Publicist Paula Margulies Announces 2nd Edition Release of Native American Love Story Coyote Heart

SAN DIEGO - Feb. 4, 2014 - PRLog -- San Diego, CA – Book publicist Paula Margulies announces the second edition release of her debut novel, Coyote Heart  (ISBN 978-0-9913545-0-4), a multicultural love story set against the backdrop of the Pala Indian Reservation in San Diego, California. The new edition can be found at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, and other outlets.  Prior to the first edition publication, Coyote Heart received numerous awards, including an Editor’s Choice Award at the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference. Coyote Heart was also a finalist in the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Literary Awards Program, a worldwide competition that included over 350 entries.

Coyote Heart tells the story of Carolyn Weedman, a San Diego librarian trapped in a troubled marriage with a disabled husband. After a chance encounter with a widowed Pala Indian professor, Carolyn finds herself drawn into an unexpected love affair. Torn by conflicting feelings, she discovers a secret about her husband’s past that forces her to confront her divided emotions and choose between the two men she loves.

Set against the backdrop of local politics on the Pala Indian Reservation, Coyote Heart explores the intricacies of illicit love and marriage, the strength that comes from sacrifice, and the courage to forgive the injuries of the past. The novel calls on several San Diego landscapes, including the Rancho Penasquitos preserve and the Pala Indian Reservation, to give the story a unique local flavor. Written with haunting natural imagery and lyrical prose, Coyote Heart tells a compelling tale of love and modern Native American culture.

“I wrote this novel, in part, because I’ve always been fascinated by what makes a marriage work,” said Margulies. “My sense is that many marriages survive not because the two individuals involved are meant for each other, but because the losses and hardships that they’ve endured forge a bond that is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to sever.”

The novel has received praise from established members of the writing community, including Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and former Seattle Post-Intelligencer editor, Mark Trahant, and celebrated author, Peter Rock, who writes, “With Coyote Heart, Paula Margulies uses lyrical, yet restrained prose to take us into a world where the usual definitions will not fit—where the personal and the political, even the human and the animal, become increasingly difficult to differentiate.  This novel bravely explores the difference between a relationship that bends and one that breaks; it even suggests that a healed fracture is stronger than what was originally whole.

Paula Margulies is the owner of Paula Margulies Communications, a public relations firm for authors and artists. She has received numerous awards for her short stories and novels, and her essays have been published in a number of professional journals and magazines. She has been awarded artist residencies at Caldera, Red Cinder Artist Colony, Centrum, and the Vermont Studio Center. Margulies currently resides with her husband in San Diego, California.

For more information about the author or Coyote Heart, please visit www.amazon.com, or www.paulamargulies.com .

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