in New Orleans. Although elderly private investigator Richard doesn’t believe in supernatural forces, he and his blind neighbor, Molly, must confront the occult when one of Richard’s own vigilante killings goes wrong and his equally-elderly girlfriend, (unbeknownst to Richard, a vampire queen,) becomes obsessed with Molly’s baby. Richard’s lesbian biker daughter, a Voodoo priestess, a martial arts instructor, two sex worker colleagues, and an undead mama’s boy are just a few of the other characters orbiting him in the Big Easy, where nothing is easy and magic flavors everything.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Susan Sparrow is a visually impaired author, dreamer, and extroverted introvert living out her current incarnation in human form in New Orleans while working on her next novel. An historical revenge saga beginning in the 1700s, it traces the imagined effects of a generational curse set in place by a real-life outcast French nun. She’s also working on another supernatural thriller about an immoral and immortal cat who is killing the people who disrespect her. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>When not writing, Susan can be found memorizing drinking toasts in diverse languages or transcribing the epic poems whispered by her companion tortoise, Gordon Ramsay. <i>The Devil Drinks Monsoons</i> is her debut novel. Readers can find more on Sue’s Amazon author page:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/SueBird-Sparrow/author/B0FH5Q1BF7?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=9fc775cc-8fd0-4baa-8990-0ac8dbed599d"><b>Amazon.com: SueBird Sparrow: books, biography, latest update</b></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Zoom joining links and call information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Time: Nov 6, 2025 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Join by computer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a 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Chiappetta, MS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>President, Friends In Art, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:president@friendsinart.org">president@friendsinart.org</a> <a href="http://www.friendsinart.org/">www.friendsinart.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>914.393.6605 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com/">www.annchiappetta.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 align=left><tr><td valign=top align=left style='padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'>"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. 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