Charlotte Miller - Press Release - Behold, This Dreamer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	For information:
JULY 2000	Suzanne La Rosa
	334-834-3556
	(suzanne@newsouthbooks.com)

A New Novelist in the Tradition of Erskine Caldwell

"Charlotte Miller has illuminated a dark corner of the American South with remarkable grace and beauty. Behold, This Dreamer is an incredible debut novel."
--Melinda Haynes, author of Mother of Pearl,
Oprah Book Club® selection for June 1999

Montgomery, Alabama -- NewSouth is pleased to announce a new southern voice in Behold, This Dreamer, from first-time novelist Charlotte Miller. Janson Sanders, part Cherokee, part poor-but-proud white, is a man intent on revenging his father's death and taking back the land stolen from him by a wealthy planter. In the process, he meets and falls in love with the daughter of another rich landowner who happens ot operate an illegal bootlegging industry. This desperate, dangerous world of which Janson becomes a part places him in a position where he must fend off both rival bootleggers and honest policemen. A novel set against the contrasting backdrops of the small farm and sharecropping life in the South in the final days of King Cotton, Behold, This Dreamer is a story of love, hope, poverty, and heartbreak, in which the protagonist is pulled in opposite directions toward his love and his dream.

Author Robert Inman says: "First-time novelists just aren't supposed to be able to do things like this. Miller has a superb sense of place and time, and in Janson Sanders she has given us a character who goes right to the heart of some things that really matter: love of the land, the good kind of pride, and above all, pursuit of dreams."

Anne George, author of the new Murder Carries a Torch, adds: "Charlotte Miller is a born story-teller whose characters come alive."

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Behold, This Dreamer will be available in October at local bookstores, through on-line retailers, or directly from NewSouth Books at 334-834-3556. ISBN# 1-58838-002-5 . Retail price is $27.95 (hardcover).

Š2000-2011 by Charlotte Miller.