Dear Library Folk:
I was hoping to get to meet many of you again at mid-Winter ALA but, sadly, the bankruptcy filing by our distributor Publishers Group West has left a huge huge hole in our finances, and I have to remain in Brooklyn.
I'm writing to let you know about a wonderful YA novel we're publishing in May, but for which we are unlikely to have the money to print many galleys. But we feel we owe it to the author to do everything in our power to get the word out about his book, so we're trying this--posting a PDF of the book on our website. Right here: http://www.softskull.com/www/files/CandyinAction_galley.pdf
Feel free to pass this link, this e-mail, onto any colleagues, students, teens etc...think of it as a free advance e-Book!
Here's some info about it:
Candy in Action
By Matthue Roth
1-933368-63-2
Hardcover 5 ½ x 8 ½ 224pp.
Juvenile Fiction $15.95
May 2007
Candy is just the girl next-door, except with better fashion sense and killer kung-fu skills. But when Candy turns down a date with the wealthy Preston Reign, she suddenly finds herself stalked by a guy who refuses take "no" for an answer.
Candy always had a million guys after her.
Only, before, they never used GPS tracking and surveillance helicopters.
Candy Cohen is just the girl next door—that is, if the girl next door happens to be a college freshman and a part-time model with a wicked sense of humor. She and her best friend Velma jaunt around the world, flirt with rock stars and power brokers, and party it up in countries that don’t even know the meaning of the word.
But all that changes one night, when Candy turns down the rich and powerful Preston Reign’s invitation to dinner. Suddenly, she finds herself being stalked by a guy who never takes “no” for a final answer. Drawn into his web, out of control for the first time in her life, Candy is on the run—dodging bullets, blowing up buildings, being chased through exotic cities, and fighting back with the only weapons she has—Velma, her natural wit, and her stiletto heels.
Candy in Action is about the lonely side of being popular, and the dark side of being the hottest girl in class. It’s action, it’s glamour, and it’s that best-friends-forever feeling where you’re on top of the world and anything could happen.
About the author:
Matthue Roth is a novelist, performance poet, and student of the medieval commentators on the Babylonian Talmud. He has been a baker, a barista, a translator, and a kosher inspector, and he reads way too many comic books. He is the author of Never Mind the Goldbergs, (Scholastic/PUSH, 2005) and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go (Cleis Press, 2005). He lives with his wife on the open road, and he keeps a secret online journal at www.matthue.com.
We also, I have to confess, can't afford to print our catalog right now, either, so if any of you guys want to to check out the Spring 2007 catalog, here that is:
http://www.softskull.com/files/SoftSkullSpr07_frontlist.pdf
Finally, those if you who are going to Mid-Winter, do drop by the PGW booth and say hello to the troops there, who are passionate about the publishing they do, and would love to chat to you guys, since you guys are the folks who get our books to the readers they need...
All the best,
Richard Nash
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