Larry F. Slonaker

Jeez. Finally.

May 2022

Here's the short version:

Available in paperback and e-book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, your local bookstore, etc.
EZ personalized inscriptions provided. (More info below.)
In a book club? I'd be happy to visit, virtually or in-person. If the latter, I will bring the wine. (More info below.)

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Here's the longer version:

After more years and rewrites than I care to count, this novel is finally published, by a small outfit that cultivates writing out of the Northwest.

If you buy it and want a personalized inscription, send me a copy (for address, email larry.f.slonaker@gmail.com).

Alternatively, and more easily, I'm happy to send an inscribed reproduction of the title page for use as an insert.* Again, just email me, and choose whether you want the inscription to be...

personalized

inspirational/life-changing

confusing/annoying

in German

other

*This is assuming you've actually bought the book.

I'd like to chat with your book club. I mean, about this particular book. And I meant what I wrote above about bringing wine. Reply to this email if interested.

Finally, oh yeah--what's this book about? Here is the short pitch (a device I found writers absolutely must have to crack open, even ever-so-slightly, the flinty attention of an agent or publisher):

Nothing Got Broke relates a battle of wits and wills between two people with wildly different aims, but with more in common than either wants to admit. Doug Rossiter is a former Bay Area newspaper columnist who has forsaken a celebrated career, and moved onto the isolated plains in the middle of Montana. Thao Nguyen, a new reporter at his former newspaper, has pieced together stunning information that seems to link him to the slaying of a low-life ex-con.

When she materializes in front of Rossiter’s shack and injects herself into his hermetic life, a complex dynamic unfolds, with the stakes growing ever higher.

Nothing Got Broke is a novel of the American West, and its people and its myths. It’s also a story of how, even in the most barren and desolate refuge, a fugitive still can be found--and found out.

Also, I would like to think it is, oddly enough, sort of funny in parts.

For more details about the book, see "My 'Fresh Air' Interview."