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Praise for The Carousel: (for more, click here!) Carousel has everything I look for in a great novel - beautifully drawn characters that you really care about, a story that you want to follow, love, redemption and a sense of mystery at its heart. Stefani Deoul has done a fabulous job in painting the richness of a small town brought together by loss, life and love. I can't recommend it enough. Do yourself a favour and order it now. -           Enlightenment Productions,            novelist and filmmaker Shamim Sharif   “It’s not only the story itself—of finding  beauty and belonging in the places—and people—where one least expects it, that makes The Carousel linger in the reader’s  mind long after the last page is turned. It’s the writing - the gorgeous, heartbreaking, lyrical writing. If I hadn’t been so caught up in the story, I would have stopped—again and again --just to reread the resonant, detailed, surprising, and beautiful paragraphs.          Maribeth Fischer,       author of  The Life You Longed For  This is a literary piece that's universal and commercial at the same time  - every page takes you on a powerful journey of transformation. What an enjoyable read!        Lara Zeilinsky - BLOG Radio

The Carousel by Stefani Deoul Can they all be made whole? A bone-weary, emotionally drained woman shows up one morning at a diner and gas station in a small Northeast town. Intending to refuel on gas and coffee and just keep driving, she is drawn instead to a pile of discarded carousel horses at the junkyard next door. Her find begins a ripple of gossip, mystery, and a restorative journey for the horses, herself, and the curious collection of townspeople taking the  tumultuous ride of hope, patience and a chance to grab the brass ring. ******************   Television producer and writer Stefani Deoul, has long been an East Coast gal with a West Coast and Canadian TV career. Recently  she enjoyed  spending time near her native New York , coffee cup in hand, hunched over her laptop, engaged in her passion for writing. Hence, The Carousel. In addition to The Carousel, Stefani has written for numerous publications, penned both short stories and film and television treatments and has produced The Dead Zone, Brave New Girl along with being the exec. in charge of production for the series Dresden Files and Missing. She is currently producing the upcoming SyFy network series Haven.

What’s Up With…… Stefani Deoul - television producer turned writer Rehoboth area resident and longtime television producer Stefani Deoul (Dresden Files, Missing, Dead Zone) may be up in Canada producing the new television series Haven for the SyFy network, but she's flying back and forth to the U.S. to promote her debut novel The Carousel, published by A&M Books. A Rehoboth resident on and off over the last four years, Stefani has recently enjoyed spending time, coffee cup in hand, hunched over her laptop, engaged in her passion for writing. In addition to The Carousel, Stefani has written for Curve Magazine, Outdoor Delaware and many others and has penned both short stories and film and television treatments.        Stefani’s novel tells of a road-weary and puzzling woman who arrives in a small town and discovers an abandoned treasure of old wooden carousel horses.  Her quest to restore them begins a ripple of gossip, mystery, and a restorative journey for the horses, herself, and the curious collection of townspeople taking the tumultuous ride to grab the brass ring. Stefani was  in Rehoboth March 26-28 for the Rehoboth Writer’s Conference where she read from her book, signed bookst at Browseabout Books and took  part in panels on publishing and editing. That appearance will be followed by readings and signings at the famed Saints and Sinners book conference in New Orleans, May 13-16. While Stefani is waiting for The Carousel to take off on best seller lists (fingers crossed!), she’s even colder than we’ve been here on the coast – she’s working in Halifax, Nova Scotia. “I have my 40-below gear” she assures us. Her new series Haven is based on Stephen King’s short story, The Colorado Kid. Haven begins when FBI Agent Audrey Parker arrives chasing a murderer and finds herself confronting supernatural events while unexpected clues arise that tie her own lost past to this mysterious town. So it seems that Stefani likes the mystery genre. But don’t let her fool you. The Carousel spins with elements of romance, psychological intrigue and some fascinating insight into the beautiful and historic world of the carved wooden carousels. Oh yes, and how friendships and connections in a small town can be magical and lifesaving.