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WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
Publishing Books with a Purpose
We founded E.M. Landsea Publishers because we love books, and we love the many things books are able to do for others. Books have inspired us, informed us, stimulated us and made us angry. Books have brought us to tears and to laughter, and both simultaneously. Books are amazing tools of learning, but they are so much more.
At E.M. Landsea our goal is to harness the magic of books by publishing on a wide variety of topics and in a wide variety of genres. Our key criteria for publishing? Is it a "good book?"
Maybe we should care more about sales potential, marketing considerations and the bottomline. And it's not that we don't consider such things. But we publish what we publish because we believe they offer something to the audience.
Just what that something is differs by the book.
Some of our titles are written to entertain, to offer a portrait of a life that the reader has not lived nor experienced.
Other titles deliver service to the reader, a set of insights that, we believe, we make their lives better lived than if they lacked that information.
So, in the simplest terms, we do what we do in a sincere effort to make our readers' lives better, richer, more fulfilled. You can certainly judge for yourself if we fulfill that mission, but every day of the week that is precisely what we try to do.
Only One Thing Stays the Same
$19.95
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Jack R. Nerad's just-published crime novel, another hard-boiled tale in the tradition of James M. Cain and Jim Thompson.
At an introductory price for a limited time.
In this noir crime novel Jack R. Nerad chronicles a blue-collar worker’s up-and-down love affairs with two modern Southern California women who continue to surprise, shock and ultimately confound him. Will he survive their love? Will they survive his? Or will an attempt to get away with murder leave the wrong person lying dead?
Dance in the Dark
$27.95
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Jason Griffiths is a former rock-n-roll drummer turned computer programmer who fears for his life…but he doesn’t know why. After living a quiet life for years, suddenly his girlfriend leaves him, he meets the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and within days he's wanted for the murder of a drug cartel enforcer -- a murder he didn't commit. The cops think he did it and so does the cartel. So he’s stuck between them with nowhere to turn. Now the only person who might be able to help him is the new woman in his life. But will his stunning new companion be an asset or an enemy? And can he escape the desperate situation he’s trapped in?
Closing Speed
$27.99
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Mario Andretti said, “It seems like I’ve known Ted West forever—our paths ran together for many years. He’s worked hard to earn the respect he gets and I’m sure the enthusiast world will now enjoy his fiction.”
Closing Speed is that book.
This intensely personal novel lays bare the 1970 war between Porsche’s 917 and Ferrari’s 512 immortalized in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans. It was the fastest, fiercest season of them all.
Closing Speed captures the competitive pride, blind aggression, and racing mortality of the drivers and the women who loved them.
The GR Factor
$22.99
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Personnel issues ... office politics ... Trouble at home…is it something you're doing? Or not doing?
Sure, you can do nothing and let your career take the course that it’s on now…or you can enlist the undeniable power of The GR Factor.
Inspiring all that is best in you, The GR Factor will guide your journey, elevate your game, recast your relationships ... and transform your daily life.
Yes, you can go on the way you have been.
But if you want to change the trajectory of your life forever, read The GR Factor.
Fatal Photographs
$13.99
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The definitive telling of one of the most shocking murders of the 1990s, the killing of swimsuit model Linda Sobek by a photographer who wanted to capture much more than her image on film. By special arrangement with the author, a limited number of original copies of the paperback published by Avon are now available.
The Seven Diddly Sins
$22.99
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The Marx Bros. meet Downton Abbey in ’80s SoCal. The Beautiful People duke it out with nefarious ne’er-do-wells but, yes ... everyone wins!
Trillionaire Duke Monty’s daughter, beautiful Proz, is bummed. So bummed. Well, then ... declare a party! The Beautiful People of SoCal 1984 are notified. The great estate is primed. It’s the Party of the Century! But what’s this ... raised voices ... spilled cocktails? A scream from Proz ... and gunfire in night fog! Among the party throngs, only her new Jersey hubby has a clue. Can doughty young Neddy save Proz’s bacon?!