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City V Zombie Apocalypse: A Love Story,
is a novella that has nothing to do with
the longer texts.
iving on a kibbutz for a year
Keywell, who attended North
during her university years
Farmington High School and participat-
inspired fictional writing proj-
ed in a summer exchange program with
ects taken on by Stacy Renee Keywell.
a French family, went to Michigan State
The most recent is the novel Escape Dead University, majoring in political theory
Sky: Book Two of the Dark Wing Series,
and constitutional democracy while
released in June by Dog Ear Publishing.
advancing French studies.
After living in Israel, where she
"When I was at the kibbutz, I came
up with a scenario in my head about
learned to speak Hebrew, Keywell earned
what would happen if we
a master's degree in edu-
weren't only assigned jobs
cation from Wayne State
University.
but also were assigned
spouses:' says Keywell,
"I've always loved writ-
41, who lives in Waterford
ing and telling stories:'
with husband, David
says the author, a member
of Temple Israel who has
Warshawsky, and daugh-
ters Molly and Cameron.
included Jewish characters
"In this, my third book,
and content in her recently
there are two stories that
released novel.
merge into one as they
"I've kept journals, and
follow Marabelle and Lilly,
many of my college papers
who have very similar
i.PilCiCT4',146','AU14111111 were done as short stories,
situations. They both are
using the characters we
A novel of d ark secrets
kind of bullied and have
were reading about to cre-
dark secrets. They work at
ate the stories:'
protecting the people they love.
Keywell, who enjoys writing every day,
"The first half of the book takes place
is working on her fourth book It is going
in a community that's not in a defined
to be about family relationships with a
world; it's like a dystopia. The second
plotline that explores love without label-
part of the book takes readers into a local ing people. The main character will be
setting in Keego Harbor:'
Jewish.
As the socially awkward girls dream
Her current book is available in
of escaping their lonely lives, views are
paperback on Amazon and at Barnes &
expressed through rotating, first-person
Noble. It also may be purchased for $2.99
narration.
through iBooks and eReaders.
"I like reading different perspectives,
Distribution has been arranged
and I enjoy writing different perspectives according to her self-publishing agree-
because our perspectives are our own
ment.
personal truths that might not match
"I love learning about different cul-
someone else's:' says Keywell, who teach- tures and how societies work:' Keywell
es French at Lake Orion High School.
says. "I'm also interested in what makes
Keywell began writing books when her people different and unique. That all
children were very young. Working in
comes out in my books.
"I've enjoyed bringing my story back
longhand, she filled notebooks with her
to Michigan. I've spent a lifetime here
stories.
The first novel, Forbidden Sky, can be
surrounded by the beautiful seasons and
read before or after Escape Dead Sky. She the winding lakes and rivers. I wanted
wrote her most recent as if people hadn't
to honor the treasures that surround
read the first. Her second book, Cloud
me:'
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