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 When I'm Calling You "Jean Hull Herman's When I'm Calling You is a joy for all Jeannette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy fans! "Her research gives us dramatic insight into their actual lives, vividly painting the Hollywood of their time when studios 'owned' their stars, moguls could have their way with the women while blackmailing both sexes with the "morals clause" in their contracts. The press were fed what the studios wanted fans to read, and a completely artificial world was created for the public to believe. "When I'm Calling You calls us back to a romantic world that could only exist in an era before television and instant e-mail exposés – when gossip columnists like Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper ruled the radio airwaves and the printed page in fan magazines. "Herman's own innovative character who guides us through the tempestuous story of "America's Sweethearts," the dictator Louis B. Mayer, who rules their lives, and the happy ending contrived by the author makes use of sheer poetic license, which can only be cheered by the reader." —DR. ANNE K. GRAY, The World of Women in Classical Music  "I finished your book. I enjoyed it very much. The happy ending was beautiful and it could have happened. I wish with all my heart that a happy ending could have happened in real life for them. Yes, if only Nelson could have waited seven years for her contract to end. They would have been in their early 40s – still young and they might have lived longer. "My favorite scene in the book was Jeanette`s healing seduction of Nelson under the tree on the Maytime set. I had tears in my eyes while I was reading this. "Your prose was beautiful. Of course, the Moonlight Tango.... I always laugh when I read those stories that Nelson was gay or that he was asexual. Thank You for writing the book. I wish you much success with When I`m Calling You and I am telling all of my friends about it." —LORRAINE CHANDLER "What if?" (quite possibly the most provocative phrase there is) may be the most frequently question asked about Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy whom the author re-imagines as Tristan and Isolde in her first novel. This novel sets off a leap of the imagination springing from the greatest love story in Hollywood, the tremendous physical beauty of these two lovers, the perfection of their music, and the wild luxury and extravagance as well as the decadent side of the early 20th century. "Just as the early Hollywood movies are famous for their happy endings as well as for demanding the punishment of sinners, Herman pulls from the air a happy ending to the personal lives of one of the greatest singing duo the movie industry has ever produced. "Separately on the silver screen, each was magnificent, and, together, they were dazzling, electrifying perfection. They sang to each other and the elemental attraction is palpable. The book chronicles their early lives and underscores a feasible but problematic love story in which the two triumph over their travails and opposition and disappear, literally, into the sunset. "Reading this book is soul-satisfying and makes one's memory of them more luminous. If you are not already a fan, this novel will inspire you to become one. This beautifully written book completes the great legend and is a definite page-turner." —ZONA GALE Jerry Springer as Bulfinch
"Jean Hull Herman's charming personality and sense of humor permeate her excellent poems. She brings "Slice of Life Realities" to light in her own original style, proving one can find laughter in the perils of Life. Her dynamic work will prove a beacon of light to those who have not as yet become lovers of poetry as an Art Form. —LENORE A. REISS, winner of the Dickinson Prize "I have known Jean Hull Herman for over a decade as a skillful editor, a gifted poet, and a personal friend. I love her poetry. Her work is well-crafted, meaningful, and always hits the spot." —RUTH DANIELS, author of Where the Corn Grows Tall "A thoroughly enjoyable follow-up to Starving for the Marvelous." —SARA L. RUSSELL, editor, Poetry Life and Times "Ferociously brilliant. This is challenging reading, intellectually stirring mythology and high-pitched, very free verse with clear content – passionate, poignant, open-minded, and poems to the bone. Are you ready? This is no 'kid stuff.' Life on earth wasn't easy 3000 years ago." —ANNA DIBELLO, President of the National League of American Pen Women Starving for the Marvelous
"No poet in America has provided us with a more consistent and eloquent flow of poignant and exciting lines than Jean Hull Herman. I have read, and looked forward to, for the past several years to her poems appearing in Möbius and other fine poetry magazines, and now we have the pleasure of seeing a number of them in her new anthology. It is truly a great treat for the poetry-reading public and for poets like myself." —GERALD ZIPPER, poet/playwright "These poems tinker with modern ideas of what poetry is. Sometimes playful, sometimes profound, they are one-hundred percent human (even when she writes in the voice of satellites and frogs)." —ACE BOGGESS, associate editor of The Adirondak Review and author of The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled "Starving for the Marvelous will satiate the hungry reader. I always think of Jean Hull Herman's poems as keenly compressed stories, for no one delivers the word quite like Jean." —WARD KELLEY, author of Divine Murder and histories of souls A review of Jean's poetry anthology, Starving for the Marvelous, was posted at New Hope International in which the editors said, "This book is stickered 1st place 2003 National Federation of Press Women - Creative Verse and upon reading it, you can understand why. This is an intelligent and intellectually interesting collection which, unusually, can be read through rather than dipped into. This is a testament not only to the power of the poetry itself but to the cohesion of the collection." Visit the New Hope International website. 
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