GW English News: A Hello from Dr. Matt Fullerty

GW English News: A Hello from Dr. Matt Fullerty

Parkgate Prize for Fiction 2012 now open! $2000 prize and book contract!

Parkgate Prize for Fiction 2012 now open! $2000 and book contract! Short Story, Long Story and Novel Opening categories. Please click Parkgate Press for Fiction 2012 for submissions guidelines. Good luck!

Chess novel The Knight of New Orleans now in paperback with 15% off!

1837. Paul Morphy was born into a wealthy Creole family in the French Quarter of New Orleans and became infamous for his fast and positional chess game. At twenty-one he was knighted world champion after defeating the great European masters-the English and Germans-in New York at the First American Chess Congress. In a short-lived blaze of glory, he defeated opponents in an atmosphere that encouraged gambling, drinking and often led to duels for honor. Soon no one dared play the boy from New Orleans-he even offered Pawn and Move to the world!

As a young gentleman, Paul embarked on a Grand Tour of Paris and London with his manager-servant, Fred Edge. Part proud spectacle and part reluctant circus act, Paul performed feats of memory and blindfold chess, making records that stand today. He even played Emperor Napoleon III (at croquet and chess) and was praised by Queen Victoria. He returned to New Orleans lionized by high society, but misunderstood....

Morphy was in love with the lights down on Basin Street. Returning home, he developed an obsession for 'crib-girl' Clara Young, a professional working girl from an area off Basin Street known as 'The Swamp.' Clara needed money and excitement. Living in a dangerous world of brothels and barrelhouses, is she just playing with Paul for her ticket out? Who is the social misfit, the chess boy or the trick girl? Who is playing whom?

Based on a true story, The Knight of New Orleans shows you all the honest and brutal moves in a gamble of love and survival. Let the best player win!

Paul Morphy is today remembered as the pride and sorrow of chess. After conquering the chess world so young, he became a recluse, a failed lawyer and sanitarium patient, a dark twist on the American Dream. Paul was a strict amateur playing for honor, Clara a professional working for survival. Was Clara's world too different from Paul's, his background too bourgeois, hers too dangerous? Or will love triumph even when the pieces are checkmate? The Mississippi and the Vieux Carré are calling....

Let the games begin!

Title and ISBN	Book Website	Author Website	Publication Date	Buy now!
K 9781937056001 The Knight of New Orleans: The Pride and the Sorrow of Paul Morphy (UK hardcover)	The Knight of New Orleans (Homepage)	Matt Fullerty (Website)	28 September 2011 (Parkgate Originals)
K 9781937056025 The Knight of New Orleans: The Pride and the Sorrow of Paul Morphy (US hardcover)	The Knight of New Orleans (Homepage)	Matt Fullerty (Website)	28 September 2011 (Parkgate Originals)
K 9781937056018 The Knight of New Orleans: The Pride and the Sorrow of Paul Morphy (UK paperback)	The Knight of New Orleans (Homepage)	Matt Fullerty (Website)	1 December 2011 (Dionysus Books)
K 9781937056001 The Knight of New Orleans: The Pride and the Sorrow of Paul Morphy (UK hardcover)	The Knight of New Orleans (Homepage)	Matt Fullerty (Website)	28 September 2011 (Parkgate Originals)

Huffington Post: New Planet Is Right Out Of 'Star Wars'

 

		New Planet Is Right Out Of 'Star Wars'
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Charles Dickens Statue Planned For Bicentenary

 

		Charles Dickens Statue Planned For Bicentenary
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Is This The End For Books?

 

		Is This The End For Books?
	In 1996, the US computer entrepreneur Brewster Kahle set up the Internet Archive, its mission being to provide "universal access to all knowledge". This admirable...

 

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