Title: Royal Flush
Synopsis: Royal Flush asks the
question, can a man who throws his dates in a dungeon succeed romantically? A
recipient of the H. R. (Bill) Percy Prize, Royal Flush is a novel about a man
known only as the King, and as his Kingdom careens toward catastrophe, he
cruises seedy taverns looking for likely maidens. He is particularly bad at
this. His incompetence and his weakness for beautiful women drag him deeper and
deeper into trouble. He is portrayed as a cross dresser by the Kingdom Crier,
the Kingdom's most popular tabloid. Shortly after, he must defend his castle
against a siege with only his royal fiddler--while attempting to steal his
royal fiddler's girlfriend.
Praise: “Very funny…the satire and parody work on a
number of levels. The language is often vivid and evocative and the dialogue in
particular is very strong…a fine book [that] fires on all cylinders.” — Ed
Kavanagh, author, The Confessions of Nipper Mooney
“I stepped into this other world with ease, then started
smiling.” — Victoria Twead, author, Chickens, Mules & Two Old Fools
“Witty, humorous, fun!” — Marija F. Sullivan, author,
Sarajevo Walls of Fate
Publisher: Published December 1st 2011 by Mirth
Publishing
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 206
ISBN: 9780981286709
Author Biography: Scott Bartlett has been writing fiction since he was fifteen.
Since then, he's written three novels and several short stories. His second
novel, Royal Flush, won the H. R (Bill) Percy Prize, and his third novel,
Taking Stock, received the Lawrence Jackson Writers' Award and the Percy Janes
First Novel Award.
Scott also maintains a blog about
environmental issues. In April, he won the Rio+20 Big Blog Off, and as a result
traveled to Rio de Janeiro to blog at World Environment Day for the United
Nations Environment Programme and TreeHugger.com.
Other Review: Best Book Reviews, Interview with Scott
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