Since Murder At Hollywood High will not be "officially" going up for preorder (on the Kritzerland site, where all the books will be available - no more separate website for each book) until late next week, I thought I'd just give everyone here who cares a head start - because the first twenty-five people who order will definitely be getting something special with their orders. Books will ship upon my return or sooner (I may have someone deal with the shipping as soon as they arrive). The ONLY place to get a signed book is at Kritzerland or here - I will do only one signing this time and that's at my usual first signing place, Bookfellows, but that won't be until mid-November.
So, if you'd like to be one of the first to get it (I only sign the hardcovers), then you may preorder right this very minute - the hardcover is $24 (it's close to $28 elsewhere) plus $5 for Priority shipping, for a total of $29. Payment, as always, can be made to
kritzerland@adelphia.net. Here's a description of the book as it appears on the dust jacket flap:
Teenager Adriana Hofstetter is quite possibly one of a kind. She hates all things "now"-including MySpace, cell phones, and anything trendy-and she has no use for partying, getting wasted or being stupid. She dresses in clothes from her favorite decades-the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s-much to the derision of her fellow students at Hollywood High, who think she is a joke. She's on her way to becoming the star of her journalism class. Her teachers adore her, just as much as her fellow students abhor her. She has one loyal and true friend, Billy Feldman, who is as much of an outsider as she is. She has a mother who listens to Pink Floyd, Cream, and Isaac Hayes at ear splitting levels, a peculiar cat named Furball, and an ancient, ineffectual computer that crashes if she happens to glance in its direction.
Then, one day, someone from Hollywood High is found murdered. A suspect is arrested and charged. And Adriana Hofstetter finds herself forced to become a pint-sized amateur sleuth, who, in the guise of doing a story for the school newspaper, must put all her journalism lessons to use in order to solve a murder she knows the accused didn't commit.
Murder at Hollywood High is a very funny, suspenseful mystery, replete with colorful Los Angeles locales, disbelieving detectives, suspects lurking around every locker, and a fifteen-year-old heroine who is off-the-wall, endearing and not to be messed with.
