Afterthoughts published!

Here's an email I just sent out to blog subscribers and other good friends. I'll post it here because I really want to get the word out to you all ASAP:



Hi—

Is it okay to email you directly? I have an announcement I don’t want you to miss. My new eBook, Afterthoughts, has just come out from Open Road, and I want to do everything I can to get it off to a good start.

If that’s all you need to know, you can cut to the chase and snap it up for Kindle for 99¢: http://tinyurl.com/3wgyhez

There you go! Now let me tell you what you just bought…

Afterthoughts is the book friends have been urging me to write for years. And now, in the course of preparing new afterwords for my 40+ Open Road eBooks, I’ve almost inadvertently produced a piecemeal tell-all memoir of my life as a writer over the past 55 years.

All my early crime novels are here, from Grifter’s Game and The Girl With the Long Green Heart all the way to Random Walk. Then there are the dozens of early books I wrote under pen names. For years I wanted to disown them, but time has brought acceptance, and in Afterthoughts you’ll find essays and reminiscences of the days I spent as Lesley Evans and Anne Campbell Clarke, as Sheldon Lord and Andrew Shaw, as Chip Harrison and Paul Kavanagh and Lee Duncan. (And let’s not forget Jill Emerson, whose brand-new book Getting Off is due in September from Hard Case Crime; all seven of Jill’s early novels receive their due here.)

This may be the best news of all: The price of Afterthoughts is only 99¢.

Why so low? Well, I really want people to read Afterthoughts. It’s far more open and candid than I ever thought I’d be, and if I’m gonna go public, I’d like to reach as much of the public as I can. Besides that, it’s my guess that you’ll be sufficiently intrigued to sample some of the books you’ll read about.

But first things first. August 2 is the on-sale date for Afterthoughts, and by then it’ll be available on all major eBook platforms—Nook, Kobo, Apple, Sony Reader, etc. But you don’t have to wait to pre-order it for Kindle; one click of your mouse and you’ll guarantee you receive it first thing on Tuesday.

May I encourage you to order the book right now? Nothing launches a book as effectively as early orders, and I hope you’ll want to be at the head of the line.

And while I’m being pushy, let me ask you a favor. Could you forward this email to any friends who might be interested? They may thank you for it, and I know for sure that I will! In fact I’ll just conclude by saying…

…thanks in advance!

LB

PS—There’s more on Afterthoughts, including several sample chapters, on my blog http://lawrenceblock.wordpress.com/lb.... You can go there first to help you decide, or stop by after you’ve ordered the book to whet your appetite for more. Goodreads members will find a sample chapter (Campus Tramp) just posted on my Goodreads blog.

PPS—At least for now, Afterthoughts is only available as an eBook. If enough readers let me know they want a printed book, Open Road can produce a Print-on-Demand paperback. (But it’ll be priced a whole lot higher than 99¢!)