VIRGINIA MUSICIAN PUBLISHES FIRST FICTION COLLECTION
December 27, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

VIRGINIA MUSICIAN PUBLISHES FIRST FICTION COLLECTION
Authentic and Universal Tales of Hope, Loss, and Maturity

Contact: Peter K. Nash
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December 27, 2008 Richmond, VA

Virginia-based musician, writer, and journalist Cesca Janece Waterfield will release her first full-length collection of short fiction and poetry January 16, 2008. The date marks the 88th anniversary of the ratification of Prohibition. Bartab: An Afterhours Ballad is the narrative account of a musician couple living in urban Virginia and is an unblinking look at the sometimes severe terms of artistic ambition crossed with poverty and substance abuse. Ultimately, the book is a ransom to the métier of sobriety.

But Bartab is no morality yarn. Both the work as a whole, and the discrete poems and stories that comprise its 110 pages are spare and authentic renderings of life lived on the fringes. Local references to music venues and neighborhoods make Bartab particularly interesting to residents of and visitors to Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, and New York City. Bartab resonates with any reader who has stumbled in pursuit of a dream and from their own missteps.

Readings are scheduled in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, New York City, and Boston with other cities to follow. Bartab will be available via online vendors as well as independent brick and mortar booksellers in major cities. The first 200 hundred copies are accompanied by cocktail napkins and drink coasters.

Cesca has been selected three times by ASCAP to receive songwriter grants. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in publications including RVA Magazine, and journals including Blue Collar Review, Powhatan Review, the Charles Review, Sidelines, and others. She is Editor and Art Director of Eve in Hand, an online arts and culture publication, and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Peter K. Nash
804.840.2078
http://www.cesca.net


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New collection is the account of a musician couple living in urban Virginia and is a brave rendering of the sometimes severe terms of artistic ambition crossed with poverty and substance abuse.


 
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