| If
you loved the novel and the movie of The War of the
Roses, you'll surely love Mourning
Glory,
now available! |
The
Warren Adler E-Sheet Three
In
this issue:
Greetings
From Publishing Central
 E-book
sales of my titles are accelerating, giving the lie to those
who believe that e-books are a doomed fad. Hardly doomed,
friends. You can't imagine how many people are reading books
on Palm Pilots and other devices...Kelley Allen, our
able editorial director, is now concentrating on digitizing
our translations in 30 languages, a heavy chore.
Mourning
Glory, my latest novel, is selling well as summer
doldrums comes to an end. So far I've been on dozens
of radio shows flacking MG with scores more (including
print interviews and speeches) to come through the fall . . .
Movie interest on Mourning
Glory is accelerating, but we're not jumping until the
terms assure authorial input and production.
For
those of you who are new to my E-Sheet, Mourning
Glory is my 24th published novel. Some of my previous
novels include The
War of the Roses, Random
Hearts (both made into movies), and the Fiona
FitzGerald mysteries which Lifetime Television is very keen on
making into a television series. Since the release of Mourning
Glory in August, I have received lots of enthusiastic
reviews.
Here's
the way the publisher describes it:
Brilliant
and bittersweet, daring, erotic and darkly humorous, Mourning
Glory pulls readers into one woman's tangled
web. Here is another blockbusting and timely novel about the
cost of getting what you want - when what you really want is
priceless.
On
my website, you can see a book
preview page for a synopsis, to read the first chapter, or
to order Mourning Glory.
The
Condit Conduit
Yes,
the Gary Condit media circus is cynical, self-serving
and stupid and his effort to save his career, contemptible. In
the New York Times, Susan Richards Shreve writes how
she might conceive
it as a novel. Too late Susan. I already wrote it-twice.
My first novel, now called Undertow,
(See coincidence.) tells the story
of a Senator whose black mistress drowns at his beachfront
hideaway in Rehoboth and his successful efforts at cover-up
and media spin.
 My
third mystery book Senator
Love tells the story of a womanizing Senator whose
mistresses simply disappear into thin air and whose bodies are
found years later. My intrepid detective heroine Fiona
FitzGerald, who appears in my six mystery novels,
ultimately gets to the heart of the matter and discovers the
killer. Who was it? Sorry! I won't tell. But it was someone
very very close to the Senator.
Or
see the recent piece in the Washington
Post on this very issue. Read it and you will have your
answer.
 Fiona,
by the way, works for the Washington D.C. Police Department,
which is far more efficient fictionally than it is in real
life. One dares not speculate on the outcome of the Chandra
Levy case, but when one writes a mystery novel, the central
question in discovering the culprit is "Who
Benefits?" It is obvious that the pain afflicting the
Levy parents has its origins in the answer to that question.
In
another ironic twist, the pilot episode of the proposed Lifetime
Cable series "Fiona" written by Ilana Bar-Din
back in January, deals with a murdered tabloid reporter who
has in his possession a compromising tape of a Congresswoman
in the throes of a sexual affair. Who dunnit? Sorry again! Too
close to the bone of the Condit story.
Lifetime
had earlier optioned the rights to my Fiona character and we
are awaiting their decision on the series.
Undertow
and Senator
Love are available for purchase as e-books or
trade paperbacks at my website, www.WarrenAdler.com.
Book
Chat Contest Finds a Winner
I
am thrilled to announce the winner of our contest, selected
from all those who posted a message in one of our Book
Chat forums or joined the Warren
Adler Book Club before August 31, 2001. Our winner is:
Carl
Homersham of Tauranga-New Zealand
Carl
wins a free autographed copy of Mourning
Glory and The
War of the Roses. Congratulations, Carl, and thanks to
everyone who participated!
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 Weighing
in on Ford's Breakup
Catch
this week's People Magazine. Yours truly is quoted
(sadly) on the breakup of Harrison Ford and Melissa's
17-year marriage. They were good citizens of my town Jackson,
Wyoming. Wonder who gets the property? It's the most gorgeous
spot in Wyoming.
Short
Story Contest Results
The
winner of the first annual Warren Adler Short Story Contest
sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Council for Wyoming
residents was Julene Bair of Laramie for her short
story Undertow (See coincidence.)
The story was brilliant, sensitive and compelling and to read
it will be richly rewarding. Julene's prize of $1,000 was
awarded in a ceremony at the Teton County Public Library in
Jackson Hole. The first annual contest garnered 59 entries.
We're hoping the 2002 contest doubles the number.
Coincidence:
My novel Options was published in 1975. I changed the
name in the cyber republication to Undertow. I thought
Options sounded too financially oriented. Note that Undertow
is the title of the winning short story entry. Ironies abound.
Lots
more happening. Till next time. WA
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