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By Rae Padilla Francoeur
“Counterpoint: A Murder in Massachusetts Bay” by Margaret Press. Addicus Books, 1996.
“Brother, Brother” by Dan Duffy. May Day Publishers, 2016.
Nancy Drew mystery series by Carolyn Keene
People disappear for all kinds of reasons. They run away, lock themselves in shoddy motel rooms and submit to their addictions (see Hunter Biden’s grueling “Beautiful Things”), or simply take a walk and get lost. Some people are plucked out of their day-to-day lives and some, sadly, are killed. Too often, their remains are never identified.
My sister went missing when she was 5 years old. Kids ran around, unsupervised, back then. My mother sounded the alarm and called the police. I ran off, going door to door, block by block. I was 9 and had read every Nancy Drew mystery. I knew the meaning of feisty.
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Rae Padilla Francoeur
In his new book about local marketing, Rockport author Scott Channell asserts: “For local businesses, most ideal clients, revenue, profits and referrals come from within 15 miles of their location. Your brand, word of mouth and general reputation are strongest locally.”
His message resonates with me. As a former newspaper editor and writer with local name recognition, I sold the most copies of my memoir “Free Fall” in three places where I lived, where I worked and where I grew up. I’m hardly unique. I recall an interview I conducted with the late Gloucester author Peter Anastas. He published independently and saw that most of his sales were on Boston’s North Shore where he lived and grew up. He made good use of this dynamic by distributing and promoting his books locally.