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American Cool is HOT!
Susan DiPlacido's hot collection of short stories, American Cool, was the runner-up in the 2008 Beach Book Festival , romance category! Congrats to Susan! American Cool also won the Bronze Medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards (better known as the IPPYS..
To purchase American Cool:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
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Don Capone reading from his novel Into the Sunset at the Boxcar Lounge, Jan. 30, 2008 in NY's East Village.
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Rave review for INTO THE SUNSET
Donna George Storey, author of Amorous Woman , has reviewed Into the Sunset.
"Don Capone’s Into the Sunset is entertaining comedy at its best. Even the madcap premise makes you laugh."
"Reading as a writer—and I always do—I admired Capone’s plot, which is Chekhovian in its design. Each puzzle piece fits together perfectly by the novel’s end."
Read the full review here:
Donna George Storey
Into the Sunset can be purchased at:
Amazon
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AMERICAN COOL now on sale!
Amazon
iUniverse
Available at Barnes & Noble and Booksamillion soon!
Also, read a lively interview with Susan here .
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INTO THE SUNSET is now on sale!
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
iUniverse
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Rebel Press is pleased to introduce the latest in its publishing rebellion, two new titles by rebel writers Susan DiPlacido and Donald Capone.
Available soon at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com) • Amazon.com • Booksamillion.com
ENTER the world of AMERICAN COOL, where risk, rejection, and romance are played to win. When characters meet every roll of the dice with grit, humor and determination, is it enough to change the stakes? AMERICAN COOL is Susan DiPlacido's first collection of short stories.DiPlacido is the author of three novels: 24/7, Trattoria, and Mutual Holdings. Her short story, “I, Candy†won the Spirit Award at the 2005 Moondance International Film Festival ("I, Candy" is included in American Cool). Her novel Trattoria was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Small Press Romance. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica 2007, Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica vol. 6, Caramel Flava, and Rebellion: New Voices of Fiction. Visit her online at susandiplacido.com and susandiplacido.blogspot.com.
WHEN a thirty year-old bachelor disguises himself as an old man to live in The Sunset, a retirement community, will everything go as smoothly as planned? Of course not! His elderly love interest becomes suspicious of his under-cover-of-darkness-only lovemaking, his neighbor wants to experiment with Viagra®, the head of security is more interested in extortion than security, and the woman who runs the community may be on to his scheme. Can Wayne survive old age?
INTO THE SUNSET is Donald Capone's first novel.Capone's stories have appeared in Edgar Literary Magazine, Word Riot, and Thieves Jargon, as well as the anthologies See You Next Tuesday and Rebellion: New Voices of Fiction. Visit him online at donaldcapone.blogspot.com.Read the prologue to INTO THE SUNSET
INTO THE SUNSET is now on sale!
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Try before you buy! Read excerpts from "Rebellion."
Rebellion
New Voices of Fiction
AVAILABLE NOW on Amazon!Click here to read excerpts!
Then click on the book cover to go directly to the Amazon page.
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What is Rebel Press rebelling against?Against the big publishing houses who decide what we read. Against the
big houses who determine their lists based on the other big houses’ lists.
Against trends and fads.
Against homogenization.
Rebel Press is proud to present alternatives to the safe and familiar
names put forth by the major publishers. We offer fiction that is off the
beaten path, by authors who write for art’s sake, for the love of the craft,
authors who aren’t afraid to extend the boundaries of the short story.
You, the reader, still have a choice. Join the rebellion.
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