Welcome to my website where you may browse a preview of STOLEN FIELDS: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream published by Colerith Press. Today's EMINENT DOMAIN issues can be checked out on the Castle Coalition blog -- link below. INCEST issues are covered in my blog - INCEST - link below.

STOLEN FIELDS: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream, published by Colerith Press is now available using the ADD TO CART button below, or through my ORDERS page.  Purchase your autographed copy at $15.95 plus shipping and sales tax if applicable.   Or you can order from Amazon http://www.amazon.com Barnes and Noble www.BN.com or Borders www.bordersstores.com

ANNOUNCEMENT:  I have been notified that STOLEN FIELDS has been named a FINALIST in the Best Overall Design category of the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards!

INTERVIEW on READER VIEWS -- http://readerviews.com/InterviewBoggio.html  This interview is also posted on my Eminent Domain Blog at:  http://eminentdomainjean.blogspot.com

STOLEN FIELDS is a non-fiction memoir and family history.  It deals with the issue of eminent domain where the government seized farms that supplied the stores and restaurants of Pittsburgh with produce.  It was ostensibly done in order to build a munitions plant for WWI.  However, the war ended and the munitions plant was never built.  The land was put up for public auction and the winner was Carnegie Steel.  The story is told from the author's percpective as a descendant of the last holdouts against the takeover.  The event shadowed the author's life through the effect on her mother and other family members.  The farm grew asparagus, horseradish, tomatoes and strawberries.  The loss of the farm grew hatred, bitterness, greed and lust.  Incest reared its ugly head.  The book highlights the author's experiences growing up in the 40's and 50's, as an attempted actress, and teacher, as well as being a descendant of the colorful and stubborn Cole family. For more information click on the TITLE page.

BEA EXPO and PMA - In May, I will be attending the BEA Expo in Los Angeles, as well as the three-day Publisher's Marketing Association seminar that precedes it.

Book Events -  are being planned in 2008:

     Camden Public Library, Camden ME - June 3 at 6:30 pm.

     North County Branch Library, Clinton NJ - June 10 at 7:00 pm;  Somers Library, Somers NY - June 11 at 2:00pm;  Ocean County Library, Barnegat NJ - June 12 at 7:00 pm; the Municipal Park on Neville Island PA - June 14 at 2:00 pm; Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh PA - 2:00 pm, and Katonah, NY - June 17 at 7:30 pm. I'm hoping to schedule an event in Ridgewood, NJ later in the summer.

     Rockland Public Library - Rockland, ME -- August 28 at 6:30 pm.

     Bangor Public Library - Meet the Author -- September 6 at 2:00 pm

Other events will be planned throughout Maine as well as other areas.  I will also be attending other events in September and October including NEIBA.

I also plan to participate in the Bucksport Bay Festival in Bucksport, Maine at the end of July.

Please visit my BLOG on EMINENT DOMAIN at:  http://eminentdomainjean.blogspot.com  For indepth information on Eminent Domain, please visit the Castle Coalition blog at http://blog.castlecoalition.org/blog

There is also a blog that concerns INCEST, an issue that surfaced while writing the book. Please Check it out and post your comments, or email me privately: http://jeanboggio.blogspot.com   Another site with information about victims of incest is: http://www.clinicalsocialwork.com/systems.html

You can find me on MySpace at www.myspace.com/jeanboggio. I've created another blog on this domain site that will concern memoir writing in general.

A blog just for fun is http://jeansmemoirs.blogspot.com  Please visit and post your comments and find out what's going on in my life!

At present, I'm working on my next book that deals with my later life as a single older woman. It will cover both serious and humorous material and I hope others in the same situation will find it useful and entertaining. It will also cover events surrounding my renovation of a charming old cape house in Maine.

I look forward to hearing from you using my CONTACT page.

Thanks for checking in and for ordering your copy of STOLEN FIELDS.

Jean