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Adrift in the Sound is now available for eBook readers, as well as in paperback. (Wahoo!) Order the Kindle version online from www.kindle.amazon.com. $6.99.

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The debut of an engaging new literary voice offers a gripping, vivid story of sex, drugs and Seattle. Follow the misadventures of homeless artist Lizette Karlson as she struggles to escape the streets and find life’s meaning in the wake of the 1960s Cultural Revolution. Set in 1973, the story unfolds against the rainy backdrop of a tumultuous time in America—it’s a story about fighting the tides of change, swimming for shore – and finding the only thing that really matters.

Lizette—beautiful, talented, and dangerous—shows us her secrets, loves and losses, dreams and disappointments—in a seamless tale that reshapes myths about the “Free Love 60s” and creates new folklore about this tumultuous era in America. The novel opens as Lizette is released from a mental hospital, again. She crashes with the Franklin Street Dogs, a ragtag softball team, and next-door neighbor Sandy Shore, an exotic snake dancer who strips for soldiers coming home at the end of the Vietnam War. It’s a sexual free-for-all until Sandy turns up pregnant and Lizette witnesses a murder. On the run, Lizette takes refuge on beautiful Orcas Island, begins painting again, and crisscrosses Puget Sound while sorting out crippling secrets in her past.

ADRIFT IN THE SOUND is the top finalist for the 2011 Mercer Street Books Literary Prize. The award recognizes emerging writers who have completed a first novel, but have not yet published it. The prize is sponsored by Mercer Street Books & Records in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Rick Rofhie, publisher of www.anderbo.com and a short story contributor to The New Yorker magazine judged the competition.

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n addition, a companion volume to ADRIFT IN THE SOUND has just been published and is available from independent and online booksellers. BETWEEN THE SHEETS: An Intimate Exchange on Writing, Editing, and Publishing, co-authored with novelist and editor Thomas T. Thomas, is a wide ranging electronic conversation that took place during the final editing of the novel. Writer and editor share views on the craft of writing and the state of publishing in today’s digital world. It’s a peek behind the curtain at the work of shaping and selling fiction.

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