Outskirts Press Announces As Long as You Can See the Clock, You're Okay, the Latest Highly-Anticipated Nonfiction Book from Massapequa, NY Author Grace Zolla Protano

Massapequa, NY, June 30, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay: South Brooklyn in the '50s by Grace Zolla Protano, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback cream in the Nonfiction category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $13.95. As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay is also available in its 5.5 x 8.5 Casebound edition for $24.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/seetheclock was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.

About the Book (Excerpts & Info)

In Grace Zolla Protano's touching memoir we meet the people who most impacted her life: her brothers Jack and Sal, who gave her strength and laughter; her father Anthony, who showed her gentleness and character. We see her mother Fiorentina, who taught her kindness and wonder, but whose emotionally crippling illness stole half a childhood.

Set mainly in Brooklyn in the 1950s, As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay is a recollection of growing up with a unique love embodying joy and sadness; pride and shame; tenderness and cruelty.

We sing along with the doo-woppers; we drool over the teen idols as we cheer throughout Alan Freed's Rock and Roll Revue at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. We play Ringo Levio, Kick the Can and Iron Tag until our moms look out their windows and call us in.

The author longs for her absent mother and we cry with her; she feels a safety just by seeing Downtown Brooklyn's 512 foot icon, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank clock tower, and we understand fully why As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay.

Deftly constructed at 215 pages, As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay: South Brooklyn in the '50s is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Nonfiction category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $13.95 and $24.95, respectively.

Additionally, As Long As You Can See the Clock, You're Okay can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks

ISBN: 9781432739249
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback cream
SRP: $13.95

ISBN: 9781432739256
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Casebound
SRP: $24.95

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/seetheclock

About the Author

Grace Zolla Protano is a retired English teacher who lives in Massapequa, New York, with her husband Nick. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she incorporates into many of her short stories and poetry the nuances privy to a native of that great borough.

Long Island has been Grace's home for thirty-five years. Her experiences with teaching teenagers for most of that time, raising three teenage daughters, and being a teenager herself in Brooklyn, provide a look into the heart of a kid with its conflicts, its sadness, and its unbridled silliness.

About Outskirts Press, Inc.

Outskirts Press offers full-service, custom self-publishing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press, Inc. represents the future of book publishing, today.

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