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An exciting announcement from member Mezu (a.k.a. Derek Armstrong). My much anticipated humorous thriller ("Keeps us chuckling...an author to watch" Booklist) sold out in two days -- a supply of books my publisher expected to last 2 months! From the Kunati press release:

Derek Armstrong'[/url]s THE GAME, a comic thriller critics say "injects the trope with new vigor" already sold out its first press run two days after books arrived at the warehouse. Kunati Books has gone back for more books to fill backorders.

Top reviews, including an "author to watch" from Booklist and "dark tongue-in-cheek" thriller from Library Journal may have contributed to THE GAME's first sell-out run. With library orders and initial chain orders swallowing up the first run, Kunati has to return to the printers for an even larger run as THE GAME.

THE GAME is a unique thriller that combines satirical humor with "punch in the gut" thrills. Described by ForeWord Magazine as "in the tradition of Connolly" and by Booklist with "the semi-satirical plotline compels us to keep reading, and his prose style keeps us chuckling," THE GAME seems to ride on "Armstrong's abundant enthusiasm for his material."

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/book.gif) THE GAME releases April 1, 07, and some stores are already backordering the title. In this darkly humorous thriller, reality television becomes too real when a killer with a message preys on the contestants of America's number one TV show.

A major contributor to the buzz certainly must be the reviews:
"A series to watch...Armstrong injects the trope with new vigor."
Booklist
"Dark tongue-in-cheek thriller"
Library Journal
"...suspenseful and rich with dark humor..."
Foreword Reviews
"Hugely cinematic thriller with hilarious dark comic moments."
Films and Books Magazine
"Promising premise, sexy, gory resolution."
Publishers Weekly
"A super sleuth...a grisly gamester...a multiplicity of games..."Kirkus

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/book.gif) Derek Armstrong is also the author of THE LAST TROUBADOUR (releasing from Kunati Sept 07), THE PERSONA PRINCIPLE (Simon & Schuster), and MADicine (the sequel to THE GAME, releasing Spring 08 from Kunati.)

This post has been edited by bym: Mar 29 2007, 09:37 PM