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Borders Book Signing Event - Farmingdale, NY
Long
Island Authors' Group Summer Reading Tour presents:
Jean Marie Pierson to sign copies of her book, NO
GOOD GIRLS
Thursday, August 7, 2008
BORDERS, Farmingdale
7:00 pm
Borders Bookstore Farmingdale
231 Airport Blvd.
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: 631.752.0194
visit
website for maps and directions
Borders Book Signing Event - Riverhead, NY
Long
Island Authors' Group Summer Reading Tour presents:
Jean Marie Pierson to sign copies of her
book, NO GOOD GIRLS
Friday, August 8, 2008
BORDERS, Riverhead
6:00 pm
Borders Bookstore Riverhead
1500 Old Country Road
Riverhead, NY
Phone: 631.284.2222
visit website for maps and directions
Long Island Author Guild Book Fair at Martha Clara Vineyard
Come meet Jean
Marie Pierson
and members of the Long Island Author Guild at Martha
Clara Vineyard
Sunday, July 13, 2008
12:00pm – 5:00pm
A good bottle of wine and a great book for the weekend.
What can be better?
For more information go to www.marthaclaravineyards.com
Book Reading and Talk at The Southold Free Library
Jean Marie Pierson will read from
her new book as well as discuss
life from inside the book publishing
industry at:
The Southold Free Library
53705
Main Road, Southold
Saturday, July 5, 2008
10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Copies can be purchased wherever books
are sold and at the Southold
Pharmacy
Save the Date - AUTHORS NIGHT 2008
Jean Marie Pierson will appear at East Hampton's Authors Night
Authors
Night is East Hampton Library's annual literary celebration
and fundraiser. Meet an author and get a book
autographed!
Complete
details can be found at: www.authorsnight.org
FREE Copies of No Good
Girls on the Hampton Jitney
NO GOOD GIRLS is the 2008 Beach Read of the Hamptons!
Hampton Jitney will be handing out free copies of NO
GOOD GIRLS to its passengers on their afternoon runs to the North and
South Forks,
Friday, July 4th, 2008. Thank you Hampton Jitney!
Trashionista.com gives No Good Girls 4/5 Stars
"I requested this book after seeing the fabby book trailer and I must say, I wasn't disappointed.
It is, however, a classic case of the wrong cover being slapped on a book. It's garish, uses cartoon - a pet hate of mine - and simply doesn't match the content. No Good Girls is about a group of female best friends in New York and it is funnier, snarkier and quirkier than the cover suggests..." Go to Trashionista.com to Read More
Posted by Sarah Painter on April 10, 2008 in American Authors, Book covers, Rating: 4/5
Galley Cat features the No
Good Girls Book Trailer Movie
"...some of the best production values I've seen in a book trailer so far."
read the article: Finding the Short Film in Your Novel (for Less!)
More Lenz Winery booksigning photos
Left: Jean Marie Pierson (photo by Jennifer Fanning)
Right: Ethan (photo by Elizabeth Laible)
Dan's Hamptons.com
NF
Native Writes Book About Manhattan
Jean Marie Pierson's Book Signing Held At Lenz Winery
Was A Tremendous Success
By David Lion Rattiner
It was an absolutely wonderful evening at Lenz Winery in Peconic. The vineyard itself is stunning, with an amazing tasting room that captures that magical balance between man and nature that the North Fork is famous for. But this wasn't just a visit to the winery, this was the opportunity to meet and greet author Jean Marie Pierson, whose book "No Good Girls" is selling in bookstores all over the country. Read more
Left: Jean Marie Pierson and Dorothy Dean Thomas, Director Of
Marketing For Lenz Winery
Middle: Zareen Jaffery, Stephanie Blumfeld, Maureen Howard,
Mariam Parker
Right: Jean Marie Pierson
photos
courtesy of Dan's
Hamptons
Issue #48, March 7th, 2008
Dan's Hamptons, Blog Hampton
New Writer, Lenz Winery, Love It
March 4th, 2008
There
is a new writer for the East End and her name is Jean Marie Pierson.
The launch of her new novel, No Good Girls has been a wonderful success.
The North Fork Native and Manhatanite had a book party last Saturday
at a packed and beautiful Lenz Winery. No Good Girls is a charming and
hysterical book about a young single woman living in Manhattan. The wine
at Lenz was wonderful and the vibe couldn���t have been any better for
Jean and her book. Every copy brought to the event was sold. Looks like
No Good Girls author is a super good writer! Congrats!
Visit
Hampton Blog to view a video interview with Jean
Romantic Reviews Today
March 20th, 2008
New York City ~ Present Day
Geri O’Brien’s goal in life is to be a published screenwriter, all
the while she hopes to find the man of her dreams. She’s received as many
rejections from publishers as she has from men, which still hasn’t put
any damper on her spirit. She plugs away at her job at a children’s publisher
and spends her free time with her friends, Emmy, Maria and Sally. Meanwhile,
Geri has a crush on her neighbor, Todd, who always looks to her when he needs
his car fixed. When he asks her to meet him at a bar…ooh la la…things
just might be looking up in the men department. Well, things don’t move
as fast in Geri’s life as she wishes, even if she is living the
New York minute.
Geri grew up an only child with a father who had to raise her single-handedly
after her mother left, and it has left its mark. Trying to achieve love
and happiness is not easy for Geri, since everyone is too busy trying
to survive in the concrete jungle known as New York City. Emmy and Maria
are Geri’s childhood friends
who support her in her quest for stardom and love. Emmy herself hasn’t
forgotten the boy who would never look at her in high school. Well, he’s
in New York now and finally paying attention to Emmy. Will she get the man she
wants? Maria just wants to be the best damn cop she can be. Right now, she’s
involved in an ongoing case which weaves itself into the plot of NO
GOOD GIRLS to provide a touch of suspense. Sally is Geri’s coworker and is
just looking for a man and has a big dating book to show for it. Will
she find love in the most unexpected place?
NO GOOD GIRLS is a chick lit book with a romantic side. Geri might be
single and living in New York, but she hasn’t given up on finding Mr. Right. With
Todd in her sights, plus J.T., a man she’s made up in her dreams, one can
picture Geri sighing in the moonlight while gazing dreamily at the sky. Add in
her gaggle of friends and other supporting characters, NO GOOD GIRLS is an entertaining
read that is well-rounded and fresh. This is Jean Marie Pierson’s
debut novel, and with the launch of NO GOOD GIRLS, she shows readers
an endearingly unique voice with a funny plot.
Get a glimpse into the life of a writer wannabe in New York, her bumpy road to
romance, and the friends going along for the ride. Pick up NO GOOD GIRLS today.
--Patti Fischer
www.romrevtoday.com
Romantic Times Review
Romatic Times, March 2008RT Rating: Four Stars
Debut author Pierson shines with this look at one woman's struggle to achieve success in the world of book publishing. The search for someone special in a city of millions is the perfect backdrop for this story of friends whose bond endures through the ups and downs in their love lives.
Summary: Geri O'Brien, an aspiring writer, works for a Manhattan publisher.
Despite her lack of a love life, Geri is fortunate to have the support of her
roommate, Emmy, and their mutual friends Maria and Sally.
Geri is considering quitting her job when she discovers that she's been promoted.
In addition to her professional success, she soon begins dating Todd, a man in
her building who recently broke up with his longtime girlfriend. But as their
relationship begins its predictable roller-coaster ride, Geri must discover what
she truly wants from life. (love spell, Mar., 368 pp., $6.99)
—Sheri Melnick
Dorchester Publishing
No Good Girls Book and Trailer - The Making-Of
by Jean Marie Pierson
My main character, Geri O'Brien, does not fall far from my tree. No Good Girls is the story about a frustrated screenplay writer who works in the marketing department of a major children'ss publishing house in New York City. My first five years in Manhattan were spent much the same way although I worked in the contract department (still do) and had a boss that looked and smelt nothing like Hedda. Even though I worked with books, my degree at Penn State was in Film and Video production and coming out of school I didn't think I was old or wise enough to write a novel. When I pictured a novelist I did not see me. I saw older women with glasses and a gray skunk stripe or men who looked like Ernest Hemingway. They smoked pipes, drank brandy and considered Ulysses a beach read. That's who I thought a novelist should be. My passion and education was in writing screenplays so in the course of five years I wrote three of them. It wasn't until I realized that my stories might not see the light of day if I kept them in screenplay format that I decided to try my hand at writing a novel. Read more
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