Websites, Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds. Television, video games, texting. Does anyone still reads books? I’m about to find out—and perhaps face the biggest marketing challenge of my career.

Broadway Books will be publishing my novel, STASH, in July 2010. This is how they describe it in promotional material:

Set in an affluent suburb in upstate New York, STASH centers around the series of ever escalating problems that follow in the aftermath of a single wrong choice. After Gwen Raine, a wife and mom respected in her community, buys a small bag of marijuana from an old flame who runs a popular restaurant in town, she gets into an automobile accident that involves a fatality. The local police-eager to crack down on drugs in the town-throw the book at Gwen. At the same time, her husband, a pharmaceutical executive, is embroiled in a dilemma over his company’s marketing of a drug for off-label use. This rich and ambitious novel probes our society’s ambivalent and often hypocritical attitude toward all manner of mood-altering substances, legal or illegal. Paced by psychological suspense and multidimensional characters, STASH is ultimately about the conflicts that surface when one’s commitment to an accountable life collides head-on with human fallibility and desire.

Good summer read, right?

Who is Broadway Books? Get this: Broadway Books is an imprint of the Crowne Publishing Group, which is a division of Random House, which is a division of Bertelsmann AG. Lots of consolidation going on in publishing and media the past few years!