At age 71, after leaving San Francisco to retire in nearby Sebastopol, Shelagh Pratt Mooberry has written her first novel, "Chronicles of an American family 1913-2259," a science-fiction story that is soon to be released for publication by PublishAmerica.
(PRWEB) February 17, 2004--With PublishAmericas Forthciming Release of "Chronicles of an American Family 1913-2259" Shelagh Pratt Mooberry Has Achieved a Goal She Set for Herself Sixty Years Ago.
As a young girl in England, Mooberry knew she wanted to be a writer. She got an early start, too, writing stories in collaboration with her best friend. The two girls submitted a handwritten and illustrated manuscript for publication. Predictably, the publisher rejected it, although very gently and with great tact, blaming wartime shortage of paper.The year was 1944.
Disappointed, Mooberry promised herself that she would go on writing, and resolved that she would be published. It took her a long time to make good on that promise. She left England and lived in New York, Washington, DC and San Francisco. She married and raised three children. Only at the age of seventy-one, after retiring to Sebastopol in Sonoma County, California, has she finally written her first novel, now pre-released for publication.
"The Chronicles of an American Family 1913-2259" by Shelagh Pratt Mooberry is about a woman, Gabrielle Malik Perez, who lives in a fragmented, depopulated twenty-third-century America. She is a citizen of the County-Township System, where, with the help of a drug, the L-Serum, people can live for three centuries or more. Citizens of this system are affluent, and most are pleasure seeking and sexually promiscuous. Celebrations, holidays and lavish parties play a huge role in their lives. In many ways their society is ideal. Environmental concern is evident everywhere, and there is absolute equality between men and women. There are no economic worries because attractive, spacious housing, good food and a "household computer" are available to all in exchange for twenty hours of work each week. Ownership is permitted but limited to nonessentials, so those who want to do so can work extra hours to earn money for luxuries not provided by the System. But Gabrielle discovers a dark side to this utopia, and she is faced with some difficult choices.
Mooberrys writing has been described by an InsideSessions editor as "certainly imaginative.... [The] story is well set up and the descriptions of this depopulated future world seem very believable....[The] characters, not just Gabrielle but Franny and Charles and even Oscar, are varied and appealing."
The retail price of "Chronicles of an American Family 1913-2259" is $21.95. The book is currently available on-line for a pre-release price of $18.95 at Http://www.publishamerica/books/3881 or throgh Http://www.shelaghmooberry.com or http://www.publishedauthors.net/shelaghmooberry/index.html. At the shelaghmooberry.com and the publishedauthors.net website sites there is further information on the book as well as some excerpts.
PublishAmerica provides complimentary review copies to legitimate media reviewers who submit their requests in writing through e-mail at support@publishamerica.com or fax (301-631-9073)
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