Sisters, Ink by Rebecca Seitz

Avid scrapbooker (scrapper) and professional business woman, Rebeca Seitz, who is also founder and

president of Glass Road Public Relations, has applied her love of fiction and her passion for creating

scrapping collections to a new faiththemed

series from B&H Publishing Group.

 

Sisters, Ink is currently the only existing trade fiction series with scrapping as a central theme. A 2004

survey from Creating Keepsakes magazine reveals that one in four homes in America has a scrapper and

that the industry is at an estimated $3.9 billion. Not surprisingly, most scrappers are females ages 3050.

Total estimated number of scrappers in America is 33 million.

"Millions of scrappers are engaged in this hobby because they love to capture the stories of their families,"

Seitz says. "That love of story carries over into the world of novels. We love reading other people's stories as

well. My hope is to entertain scrappers and lovers of fiction alike with stories about small towns, sisters, and

scrapping."

 

Sisters, Ink, the debut novel and series name, kicks off with "Big City Sister" Tandy's forced leave of

absence from the Orlando law firm of Meyers, Briggs, and Stratton due to an ethical issue that she believes

could comprise herself, as well as her firm and her client's case.

 

Tandy makes the best of her "vacation" and heads home to the tiny town of Stars Hill, Tennessee for a longoverdue

reunion with her adopted sisters – Joy, the baby; Meg – the steady one; and Kendra, the artist. Yet,

when she arrives, it's more than the sisters she encounters. Former high school love Clay Kelner is back in

town as well, several years of Marine Corps service behind him. Now the owner of the local diner, Clay's

hard to ignore – despite Tandy's commitment to do so.

 

With Daddy's country wisdom and the sisters' advice spilled out over the scrapping table in Momma's

scrapping studio, Tandy's life is a whirlwind of emotion and reconciliation. All she wanted was a short trip

home. What she gets instead is anything but.

 

Seitz explains that as the series continues, each of the four sisters will take center stage. "By dedicating

each novel in the series to one sister as the main storyline, I hope to give readers the opportunity to really

know each character. Since all four were adopted, they each come from different social and ethnic

backgrounds. Yet, they have found a commonality as siblings and as women that draws them together."

Each character in Seitz's novels will go on to share their scrapping personalities and ideas with readers at

www.sistersink.net.

 

Her own love of scrapping as well as her experiences in the power of the art to bring women together much

like the sewing and knitting circles of days past was the impetus for Seitz's choice of topics for her novels.

And, like Tandy, Seitz traded her big city life for that of a small town and began her own business venture –

founding a public relations firm devoted solely to fiction authors.

Sisters Ink, (9780805446906, $14.99, Trade paper, 320 pages) is available February 2008.

 

You can buy the book now at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805446907