Foolish Babe May 29th, 2008

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) May 16, 2008 — In 2005, Eileen Cruz Coleman’s novel entitled, Sweetwater American, garnered the attention of a New York literary agent who signed Cruz Coleman after having read the first one hundred and sixteen pages of the then unfinished novel. With her then agent’s support and input, Cruz Coleman finished writing Sweetwater American in late 2005.
Sweetwater American landed on the desks of six publishers in early 2006. After all six publishers failed to take the novel on for publication, Cruz Coleman put Sweetwater American away and got to work on other writing projects.
With a new novel on the way, the premise of which only Cruz Coleman’s closest writing friends are privy to, Cruz Coleman decided to pull Sweetwater American out of her forgotten hard drive files and give it new life by taking advantage of blogs and their ever-growing popularity.
But before moving forward with her serialized blog novel idea, Cruz Coleman decided to seek the input of her writer friends on Backspace: The Writer’s Place, an online community for writers. Cruz Coleman started a thread entitled, Publishing Unsold Novel on a Blog, and asked fellow members to offer their thoughts on the idea. After digesting everyone’s input, Cruz Coleman decided to pull the trigger.
Cruz Coleman launched Sweetwater American on May 9, 2008. The first three chapters are up on the blog and Cruz Coleman plans on adding chapters on a weekly basis.

“The novel is dark and writing it took a lot out of me. It left me emotionally beaten. By serializing it on a blog, I hope to engage with readers in a fun, creative, and relaxed way,” said Cruz Coleman. “I’m always encouraging writers to use the Internet to get their work out to potential readers. Well, I’m finally taking my own advice,” she said.
When asked what the phrase Sweetwater American means, Cruz Coleman said, “You’ll just have to read the novel to find out.”
Read the full press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb949464.htm

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