Debbie Galant is a novelist who writes about the "dark heart of suburbia" and runs, with two others, the New Jersey blog, The Barista of Bloomfield Avenue. She’s been a good friend and advisor to OTBKB since the beginning and she wants you to buy her book.

Yoga, Fear, and the Audacity of Hope

No, I’m not stumping on behalf of Barack Obama, but I am attempting to borrow some of his mojo. You see I have the audacity of hoping that you won’t just congratulate me on the publication of my second novel – FEAR AND YOGA IN NEW JERSEY – but that you’ll actually buy it.

Thanks ahead of time for your well wishes, but what I really need are sales. And here’s the part that’s going to make me sound like a pushy bitch from one of my novels: I’m asking you to buy my book this week. Why? Because if I can concentrate sales into a single week, I have a chance of making a bestseller list. I have a chance of breaking through the 172,000 other titles that get published in the United States each year. I can keep doing what I do best: satirizing the dark heart of suburbia.

I don’t know Oprah and I don’t know Stephen King, but I do know you. Maybe we went to school together. Maybe I helped you start a new business or taught you about blogging. Maybe you wrote to me after reading my first book, RATTLED, or I spoke to your book group, or came to your library.

Yes, I know. You’re only one person. But I have the audacity to hope that you’ll be my Oprah. Be part of the movement. Please buy FEAR AND YOGA IN NEW JERSEY today.  Go here for links to local and national booksellers. Read the first chapter here.