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Tender Offerings
Tender Offerings
Tender Offerings
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A single mother and owner of a Los Angeles company specializing in transforming corporate images, Sheila Lockwood’s life is thrown into turmoil when she lands an account with a huge conglomerate under siege by corporate raiders.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 15, 2014
ISBN9781497672871
Tender Offerings
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Meredith Rich

Under the pseudonym Meredith Rich, Claudia Jessup is the author of five novels including Bare Essence, which was made into a CBS television miniseries and an NBC weekly series.   Under her own name, Jessup has written three editions of the perennial favorite The Woman’s Guide to Starting a Businessand has written and edited myriad nonfiction books and articles for major magazines.   A former Virginian and New Yorker, Jessup lives in Santa Fe with her husband, Jonathan Richards, a writer and political cartoonist. and is the mother of two daughters. She is a member of the Author’s Guild, PEN Center USA West, PEN Center New Mexico, and SCBWI.

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