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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ashland, Or. March 8, 2010 flyer | Christopher Rice's website | ashland mystery
Christopher Rice on Tour With The Moonlit Earth
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Bookwagon gig on Facebook! See Christopher Rice on the Writing of A Density of Souls on rvtv noir! See Christopher Rice on The Moonlit Earth on rvtv noir!
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice will be at Bookwagon New and Used Books on Friday April 16, 2010 at 6pm. On Sunday April 18, he'll speak at First Presbyterian in Ashland for the 9:15a contemporary service, a community event to which all are invited. Rice is on tour with his fifth novel, The Moonlit Earth, following the blockbuster publication of Blind Fall published in 2008 by Simon and Schuster.
The Moonlit Earth is an international thriller surrounding complex family relationships that echo the themes of Rice's earlier books - love, secrecy, trust and betrayal. Harriet Klausner rates The Moonlit Earth as a 5-star read and author Robert Crais says: "Christopher Rice shows his guns by weaving family secrets, breakneck plotting and true-to-life characters into a thriller of unusual depth. The Moonlit Earth is intense, moving and rich."
Blind Fall is a thriller that exposes the hypocrisy of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy and tests the friendships, loyalties and reason of John Houck who discovers that his fellow Marine and hero is gay. Rice writes the stories told by veterans of the Iraq war, telling their pain and anger and grief, writing with compassion and humility.
A Density of Souls,
written at the age of 22, was Chris' first book. It's a powerful coming
of age mystery that gained a prestigious Lambda Literary Award. It has
marvelous themes of damnation, redemption,
secrecy and destruction, courage all in that humid city New Orleans, with the snake
of a river and rawness of the real city so close to the veneer of the
Garden District. The pacing as the characters mature and emerge is so
very personal.
Christopher Rice's visit to Ashland has
been organized by the Ashland Mystery
Readers Group and is sponsored by Friends of the Ashland Public Library, Bookwagon
New and Used Books and Standing Stone Brewing Company. The event is free and
open to the public.
The Ashland Mystery Readers Group also produces the cable access television show Ashland Mystery, rvtv noir, airing Wednesdays at 7:30 pm on Cable Channel 15 in Jackson and Josephine Counties. Now airing on Ashland Mystery rvtv noir is Leaping and Posturing with Meg Chittenden, hosted by Maryann Mason, with an excerpt from the episode on YouTube, Meg Chittenden On Reincarnation and the Carlo Rossi Method of Plotting. ###
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