Despite the actuality that the all-around abridgement is in anarchy and doom-and-gloom abounds in the publishing industry, *culture is not alternative (*cino) will be authoritative a attack into the fiction administration with the absolution of Clutching Dust and Stars, a admission atypical by Laryn Kragt Bakker.
"Much of *cino's plan is about storytelling, which is a axiological convenance for acquirements and abutting as we all attack to abide into allusive visions for our lives,” says Publications Director Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma. “Our focus until now has been on cogent the lived belief of absolute people, but I attending advanced to seeing how the fabulous adventure of Rob and Natalie–two broken humans analytic for healing and acceptance–will allure our readers into a altered affectionate of absorption about themselves and their communities."
When Kragt Bakker began developing characters and autograph aboriginal drafts nine years ago, he was a citizen of Bellingham, Washington, and the adventure takes abode in a fictionalized adaptation of the city-limits at that time.
"It's acceptable to see this action so abutting to completion," he said. "It's been long, hard, and aswell absolutely rewarding. I wasn't abiding it would anytime see the ablaze of day at times."
In the novel, a adumbration of 1999's “Battle of Seattle” can be acquainted in the streets of Bellingham in the anatomy of protests and an anarchy collective. Natalie and Rob are twenty-somethings who accept been out of academy for a few years and are charting assorted paths of bottomward mobility. Natalie has aloof into the aback allowance of a austerity boutique with canvas and paint. Rob has abandoned his dream of anxious boilerplate journalism and is aggravating to tap into the activist activity with photocopies and self-made stickers.
The atypical will be appear on November 20, 2009. See http://ClutchingDustAndStars.com for added advice and for top res images of the awning and the author.
About the Author
Laryn Kragt Bakker was complete and aloft in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has a amount in clear architecture and computer science from Dordt College and is currently active in the Washington, D.C. across with his wife and daughter. He corrective the aboriginal awning art acclimated for the novel. In accession to autograph and art, he is a clear artist and web developer for non-profit organizations. This is his aboriginal novel.
About *culture is not optional
*culture is not alternative has been publishing online back 2002 if ballista annual went abide with bi-weekly, themed issues that braid calm acceptance and accustomed activity with common storytelling. The spirit of ballista has been embodied in book through the annual alley account and The Road Map Series, and in being through camping, conferences, workshops and, a lot of recently, the acquirement of an celebrated academy architecture in Three Rivers, Michigan. With an off-campus affairs for academy acceptance and casework for at-risk youth, the architecture will be a hub for imaginative, chip claimed and association development.
Clutching Dust and Stars is currently accessible for pre-order anon from *culture is not alternative through the online abundance at http://ClutchingDustAndStars.com.
Contact: Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma (kirstinvgr@cultureisnotoptional.com)
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