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I'm delighted to announce my Goodreads Book Giveaway is underway for Surreptitiously Yours . Four signed copies will be given to the winners. If you're a reader in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, or France, you have just one month to enter. Good luck! Goodreads Book Giveaway Surreptitiously Yours by Kristin Fouquet Giveaway ends April 20, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

Back and front covers of the novella, Surreptitiously Yours , by Kristin Fouquet. March, 2016 The books will be shipped next week. Pre-orders can be made here:  http://www.fouquet.cc/kristin/Bookstore/LeSalonPress.html $14.95 includes domestic shipping Thanks for all the support! -Kristin

"Reading Discharge" copyright 2016 Kristin Fouquet Memoirs are interesting in that one must trust the writers of such to be reliable narrators. The reader must believe all the facts presented, no matter how embarrassing or potentially damaging, are true. I pondered this as I read Discharge: A Veteran’s Lessons on Outrunning the Pentagon, Moving Stolen Military Art, and Guzzling Civilian Freedom by Ames Holbrook. The story encompasses: the beginning of Lieutenant Holbrook’s discharge on a cross-country drive in a white Cadillac with his wild man friend, The Band-Aid Man; eleven years after his discharge when he is suddenly activated for deployment at probably the worse time in his personal life for such a thing; in contemporary times as he assists Band-Aid, as a partner in crime, in returning a stolen painting, while all along addressing his daughter, Sisi, directly within the pages of a book he has written primarily for her. The reader is privy to Holbrook as the man...

"Surreptitiously Yours" cover copyright 2016 Kristin Fouquet I'm happy to announce my new book, Surreptitiously Yours , will be published next month by Le Salon Press . View the book trailer:         Preorder here:  http://www.fouquet.cc/kristin/Bookstore/LeSalonPress.html         Many thanks for the support. Books ship in February.

"Joy Theater, Canal Street, New Orleans" copyright 2015 Kristin Fouquet

I'm pleased to announce I'll have a table at this year's bookfair. If you're in town, stop by and say, "hi." I haven't participated since the 2011 bookfair.  Poet David Rowe visits me at my table during the 2011 New Orleans bookfair.  (photo by Mark Folse )

Fouquet, Mr. So Minnesota Spats, a.k.a. Mr. So, a tuxedo cat with emerald-hued eyes, aged nineteen, left this world peacefully on December 7, 2015, in New Orleans. Mr. So was born in New Orleans in early August 1996. Errol Fouquet and Kristin Mott, of New Orleans, adopted Mr. So, along with a blue-eyed Tabanese female cat, Mata Hari, on September 5, 1996. While technically an indoor cat, Mr. So was permitted a nomadic existence, which sometimes afforded some outdoor time on balconies and screened-in porches. Over the years, he dwelled in five apartments and six houses. Like many inhabitants of the Gulf region, Mr. So tolerated hurricane evacuations in several cities and in many hotels. He was in exile in North Carolina for one year and nine months following Hurricane Katrina and the resulting levee breaches, which flooded his home.  Akin to most native New Orleanians, Mr. So savored seafood gumbo and spicy crawfish with gusto. When the occasion allowed, he enjoyed lob...