Esmaa Self

Email: esmaaself@hotmail.com

Home page: http://www.esmaaself.com

The author's biography follows this list of available manuscripts.

Project Title: Quarter Moon

Percy Moon's unfaltering sense of self is riven when the proud Irish-American lass is uprooted and moved to an Indian reservation where she learns her lineage includes Hupa blood, that her paramedic father is also a drug dealer, and that he has a Hupa son. Percy refuses to relinquish her Irish identity and vows to find her mother, decisions that usher in conflict, yet lead the way to her most true self.

Book proposals concerning this 97,000-word contemporary family saga are available through Books & Such Literary Agency.



Project Title: The Fatherless

PATRICE GORDON'S young life has seen more uphill stretches than a mountain lion on the prowl. Her abusive father has seen to that. This time his attempts to hide from the law have brought the Gordons to the remote Hoopa Indian Reservation. When Patrice and her sister return from school and discover they've been abandoned, she must learn to accept the help of the community she mistrusts.

Based on the author's experiences growing up white on a remote Indian reservation, The Fatherless takes the reader on an unconventional path to maturity. Complete at 90,000 words, book proposals for this contemporary coming-of-age drama are available through Books & Such Literary Agency.



Project Title: Sea of Forgiveness

Successful Southern California senior pastor BENJAMIN BERENGER faces the greatest challenge of his life. His wife carries another man's child, his church board is about to vote him out and his past felony conviction is suddenly all over the evening news. How can he keep his marriage and faith intact and raise another man's baby?

An unblinking look at the choices we make, Sea of Forgiveness shows how betrayal can be forgiven, and how forgiveness practiced ushers in renewal.

Book proposals concerning this contemporary mainstream 68,000-word manuscript are available through Books & Such Literary Agency.




Biography

Esmaa Self began her love of words when, at age 5, she learned to spell the longest word not in the dictionary: antidisestablishmentarianism.

Esmaa has had more than 120 articles and stories published. Her background includes award-winning newspaper reporting, marketing collateral, how-to articles, political and product commercials. Her twelve years working in local television production created an easy rapport with crowds of all sizes and comfort on both sides of the camera lens. She has taught classes on the art of writing press releases and nabbing headlines, the irresistible sound bite and introductory television communications. Additionally, she has appeared in community stage productions and choir performances.

A member of the California Writers' Club and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, she acts as moderator for the Get It Sold! critique group, and is a contributing member of a number of Internet writers groups, including the Internet Writer's Workshop. She is busy working up character dossiers for her fourth novel project, a family saga set in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains.

Esmaa is an organic gardener, gourmet chef, and avid mountaineer. She and her husband, William, share their Colorado property with mule deer, elk, red foxes and wild birds. They share their home with hundreds of dog-eared books.

Interests: Why people do what they do; how things work; where things are; how does one get anywhere from here, and so forth.

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: No