French Pond Road Offer Extended Due to Interest from Readers

August 11, 2008

NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHOR EXTENDS MARKETING LAUNCH OF INSPIRATIONAL ROAD NOVEL

HOPE MOUNTAIN PRESS, (Henniker, NH) -- New Hampshire author Anthony Catlin announced today that due to interest from readers he was extending the launch of a road novel hailed as inspirational.
The novel, French Pond Road, is the story of a father and son reunited after sixteen years, and is published by Hope Mountain Press. The marketing launch, originally scheduled on July 31, featured a package of bonus gifts offered by experts and authors along with the purchase of one copy of French Pond Road.
"I'm very pleased by how it's done so far. Many people have contacted me and asked to have the offer put up again," said Catlin.
Responding to the interest, which saw sales of the book steadily grow since the end of last month, Hope Mountain Press extended the package of bonus gifts through the end of August.
The novel has garnered critical praise for its vivid characters and uplifting message of redemption and hope against the odds. Catlin is a writer and high school teacher in New Hampshire and is also the author of a previous novel, Birdman, published by Trafford Press in 2001.
Both novels feature Billy Kagan, an itinerant roofer who struggles with a legacy of youthful crimes and peccadilloes, including losing contact with his wife and child. He has found some peace of mind and a semblance of order in middle age while living in a trailer on the edge of a state park in central New Hampshire. His way of life is interrupted when his son, following in his father's delinquent footsteps, appears in his driveway on a motorcycle with his Venezuelan girlfriend in tow.
"It's about how both father and son struggle with their own self-images in the course of coming to grips with their love and need for each other," said Catlin.
Authors and experts featured with bonus gifts in the French Pond Road sales offer include creativity expert Mark Fox, personal coach and spiritual mentor Sandy Schussel, parenting consultant Vanessa Van Petten, psychiatrist Dr. LesliBeth Wish, and sustainability expert Roy Morrison. More information can be found at http://www.frenchpondroadoffer.com.

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Anthony Catlin
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Go to French Pond Road and find inspiration

Here's the offer that's launching tomorrow, July 31.

Sometimes an opportunity comes along that can change your life. This summer, author Anthony Catlin's book French Pond Road is just such an opportunity. Read this book and uncover the secrets of joy, parenting and simplicity that lie within.

And today only, when you buy French Pond Road, you will get a package of bonus gifts that will truly help you unlock your potential, overcome your fears, become better parents, friends, brothers and sisters and partners and learn how to transform our world from within.

So go here now and tap into your inspiration:

http://www.frenchpondroadoffer.com/index.html

Friends, this is a package not to be passed up. We all need inspiration, and especially in today's changing world, with all its trials and tribulations, this story of men and women overcoming the obstacles that block them from their passions in life will be a memorable read. Learn more about French Pond Road.

http://www.frenchpondroadoffer.com/index.html

Here's what reviewers are saying about French Pond Road.

"French Pond Road is a terrific road novel, populated with characters whose lives are hard, delusional and totally worth fighting for. Normal folk, in other words. Like the best road novels, French Pond Road is less about the journey than about the people who skid out on the turns…

Catlin is a moralist, in the same way that Tolstoy was a moralist. Like characters in the Russian master's novels, the cast of French Pond Road are serfs -- tied to the great land of America, North and South -- who toil and suffer in the belief that God is good, if distant, and that life's never-ending pains in the ass are redeemable by a simple awareness of one's own soul."

Philip Herter writes from New York.

This is summer magic. So take a trip this summer. To a place of hardship and inspiration. To a place like life itself. French Pond Road…

http://www.frenchpondroadoffer.com/index.html

And as if that was not enough, Anthony Catlin is joined today by nationally and world renowned experts in the fields of human potential and sustainability who are offering some of their most valuable ideas and expertise to help you.

Act now, and when you buy French Pond Road you will be able to receive a package of bonus gifts worth thousands of dollars that you can begin to apply immediately!

http://www.frenchpondroadoffer.com/index.html

Here are some of the partners of French Pond Road:

Mark L. Fox is a leading authority on teaching practical creative thinking techniques. Some of Mark's unique accomplishments include receiving NASA's highest recognition of "Launch Honoree" at the age of 23, and being the youngest person promoted to the position of Chief Engineer on the Space Shuttle program at the age of 31. Mark's interest in creative thinking dates back to the early days of his career when good, practical, creative thinking training simply couldn't be found. Over the years, Mark has developed a unique and practical creative thinking program that really works.

Vanessa Van Petten says: "As an author, entrepreneur and life trainer, I have dedicated my life to helping parents and teenagers mend their relationships. After witnessing many of my friends from high school and college ruin their lives with drugs and alcohol, I learned that most of their anger stemmed from poor relationships with their parents. I believe that by helping bridge the communication gap and providing safer activities for teens, generation Y will grow up to be happier and healthier adults."

Sandy Schussel was an unhappy attorney whose life almost ended at 41. Now he helps people who feel stuck, frustrated and burnt out find and capture their dreams. Sandy has helped hundreds of people figure out what they really want in their lives, develop a plan to go get it, and take action on that plan.

Dr. LesliBeth Wish is nationally recognized for her groundbreaking work with women's relationship, career and childhood abuse issues, as well as her work with soldiers and their families. She offers sound, research-based relationship advice that is unique, innovative and fun - and makes sense. Her areas of expertise include issues such as smart dating, women's relationship advice, divorce, career and workplace advice, happy family advice, post-traumatic stress, stress management, holiday stress, sexual dysfunction and leadership training.

Roy Morrison is a life-long activist, writer and poet working on sustainability issues and moving from an industrial to an ecological society. His previous books include We Build the Road as We Travel, and Ecological Democracy.

This offer expires at 12:00 pm EST Aug. 1, 2008.

Buy French Pond Road today and be on the road to changing your life.

http://www.frenchpondroadoffer.com/index.html

Thanks,

Hope Mountain Press
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Henniker, NH 03242

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Review of French Pond Road by Phillip Herter

They say the marketing is hard, but there is some reward for the effort. Check out this recent review of French Pond Road by St. Petersburg Times and Providence Journal reviewer Phillip Herter, who was kind enough to take a gander at it:

Living at the End of the Road

French Pond Road is a terrific road novel, populated with characters whose lives are hard, delusional and totally worth fighting for. Normal folk, in other words. Like the best road novels, French Pond Road is less about the journey than about the people who skid out on the turns.

Philip Herter writes from New York.

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Breaking It In

Used to be a writer wrote the book and retired to his own private bohemia. Now the process includes promotion which is what this blog is intended for, the public face of a noveslist's very green promotional efforts. I need to get over the shame and humiliation and remind myself of the path that led me to this point in my career. A painter can put out his canvas on any sidewalk and his works are seen. They exist in that interaction of seer and crafted vision, but a writer must be read in order to call it real. He must have a human being pick up the object and interact in that private, almost religious act of assimilating the written word in one's imaginative space.

Anyway, the book is almost ready; there have been glitches with the cover but soon it will be available in paperback on the Hope Mountain Press home page, see links, and through Amazon. Right now the ebook version is available through Kindle and on the www.hmpebooks page.

The journey is underway. In the meantime I tell myself that nothing has changed, my life carries on as before, the day job which is everyone's common pain, the joys of being a husband and father, and the separation that ensues as children grow up and assume their own places in the world. What do I write about? I've been thinking lately of cinema verite, how much I loved that aesthetic when I was into movies, and how it informs the kind of writing I do.

But here is some promotional stuff which is what this is about.
Billy Kagan, hero of Anthony Catlin's first novel, Birdman, has spent most of the previous decade living overseas after a separation from his wife and infant son. Now, returning to New England, he lives a life of seasonal employment, mainly outdoors, mainly alone. He finally has the feeling of achieving some stability and peace of mind. His isolation from the mainstream is self-induced and only broken by his dog, Casey, his workmates, and two women, Mandy Barnes, a hiker with a penchant for troubled men, and the Old Woman, a former physician stripped of her license and now living in the woods around French Pond.

Angela, a freelance journalist, has raised Mickey Kagan, her grandson. In Venezuela, Angela and Mickey live with a lay Catholic missionary, Theresa, in her home on the coastal range, a center for local women who are organizing to build a road to the capital. Cata, the daughter of a woman who has been murdered for her political organizing, befriends Mickey. Back in the USA, Mickey and Cata take to the highway on a Kawasaki 650 to find Mickey's long lost father on French Pond Road.

A story of redemption and spiritual survival against the odds, French Pond Road features Anthony Catlin's characteristic dead-on portrayals of people, young and old, living on hope and under the radar.

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Anthony Catlin lives in New Hampshire on 16 acres with three children and wife. He raises sheep, grows apples and vegetables, teaches, writes fiction and dabbles in activism of various stripes when he can. He has lived and worked in Seattle, NYC, Mexico, Venezuela, Ireland and England, not necessarily in that order, while working at various times as a cab driver, carpenter, reporter, shrimp fisherman, window washer, environmental activist, high school Spanish teacher, grant writer, fundraiser and farm hand, not necessarily in that order.
French Pond Road is the second book in a series tracing the circuitous life and times of Billy Kagan, survivalist extraordinaire.