Alluvium Books is pleased to announce that Marie Etienne’s new memoir, Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi Gras Queen, ISBN 978-0-9748474-1-2, (February 2009) is published by Alluvium Books and nationally distributed by Midpoint Trade Books, Ingram, Amazon.com, and other national distributors.
Recent news:
CONFESSIONS OF A BI-POLAR MARDI GRAS QUEEN is the 2009 Gold Winner Independent Publisher Regional Book Award - Best Regional Non-Fiction
Appearance schedule:
Thursday, June 25, 2009, Lafayette Book Store, Lafayette, CA, 6 PM, Book Club Mixer with local authors
Saturday, July 18, 2009, InStock Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2 PM, Self-publishing panel
February 8, 2009, Lafayette Book Store, Lafayette, California, 3 - 5 PM, Book Launch Party with wine and sweets
February 15, 2009, Southern California Writer's Conference, Sunday Evening Guest Speaker 8 PM
February 18, 2009, Barnes & Noble, Lafayette, Louisiana, 4 - 6:30 Reading/Q&A
February 19, 2009, Vermillion Parish Library, Abbeville, Louisiana, 6PM
February 21, 2009, Barnes & Noble, Mandeville, Louisiana, 2 - 4 PM
February 24, 2009, Barnes & Noble, Walnut Creek, California, 7:30 PM
February 26, 2009, Barnes & Noble, Stockton, California, 7 PM
February 27, 2009, Book Passage, Corte Madera, California, 7 PM
Advance praise for Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi Gras Queen: “Marie Etienne’s ability to find humor in her haunting journey makes this a fascinating and powerful story.” ~ Adair Lara, author of The Granny Diaries and Hold Me Close, Let Me Go.
Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi Gras Queen swings between hilarity and devastation in this collection of inspirational true stories. As a former debutant and one of nine children growing up in a well-to-do family in Southern Louisiana, Marie Etienne spent decades risking everything in her quest to find happiness, sanity, and love. Her increasingly erratic behavior, which took its toll on her two sons, mirrored the drama of her upbringing. At 43, on the brink of suicide and recently diagnosed as bi-polar, her last-ditch hope was to come to terms with her deep-rooted feelings of fear, shame, and resentment by facing head-on who she really was, who she wanted to be, and what she was willing to do to make her life worth living.
Etienne’s memoir is fast-paced, heartfelt, and brutally honest. Her non-linear, thematically connected stories reveal the unstoppable determination of a woman forging her own path. Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi Gras Queen explores the themes of love versus lust, the legacy of abuse and mental illness, the impact of a sibling’s murder, magic, faith, forgiveness, and courage.