Outskirts Press Announces Fat Boy, the Latest Highly-Anticipated Fiction / General Book from San Diego, CA Author Sarah Jordan
San Diego, CA, October 31, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Fat Boy by Sarah Jordan, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 6.14 x 9.21 Paperback in the Fiction / General category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $13.95. Fat Boy is also available in its 6.14 x 9.21 Casebound edition for $23.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/FatBoy was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
We were boys then, more beautiful than we ever would be again, pure and perfect and not yet touched by age or anger or failure. Then we were innocent and baptized by the spirit of youth, swimming like cavorting puppies in the childhood soup from which someday we would emerge as men. We loved each other like brothers, Zack and Duncan and Fat Boy and I, and childhood stretched before us in endless possibility.
Death had come now and then, of course, to our tiny Pennsylvania borough. It had stolen into town at night, taking the old and infirm. It had gone screaming into the steel mills to take men in the prime of their lives, but never had it visited itself upon a child that I knew, and so I viewed death as impotent in the face of youth, but that was before Fat Boy. After Fat Boy, life's little horrors never surprised me again.
The first hint that we had of Fat Boy's death came in the middle of the night as we slept in the fort that we had built at the edge of the borough's graveyard. "Look," Zach urged me from sleep, his voice a whisper at my ear. Through the door of the fort we saw Fat Boy's father walking through the graveyard, the smell of stale beer heavy in the air, his shoes caked with mud and debris. Most of what we told the police after Fat Boy's body was found in his basement was the truth, but we told other things too, things that were not true. We did not tell those lies in the way that children do, manipulating the truth on the spur of the moment to get out of trouble or to get their own way. No, we planned those lies, and they were deliberate and calculated and full of intent and malevolence, and we told them as if they had the power to bring Fat Boy back to us, even though we knew that they did not.
Deftly constructed at 246 pages, Fat Boy is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Fiction / General category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Fat Boy meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $13.95 and $23.95, respectively.
Additionally, Fat Boy 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: 9781432746209
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 Paperback
SRP: $13.95
ISBN: 9781432747060
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 Casebound
SRP: $23.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/FatBoy
About the Author
Sarah Jordan lives in beautiful San Diego with her husband and three children.
In addition to writing Sarah enjoys painting arrangements of antique roses and surfing in the blue Pacific that meets the land only five miles from the family home.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
We were boys then, more beautiful than we ever would be again, pure and perfect and not yet touched by age or anger or failure. Then we were innocent and baptized by the spirit of youth, swimming like cavorting puppies in the childhood soup from which someday we would emerge as men. We loved each other like brothers, Zack and Duncan and Fat Boy and I, and childhood stretched before us in endless possibility.
Death had come now and then, of course, to our tiny Pennsylvania borough. It had stolen into town at night, taking the old and infirm. It had gone screaming into the steel mills to take men in the prime of their lives, but never had it visited itself upon a child that I knew, and so I viewed death as impotent in the face of youth, but that was before Fat Boy. After Fat Boy, life's little horrors never surprised me again.
The first hint that we had of Fat Boy's death came in the middle of the night as we slept in the fort that we had built at the edge of the borough's graveyard. "Look," Zach urged me from sleep, his voice a whisper at my ear. Through the door of the fort we saw Fat Boy's father walking through the graveyard, the smell of stale beer heavy in the air, his shoes caked with mud and debris. Most of what we told the police after Fat Boy's body was found in his basement was the truth, but we told other things too, things that were not true. We did not tell those lies in the way that children do, manipulating the truth on the spur of the moment to get out of trouble or to get their own way. No, we planned those lies, and they were deliberate and calculated and full of intent and malevolence, and we told them as if they had the power to bring Fat Boy back to us, even though we knew that they did not.
Deftly constructed at 246 pages, Fat Boy is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Fiction / General category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Fat Boy meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $13.95 and $23.95, respectively.
Additionally, Fat Boy 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: 9781432746209
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 Paperback
SRP: $13.95
ISBN: 9781432747060
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 Casebound
SRP: $23.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/FatBoy
About the Author
Sarah Jordan lives in beautiful San Diego with her husband and three children.
In addition to writing Sarah enjoys painting arrangements of antique roses and surfing in the blue Pacific that meets the land only five miles from the family home.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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