{"id":5054,"date":"2019-05-03T06:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2019-05-03T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:28:17","slug":"book-number-22-the-bonnie-and-clyde-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/book-number-22-the-bonnie-and-clyde-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Number 22: The Bonnie and Clyde Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>My\nlatest book, <em>The Bonnie and Clyde Files: How Two Senior Dogs Saved\na Middle Aged Man <\/em>is out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I invite you to support me and an independent Oregon publisher by purchasing direct from my web site, nestuccaspitpress.com  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below\nare some thoughts about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day, I picked up the print\nrun for the Bonnie and Clyde book from the printer in McMinnville.\nIt&#8217;s my 22<sup>nd<\/sup> published book since the first one came out\nin 2003 and my fourth with Oregon Litho Print, a family owned\nbusiness with deep Oregon roots. They were again incredible to work\nwith and I may have hit on something unique with the printing format\nof this book. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Bonnie and Clyde Files<\/em> is\nfar and away my most important book and I hope many of you reading\nthis will support me and my publishing company, Nestucca Spit Press,\nby purchasing a copy. I printed only 300 copies with the idea of\nselling those directly to readers and then trying to find a national\npublisher to bring out an edition that can reach a larger audience. I\nbelieve this book deserves one, but I&#8217;ll need some help to make that\nhappen. I will have to ask for it from writers, some prominent ones. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have absolutely no expectations I\nwill land a national publisher, or even a larger regional one. I\nsimply wrote the book as an act of survival when men and women were\ndying around me, an act of reinvention, and act of bearing witness to\nthe shocking and debasing things I witnessed first hand, an act of\nlove inspired by two senior dogs, Bonnie and Clyde. They rescued me\nfrom stasis and oblivion. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book comes with a bonus tale and a\nspecial bookmark that channels the magical spirit of my dearly\ndeparted husky, Sonny. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for supporting Nestucca Spit\nPress and our ethos of sustainable literature. We liken ourselves to\na farmer&#8217;s market. The product might cost a bit more, but it is made\nlocally, from the writing, to the production, to the distribution.\nAnd it tastes different, richer, unique. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest book, The Bonnie and Clyde Files: How Two Senior Dogs Saved a Middle Aged Man is out. 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