Local author to have book signing
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May 21, 2013 |
 After
raising six rambunctious kids and setting them
loose on the world, Willow Feller found the
time, and the peace, to pursue her passion for
writing, and she'll be signing copies of her
first novel, "The Epic Undoing of Haley Ann
Ewing" by Evergreen Press, from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Bonners Books, 7159
Main Street in downtown Bonners Ferry.
Willow, a recovering Pharisee, lives with her
husband Mike on an eight-acre spread in the
valley overlooked by Katka Mountain, and
together they enjoy all the typical North Idaho
stuff; ambling along wilderness trails, cutting
firewood, picking huckleberries, sparring with
grizzlies.
She does not much like weeding the onion patch
or "the sound of her own screaming when, while
operating a cantankerous tractor, she panics and
pulls the hydraulic loader control lever in all
the wrong directions, causing said loader to
dangle field boulders over her hard-working
husband’s head.
"Mike doesn’t enjoy that either."
She does, however, enjoy being a grandmother,
and likes nothing more than the time she and
mike spend with their grandkids.
They moved here from Montana, where they are
both from, 10 years ago. Mike works at the
Bonners Ferry Post Office, Willow, until
recently, worked as a substitute mail carrier
and still works part time at Boulder Creek
Academy.
At heart, she's always been a writer.
""I've wanted to be a writer from the time that
I was young, but didn't really get serious about
writing a novel until about six years ago," she
said. "The idea for this story originally arose
from my own realization that I was strangely
receiving back on myself many of the same
judgments I had formed about others. It was
humbling, but as I learned to start laughing at
myself instead of beating myself up over it, the
seeds of a really funny fiction story began
germinating in my mind. I combined this with my
years and years of self-teaching and research on
the craft of writing and eventually completed
the manuscript for this novel. I jumped through
all the hoops a first-time author is told to
jump through and received dozens of the
necessary rejections before first landing an
agent over a year ago, and then going on to
contract with Evergreen Press. It was an arduous
process, but wow ... have I ever learned a lot
along the way!"
"I had the privilege of reading a pre-released
draft of this book, and it’s HILARIOUS!" said
Cora Roberts, author of "No Other Rock." "You
should definitely all indulge in some witty
Christian fiction this fall.”
 "Epic
Undoing" is a fast-paced Christian comedy.
Facing a cataclysmic identity crisis, pregnant
Haley is battling for her very life. Her life as
an eco-chic, semi-vegan Christian, that is.
She hadn’t counted on being thrust into a war
zone when she agreed to leave her East Coast
life and go with her husband, Rick, to the
Montana outback for the summer. Rather than run
from it, Haley decides it is her God-given
mission to subdue and educate the redneck forces
that discount her superior vocabulary and her
superior hairdo.
With no help from Rick or his freaky Aunt Win,
Haley dives headfirst into her mission only to
find herself sucked irretrievably into a
maelstrom of humiliating mishaps.
With tensions mushrooming as fast as her
waistline, will Haley see that she is actually
living out the reality of the scripture, “Do not
judge, or you too will be judged.”
And just how many car explosions and massive
wardrobe malfunctions will it take for her to
realize that it is her own critical judgments of
others that are boomeranging back on her?
"The Epic Undoing of Haley Ann Ewing" stands
alone, but it's actually the first book of a
trilogy, and Willow is already about half-way
through the manuscript of book two.
"One of the main underlying themes of "Epic
Undoing" is highlighted in my blog, "The
Pharisee in Me" at
http://www.thephariseeinme.wordpress.com,"
Willow said. "Learning how to blog and use
social media has been a necessary part of the
marketing phase of my writing. It's also been a
huge learning curve for me, but rewarding,
nonetheless."
If you can't attend the signing, signed copies
of the novel are available for $14 on her
website,
http://www.willowfeller.com/, it's also
stocked at Bonners Books, at bookstores in Coeur
d'Alene, Missoula and Kalispell, and on websites
including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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