Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner SMD for getting a free copy of Gents by Warwick Collins.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Point Dume by Katie Arnoldi. Set in Malibu, Point Dume is cast with a fascinating crew of characters – among them, the thirty-something surf goddess Ellis, Pedro the weed poacher who deals out of his camper, over-privileged Frank who takes pride in his mansion and vineyard, and the illegal immigrant Felix who makes the dangerous journey from Mexico to work at a cartel-run pot farm in Southern California. The fictional narrative in Point Dume is firmly rooted in pertinent issues that are all too real today. Arnoldi writes with authority, informed by her own extensive and revelatory research including many hikes into active cartel-run marijuana grow-sites with the U.S. Park Police. With experience and expertise, she takes on the death of surf culture, human trafficking, drug cartels, and the environmental devastation caused by illegal pot farms on public lands. She addresses the transformation of a once blue-collar suburb into a billionaire’s playground with secret large-scale marijuana farms right in their backyards.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by The Overlook Press. The Overlook Press is an independent general-interest publisher, founded in 1971. The publishing program consists of nearly 100 new books per year, evenly divided between hardcovers and trade paperbacks. The list is eclectic, but areas of strength include interesting fiction, history, biography, drama, and design.
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, April 2 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner CLIFTON. Try your luck again with Robert Coover’s Noir in the new Free Book Friday.
