Post date: Jun 16, 2010 3:39:45 AM
Dear friends,
Today is a very big day for me. My first novel is now available for purchase at lulu.com.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-white-hairs/11170839
In the weeks to come it will appear on amazon.com and bn.com and also be available to be ordered in real brick and mortar book stores (If you ask them to carry it.)
Any of you who really know me know that this is what I was born to do. Getting to this point has been the quest of my life. This publication is happening in a very small way, but it is very real. I am not going through a big corporation who might throw a lot of money at me. This is an independent and small publication.
But this is how big things start. It's actually the best way for it to happen, because I don't have to sell my soul to make it happen.
I hope you will all buy a copy, and if you like it I also hope that you will tell everyone you know to buy their own copies.
I don't have a marketing department. I AM the marketing department, and so any ideas you might have to get this book to reach more people will be sincerely appreciated.
The book itself is very dear to me. I wrote the story some years ago, after my friend Mike Snow and I had spent our first weekend visiting Los Angeles. We had gone to a movie script pitch-fest. Mike had brought a few movie ideas with him, and I had brought my famous Cowboy-Zombie script. I had actually gotten a lot of encouragement from the industry professionals there that day. A number of them laughed at my pitch and wanted to read the movie.
No, it never did sell. But it was high on that sense of excitement that I then got home to the hovel I was living in in Boston at the time (I think it would be too much to claim it was actually an apartment!) where I sat down and wrote this story. It really was a big step forward in my work.
It's also very personal in it's way. It's not autobiographical, but the emotions that the character experiences, his struggle, is absolutely something that I had gone through in my time in Boston. I not only hope that you enjoy the story, but I hope that it is psychologically helpful to you all in your own lives!
And if you like it, I hope that you will go on amazon.com and bn.com, once it's available there, and give it favorable reviews. That would very helpful.
I also hope you all appreciate the cover paintings by my friend, Dana Black.
Love,
Noah