• January 13, 2003, 2 to 3 p.m..
  City College of San Francisco Professional Development Days. Creative Endeavors: How to Grow a Webpage into a Publicity Tool. Author and teacher Margaret Benshoof-Holler speaks on bringing creative energy to the teaching life by writing a book and building a website to get the word out. Attend this workshop and learn what it takes to write a book and get the word out using a website after it's finished.
  
  
• January 31, 2003, 5:15 a.m.
  Author Margaret Benshoof-Holler interviewed by Ed Baxter on the Morning News in San Francisco.

February, 2003

• February 20, 2003
  Author Margaret Benshoof-Holler interviewed live on FM 107 WFMP Radio, the Lorie & Julia Show, St. Paul, Minnesota. See: INTERVIEW.
  

Women's History Month--March, 2003

• March 10, 2003
  Author Margaret Benshoof-Holler interviewed on KPFA, 94.1 FM Berkeley -- "Cover to Cover" Live Interview, 3:30 to 4 p.m. Listen online at https://secure.transbay.net/kpfa/forms/0_aud.htm or tune in to 94.1 FM if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
  
• March 10, 2003
  Author Margaret Benshoof-Holler reading from her book Burning of the Marriage Hat with discussion and signing at Barnes & Noble, 2352 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA. 7:30 p.m.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 11, 2003
  Margaret Benshoof-Holler will talk about how the process of writing and promoting her book has helped her come out as a birthmother at Silicon Valley Concerned United Birth Parents meeting (joint meeting with American Adoption Congress members), 7 - 9 p.m., Retirement Inn of Campbell, 290 N. San Tomas Aquino Road (between Hamilton Ave. and Campbell Blvd.), Campbell, CA.
  
  
• March 22, 2003, 2 p.m..
  Author Margaret Benshoof-Holler reading at Barnes & Noble, Bellingham, Washington.
  
  
• Late March, 2003, 2 p.m..
  WBEB FM, Philadelphia, PA "The Women's File."

• April 3-5, 2003
  American Adoption Congress Conference, Atlanta, GA.
  
  
• April 23, 2003 KMPS-FM morning news, Seattle, WA.
  
  
• April 14, 2003
  Author and book featured on "Women's Voices," KZYX-91.5 FM Radio Mendocino County, CA, 7 to 8 p.m.

• May 7, 2003
  Author Margaret Benshoof-Holler reading at the San Francisco Public Library Parkside Branch, 1200 Taraval near 22nd Avenue, 7 to 8 p.m.
  
  
• May 22, 2003
  KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco interview of author Margaret Benshoof-Holler. 7:45 p.m.
  
  
• May 29 - June 1, 2003 Book Expo 2003, Los Angeles. May 30 Book Expo Author signing, Traditional Autographing Program, 12 to 12:30 p.m. Table 15.

• Saturday, June 7
  Central Coast Book Fair, San Luis Obispo, CA, 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

August, 2003

• Tuesday, August 12
  "Today's Women" on WGNY-AM, New Windsor, New York. Listen online from 9 to 10 a.m. eastern time.

September, 2003

• Tuesday, September 9
  WBAI, New York City - 99.5 FM Arts Magazine, 2 to 3 p.m. East Coast time.
  
  
• Saturday, September 20
  Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival, Santa Barbara, CA.

December, 2003

• Sunday, December 21, 12 to 2 p.m.
  Blue Heron Books & Espresso, 201 E. 2nd Street, Casper, Wyoming.
  
  

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Fiction / Women's Issues / Grief and Recovery /
Adoption / Family History / the West /
Trade paperback, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, 381 pages
ISBN: 0-9714473-2-2
LCC#: 2001095609
$14.95

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