The Solomon Scandals A Washington newspaper novel by David Rothman

‘Solomon Scandals’ goes on sale now as e-book; January delivery in trade paperback

Psst! Advance promo copies of The Solomon Scan­dals are on sale now in e-book for­mat (retail $5.95 USD). Twi­light Times Books is also tak­ing advance orders for First Edi­tions in trade paper­back (retail $16.95 USD). The paper­backs will ship in Jan­u­ary 2009. These are “pre-release pro­mo­tional copies.” Twilight’s phone num­ber is 423–323-0183, and other order­ing infor­ma­tion is ahead.

A mix of sus­pense and satire, Scan­dals is the only Wash­ing­ton news­pa­per novel with a bio-enhanced Afghan Hound doing a Harry Tru­man act at the Cos­mos Club, Scan­dals, inspired by Sen. Abra­ham Ribicoff’s actual secret invest­ment in a CIA-occupied build­ing, is set mainly in the 1970s. But it includes a fore­word and after­word writ­ten in the late 21st cen­tury by Dr. Rebecca Kitiona-Fenton of the Insti­tute for the Study of Pre­vir­tual Media.

I’m putting the final touches on ver­sion 1.0 of the Scan­dals Web site, which cov­ers mat­ters rang­ing from Barack Obama vis-a-vis my fic­ti­tious pres­i­dent to the novel’s Inter­net ref­er­ences. Via email I’ll wel­come sug­ges­tions for posts on other top­ics (and typo catches, too—involving either the site or the book). I’m very inter­ested in mak­ing the book mean­ing­ful to read­ers out­side the U.S., and the right posts could help. The site also includes sam­ple chap­ters as well as blurbs from James Fal­lows, author of Break­ing the News; James Polk, win­ner of the Pulitzer for Water­gate cov­er­age for the Wash­ing­ton Star; and Bet­tina Gre­gory, the for­mer ABC News correspondent.

Jan­u­ary is the offi­cial pub­li­ca­tion time for Scan­dals. But I asked Lida Quillen, pub­lisher of Twi­light Times Books, to see what she could do to make my book avail­able at least in E before Christ­mas, Hanukkah and other hol­i­days, and she came through beautifully.

Price of the non­DRMed e-book is $5.95, as noted, and the trade paper­back is $16.95 plus ship­ping. Avail­able e-formats right now are HTML and PDF, and Lida will soon add ePub. Other pop­u­lar for­mats will fol­low in time.

Kin­dle own­ers can use Mobipocket Desk­top 6.0 to con­vert the HTML into non­DRMed Mobi, which the K machine can read.

iPhone own­ers can load the HTML file into Stanza Desk­top, then use WiFi and the Shared option within Stanza’s Library menu on the iPhone. Damn the Tower of eBa­bel! Why must we bother with such details?

To order by credit card, call the 423–323-0183 num­ber men­tioned ear­lier. If pay­ing by check, please click here for a form to print out. To down­load now, go here.

At least in the States, you can also order Scan­dals from your local book­store. The ISBN is is 978–1-60619–042-5.

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