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Lisa Saunders lives in Mystic, CT, with her husband, Jim, and beagle/basset hound, Bailey. The author of several books, she is a speaker, blogger, and a consulting writer/publicist. Her books and plays include: Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife, featuring excerpts of her great-great grandparents’ Civil War love letters; Ride a Horse, Not an Elevator, a children’s novel based on Lisa’s summers as a chubby kid on her grandparents’ farm; Anything But A Dog!, the true story of how a big, homeless canine found his way to her disabled daughter’s couch; and The Mystic Seafarer’s Trail, which reveals the secrets behind the haunts and homes of Mystic’s legendary sea voyagers--living and dead. A Cornell University graduate and winner of the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations Gold Medallion, Lisa helps authors and organizations promote their work through her free e-books, How to Get Published and How to Promote Your Business (or yourself). A former employment recruiter, Lisa shares job seeking tips in her free e-book, How to Get a Job. See her work and availability for speaking at: www.authorlisasaunders.com
Valentine's Day (Feb 14, 2012, 6:30 p.m.)--Ever True: A Civil War Love Story:
Travel back to the Civil War to eavesdrop on one couple's devotion to each other and their country in the midst of infidelities, scandals, and ever-present threat of death. Through the actual love letters of Private Charles McDowell and his 17-year-old wife, Nancy, you will not only hear of dreams, desertions and disease, but of hangings and the court marshalling of a cow. This dinner theater production of Ever True includes an introduction by the play's author, Lisa Saunders, who will remain after the show to answer any questions.Presented by the Emerson Theater Collaborative at the RiverWalk Restaurant in Mystic, CT, you may purchase your tickets by clicking here or calling (860) 705-9711. Show tickets are $25 and the dinner, which is paid for at the restaurant on the night of the show, is an additional $30 (plus tax and tip). Seating is limited and tickets will not be sold at the door.
Lisa's Books
Ride a Horse, Not an Elevator ; Children’s novel; A chubby city girl visits her grandparents’ farm where she tries to find a friend and overcome her fear of horses.
Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife; Non-fiction; The love letters between a Civil War soldier and his teenage wife. More about Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife: Charles McDowell married Nancy when she was just 15 years old. Enlisting as a private in the Union Army, he asked Nancy, then 17, to save his letters. Despite his grueling battles and marches, he was able to save hers as well. Together their letters include tales of longing, dreams, desertions, hangings, prostitutes, venereal disease, bullets, typhoid fever, lying injured on the battlefield for days, and “clever women.” Great-great granddaughter Lisa Saunders tells their “back story” in her book and play, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife, which includes the battles fought by the New York 9th Heavy Artillery and 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery when they joined forces in the Sixth Corps.
Lisa's Upcoming E-Book:
Mystic Pizza and Beyond: Walking the Seafarer's Trail
Forced to relocate to Mystic, CT, writer Lisa Saunders must leave family and her “real” job to begin a new life with her husband in what National Geographic calls one of America’s “Best Adventure Towns.” Because the picturesque village along Mystic River attracts explorers who traverse the oceans, Lisa decides to build a new life by becoming an explorer herself. First, she plans to lose weight and meet as many locals as she can, living or dead, by taking long walks with her beagle/basset hound past the haunts and homes of Mystic’s legendary sea voyagers, who include the discoverers of the RMS Titanic and Antarctica; the legendary aviatrix, Amelia Earhart; and new friend, Kate, who gave birth to her daughter on a self-built schooner and rowed to shore to weigh her on a lobster scale.
Living only blocks from Mystic Pizza, the restaurant that inspired the movie, “Mystic Pizza,” Lisa sets out daily with her hound to walk stretches of what she terms “The Mystic Seafarer’s Trail.” Although she doesn’t lose weight because she stops along the way for ice-cream, fried clams strips, and of course, pizza, she does, through conversations with locals, uncover the secrets behind what she crowns “The 7 Wonders of Mystic”; becomes embroiled in a controversy with the locals over the“8th Wonder”; and discovers she too has a family secret buried in Mystic—that just down the street from her lived a distant cousin, Captain Charles Sisson, whose failed attempt to find gold leads to the tragic death of his childhood friend, and later, to the mysterious death of his wife at sea. When she visits Captain Sisson's grave, she is in for an even bigger surprise.
The book also includes restaurant and winery reviews by members of the “Nice Girls Club,” an organization Lisa co-founded with fearless kayaker, Cindy, to gather together gals who specialize in making others feel welcome in Mystic-- a seaport that truly reflects the very soul of New England.
Excerpts can be read on Lisa's blog, Mystic Pizza and Beyond: A Seafarer's Trail
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