{"id":2519,"date":"2016-03-03T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:54:30","slug":"book-launch-of-the-rubber-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2016\/therapy-2\/book-launch-of-the-rubber-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch of THE RUBBER FENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>It’s official! The day has arrived for my book launch of<\/span> \u00a0THE RUBBER FENCE<\/a>\u00a0online. <\/span><\/strong><\/em>It’s\u00a0now on sale on Amazon and will be available at other booksellers in time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Inspired by my work on a psychiatric ward in 1972, it covers a time when feminism was being born, shock treatment was still in full swing, and the wards were full of depressed women, alcoholic men, teenagers, and the psychotic.<\/p>\n

The story follows a young and married psychiatric intern, Dr. Joanna Bereza, who wants it all – a good marriage, a fabulous career, and a family. It’s a tall order in 1972. When she’s assigned two patients, one an old woman who’s been zapped too many times and a young mother who’s become mute after giving birth, she pulls out all stops to keep them from getting electro-convulsive therapy. She becomes so obsessed with their treatment, she risks not only her career but her marriage. It doesn’t help that one of her fellow interns looks and acts more like a hip rock star than an aspiring doctor.<\/p>\n

MY FIRST REVIEW<\/h3>\n

I am beyond thrilled, as my first review is FIVE STARS<\/a><\/span>\u00a0*****<\/strong>. Now I know that my book may not appeal to all. Books are like that. So, I fully expect there will be a range. But what I am especially thrilled about is the fact that my first reviewer, an independent reviewer found on Kindle Reviews, was unbeknownst to me, a \u00a0chaplain on a psychiatric ward. Since THE RUBBER FENCE, was inspired by my work on a psych. ward in 1972, it’s nice to get a review that underlines what I’ve written. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

REVIEW EXCERPT<\/h3>\n

David Burnett of Kindle Book Review<\/strong>\u00a0said: “One of my highest compliments for a book is to be able to say that I continued to think about the story after closing the book for the last time. This was true of The Rubber Fence. The writing is excellent and I highly recommend the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you get a chance to read his\u00a0full review<\/a>.<\/span> Thanks for stopping by. Any comments are always welcome.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official! The day has arrived for my book launch of \u00a0THE RUBBER FENCE\u00a0online. It’s\u00a0now on sale on Amazon and will be available at other booksellers in time.\u00a0 Inspired by… <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[86,744,88],"tags":[416,78,651,9,814,812],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-therapy-2","category-books","category-life","tag-book-launch","tag-diana-stevan","tag-kindle-book-review","tag-novel","tag-psychiatric-ward","tag-the-rubber-fence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LuVB-ED","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2375,"url":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2015\/therapy-2\/cover-reveal-for-the-rubber-fence\/","url_meta":{"origin":2519,"position":0},"title":"Cover Reveal for THE RUBBER FENCE","author":"Diana Stevan","date":"26 \u041b\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0434\u0430, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very excited to announce the cover reveal for The Rubber Fence, my second novel.\u00a0The cover was designed by Ares Jun. 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