Press Releases

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Ruth Marlene Friesen
(306)956-7785

[Note: the press releases below are from before my move to Saskatoon, June 2007.

March 20, 2002
Small Town Girl with Double-life in Saskatoon.

A new Saskatchewan novel, Ruthe's Secret Roses, by Ruth Marlene Friesen, of Hague, Saskatchewan, features a small town high school grad, who commutes to work in Saskatoon, but who keeps her city friends a secret from her family and friends in her hometown, Kleinstadt....
(click title to read this press release).

March 2002
Broke Caregiver Publishes novel via Internet and POD

While many know they have a book in them, they don't believe they could accomplish the enormous task of publishing it themselves. "Just the cost seems prohibitive," such a would-be complains, "never mind the expertise - and contacts you have to have!"

However, Ruth Marlene Friesen, a caregiver for her parents in Hague, Saskatchewan the past 18 years, wrote a novel, and perservered to teach herself on the internet in the last three years, how to publish and market it in the new electronic way called POD....
(Click title to read the whole release).

June 10, 2002
New Saskatoon area novelist Signing books at Blessings

Ruth Marlene Friesen, of Hague, Saskatchewan, will be signing her books at Blessings Christian Marketplace on June 15, 2 - 5 pm. Her novel, Ruthe's Secret Roses, is set in Saskatoon, and a small town called Kleinstadt, loosely based on Hague. Friesen's home town.

After many years of dogged writing, re-writing, and some rejections, Friesen, a live-in caregiver, discovered Print-on- Demand, a new publishing trend on the Internet. In March she was able to publish it in conjunction with BookLocker.com, where she gets a royalty of 35%. The highest available.

Ingram's, the largest book distributor in North America, has Friesen's book in their order system, with the ISBN # 1--59113-067-0, which means any store can order it at discounts, but not on credit, as it cannot be returned....
(Click title to read the whole release).

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