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a coffee house nor a shopping mail in sight - she did what any fish-outof-water female would do in our new millennium; she started a blog. Lonely for her Yankee friends, McCorkindale blogged about the odd things she found about country life and the trial and error way in which she figured out how things run "in this neck of the woods’*. Not quite sure where she fit in, she entitled the site, “Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl.”
The blog became such a hit among her friends “back home’ as well as the new ones she made along the way to becoming a bona fide Virginia form girl that it made it onto the computer screen of a literary agent, who immediately contacted McCorkindale about the idea of turning “Confessions’* into a book.
After working some literary magic. McCorkindale's agent signed her masterpiece with Penguin Books. “Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl” made it into bookstores on Oct. 7 and it’s rapidly becoming a huge success.
The book begins with an accounting of McCorkindale’s city life and career, her rise to the top and her mischievous misgivings about her job. Every page is lined with laughter as McCorkindale narrates her animated adventure (or misadventures, as the case may be) of agreeing to changing every facet of her life, which became glaringly apparent with every mile her family migrated further from New Jersey toward the Virginia border.
While the locals here in Virginia will ei\joy reading about familiar things like driving long distances to
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