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This has nil to create alongside economic science or finance, merely it's means cooler...If yous or your teenage children are into young-adult fiction.

My wife  Beth's immature adult novel, Monstrous Beauty, published yesteryear Farrar, Straus too Giroux, volition move released September 4.

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls inward honey alongside Ezra, a immature naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a conduct a opportunity at happiness on land, she is unaware that this determination comes alongside horrific too deadly consequences. Almost i hundred twoscore years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra too feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, honey has resulted inward expiry for the women inward her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra’s help, Hester investigates her family’s strange, sorry history. The answers she seeks are waiting inward the graveyard, the crypt, too at the bottom of the ocean—but powerful forces volition create anything to proceed her from regain her connector to Syrenka too to the tragedy of too then long ago.

There volition move a launch political party at 57th street books inward Chicago, Tues. Sept. 4, at six PM. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minute larger coming out volition tumble out at the Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth MA (the majority is ready inward Plymouth, too partly on the plantation) Sept. 7, at five pm, information here.

Then Beth volition move off on Macmillan's Fierce Reads Tour alongside 3 other YA authors.
  • September 18: Changing Hands Bookstore, Pheonix
  • September 19: Tattered Cover, Denver
  • September 20: Left Bank Books, St. Louis
  • September 21: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinatti
  • September 22: Next Chapter Bookshop, Milwaukee
  • September 23: Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville 
For a gustation of Beth's mermaid lore, endeavour the extra curt storey "Men Who Wish to Drown" on tor.com, (cover fine art to the left).

Monstrous beauty at Amazon too the publisher's website 
 
Visit Beth at her blog too on Twitter

(My plot suggestion, "Syrenka, Libertarian Mermaid" went nowhere. I estimate I'd amend proceed my 24-hour interval job!)

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