The Bleicher & Newton Newsletter #3
Long time, no newsletter
Dear Subscribers,
Shortly before starting this message, we realized that it has been over a year since our last one. If you’ve been pining for our snappy, affable prose, silently suffering the creative absence of Bleicher & Newton, we sincerely apologize. In fairness, we have been hard at work finishing the revisions for our new novel, The Carlyles (more on that below), and the lives of two obscure yet dedicated novelists simply aren’t so outwardly eventful as to require a more regular newsletter.
All that being said, we’ve briefly lifted up our heads from the morass of red ink and printer paper to share some recent updates:
The Carlyles - Available this September from Humorist Books!
That’s right. It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally (almost) ready to share with the world our latest effort, The Carlyles. We can hardly wait for you to read it, but in the meantime, here’s a short teaser of what’s in store:
New York Times reporter Harold Carlyle has been on a rocket ride of success. Since publishing an explosive book on the Trump administration’s collusion with Russia, he has become a fixture of primetime cable news. But he soon finds that fame has its challenges. His wife Pattie, a media critic turned NYU lecturer, has grown distant and increasingly paranoid from the scores of death threats her husband’s book has garnered, and his literary agent, a bewitching Eastern European who seems to know everyone, is pressuring him to compete with his paper’s star correspondent for White House gossip. As Harold tries to revive his marriage and secure a paperback run for his book, he and Pattie navigate politics, celebrity, espionage, sexual intrigue, elaborate falsehoods, questionable tech startups, I Love Lucy, Twitter feuds, New Age couples therapy techniques, and antique maritime tools in this satirical farce by the authors of From the Campaign Trail or Thereabouts.
Advance praise for The Carlyles
“[A] devastatingly funny book, a towering work of satire and a condemnation of the seedy Trump years and cable news [...] a tremendous and ambitious achievement of a novel.” - Brian Boone, Vulture
“[V]ery, very funny [...] insightful and sensitive [...] teeming with unique observations and beautiful prose.” - Gary Almeter, Kissing the Roadkill Back to Life
Stay on the lookout for the cover art unveiling!
Virtual Book Launch of Cash Grab, by Andy Spain - Hosted by Andy Newton
Last weekend, Andy (in his capacity as editor of Humorist Books) hosted the virtual book launch of Cash Grab, a funny and thoughtful new satire by debut author Andy Spain about the television industry and our relationship with work. Check out the event recording below. Cash Grab is now on sale on Amazon in paperback and Kindle ebook; soon to be everywhere.
Work in progress - The Carlyles - Official Soundtrack
As the lucky few subscribers to our free, nonexclusive newsletter, you get to be privy to all of our half-baked ideas, the latest of which being the official soundtrack for The Carlyles! Music is something of a motif in our forthcoming novel, and as such, we decided to make a soundtrack of featured and thematically inspired songs. We still have more to add, but eventually, it will be a part of our book club materials. Check out what we have so far below, and get hyped.