Press Release for Turner's Point
Lawyer/Playwright Exposes Soft Underbelly of Law and Theatre in Second Novel
Gordon Osmond, award-winning playwright and author of his highly acclaimed debut novel, Slipping on Stardust, turns up the heat with his second novel, a taut sizzler called, TURNER’S POINT, described by a major critic as “a delectable dissection of small-town mores and big-city glories.”
TURNER’S POINT describes with Osmond’s unique blend of wit and wisdom the travails and triumphs of the members of a Mid-Western family as they face new personal and professional challenges while attempting to, in the novel’s words, “salvage some tolerable future out of the spilled milk into which their recent past had curdled.” The novel is set in Ohio, San Diego, Hollywood, and New York City.
James F. Broderick, Ph.D., author of Stalked and Now a Terrifying Motion Picture, says of TURNER’S POINT, “The dialogue is crisp and Coward-ly…profound and touching…prepare to be dazzled…a bi-coastal bonanza of sex, love, and death, Gordon Osmond has created a modern classic…if you like your plots served with a twist of sex and a side of unpredictability, this page-turning paean to love, law, and the pursuit of one’s true self with leave you breathless…a tour-de-force take on the intersection of life’s multiple plot strands…the real joys of the book for some readers will be the sublime and ridiculously good writing. One can simply groove on the poetic pulse of the language.”
NEW YORK – From the time his stage play, The Scales, won First Prize in the prestigious John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Contest sponsored by the New England Theatre Conference, critics have noted Osmond’s unique writing skills. “His play offers some of the best writing heard in any performing medium in years.”—Brad Bradley, Manhattan Mirror
“I kept thinking—Wouldn’t Noel Coward have loved to write something this open and unashamed in his time?”—The Raleigh News and Observer
Critics welcomed the release of Osmond’s debut novel, Slipping on Stardust, with encomiums such as:”will remind you of the best of Preston Sturges and George Cukor…a brilliant tour de force…he writes like Oscar Wilde…a masterpiece.” In the words of Grady Harp, one of Amazon’s Top 50 reviewers, “He writes with turns of phrase, witticisms, insights and polemics that are equal to the best of today's writers.”
True to Osmond’s iconoclastic style, Turner’s Point contains the following reader advisory:
Note:
“Turner’s Point contains some sexually explicit material that may be confusing to virgins and irritating to non-virgins who have achieved that status less excitingly than it’s portrayed in Turner’s Point.”
About the book:
Turner’s Point by Gordon Osmond
ASIN: B00JOWF2JY
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Date of publish: April, 2014
Pages: 183
Electronic version (all formats): $4.99
About the author:
Gordon Osmond is a Wall Street lawyer, playwright, author, lecturer, and teacher.
Note: A host and frequent guest of radio shows, the author is a skilled, entertaining, and unpredictable interviewee. Please reply to this e-mail for interview requests or for links to the author’s previous radio interviews.
There is also a prepared Q&A available upon request.
Note: Review copies of this book are available by replying to this e-mail. Only electronic versions of this book are available at this time. PLEASE NOTE YOUR FORMAT PREFERENCE.
Also, PLEASE INCLUDE THE WEB ADDRESS WHERE YOU POST YOUR REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS.
©2014 Bostick Communications | ops@bostickcommunications.com
Gordon Osmond, award-winning playwright and author of his highly acclaimed debut novel, Slipping on Stardust, turns up the heat with his second novel, a taut sizzler called, TURNER’S POINT, described by a major critic as “a delectable dissection of small-town mores and big-city glories.”
TURNER’S POINT describes with Osmond’s unique blend of wit and wisdom the travails and triumphs of the members of a Mid-Western family as they face new personal and professional challenges while attempting to, in the novel’s words, “salvage some tolerable future out of the spilled milk into which their recent past had curdled.” The novel is set in Ohio, San Diego, Hollywood, and New York City.
James F. Broderick, Ph.D., author of Stalked and Now a Terrifying Motion Picture, says of TURNER’S POINT, “The dialogue is crisp and Coward-ly…profound and touching…prepare to be dazzled…a bi-coastal bonanza of sex, love, and death, Gordon Osmond has created a modern classic…if you like your plots served with a twist of sex and a side of unpredictability, this page-turning paean to love, law, and the pursuit of one’s true self with leave you breathless…a tour-de-force take on the intersection of life’s multiple plot strands…the real joys of the book for some readers will be the sublime and ridiculously good writing. One can simply groove on the poetic pulse of the language.”
NEW YORK – From the time his stage play, The Scales, won First Prize in the prestigious John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Contest sponsored by the New England Theatre Conference, critics have noted Osmond’s unique writing skills. “His play offers some of the best writing heard in any performing medium in years.”—Brad Bradley, Manhattan Mirror
“I kept thinking—Wouldn’t Noel Coward have loved to write something this open and unashamed in his time?”—The Raleigh News and Observer
Critics welcomed the release of Osmond’s debut novel, Slipping on Stardust, with encomiums such as:”will remind you of the best of Preston Sturges and George Cukor…a brilliant tour de force…he writes like Oscar Wilde…a masterpiece.” In the words of Grady Harp, one of Amazon’s Top 50 reviewers, “He writes with turns of phrase, witticisms, insights and polemics that are equal to the best of today's writers.”
True to Osmond’s iconoclastic style, Turner’s Point contains the following reader advisory:
Note:
“Turner’s Point contains some sexually explicit material that may be confusing to virgins and irritating to non-virgins who have achieved that status less excitingly than it’s portrayed in Turner’s Point.”
About the book:
Turner’s Point by Gordon Osmond
ASIN: B00JOWF2JY
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Date of publish: April, 2014
Pages: 183
Electronic version (all formats): $4.99
About the author:
Gordon Osmond is a Wall Street lawyer, playwright, author, lecturer, and teacher.
Note: A host and frequent guest of radio shows, the author is a skilled, entertaining, and unpredictable interviewee. Please reply to this e-mail for interview requests or for links to the author’s previous radio interviews.
There is also a prepared Q&A available upon request.
Note: Review copies of this book are available by replying to this e-mail. Only electronic versions of this book are available at this time. PLEASE NOTE YOUR FORMAT PREFERENCE.
Also, PLEASE INCLUDE THE WEB ADDRESS WHERE YOU POST YOUR REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS.
©2014 Bostick Communications | ops@bostickcommunications.com
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