FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         
                                                     
     For Information:
     Rachel C. Klippenstein
     503.648.9108
     
     
     
     
        
ROOD BRIDGE PUBLISHING RELEASES "DO YOU, RACHEL,
             TAKE RANCHING FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?"
     
     
     
          Hillsboro, OR -- Rood Bridge Publishing announces the release of Do You,
     Rachel, Take Ranching for Better or for Worse?, with illustrations by horseshoer, Larry
     Davis of Bend, Oregon. An autobiographical account of her ranching experiences,
     Northwest author Rachel Klippenstein gives readers humorous accounts of ranching
     life.
     
          A resident of Hillsboro, Oregon, Klippenstein captures the behind the scenes
     aspects of ranch life in fifty short essays: from milking a cow with mastitis to gambling
     with alfalfa seed.
     
          "Humor brings perspective to our lives," says Klippenstein.
	  
          Do You, Rachel, Take Ranching for Better or for Worse" is Klippenstein's
     second book. She's written several humorous stories for livestock publications and is
     currently writing her third nonfiction book dealing with the ranching life. Klippenstein
     also contributed to a High Plains women's anthology, Leaning into the Wind, released
     June, 1997 by Houghton-Mifflin.
     
          Recently laid off from her job as a receptionist at a Portland advertising firm,
     Klippenstein plans to spend more time writing -- glancing occasionally at the sign on the
     cork board above the computer, DULL WOMEN HAVE IMMACULATE HOMES.
     
          See sample story, Udder Nonsense.
          
	  Also, see a synopsis of the book.
	  
	  
          To order a copy of Do You, Rachel, Take Ranching for Better or for Worse?,
     (softcover, 160 pages) mail check or money order (U.S.A. currency) to:
     
          Rood Bridge Publishing, #1
          PO Box 1322
          Hillsboro, OR   97123  USA 
     
     
          Price: United States, first class ----- $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping/handling
                   Overseas, first class ---------- $12.00 plus $6.00 shipping/handling
     
     
     
     Testimonials:
     
     "This book could be placed on the list of treatments for all grouches. If you were raised
     in an agricultural community or have been in the livestock business for as little as ten
     days, odds are that you will identify with these stories. Here is an opportunity to laugh
     at one of your embarrassing moments, or experiences, but allow Rachel to be the
     victim."  T.D. "Dusty" Rich, Ph.D., Beef Nutritionist, Albuquerque, NM
     
     "Rachel Klippenstein has an intriguing way of taking the every-day ranching encounters
     and adventures and exposing them for their belly-laughs and heart-breaks. Even the
     non-ranching reader can relate to the hilarious, sublime, tender and catastrophic
     experiences every ranching couple experiences."  Ed Bible, Editor, Hereford World,
     Kansas City, MO
     
     "Marvelous reading for the cattle ranching family! Lots of chuckles, lots of laughs, lots of
     realness from a city girl getting in the cattle business with ranching, alfalfa, cattle
     shows, bull sales, and the management of domestic affairs. This is must reading for
     folks who have grown up in the cattle industry."  Patrick K. Goggins, Publisher, Western
     Livestock Reporter, Billings, MT.
     
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