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Book Launch
It may well be less complicated than launching a boat, but getting a book off the ground is still a convulated process. Here's the news flash I've been sending to folks:
Some of you have already heard about this through the grapevine. Barb + I just got back from three wks in Hawaii. While we were there we stayed at two off-grid homes of friends or relatives, + also did hiking, biking, kayaking, snorkeling, body surfing, boogie boarding [BJS] + generally exploring. All the usual.
Less typical was that we visited every bookstore on both Kauai + the Big Island, + gave each of them a copy of the book—complete with my publisher's price sheet + a customized bookmark:
Folks were surprisingly receptive, even at the bookstore on the UH Lihue campus on the Big Island, + Kauai Community College. In both sites, ordinarily they only stock fiction books that professors have assigned for their classes, but in each case we were able to sweet talk the bookstore manager into taking a copy to run by a couple of the faculty. You cannot believe how persuasive Barb can be at her best. I maybe helped a little, I suppose.
Here is the pitch:
Climate fiction without apocalypse, set in and around Washington, D.C. Newly minted engineering professor Jake Harper, dealing with issues of mild dyslexia and awkwardness with public speaking, wants to stave off climate weirding by re-engineering the North American electric grids. His pregnant partner Abbey London, sassy but irresistible, starts her practice as an infectious disease specialist, concerned with encroaching tropical diseases. Together they operate her parents' Dragonfly Inn just twenty minutes away in northern Virginia.
A chance encounter at a lecture at George Washington University causes Jake to become suspicious that someone may be plotting a cyberattack on critical electrical infrastructure.
Abbey discovers an infection new to North America has infiltrated the drug-injecting population in the Capital, and she must personally and professionally rise to the challenge.
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Should you be so inclined yourselves to purchase a copy, you may use either the QR code or this comparable link:
https://shop.ingramspark.com/
Happy reading + writing + 'rithmatic.
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