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May 13, 2004 For Immediate Release:
BUSHWHACKERS COMING AUGUST
Cedar Rapids Writer's Western Inspired By Real-life Murder Spree
The murder and mutilation of 27 people in frontier Colorado
is the springboard for THE BUSHWHACKERS, the new novel by Cedar Rapids
writer and graphic novelist Steven Philip Jones (KING OF HARLEM, TATTERS). THE
BUSHWHACKERS will be released in August 2004.
In THE BUSHWHACKERS Joshua Brand, the most powerful man in
the Rocky Mountain mining town of Eleanor, hires Pinkerton man and
bounty hunter Paul Kirk after Brand's only child becomes the latest victim of a
mysterious gang of bushwhackers. This does not sit well with
Eleanor's sheriff, reformed outlaw Jeb Moses, especially after Moses discovers
Brand and Kirk share a dark past.
THE BUSHWHACKERS was inspired by a real-life string murders.
In 1863 Colorado Felipe Espinoza and some family members murdered
and mutilated at least 26 people. Espinoza's crimes are considered to be the first
serial killings in United States history.
Jones previous writing credits include the mystery-adventure
novel KING OF HARLEM. Out of print since 2003, KING OF HARLEM will be
available in paperback and e-book formats starting February 2005 from Mundania
Press. Jones' other credits include over 60 comic book
scripts for Marvel Comics, Malibu Graphics, Caliber Comics and Sundragon Comics, as
well as two young adult novels featuring Todd
McFarland's Spawn character. Jones also edited Malibu Graphic's trade paperback
anthology REANIMATOR: TALES OF HERBERT WEST.
The novel will be available through all retail bookstore
chains, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and the Avalon website at www.avalonbooks.com.
Avalon's distributors include Baker & Taylor and Ingram.
THE BUSHWHACKERS is a 185-page hardcover from Avalon Books (ISBN 0-8034-9671-0). The retail price is $21.95.
Contact: Steven Jones, 319-366-5176, Sphilipjones@aol.com.
Steven Philip Jones
319-366-5176
http://www.stevenpjones.com
sphilipjones@aol.com
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Avalon Books (www.avalonbooks.com) is an imprint of Thomas Bouregy & Co.,
the aim of the Avalon publishing
Although some of these categories have changed and evolved over
stories and