Book Release ~ An Animal’s Guide to Earthly Salvation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) May 10, 2011 -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 10, 2011, United States - Vagabondage Press releases AN ANIMAL’S GUIDE TO EARTHLY SALVATION, a warm and funny novella from Richmond, Virginia author Jack R. Johnson.

Where do animal souls go when they die? Do animals even have souls? Kierkegaard suggests not," Jeffrey Rawlings notes. "Something to bear in mind while kissing your hound."

An assistant at an urban veterinary clinic, Jeffrey Rawlings has decided to take a break from graduate studies and instead pulls nightshift at an animal hospital while studying the modern philosophers—"from Kierkegaard to Marx"—to no avail: wounded animals hound his existence. Jeffrey’s hypochondriac mother may be dying of ovarian cancer, his money-hungry sister needs bucks for her 40-year-old husband’s braces, and a heroin-hooked runaway is set on his seduction. Meanwhile, the neighborhood transvestite swears he is Billie Holiday raised from the dead. But the worst comes when his perpetually indiscrete Uncle Raymond winds up getting shot. Soon enough, Jeffrey learns, it’s not just the animals that need a cure.

JACK R. JOHNSON currently lives with his wife and daughter in Richmond, Virginia. His short stories have appeared in US and foreight literary magazines and his novel, Arges, was top listed in the Fish First Novelists literary contest out of Ireland. He produces a local radio module called Hidden Histories, which can be stream at WRIR.org or can be heard via local airwaves every Monday Wednesday, and Friday at 10 a.m. on 97.3 FM in Richmond Virginia.

"ANIMAL’S GUIDE evokes the warmth and quirkiness of John Irving or Anne Tyler, with a 21st century sensibility," says managing editor, Fawn Neun. "I was instantly drawn to Jack’s work and we’re immensely proud to be releasing ANIMAL’S GUIDE’S through our Crossroads imprint."

VAGABONDAGE PRESS, publisher of the arts and literary journal, The Battered Suitcase, aims to bring literary fiction and literary quality genre fiction to the digital market.

AN ANIMAL’S GUIDE TO EARTHLY SALVATION will be released on May 10, 2011 and will be available in print and ebook format at all major online book retailers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony, and OmniLit, as well as on the Vagabondage Press website at www.vagabondagepress.com

Review eGalley copies in ePub, Mobi and PDF are available upon request. Mr. Jackson and Vagabondage Press welcome your inquiries for review copies, promotion copy giveaways, interviews and guest blog appearances.

For more information, please contact:

Fawn Neun
Managing Editor
press@vagbondgepress.com
http://www.vagabondagepress.com
　

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