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Author blossoms with complex novel

By Marissa Smith, Chief Copy Editor September 27, 2011
In burgeoning writer Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s “The Language of Flowers,” the Victorian idea of flowers having their own messages is used as a way to tell a story of betrayal, motherhood, love and ultimately redemption.

Author’s first novel becomes best seller

By Marissa Smith, Chief Copy Editor September 26, 2011
Vanessa Diffenbaugh is the author of “The Language of Flowers,” a book that incited a nine-way bidding war in 2010 for publishing rights that eventually sold to Balantine Books for $1 million.
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