from author’s website
Fran Hawthorne spent three-plus decades writing award-winning nonfiction, including eight books, mainly about consumer activism, the financial industry, and Big Pharma and the healthcare world. For instance, Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love (Beacon Press) was named one of the best books of 2012 by Library Journal. In addition, she’s written regularly (as either a staff editor or freelancer) for The New York Times, Business Week, Newsday, The Scientist, and many other publications, as well as book reviews for The New York Journal of Books and The National (based in the United Arab Emirates).
Fran achieved her lifelong dream in 2018 when Stephen F. Austin State University Press published The Heirs – her first published novel. Now the dream continues, as her second novel, I Meant To Tell You, is a finalist or winner of nine awards.
ABOUT I Meant To Tell You:
When Miranda Isaacs’s fiancé, Russ Steinmann, is being vetted for his dream job in the U.S. attorney’s office, the couple joke about whether Miranda’s parents’ history as antiwar activists in the Sixties might jeopardize Russ’s security clearance. But as it turns out, the real threat emerges after the attorney’s office discovers that Miranda was arrested for felony kidnapping seven years earlier – an arrest she’d never bothered to tell Russ about.
Miranda tries to explain that she was merely helping her best friend, Ronit, in the midst of a nasty divorce and custody battle, take her daughter to visit her parents in Israel. Russ doesn’t see it quite as innocently. “I thought I knew you,” he says.
The repercussions of this one secret will not only threaten Miranda’s and Russ’s relationship; they will also change what Miranda thought she knew about Ronit, Russ, and her own family.
Awards & Honors
- Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Awards (two categories), the International Book Awards (two categories), the Sarton Award, and the Somerset Chanticleer International Book Award; second place in women’s fiction and third place in adult fiction in the Feathered Quill Book Awards
Author Visits:
Author visits with Fran Hawthorne are available via Adventures by the Book.