{"product_id":"warming-up-paperback","title":"Warming Up - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Hutchings Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApproaching forty, unemployed but well-off, talented but unknown, functional but depressed, former musical actress Cecilia Morrison reluctantly starts therapy, hoping for a change in her life, but ultimately it's a runaway teenager who cons her out of sixty bucks, not therapy, that gives her the inspiration she's looking for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eReed's charming new novel stars a neurotic singer with mother issues who has been avoiding auditions and attending frustrating therapy sessions instead. When Cecilia meets a homeless boy on the streets, however, her life takes a risky new direction . . . A well-written, endearing book that surprises . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --from Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To read Warming Up is to enter a story that keeps you eager to know what ever-compelling twist is just beyond the next page. Ms. Hutchings Reed tells a warm, wise, well-wrought tale with characters you care about accompanied by virtual music. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Lucia Blinn, author of We Called It \"The Country\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Only an ingenious writer gifted with imagination, heart, and courage could bring these people together with the result that the reader cannot turn pages fast enough to be rewarded with basic truth caring for someone else and accepting yourself, even when your own life is forcing harsh truths on you, can still break the bonds of fear and allow love to thrive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Enid Powell, author of To Tell You The Truth and Other Fictions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Hutchings Reed has always wanted to be a writer, and remembers fondly a toy printing press with handset type on which she wrote her first poem. Now a novelist and playwright, in addition to practicing advertising, entertainment, and media law with Winston \u0026amp; Strawn, Chicago, her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eARS Medica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ligourian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Tampa Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eWarming Up\u003c\/i\u003e is her seventh novel and the second to find its way to print. Her first, \u003ci\u003eCourting Kathleen Hannigan\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2007, and her musical, \u003ci\u003eFairways\u003c\/i\u003e, has been produced three times in the Chicago area, including its 2006 premiere at Steel Beam Theatre, St. Charles, Illinois.\u003cbr\u003eMary lives with her husband, Bill, in Chicago, where she was named \"2012 Lawyer of the Year\" in Advertising Law by Best Lawyers. She is a graduate of Brown University with a combined bachelor's degree in public policy making and a master's degree in economics. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School. She is represented by April Eberhardt of April Eberhardt Literary of San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003eMary is pleased to donate 10 percent of the proceeds from the sale of \u003ci\u003eWarming Up\u003c\/i\u003e to The Night Ministry, which serves the homeless in Chicago, an organization she strongly supports. Visit Mary at maryhutchingsreed.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769901383968,"sku":"9781938314056","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0181be0dd6ae1db269f7f5032e4fc2f5.webp?v=1780359332","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/warming-up-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}