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Visit Vegas – The Investment Club
Finalist for Best NewFiction at the Best Book Awards
Finalist for the Red City Review Best Literary Fiction Award
Forty million people visit Vegas every year but most never get past the strip. What about the people who live there? What brought them there? What keeps them there?
Told from the perspective of a seasoned blackjack dealer, The Investment Club tells the stories of a self-destructive, dwarf entrepreneur, a drug-addicted musical performer-turned-stripper, a retired, widowed New Jersey policeman, a bereaved, divorced female sportscaster, and a card-counting, former Catholic priest before and after their fateful meeting at the El Cortez Casino in downtown Vegas.
As the five learn the greatest return comes from investing in one another, their lives stabilize and take on new, positive directions. But their love and support for each other can take them only so far before they must determine the meaning and value of their own lives.
The Investment Club Wins An Ippy!
The Investment Club won a silver medal for best regional fiction in the West – Mountain category in the 21st annual Independent Book Publisher awards announced on Wednesday, April 13th. The IPPY Awards were launched in 1996 and are conducted each year to honor the year’s best independently published books, offering an alternative to “the big five” conglomerated media publishers. These small presses, university presses, and self-publishing services give experimental and entrepreneurial authors a platform.
Out of the 5,000 total entries, 419 medals went to books from 43 U.S. states, 7 Canadian provinces, and 15 countries overseas (led by Australia with 18 medalists). All of the medal-winning books will be celebrated on Tuesday, May 30th, from 6:00-9:30 pm at the 21st Annual IPPY Awards in New York City at the Copacabana (268 W 47th St).
Focus Lost Book Trailer – A New Thriller Coming Soon
Passion becomes obsession for a nature photographer, a famous actor, and his agent in modern-day Los Angeles after the photographer inadvertently captures pictures of the actor with an underage starlet.
Focus Lost, scheduled to be published in early 2019, will be Doug’s third book.
The Store Next Door Podcast – The Writer’s Block
Drew Cohen from The Writer’s Block in downtown Las Vegas joins Cooper on the inaugural episode of “The Store Next Door”. Each show he’ll talk to owners, managers, and employees at some of the coolest book stores around. The podcast is brought to you by Rare Bird Books based in Los Angeles, a publisher of 50+ books per year, distributed world-wide by Publishers Group West. Special thanks also to John Andrew Fredrick from The Black Watch for the rights to use “Emily, Are You Sleeping” and “The All-Right Side of Just OK” on the broadcast.
Contrary to the popular misconception that people are buying books only from online retailers, independent booksellers are thriving and serving communities in ways their competitors never can. Each podcast, the booksellers will share about their local book scene, trends they are seeing in the marketplace, what got them excited about books and made them choose it as a career, the first book and last book they read, and so much more.
The Writer’s Block Book Shop is a retailer of books and other goods. Its stock includes new fiction and nonfiction books, writing supplies and stationery, games, apparel, badminton accessories and taxidermy forms. A print lab is located at the front of the shop, where handmade books and stationery are manufactured and sold. The property is also an artificial bird sanctuary, and contains an exhibition on the history of language, literacy, and publishing.
Whether you’re in the car, on the treadmill, or cleaning the house, you can take a walk with Doug and check out the retail gems down the street, around the corner, and in our own backyards in this exciting new podcast from Rare Bird Books. If you’re a bookseller and would like to be on the show or have a special store you would like to recommend, let us know.
