{"product_id":"copy-boy-a-jane-benjamin-novel-9781631526978","title":"Copy Boy: A Jane Benjamin Novel","description":"It's 1937. Jane has left her pregnant mother with a man she hates, left her father for dead in an irrigation ditch, remade herself as a man, and gotten a job as a copy boy. And everything's getting better-until her father turns up on her newspaper's front page in a picture that threatens to destroy the life she's making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlanton-Stroud, Shelley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Shelley Blanton-Stroud grew up in California's Central Valley, the daughter of Dust Bowl immigrants who made good on their ambition to get out of the field. She teaches college writing in Northern California and consults with writers in the energy industry. She serves on the advisory boards of 916 Ink, an arts-based creative writing nonprofit for children, and Stories on Stage Sacramento, where actors perform the stories of established and emerging authors. She has also served on the Writers' Advisory Board for the Belize Writers' Conference. \u003ci\u003eCopy Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel, and she's currently working on her second. She also writes and publishes flash fiction and non-fiction, which you can find at such journals as \u003ci\u003eBrevity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCleaver\u003c\/i\u003e. She and her husband live in Sacramento with an aging beagle and many photos of their out-of-state sons. To learn where you can read her stories and more, go to shelleyblantonstroud.com.","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567250346258,"sku":"9781631526978","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_045cb09f-5a0c-4a8c-a512-b59a64535d45.jpg?v=1731916247","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/copy-boy-a-jane-benjamin-novel-9781631526978","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}