
Gary Skriba I finished reading "Enie". Good job Billie Rae. You have such a good descriptive writing style, and sensitivity. Write on girl!

Billie Rae Bates
"The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" is the second yearlong photo essay project by Billie Rae Bates. One raw, unretouched photo per week, accompanied by an essay touching on a variety of subjects from the sublime to the simply sociological, just as with the My Mother's Clothing project -- only this time she's digging into... the doll collection! Barbie, Batgirl, Betty Cooper ... these girls (and some guys) are coming out of the closet, so to speak, some after more than three decades in the dark ...
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More

Billie Rae Bates
"The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" is the second yearlong photo essay project by Billie Rae Bates. One raw, unretouched photo per week, accompanied by an essay touching on a variety of subjects from the sublime to the simply sociological, just as with the My Mother's Clothing project -- only this time she's digging into... the doll collection! Barbie, Batgirl, Betty Cooper ... these girls (and some guys) are coming out of the closet, so to speak, some after more than three decades in the dark ...
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More

Billie Rae Bates
"The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" is the second yearlong photo essay project by Billie Rae Bates. One raw, unretouched photo per week, accompanied by an essay touching on a variety of subjects from the sublime to the simply sociological, just as with the My Mother's Clothing project -- only this time she's digging into... the doll collection! Barbie, Batgirl, Betty Cooper ... these girls (and some guys) are coming out of the closet, so to speak, some after more than three decades in the dark ...
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More

Joann Palacio Hi Billlierae. How are you doing? I'20 pages from being done with your Book. Hope you have a great day Billierae Love ya JO. Happy Halloween

Billie Rae Bates
"The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" is the second yearlong photo essay project by Billie Rae Bates. One raw, unretouched photo per week, accompanied by an essay touching on a variety of subjects from the sublime to the simply sociological, just as with the My Mother's Clothing project -- only this time she's digging into... the doll collection! Barbie, Batgirl, Betty Cooper ... these girls (and some guys) are coming out of the closet, so to speak, some after more than three decades in the dark ...
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More

Billie Rae Bates
BRB ventures into Baltimore for the first time to attend the Baltimore Comic Con. A lovely city with a lovely -- and very active -- downtown.
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Mary Sue Winchell I had fun catching up on all your projects!

Joann Palacio Hi. Billierae. How are you doing? I'm fine. How is work going for you. Love ya your friend JO

Billie Rae Bates
There's just something different about Enie.
From the moment this mysterious young woman sweeps into the sleepy Southern town of April's Hope, she raises eyebrows. Well-spoken and so "city," she quickly purchases the town's most expensive piece of real estate: the elaborate, hulking, custom-built stone house, which has ...sat empty for two years. She also keeps the details of her personal life to a minimum ... fresh out of Philly, her fortune made in Internet domain prospecting in the 1990s, just looking for something different in her life ... At the very least, she's a drifter with an unusual wit and intelligence; at the most she's an enigma, a woman with a powerful and painful past that is definitely haunting her. She's on the run, and that fact doesn't slip past Jack, the unflappable builder of the stone house and a rather-reluctant pillar in this small town. He closely watches her settling in and making friends, particularly his sweet, beloved, trusting Aunt Rose. But as strange things begin to happen, and as Enie reveals more, bit by bit, about the biggest tragedy of her life and the job she was forced to leave many years earlier, Jack has to wonder ... just what is it she's running from?
Enie has survived a shipwreck, a deadly disease and the jungles of Vietnam. But she won't survive the town of April's Hope. Because there's something on her tail that's far stronger than she is.Read More
From the moment this mysterious young woman sweeps into the sleepy Southern town of April's Hope, she raises eyebrows. Well-spoken and so "city," she quickly purchases the town's most expensive piece of real estate: the elaborate, hulking, custom-built stone house, which has ...sat empty for two years. She also keeps the details of her personal life to a minimum ... fresh out of Philly, her fortune made in Internet domain prospecting in the 1990s, just looking for something different in her life ... At the very least, she's a drifter with an unusual wit and intelligence; at the most she's an enigma, a woman with a powerful and painful past that is definitely haunting her. She's on the run, and that fact doesn't slip past Jack, the unflappable builder of the stone house and a rather-reluctant pillar in this small town. He closely watches her settling in and making friends, particularly his sweet, beloved, trusting Aunt Rose. But as strange things begin to happen, and as Enie reveals more, bit by bit, about the biggest tragedy of her life and the job she was forced to leave many years earlier, Jack has to wonder ... just what is it she's running from?
Enie has survived a shipwreck, a deadly disease and the jungles of Vietnam. But she won't survive the town of April's Hope. Because there's something on her tail that's far stronger than she is.Read More

Billie Rae Bates
"The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" is the second yearlong photo essay project by Billie Rae Bates. One raw, unretouched photo per week, accompanied by an essay touching on a variety of subjects from the sublime to the simply sociological, just as with the My Mother's Clothing project -- only this time she's digging into... the doll collection! Barbie, Batgirl, Betty Cooper ... these girls (and some guys) are coming out of the closet, so to speak, some after more than three decades in the dark ...
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More

Billie Rae Bates The goal was to shoot a photo for the yearlong "The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" project, but there was plenty of stuff to see along the way!

Billie Rae Bates
"The Inexplicable Lives of Dolls" is the second yearlong photo essay project by Billie Rae Bates. One raw, unretouched photo per week, accompanied by an essay touching on a variety of subjects from the sublime to the simply sociological, just as with the My Mother's Clothing project -- only this time she's digging into... the doll collection! Barbie, Batgirl, Betty Cooper ... these girls (and some guys) are coming out of the closet, so to speak, some after more than three decades in the dark ...
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More
Watch this space each week for the "also-rans" of the project -- the photos that didn't make it onto the page but are fun nonetheless!
See the whole project at:
http://Dolls.BillieRae.com
See the project's official press release at:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/132822
And be sure to "become a fan" on the main profile page to catch updates of this and the other writing projects of BRB.Read More



































