Notice Of Publication- Eddie Kurtz, Kurtz Communications

Dec. 8, 2011 - PRLog -- PRESS RELEASE
DEC. 8, 2002

Eddie Kurtz, New Orleans Native, and Smashwords Publishing
Announce The Publication of Three Initial Novels:

SEX & GRAVITY
AUGUST IN NEW ORLEANS
MY CASANOVA

For a limited time, until March 15, 2002, an electronic version of all three books, normally priced at $3.99 per download, will be available to the public at a 50% discount ($2.00) through Smashwords@ http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Eddie+Kurtz

Readers who wish to purchase one of the books at the discount price should use the following codes at purchase to receive the discount.
Sex & Gravity- FB46F
August in New Orleans- AU58H
My Casanova- DU74U

One of the stories concerns events in New Orleans during the week of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and two of the stories use New Orleans as the setting for all or part of the story.

Sex & Gravity tells the story of Snooky Barnes, former one-hit-wonder New Orleans musician, and now family man and high school physics teacher, in a mid-life crisis that sends him careening off across the country in search of love, sex and a regaining of his lost musical mojo. On a wild, Kerouac-esque bolt to find what he thinks is the love of his life, he encounters a parade of wild, engrossing adventures, and zany and endearing characters that come into his life on his search for love. While he doesn't get the girl, he finally gets his career and mojo back, and learns unexpected life lessons, and surprise twists of fate that change his him forever.    

August in New Orleans is the story of a writer who returns home to New Orleans in 2005 amid success with a novel, LEVEES, based very loosely on her family and past life there. While home, she confronts the pains of a dysfunctional family, a history of dark, hidden events, and a sister with whom she has always had a painful, antagonistic, emotionally crippling relationship. The arrival of Hurricane Katrina changes all that, and puts everything at risk, including her life and those around her. As the city is destroyed by the hurricane, her family and life are almost destroyed also, but are pulled back from the abyss through bravery, love and eventual reconciliation.

My Casanova tells the story of a young, female history professor who, seeking a boost to both her personal and professional life, writes a biography and critique of Casanova, perhaps history's most famous male seducer, from a modern, liberated woman's view point. Complications and trouble ensues when Casanova comes back to her in various forms and permutations to argue his case, and influence her judgment of him and his morality, especially with regard to his relationship with women. Double trouble comes in the form of the handsome, dashing, sometimes womanizing publisher who takes a chance on her and her book, and gradually becomes the real, living Casanova in her life.

ABOUT SMASHWORDS
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Media Writing and Production Campany. Concentration at present is fiction writing and publishing. Past media experience is in television, documentary, and music programs as a producer and/or writer.