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July 25, 2006 - Blast Press Releases New Novel By New Jersey Author
“Working as the assistant to the girl you hated in high school, finding your husband’s dirty laundry behind the entertainment center, discovering that your life may need a few changes—Floaters, the new BLAST PRESS novel by Brandi Scollins-Mantha, author of My Intended, captures the moment when Liz Welkirk realizes that something is just not right. Her shopping mall job, her absent husband, the empty bedroom painted pale yellow in the back corner of their house—it all adds up to a big hole that Liz must decide to dig herself out of. Not a fairy tale but a tale of real life and what it takes to begin to be happy.”
Brandi Scollins-Mantha’s novel, Floaters, is now available both online and in bookstores.
As a micro-publisher, BLAST PRESS has neither the capacity nor the need to house several hundred copies of a massive manuscript. We specialize in small-run chapbooks of poetry, essays, and novellas. By using iUniverse for all of our more ambitious projects, we get all of the advantages of a big print-on-demand publishing house, while still staying true to our authors. The entire cost is under-written by BLAST PRESS, so even though iUniverse advertises itself as a self-publishing option for authors, it becomes a useful printer’s resource for BLAST PRESS. The manuscript is issued an ISBN, and is maintained as available-to-order on the web.
Brandi Scollins-Mantha is the author or My Intended (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2000), and several literary short stories appearing The Literary Review, Folio, and Pleiades. She holds a BA in English from the University of Florida, an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and is pursuing a Master of Education in Adult and Distance Education through Pennsylvania State University. She teaches all forms of writing online for Thomas Edison State College, Mercer County Community College and Southern New Hampshire University.
A review copy is enclosed. For more information, please contact Gregg Glory at Blast Press or the author at brandi.scollins ( @ ) comcast dot net.
