tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892722103504759154.post3742276653043590647..comments2024-03-28T14:36:21.666-04:00Comments on A Bookish Way of Life: Bookish and Non-Bookish Thoughts...Nadiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14315207186180201488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892722103504759154.post-8548732482367150252015-04-11T15:57:12.101-04:002015-04-11T15:57:12.101-04:00I think you're right; so many choices makes it...I think you're right; so many choices makes it so hard to settle on something because while you're reading one thing, you keep thinking that the other things might be even better!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05554217416500328610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892722103504759154.post-84771260266725168452015-03-30T18:54:18.798-04:002015-03-30T18:54:18.798-04:00Hi, Nadia!
Syrie James told me about your "B...Hi, Nadia!<br /><br />Syrie James told me about your "Bookish and Non-Bookish" blog and suggested I contact you about my latest novel, "By the Sea," just published by Crossroad Press in hardcover, paperback, and ebook. An audiobook edition is in the works And as I always do what Syrie tells me to do, and as you asked for suggestions -- Here's some back cover info:<br /><br />By the Sea is a modern comic adult fairy tale with an ensemble cast of Cinderellas. <br /><br />Instead of a kingdom by the sea, our story takes place in and around a residential hotel by the sea. The architecturally eclectic Briers Hotel is situated on Leech Beach, a not particularly inviting beach, being often fog-bound and always scruffy. But it’s the perfect setting for our Cinderellas, male and female, who put up with the scruffy-ness of life while striving to make it through their various personal seaside fogs. Theater; art; antiques; old movies; sex; more sex; death; fast and slow cars, chicken shit and cow poop; military bearing and erotic emissions -- not to mention the wicked witch, the sea serpent by the sea shore, the village ogre, the village idiot, and several Prince Charmings -- all figure into this merry tale with a multitude of happy endings. <br /><br />“Steven Paul Leiva has written an engaging, thoughtful, and kind book. In this era of unlikable characters and the idea that a "good" book is one in which horrible things happen to horrible people, Leiva has turned that entirely on its head. Even when people act badly, he has told their story with sympathy and grace, with a complete kindness for even the most outwardly difficult characters. By the Sea is long, but it's not fat. It's all muscle. And what a satisfying book it is! Leiva has built his small world perfectly, and each character is so complete and well thought out that what at first seem disparate pieces fit together perfectly by the end. It's a hat trick in perfect proportions!” -- Jo Graham, author of Black Ships, Hand of Isis, and Stealing Fire. <br /><br />If you would be interested in adding "By the Sea" to your reading list, I would be more tan happy to email you a mobi or an epub version of it. <br /><br />Cover art and more info can be checked out here:<br /><br />http://stevenpaulleivasthisnthat.blogspot.com/2014/11/coming-2-1-15-by-sea-comic-novel.html<br /><br />You can email me at: pasob@aol.com<br /><br />Best, regards,<br /><br />StevenSteven Paul Leivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09743140911542210680noreply@blogger.com