Jessica Keener: January 2008 Archives

This past spring, ITW author Patry Francis came out with her debut: The Liar’s Diary. It was the culmination of years of love and labor: writing without pay, working for decades as a waitress on Cape Cod, and raising four children.

Three months later she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, which you can read about on her blog: Simply Wait.  With two surgeries behind her and a third upcoming, Patry is home recuperating. That’s when thriller writer Laura Benedict came up with an inspiring idea. Why not round up fellow writers to help Patry promote the paperback release of The Liar’s Diary on January 29^th  ?  I joined thriller writer Karen Dionne, novelist Susan Henderson at Litpark and novelist Tish Cohen to lend our support. Within days, more than forty thriller writers and 300 bloggers signed up to rally and blog for Patry and Liar’s Diary.