
{"id":4081,"date":"2008-11-25T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T21:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2008-11-25T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T21:19:21","slug":"erica%e2%80%99s-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/11\/25\/erica%e2%80%99s-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/authora110608.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/authora110608-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Ava Barlow. Carrboro resident Erica Eisdorfer is the author of <em>The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale<\/em>, due to be published in August 2009.&#8221; title=&#8221;authora110608&#8243; width=&#8221;180&#8243; height=&#8221;120&#8243; align=&#8221;left&#8221; size-medium wp-image-4082&#8243; \/><\/a><strong>Vicky Dickson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It must be the rare bookseller indeed who sees her own novel favorably reviewed by her store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top-selling author. But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what happened to Bull\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Head Bookshop manager and <em>Carrboro Citizen<\/em> book reviewer Erica Eisdorfer after she entered the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest last November. From a gradually winnowed field of more than 5,000 submissions, Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, <em>The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale<\/em>, was selected as one of the top 10 entries. And if you log onto Amazon.com today and search for <em>The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale<\/em>, you can read a glowing review by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of <em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nErica and I belong to the same writing group, so I had the distinct pleasure of watching the evolution of the story of wet nurse Susan Rose, a tale set in Britain in 1847. Our group shared Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frustration as she searched for an agent for her novel, and heard her describe the online contest she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d discovered, and might have entered. (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Though I probably actually didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think I misread the instructions about submitting.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) We heard about the letters and emails that agents began to send her after she made the contest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top 100. And saw the rash (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good rash!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) that developed on Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arms as she waited for that 100 to be cut to 10. <\/p>\n<p>After Erica hired one of the emailing agents to represent her, she began to suspect the agent of not rooting for <em>The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale<\/em> to actually win the contest. This was puzzling, until we realized that the winner would receive a non-negotiable book contract with Penguin. Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agent apparently thought she could negotiate a far more favorable contract; and though we were disappointed to learn that Erica wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be going to New York City as one of the three winners, we were elated when the agent turned out to be right. Thanks to Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s negotiating skills, <em>The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale<\/em> will be published by Putnam and will arrive in stores next August. <\/p>\n<p>You can preorder the book on Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website while also discovering tidbits about Erica herself. Her graduation from a certain university in Durham notwithstanding, Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of us. She has a long history in our community, including eight years spent reviewing books on WUNC, 20 years managing the Bull\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Head Bookshop at UNC and many, many years of residence in Carrboro. <\/p>\n<p>Fellow writing group members Edith, Rebecca, Gina, Betsy and I are eagerly anticipating the debut of Erica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s novel. So should you, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a fan of well-researched, tightly written historical novels and quirky heroines with ironic senses of humor. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-mill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}