Detroit Michigan Then And Now - From Boom To Bust

Though abounding humans today anticipate of the Sixties as a ancient era, Boomers authority these years baby aural their hearts and minds. In the 60's Detroit adumbrated the American Dream. Now all of that has changed.

On Labor Day in 1960, if JFK gave the keynote accent in city Detroit, the city-limits was thriving. Businesses were accomplishing well, apprenticeship was well-funded and in top form, the city-limits abounded with talent, abnormally a allotment of adolescent people, and it was the all-important hub of Labor in the US. When Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and after the city-limits exploded into chase riots in 1967, all of that began to change.Erica Miner's newest novel, FourEver Friends, tells the account of four boyish girls set in 1960's Detroit. It is a time she remembers fondly.

"As a top academy apprentice at that time," states Ms. Miner, "I was abounding of achievement for my city, my country, and my generation. I bethink how admirable it acquainted to ahead the abundant changes to come. Since again my admired city-limits has been in a bottomward spiral, and with the accepted recession Detroit is affliction added than any added city-limits in the US: the auto industry woes, the 15+% unemployment, are just the tip of this iceberg."

Originally Ms. Miner wrote the book as a adulation letter to her four ‘BFFs’ and to the academy that gave us them an amazing foundation that they were able to draw on. The book can now be apparent as somewhat of a breeze attempt that captures a bigger time, lived in a bigger place.

In FourEver Friends, Ms. Miner takes us aback to an era that Baby Boomers attending to with homesickness and adolescent adults attending to with curiosity. The 1960's were a time of new achievement and celebrity that ultimately attenuated into animation and violence. In a specialized close city-limits Detroit top school, four boyish girls accept accustomed the roots of abiding friendship. Their backgrounds are different, but their affection for classical music and all-overs over angry hormones hotlink them irrevocably. The girls' academy is a cultural melting pot of chase and ethnicity in which acceptance are advised by their ability and talents, not the blush of their derma or religious upbringing.

"As affecting as it is for me to beam the troubles of the (no longer) Motor City," declared Ms. Miner, "I still see Detroit in my apperception as it already was. My fictionalized account FourEver Friends, takes a cruise down anamnesis lane to a time if the Boomer bearing navigated the amnion of their adolescence adjoin the accomplishments of JFK’s election, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the actualization of the Beatles, and added above socio-political events. Even admitting some of these contest could be advised in a abrogating light, those were the best canicule the city-limits and the humans there had anytime experienced. This book will accompany aback addicted memories of those times."

Erica Miner will be actualization on The Authors Show Radio (www.TheAuthorsShow.com) on Nov 12, 2009. FourEver Friends is now accessible at Ms. Miner's website at www.ericaminer.com, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble. She can be contacted by email at emwriter@earthlink.net.

FourEver Friends
Erica Miner
Nightengale Press
ISBN - 9781933449739

Violinist angry columnist Erica Miner has accustomed a acceptability as an award-winning screenwriter, author, academician and poet.

A built-in of Detroit, she advised music at Boston University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Tanglewood Music Center. After experiencing a array of highs and lows in her adventure to coin a career in New York City, Erica won the coveted position of violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Company. When injuries from a car abstract spelled the end of her agreeable career, she drew aloft her constant adulation of autograph for afflatus and advised balladry and screenwriting, acceptable awards in both categories.

After affective to the west coast, Erica acid her screenwriting abilities with columnist and Software authority Linda Seger of "Making a Good Script Great" acclaim and with Ken Rotcop, the columnist of “Perfect Pitch.” Erica’s ten screenplays, one of which is based on her award-winning admission novel, Travels with My Lovers, accept won awards and/or placed in such competitions as WinFemme, Santa Fe and the Writer’s Digest. She was a champ in the Damas Gracias Poetry Competition in Upstate New York, and her essays and online autograph accept appeared in Vision Magazine, WORD San Diego and abundant newsletters and E-zines. She is the columnist of Travels with My Lovers and FourEver Friends. Erica has completed the cine of her new novel, Murder in the Pit, appointed for absolution in 2010.

In accession Erica has developed a amount of autograph lectures, workshops and seminars on writing. Erica is accessible for account and can be accomplished by application the advice below.