ShatterColors
Press is a new press on the block,
with two titles available now
and the third due in June, 2011.
Coming
in June, 2011:
Paperback,
6 x 9, 348 pages, $15.95.
ISBN 978-0-9821710-5-9
Advance
Testimonials
for Attraction and Repulsion:
“Love
can't fully bloom while obstacles stand in its way. Attraction
and Repulsion tells the story of a pair of lovers in Paris,
as they pursue love and the forces that keep them apart try even
harder. A story of love in spite of all those who would end it,
Robert Scott Leyse constructs a gripping story that will be hard
to put down.”
—Midwest
Book Review (in "Small
Press Bookwatch, April 2011")
“Here
in the span of a few tumultuous days, in the heart of Paris, being
the only theater that could stage this resplendent play on sudden
love, we find a
dreamed love that becomes real with quick edges, a purported ménage
à trois that is not a threesome, a plotted death that is
not murder, where death’s sanctuary becomes a playground,
and where actors become characters and characters become actors.”
—Tom
Sheehan, author of Epic Cures
and Brief Cases, Short Spans
“Ah,
to be a young man in Paris with two lovely, liberated ladies in
a very contemporary ménage à trois
and with a colorful crew of international misfits for friends—picnicking
gourmet-style in Montsouris Park, sneaking into Père Lachaise
cemetery after dark to cavort amid a thunder storm, partying all
night in the City of Light, delighting under the playful spell
of Eros—all of it good fun until true love
and jealousy intrude, and their lives take a serious turn. Robert
Scott Leyse gives us a Parisian romantic comedy with a well-earned
happy ending and repartee as sparkling as the champagne. À
votre santé!”
—William
T. Hathaway, Rinehart Award winning author of Summer Snow
and Radical Peace
“Add
a love triangle and a love-hate triangle together in Paris, mix
in some festive adventures and crackling dialogue, and Attraction
and Repulsion is the entertaining result. Page-turning fun,
love, duress, and triumph: true happiness doesn't come cheap in
life, or in this novel.”
—George
Fosty, ESPN featured author of Black Ice and
Splendid is the Sun
Available
now:
SELF-MURDER
by
Robert Scott Leyse
A
dark love story of obsessive fixation,
perceptual disorientation, insomnia, and psychic
seizures—with madness waiting in the wings.
Hardcover,
6 x 9, 224 pages, $26.95.
ISBN 978-0-9821710-2-8
Paperback,
6 x 9, 224 pages, $13.95.
ISBN 978-0-9821710-4-2
KINDLE,
$0.99
ISBN
978-0-9821710-3-5
Praise
for Self-Murder:
“No
sleep, no rest for the mind just makes the descent all the more
quick. Self-Murder is the tale of a man who falls deeper
and deeper into a haze of confusion, as his insomnia deprives
him of sleep and he finds his only comfort in the excesses of
life. As he pursues love, the strength of that emotion only spins
his life out even more, and as he loses control of reality, he
may do things he regrets. Self-Murder is a fascinating
and excellent psychological thriller readers won't be able to
put down.”
—Midwest
Book Review (in "Small
Press Bookwatch, February 2010"
"Robert
Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of
Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also
reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty
of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't
that."
—Kris
Saknussemm, author of Zanesville and
Private Midnight
“A
phantasmagoria of unbridled lust, sexual obsession, and stealth
madness, Robert Scott Leyse’s Self-Murder is a
dazzling indictment of desire that brims with sensory imagery
and moments of exquisite verbal beauty delivered by a narrative
voice that is baroque but disturbing and more than a little reminiscent
of Edgar Allan Poe.”
—Gary
Earl Ross, author of Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American
Spirit and the Edgar Award-winning drama Matter of Intent
“After
his first novel, Liaisons For Laughs, which took Sex
and the City to new heights and depths, Robert Scott Leyse's
second one, Self-Murder, explores broader, deeper, and
darker territories. Leyse achieves a striking stylistic gallimaufrey:
Proustian memories underpinning thoughts, words, and deeds; obsession
treated in a way which evokes Lolita without those irritating
Nabokovian curlicues; romps that Henry Miller would have enjoyed;
a finale that delivers a blow to the solar plexus.”
—Barry
Baldwin, Emeritus Professor of Classics, U. of Calgary, Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada
“Self-Murder
is lush sensuality of language injected with menace. A vivid portrait
of mental disintegration and an explosive picture-show. Hallucinations
without substance-abuse. Overwrought nerves and insomnia are Self-Murder’s
drugs of choice.”
—George
Fosty, ESPN featured author of Black Ice and Splendid
is the Sun
“Here
is a psychological struggle and sensual breakout where you best
get a comfortable seat, grab the joy stick, and hang on. This
is a delicious look at the mystery of self-psychoanalysis, sensual
release, acceptance of gifts of the tallest order, or the lowest.
For those with wander-lust, and all the taste, touch and aroma
imaginable in-between, Self-Murder is a journey to gorge
the senses where the reader gets relished time and time again,
as the protagonist chases himself through discovery of the basics
that make the world go round.”
—Tom
Sheehan, author of Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short
Spans
Available
now:
Liaisons
for Laughs:
Angie & Ella's Summer of Delirium
by
Robert Scott Leyse
For
excerpts and a list of Angie & Ella's adventures
please visit: Robert
Scott Leyse Online
Paperback,
6 x 9, 332 pages, $15.95.
ISBN 978-0-9821710-0-4
eBook, $6.95, ISBN 978-0-9821710-1-1
Praise
for Liaisons
for Laughs:
"Some
friendships are bonds that can't be broken. 'Liaisons for Laughs:
Angie & Ella's Summer of Delirium' tells the story of two
best friends in a frank and entertaining method. A hilarious and
endlessly entertaining collection of stories about the little
things of life, 'Liaisons for Laughs' never stops its assault
on the funny bone. A fine and entertaining novel, 'Liaisons for
Laughs' is a choice pick for fiction readers."
—Midwest
Book Review (in "Small
Press Bookwatch"; 5 stars on Amazon)
"...we
absolutely love Robert Scott Leyse’s Liaisons for Laughs:
Angie & Ella's Summer of Delirium. His first book release
is fun, steamy, and intelligent."
—
Ian and Alicia Denchasy, LA Weekly
“Fun
and eroticism don’t go together nearly often enough. They
do in Leyse tit for tat. This is clever, humane, word-sensual
writing.”
—
Kris Saknussemm, author of Zanesville and
Private Midnight
“You
can feel the humidity in your own backyard as Angie and Ella soak
up the summer in New York with various paramours with their super
sexy, sex-positive attitudes..”
—
Susan DiPlacido, author of 24/7 and House Money
“The
erotic e-mails of these two libidinous heroines recount their
escapades with wicked charm and droll humor..”
—
William T. Hathaway, Reinhart Award winning author of A World
Of Hurt and Summer Snow
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