Red-Blooded and Gutsy Book Details Love
and Addiction in Honest and Poignant Terms
Virginia musician, writer,
and journalist Cesca Janece Waterfield will release
her first full-length book January
2010. Published by Two-Handed Engine Press (ISBN:
978-0-9820020-0-1, $14.95) Bartab: An Afterhours
Ballad is a story in verse and short fiction. It’s
the narrative account of two musicians; an unblinking
look at the sometimes severe terms of artistic ambition
crossed with poverty and substance abuse.
But Bartab is no morality yarn. Both the work as
a whole, and the discrete poems and stories that
comprise
its 122 pages are spare and authentic renderings
of life lived on the fringes.
In rooms and on highways where only the reckless
fly, Bartab moves from the charm of romance and
allure
of ambition, through the disappointment and fury
in their defeat. It even briefly lights the author’s
intimate
perspective in a true-life murder tragedy gnashed
in a blitz of media coverage for more than a year.
Bartab
resonates with any reader who has stumbled in pursuit
of a dream and from her own blunders.
Readings are scheduled in New York City; Richmond,
Norfolk, Charlottesville and Roanoke, Virginia,
with other cities to follow. Bartab will be available
via online vendors as well as independent brick
and mortar booksellers. Editors and founders Two-Handed
Engine Press express unreserved excitement.
A booksigning has been scheduled at Prince Books
in downtown Norfolk at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 13.
