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I’ll be blogging here about Rainstorm Press and my novel, Nobody Wakes Up Pretty (. Now available. Click here to order.

“Let’s get this out of the way,” says Holly. “I’m a white woman who likes black men.” But that doesn’t explain why she’s caught up in the web connecting crime families across the lines of race. Or why her friends are getting shot. Or whether there’s anything she can do to stop the killing.

New York City in the ’80′s. There goes the neighborhood!

As you can tell, it’s a crime novel with political overtones, so the blog is likely to include some rants as well as entries about crime and criminal justice.

Nobody Wakes Up Pretty

A New York City noir: …race…sex…crime…gentrification..and a monkey.

“A sexy, funny, tender-hearted puzzler about a young woman sifting the ashes of America’s endless class warfare.” — Domenic Stansberry, Edgar Award Winner and Author of Naked Moon.

You can add your own review here at the AskDavid site.
You can follow updates here along with guest blogs and interviews, as well as my adventures coming up this winter in Chicago, Illinois and Cochabamba, Bolivia. Please come back!

I started the New Year getting to meet the publisher, Lyle Perez-Tinics, via Skype, and he turns out to be as personable and committed via webcam as via email.

Seeing this book about to turn up in print brings back so many memories of my native earth.

credit: Eyely Photo

For more information about me and my work, such as my other books (including California Transit, short stories that received the Mary McCarthy Prize, and The Blessing Next to the Wound, co-authored with Colombian exile Hector Aristizabal and named by Amnesty International as recommended reading during Banned Books Week) please check out my website at http://www.dianelefer.weebly.com .

Thanks for visiting!