Quintessential Private Eye Oscar Jade Animates Blood & Ashes, Published by Outskirts Press
Springfield, IL, August 11, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Blood & Ashes: The Debut Oscar Jade Thriller! by Mark Loeffelholz. The author's most recent book to date is a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the hard-boiled mystery and detective fiction category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/bloodandashes was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
The traveling orders were quite clear: "...You need to get all these stupid ideas out of your head about how you're gonna be tough guys and not give anything up, 'cause we're not having a picnic, and I'm not going to be playing shuffleboard with you here. You're out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody's gonna hear you screaming, or crying, or praying to God. The cops aren't coming to rescue you. This is old country - things have been dying out here for a long, long time, and there's no funerals, or write-ups in the paper. It just gets covered up, and forgotten. You'll be gone, just like the dinosaurs..."
Oscar Jade, a private detective who lives in a one-room flop above a beachfront watering hole, has a screaming hangover. A good-looking dame walks into his life and says that her husband wants her dead. There’s a man with a gun following her.
It's just another day in paradise...
"Welcome Oscar Jade, and his equally enigmatic creator, Mark Loeffelholz: here are two studs who share in that wonderfully American crime fiction spirit...the impulse to enjoy soaking confessions in the dirty pool of high-minded morality, and then hanging those suckers out to dry for all the neighbors to see."
- John Hospodka, author of South Side Trilogy (www.bohemianpupil.com)
329 pages in length, Blood & Ashes: The Debut Oscar Jade Thriller! is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the hard-boiled mystery and detective category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Blood & Ashes meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $18.95.
Additionally, Blood & Ashes 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 Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432759346
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream
SRP: $18.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bloodandashes.
About the author:
Mark Loeffelholz was rated an expert marksman with the .38 Smith & Wesson while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Several careers later, he has written poetry, political satire, short stories, motion picture screenplays and novels. In 2008, his screenplay Born To Fly was optioned in Hollywood. He lives in Springfield, Illinois, with his wife and two sons.
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
The traveling orders were quite clear: "...You need to get all these stupid ideas out of your head about how you're gonna be tough guys and not give anything up, 'cause we're not having a picnic, and I'm not going to be playing shuffleboard with you here. You're out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody's gonna hear you screaming, or crying, or praying to God. The cops aren't coming to rescue you. This is old country - things have been dying out here for a long, long time, and there's no funerals, or write-ups in the paper. It just gets covered up, and forgotten. You'll be gone, just like the dinosaurs..."
Oscar Jade, a private detective who lives in a one-room flop above a beachfront watering hole, has a screaming hangover. A good-looking dame walks into his life and says that her husband wants her dead. There’s a man with a gun following her.
It's just another day in paradise...
"Welcome Oscar Jade, and his equally enigmatic creator, Mark Loeffelholz: here are two studs who share in that wonderfully American crime fiction spirit...the impulse to enjoy soaking confessions in the dirty pool of high-minded morality, and then hanging those suckers out to dry for all the neighbors to see."
- John Hospodka, author of South Side Trilogy (www.bohemianpupil.com)
329 pages in length, Blood & Ashes: The Debut Oscar Jade Thriller! is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the hard-boiled mystery and detective category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Blood & Ashes meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $18.95.
Additionally, Blood & Ashes 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 Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432759346
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream
SRP: $18.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bloodandashes.
About the author:
Mark Loeffelholz was rated an expert marksman with the .38 Smith & Wesson while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Several careers later, he has written poetry, political satire, short stories, motion picture screenplays and novels. In 2008, his screenplay Born To Fly was optioned in Hollywood. He lives in Springfield, Illinois, with his wife and two sons.
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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