Nan Willard Cappo

From Nan Cappo, 11/​11/​11:

UNACCOUNTED FOR, my latest YA novel, has been published by the independent and incredibly industrious Tadmar Press. It is now available at Amazon (print and eBook), Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble (eBook only). The trade paperback is $14.95, the eBook is $3.99. If I do say so myself--and this is my newsletter, so I do--it's good. Holds the attention. Lots of plot.

It's a suspenseful mystery about 18-year old Milo Shoemaker, who's determined to discover the truth behind his father's mysterious death that is somehow connected to Wolverine Motors, one of Michigan's few thriving vehicle manufacturers.

For the last five years my fiction-writing has taken second place to my day job, selling textbooks and curriculum materials to K-12 schools--a great job, but very time-consuming. My territory was 12 counties around Detroit. It was while driving from school to school that I got the idea for Unaccounted For. Because I love the rural look and feel of the roads down in Lenawee and Monroe and Washtenaw counties, that's where the book takes place. If I were more calculating I'd have set it in Detroit or Ann Arbor, since more book buyers live there. But my characters aren't big-city types. They aren't hicks--they use the Internet--but they live in a little town where people know each other. Where murder is rare. And where their author could look out the car window and see the setting she would go home and describe.

My first book, CHEATING LESSONS, got good reviews and sold a fair number of copies. But UNACCOUNTED FOR is a harder-to-categorize title: not obviously YA, being zombie-free, plus it's a realistic contemporary story with a corporate financial scam in the plot. (But there IS violence and some sex!) So even though my agent loved it, I decided to publish it via a small independent press. Tadmar Press has the imagination and commitment to get UNACCOUNTED FOR in front of readers who might miss it otherwise.

This is the first of not very many newsletters--maybe two a year? An occasional blog on this site? So don't worry that I'll clog your email with long notes. But if you'd like to know when the audiobook is ready, or when my next book is out, then subscribe by adding your email address. And feel free to send comments, suggestions, rants (well, not rants) about my books, independent publishers, YA vs. adult genres, or any other writing matters. Writing is my favorite topic, and I'll reply.

Best,
Nan
www.nancappo.com

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