[CARFREE_CITIES] Excerpt from "Our Own Day Here" on Terrain

[Richard Risemberg [e-mail] [CARFREE_CITIES]]

Terrain, a "Journal of the Built + Natural Environments," has just published "Crow Call," an excerpt from my recent book of essays, "Our Own Day Here."

Terrain is one of the handsomest magazines online, and the article is beautifully presented (and in very good company). Enjoy it at:

http://terrain.org/2014/nonfiction/crow-call/

There is a sidebar describing the book iteslf alongside the article

Regards,

Rick
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[Richard Risemberg [e-mail] [CARFREE_CITIES]]

Hello All—

Last time I’ll pester folks about this book, so until I finish the next one you’re out of danger!

Oddly enough, a number of people, especially younger folks, have told me they will wait to read "Our Own Day Here" till they can do so on paper.

Well, now you can. E-books are a wonderful new way to make literature more accessible to more people, but, let's face it, unless you have a good dedicated e-book reader, it's much more satisfying (and easier on the eyes) to read on paper. And so, we now have my collection of urban essays, "Our Own Day Here," available in a cozy little pocketbook edition produced by Lulu.com. Same great cover, same fine words, same provocative urban rants, and a good touch of humor now and then.

Available here:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rickrise

Layout and cover by Gina, who did an excellent job! (Much better, in fact, than I’ve seen on some trade paperbacks I’ve recently read.)

Regards,

Rick
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Hi Folks—

Apologies in advance for the personal e-mail, but it doesn’t foreshadow a stream of posts on this subject—there should be only one more, when the paper version of my new urban noir mystery comes out.

Yes, I finally finished The Dust Will Answer, and the e-book versions are available now at Smashwords and Amazon. (Please note that they’re both the same price, but that Smashwords, a small and author-cnentric operation, gives me a much bigger cut, an ddoesn’t play funny games with the economy
.)

Here are the links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U3IJG9K
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/523312

And here is the cover blurb:

"The Dust Will Answer"

1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned next to the sterile trench of the city's concrete-clad river.

Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow type with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world to discover that sometimes the only distance between two points is a very crooked line. When Lenny's friend Dave Larrabee nags him into helping him track down a missing girlfriend, Lenny suspects that the girl doesn't want to be found. He knows her all too well: she was his before she was Dave's, and she'd gone gleefully missing from his life one time too many. Worse, he's not entirely sure he's over his feelings for the theatrical and self-centered Kate.

But this time it wasn't one of her ordinary infidelities--she may have fallen, again, into the hands of the charismatic Nighthawk, who could lead her into territories where the danger is real and role-playing no protection from harm.

The quest takes them into hobo jungles and punk squats by the LA River--and into an after-midnight darkness of moral ambiguity that changes Lenny's life in ways he'd never dreamed of.

I actually spent a year and a half visiting hobo jungles in the '80s when I was photographing and interviewing railroad tramps, and a lot of those experiences went into the book. And there’s a strong New Urbanist bent to the treatment of settings, and how the characters get around, though in the context of the story’s timeframe.

Hope you enjoy it!

Cheers,

Rick
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[Richard Risemberg [e-mail] [CARFREE_CITIES]]

Although I’m no great fan of Facebook, most of the folks I know use it extensively. So, in an effort to reduce the flow of annoying emails from me, I’ll be moving all but the most important announcements regarding my books and books-to-come to a new Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/writingsbyrichardrisemberg

Check it out, "like" it, "engage" with it, or just read it and see what I’m up to int eh literary line.

If you’re a real bookworm, I’ve set up a page at Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8259416.Richard_Risemberg

It’s a bit more civilized "community" than Facebook and dedicated entirely to reading.

And any of you who have read my books (all two of them) and have Amazon accounts, please leave a reader review!

The Dust Will Answer: http://amzn.com/B00U3IJG9K

And Our Own Day Here: http://amzn.com/B00MFT1US0

You don’t need to have bought the book at Amazon to review it there.

Thanks,

Rick
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