Outskirts Press Announces Chicago Tales, the Latest Highly-Anticipated Short Stories (Single Author) Book from Lubbock, TX Author Bill VanPatten
Lubbock, TX, July 28, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Chicago Tales by Bill VanPatten, which is the author’s most recent book to date. The 5 x 8 Paperback in the Short Stories (single author) category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $15.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/chicagotales was launched simultaneously with the book’s publication.
About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
E. M. Forster once described Chicago as “A façade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the façade, every type of dubiousness.” In Chicago Tales—a collection of fourteen short stories—first-time fiction author Bill VanPatten takes us behind the façade as he crafts a rich mosaic of characters caught in events ranging from the everyday to the extra-ordinary. On these pages we encounter a transvestite prostitute trapped in an abusive relationship, a Latina confronting her agnosticism when the Virgin Mary appears under an expressway (as she did in April 2005), an adolescent Irish girl who—in 1871 anti-immigrant Chicago—discovers a terrible truth about her mother, a 1930s marriage of convenience that results in a husband-and-wife hit team, and a vodka-swigging atheist thrust into the company of a Bible-toting college student when they find themselves the last two persons alive in Chicago. VanPatten serves up these remarkable people and more, challenging the reader to not have sympathy, to not find some part of the characters’ conflicted lives with which to identify. In the end, Chicago Tales may be more about the universality of the human condition, set in the context of the city that British historian James Bryce described as “Perhaps the most typically American place in America.” Indeed, the characters inhabiting the pages of this book could exist just about anywhere. But they happen to live in Chicago—dubiousness and all.
Deftly constructed at 312 pages, Chicago Tales is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Short Stories (single author) category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Chicago Tales meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $15.95.
Additionally, Chicago Tales 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 wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks
ISBN: 9781432706319 Format: 5 x 8 Paperback SRP: $15.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/chicagotales
About the Author
Bill VanPatten is an internationally renowned best-selling scholar of languages who is now applying his talents to fiction. Deftly moving from darkness to humor, from the mundane to the fantastic, from stark to vivid, VanPatten's masterful imagery and language are evident in Chicago Tales. The result is good old fashioned story telling that only the big city--past and present--can offer.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press offers turn-key, custom book publishing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press, Inc. 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
About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
E. M. Forster once described Chicago as “A façade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the façade, every type of dubiousness.” In Chicago Tales—a collection of fourteen short stories—first-time fiction author Bill VanPatten takes us behind the façade as he crafts a rich mosaic of characters caught in events ranging from the everyday to the extra-ordinary. On these pages we encounter a transvestite prostitute trapped in an abusive relationship, a Latina confronting her agnosticism when the Virgin Mary appears under an expressway (as she did in April 2005), an adolescent Irish girl who—in 1871 anti-immigrant Chicago—discovers a terrible truth about her mother, a 1930s marriage of convenience that results in a husband-and-wife hit team, and a vodka-swigging atheist thrust into the company of a Bible-toting college student when they find themselves the last two persons alive in Chicago. VanPatten serves up these remarkable people and more, challenging the reader to not have sympathy, to not find some part of the characters’ conflicted lives with which to identify. In the end, Chicago Tales may be more about the universality of the human condition, set in the context of the city that British historian James Bryce described as “Perhaps the most typically American place in America.” Indeed, the characters inhabiting the pages of this book could exist just about anywhere. But they happen to live in Chicago—dubiousness and all.
Deftly constructed at 312 pages, Chicago Tales is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Short Stories (single author) category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Chicago Tales meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $15.95.
Additionally, Chicago Tales 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 wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks
ISBN: 9781432706319 Format: 5 x 8 Paperback SRP: $15.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/chicagotales
About the Author
Bill VanPatten is an internationally renowned best-selling scholar of languages who is now applying his talents to fiction. Deftly moving from darkness to humor, from the mundane to the fantastic, from stark to vivid, VanPatten's masterful imagery and language are evident in Chicago Tales. The result is good old fashioned story telling that only the big city--past and present--can offer.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press offers turn-key, custom book publishing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press, Inc. represents the future of book publishing, today.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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