Book “BANNED” by Library of Congress Due to Homeland Security?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Stash Serafin, (Cell): 215-806-0799
Ruth Anne Wood (Cell): 215-872-5035


BOOK “BANNED” BY THE LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS DUE TO HOMELAND SECURITY?


Philadelphia, PA

RAW or RUTH ANNE WOOD in all caps as the IRS likes to call her, has finally realized the secret to success! No it wasn’t subscribing to organized religion. On August 31, 2007 RUTH became a producer, published author and playwright all on the same day by harnessing the sweat and passion of slave labor a.k.a. friends who volunteered at the 2007 Philly Fringe Festival. Directing and having her cast adlib for the debut production of “The Table”, an original comedy about a career in massage for 11 shows was a “dream come true”.

Helping co-author Stash Serafin finally express his challenges and victories of figure skating with world-class and Oylympic stars despite being blind since birth was awesome too! Watching the blind man smell and touch the cover of You Can’t Get It ‘Cause You’ve Already Got It! with such joy was três cool! As far as “The Table” Ruth says. “Our harshest critic hands down was a former nun on opening night who we were sponsoring her wellness center. I turned to her high after finishing our closing line, “Drive safe and drink lots of water” and asked her what she thought of the show (after all we were giving her group 25% of the ticket proceeds.)

“I didn’t like it at all. It was horrible.” Not what you want to hear first time out of the gate especially from an ex-nun! I guess we neglected to inform her she was at the theater of the absurd or that we were one of the tamest acts at the Philly Fringe. We’re not sure what part of our tale about a 5,000 year misjudged art exploring the sacred and taboo of a career in massage therapy offended her most. It could have been Russell, a Texas cowboy and Stephan a massage therapist’s candid conversation at a bar. “There are three kinds of men.” Stephan Forge preached, “The first man is ok getting a massage by a man because he’s secure about his sexuality. The second man likes being touched by men because he’s gay and the third is on the fence.” Pointing to the audience, “What kind of man are you?”

Or maybe it was our depiction of Russell Longhorn’s sensual fantasy during his massage or the ruffled tail feathers of our director and star RUTH as a nudist tried to book a massage appointment on instant messenger? But we kind of doubt it was the old lady taking out her dentures just before struggling to get on the massage table or the Catholic “Ma” handing her daughter rosary beads and mace for protection from strangers coming over for a massage. The characters were a conglomeration of 13 years of massage therapy. Ruth’s motto is: If work is starting to be a rut go ahead write a comedy about it! RUTH challenges her audience including the ex nun to write a scene for "The Table". Budding playwrights who are fed up or enthralled massage therapists give us your best take of a 5,000 year old misjudged career. DVD's for inspiration are available at http://wwww.scriptingforsuccess.com By the way our "token ex-nun" showed up unannounced the final night and was impressed at how we evolved as story tellers in 3 weeks as she proceeded to give us a round of hugs.

On the other end of the spectrum is co-authored book You Can’t Get It ‘Cause You’ve Already Got It! (A blind figure skater and a visionary writer’s inspiration guide to moving through life) it has already been “banned” by the Library of Congress. Why? It’s not because her co-author Stash Serafin challenged the skating world thirty years ago by skating in shows with Olympic and world-class figure skaters despite being blind since birth. Did it offend the sighted kid’s parents that he was completing SKATING mile stones faster than their sighted kids? You betcha. On a side note, in his mid fifties, Stash Serafin is one of the oldest males training to land a quad. RUTH and Stash’s “banned” book actually has to do with a little thing called Homeland Security. When RUTH ANNE WOOD got a form letter back from the Library of Congress saying her book had been irradiated and she was told with a standard form letter she’d have to mail them new books to be registered by the copyright office, she sat on the landing by the front door trying to piece together yet another piece of the book publishing puzzle. Her husband had to translate: “The US postal service melted your two book covers, during the irradiation or decontamination process, Love. Next time let me microwave your books,” RUTH’s husband offered, “that way they’ll be homeland security compliant!” The question RUTH asks now is, “If a book is published and it’s not on Amazon.com does it exist?” After releasing her book on Amazon.com 11/11/07 the real question is if it’s not talked about by Glenn Beck, has the book reached critical mass, yet? Audiences are invited to post their insights applied to real life using Stash and RUTH'S metaphor of scripting and skating through life and post their movie of it on You Tube. The submissions will be collected in 2008 and pieced together into a movie in to be released in 2009.

RAW, has had the pleasure of writing stories about her desires and then having them come true which is the visionary writer part of You Can’t Get It ‘Cause You’ve Already Got It! Is it a form of prayer or disciplined focus? Maybe? Is that what all the hype about the movie The Secret was all about? Perhaps. Here stories about hang gliding and travel lead her to hang glide three times, hitch hike across the country with a girl friend and a bushy bearded man from the Ozarks named Pat, live as a bum in Hawaii, travel to Indonesia with her grand mother and marry the man that matched 29/30 items on her “Meet My Life Partner Wish List”. It’s only fitting she is a “getter done” life coach and a writing and publishing consultant for industry leaders ready to mentor a larger community. As for the Library of Congress, Ruth says she doesn’t want to take any chances getting her book “banned” again! Been there done that! "Jason, set the books on HIGH for two minutes. Thanks."

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