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Author Aimee Bender discusses new work on talkaboutbooks.com
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November 2000 - San Francisco, Calif.--November 22, 2000-- Acclaimed author Aimee Bender will appear as a guest moderator for the month of December at Loretta's Lounge, an online community member of talkaboutbooks.com. In addition to discussing her latest book, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Ms. Bender will be answering reader questions, sharing writing tips and interacting with fans daily at a specially created discussion forum, which can be found at http://pub5.ezboard.com/florettasloungefrm37. Ms. Bender is the best-selling author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of short stories. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Story, Harper's, The Antioch Review, and several other publications. The New York Times said of her newest work, "An Invisible Sign of My Own is an intelligent and engaging work by a recent arrival on the literary scene, with a fanciful and original take on the quietly helter-skelter world that lies within." talkaboutbooks is the literary destination for discussion of authors and books. The site is a gateway to a wide range of independently developed and moderated literary communities covering all genres and reading interests. talkaboutbooks is a member of the ezboard Network developed by ezboard, Inc., and can be found at http://www.talkaboutbooks.com. According to Vanchau Nguyen, Founder & CEO of ezboard, "We are pleased to have an author of Aimee Bender's stature join our online communities. The talkaboutbooks site provides a wonderful vehicle for fostering communication between authors and the readers who share a passion for their works." ezboard offers an easy-to-use application that engages businesses and individual consumers to create and participate in customized online communities, which may be seamlessly integrated with any web page. These virtual communities, like their real world counterparts, foster communication, ideas and commerce. ezboard, Inc. is the leading service provider in the hosted online community space. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms Labrador Ventures, Scripps Ventures and Staenberg Private Capital. Other investors include Kathy Levinson, former President & COO of E*TRADE Group (NASDAQ: EGRP), Mark Pincus, Founder & Chairman of Support.com (NASDAQ: SPRT), and Yosi Amram, President & CEO of Valicert (NASDAQ: VLCT). Additional information can be found at www.ezboard.com.
Steve DeMello (Chief Operating Officer)
ezboard, Inc.
415.543.6300
sdemello@ezboard.com
http://www.talkaboutbooks.com
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