Regent Press Announces 100 Words Per Minute; Feisty Author Regales Trials and Tribulations of an Administrative Career Working in Law Offices.OAKLAND, Calif. -- Regent Press announced today the release of Adina Sara's fiction/memoir book, 100 Words Per Minute Noun 1. words per minute - the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) wpm rate - a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; "they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour"; "the rate of change was faster than expected" - Tales From Behind Law Office Doors, an intimate look inside the quirky quirk n. 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2. world of law offices. In a series of short stories connected by smart poetic jabs, the book exposes tyrannical and tired litigators and their devoted, though sometimes-devious secretaries. Sara has spent her 25+-year career working her way through the legal mine field as a naive clerk typist, stressed-out secretary and office manager in non-profit, small plaintiff and corporate environs. "My career choice was purely accidental. I swerved on to a road marked Law Offices," explains Oakland writer Sara. "I have found that it really is not such a bad thing to have your work life choose you, instead of the other way around. It keeps you honest. It keeps you alert." That said, 100 Words Per Minute draws the reader inside the daily life within law offices with humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was and candor can·dor n. 1. Frankness or sincerity of expression; openness. 2. Freedom from prejudice; impartiality. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from , exposing the pressures, dramas and personalities of boss and employee alike. Attorney at Law, Richard Duane comments, "It's as though there had been a translucent translucent slightly penetrable by light rays. veil that kept me from truly seeing those who worked for me. After reading this book, the veil has lifted." Paralegal paralegal n. a non-lawyer who performs routine tasks requiring some knowledge of the law and procedures, employed by a law office or who works free-lance as an independent for various lawyers. and novelist Dee Sullivan succinctly suc·cinct adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est 1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style. 2. advises, "If you work for an attorney, you have got to read this book." Adina Sara is an Oakland-based writer and author of 100 Words Per Minute. A songwriter and poet, she released her first collection of original songs, Feel a Change, in 1978 followed by two CD's, Love Song to Myself and Just For The Song. Her column The Imperfect Gardener runs in a local Bay Area newspaper and she has published essays and poetry in East Bay Express, Oxygen, Peregrine Press and Cottage Gardener. Contact her at adina@adinasara.com or visit www.adinasara.com. To order 100 Words Per Minute contact Regent Press at 510.547.7602, online at www.regentpress.net or write to Regent Press, 6020-A Adeline, Oakland, CA 94608. Publication: Summer 2006 Price $15.00 ISBN: 1-58790-092-0 Pages: viii + 143 pages, paperback, 5.5" x 8.5" Subject: Fiction/Memoir |
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