Red Letter Day

From: Loren Aslakson
To: Dorene Lorenz
Subject: Sold
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:29:28 -0400

You may have just sold your first book.
I just bought it on Amazon, they are going to ship on the 14th.
Now you have to come down and sign it for me.

P.S. It better be good.

Loren

You cannot imagine my shock when I opened up this e-mail. My publisher advised that my official release date for Midnight Blue Noon was June 19th, and that it took a couple weeks for the sellers to get new information posted. Dance of joy, dance of joy! Get your own copy by hitting the button to the right or by clicking on the title of this post.

What is it about? Publisher sez:
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> Breathtaking Alaskan women prospecting adventures with love in a > society where they are outnumbered by men ten to one. A Boy Scout > who smokes marijuana before lighting a classic Mercedes afire with > his duct-taped victim in the backseat. A pet wolf who sneaks out to > go drinking with Australians at an upscale hotel bar. A Republican > gubernatorial candidate who leaves the party because of its > platform plank against bestiality. A criminal attorney who sports > Armani le collezioni suits in a courthouse with no indoor plumbing.
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> Alaska is a strange and beautiful land, filled with strange and > beautiful people. A state whose quirky nature is precisely revealed > - and whose wily secrets are hilariously unconcealed - in this > absolutely provocative book. At once a murder story and a > briliantly clever and exquisitely wicked travelogue, Midnight Blue > Noon is as crisp and exhilarating as fall.