Alpharetta, GA., June 16, 2007 I’d like to thank the folks at Waldenbooks and North Point Mall in Alpharetta for making me feel at home this afternoon. This was my second book signing event for my novel, “Edgewise: An Assignment to Remember,” and I was only supposed to be there from 2-4:00. I was having so much fun that I stayed until 4:30! I would have stayed even longer, but my cousins and sister came over for moral support and Carl and I were going to have dinner with them as soon as it was over. Speaking of which, you DON’T WANT to be around MY family when they’re hungry!
The store manager Laura was fantastic and had everything set up when I arrived so all I had left to do was meet and greet the wonderful people. It’s really cool to see how many people still read books. I know that sounds a little weird, but in the age of computers, the internet, TV, cable, and busy work schedules, I’m amazed at how many people tell me they don’t have time to read for fun. I am one of those people. I don’t read for fun as much as I would like. So it really does an author good to see that people are still buying books and reading for pleasure.
It was an amazing afternoon, but time flew by! It’s true what they say, “time DOES fly when you’re having fun!”
If there’s one thing I can say about Alpharetta, it’s that they made me feel right at home! I had barely settled in when the first gentleman from Florida asked me to sign a copy, and I stayed busy the rest of the time, signing books and posing for pictures with clients. A young man and his wife told me that his mother sent him there to buy a book and have him sign it. His mother lives in Illinois and is a friend I haven’t seen or heard from in over 40 years. She saw somewhere on the internet that I was going to be in Alpharetta and sent her son to see me. She put me on the phone with her and we talked about her for several minutes. How good was THAT? I can’t wait for my next event on June 30th at Mall of Georgia’s Waldenbooks in Buford, Georgia. Who knows who I’ll see there?”
If the name Darlene Wofford rings a bell, it may be because she and Carl, her husband of 40 years, are Atlanta natives and, along with their sons Kenneth and Cory, have been residents of Woodstock/Acworth for 35 years. She has been in the mortgage finance industry for 20 years, and every Saturday morning in 2006 from 10 to 11:00, she co-hosted an hour-long radio talk show in Atlanta called “Your Inner Voice.” . She has also recently been interviewed about her novel on various Atlanta radio stations.
Based on true events in the author’s life, “An Assignment to Remember” is the first of three novels in her “Edgewise” series. The second, “Seven Years ‘Til Sunrise,” will be released next year, followed by the third. in 2009. The term “Edgewise” is used to describe the book’s protagonist as a broken young woman from Atlanta in a nervous state of mind, driven over the edge by back-to-back traumas. Her mind has been closed to block out the events, however, other memories of her are also blocked. “An Assignment to Remember” is not so much about the traumatic events. Rather, it is about her healing progression and the prevailing force of unconditional love between two people, as the author tells her inspiring story through the eyes of her alter ego, Delaney Rutherford.
To quote the literary newsletter Page One Lit, “Wofford is a wonderful writer whose personality and charisma are vivid in every word and sentence in her new book, “Edgewise: An Assignment to Remember.” This is the most honest and inspiring book. ..(of)… year. “Edgewise” is an example of how a woman wants to live in the past but realizes she can’t. It’s about confronting reality. It’s about emotions. It’s about communication It’s about life.” One reader sums it up nicely on the Barnes and Noble website in reviewing him: “Edgewise took me on an emotional journey of laughter, sadness, and hope.”