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Local Author Wins NLAPW Award

October 20, 2007

Port St. Lucie novelist, Bette Lee Crosby was awarded top honors for her recently published novel, GIRL CHILD. The book was selected as First Place Winner of the Letters Award for Published Adult Fiction and announced on October 20, 2007 at the Biennial Conference of The National League of American Pen Women, Florida State Association.

The NLAPW is an organization of professional women who pursue endeavors in the fields of Art, Letters and Music. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the organization was founded in 1897 by newspaperwoman Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue and was incorporated with seventeen charter members. Today the NLAPW boasts over 4,000 members working through more than 150 branches. Honorary members include such notables as Pearl Buck, Laura Bush, Rosalynn Carter and Erma Bombeck. Bette Crosby is a member of the Vero Beach Branch.

GIRL CHILD, officially released in August of 2007, is a story of dysfunctional family relationships and one woman's search for a life of her own. It is set in present day Virginia and a turn-of-the-century farming community in the Shenandoah Mountains. The story, although swirling around the mysterious disappearance of one million dollars worth of United States Savings Bonds, tracks through historical events such as the Great Depression and the Women's Suffragette Movement.

GIRL CHILD, published by Publish America, is Crosby's sixth novel and is currently available online through Barnes & Noble and Amazon. In mid-November Bette Crosby will be speaking to select groups in Southern Florida.

For further information or to schedule an interview, contact:

Bette Lee Crosby

(772) 879-4475

www.croscon@aol.com