Zondervan acquires Drema Berkheimer’s memoir, tentatively titled, Running On a Red Dog Road!

IRVING, Texas - April 29, 2015 - PRLog -- Zondervan acquires Drema Hall Berkheimer’s memoir, tentatively titled, Running On a Red Dog Road!

With a voice that is respectful yet sassy, we are taken to West Virginia, to a time when all was volatile…and rich with love.

“The Waltons meet Little House on the Prairie told with Mark Twain’s humor.” —Tom Rodgers

Every year mining companies set slag heaps ablaze, burning trash coal into rocks called red dog. And every year trucks dumped loads of those sharp rocks on the dirt road we lived on.

Grandma said, “Don’t you be running on that red dog road.”

But I do.

Gypsies, faith healers, hobos, moonshiners, and snake handlers cavort through my life in 1940s West Virginia after my father is killed in the coal mines and my mother goes off to work as a ‘Rosie the Riveter’ during World War II, leaving me in the hands of devout Pentecostal grandparents. Grandpa, a retired coal miner turned evangelist, preaches hellfire and salvation while Grandma sews my piano recital dress from a surplus silk parachute and tries to keep Uncle Ed from drinking the rubbing alcohol, all the while praying I don't fall into disgrace.

Running On a Red Dog Roadcelebrates the hardships, humor, and heroics of life in small-town West Virginia. Seen through the eyes of a precocious and somewhat irreverent little girl, it is a journey of life and death; of searching for my own truths while coming of age in a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives belie their own stereotypes. It is a living, breathing history of a bygone time and place.

Running On a Red Dog Road, a memoir, won First Place Nonfiction and First Honorable Mention Nonfiction in the 2010 West Virginia Writers Competition and was published in WV South, an award-winning magazine where she has been a frequent contributor. She has her memoir excerpts, fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and essays published in numerous online and print literary journals and other publications. Affiliations are: Texas Association of Authors, WV Writers, Salon Quatre, and The Writers Garret in Dallas, Texas, where she lives with a neurotic cat, who takes after her, and her husband, Terry, who is “mostly” normal.

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Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Drema Hall Berkheimer http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/drema-hall-berkheimer/