We are delighted. It was just announced. “Rabbit in the Moon” by Deborah and Joel Shlian has been named an Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction & Literature: Thriller/Adventure category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News
We had our book launch on Thursday, May 29th at the Borders Bookstore in Boca Raton. As you see from the crowd, it was standing room only! We spoke about how we started writing novels and how we write together. Since the setting for Rabbit in the Moon is the seven weeks in 1989 from the rise of the democracy movement on April 15th to its fall with the Tiananmen massacre, we talked about those events and showed pictures Joel had taken during our travels in the 1980’s.
StoryCasting.com is a new website (not ours) where fiction readers have the chance to cast their own choices for the characters in the books that they read. Select a book (hopefully our books: “Rabbit in the Moon”, “Double Illusion” and “Wednesday’s Child”), select a role or character and cast your favorite actor or actress. You can also share your cast with others and comment on their casts or discuss the books at the book’s home page (on storycasting.com).
We started with “Rabbit in the Moon” and suggested the beautiful Elizabeth Tsing for the part of Dr. Lili Quan (see her picture below). If after reading our book, you feel the same, add your comments. Or let us know who you’d see in that role as well as the other roles.
Membership is free and anyone can join. Take a look and see what you think.
Thanks to all our fans. We plan to donate all our royalties for the sale of our latest novel, “Rabbit in the Moon”, to a not-for-profit medical charity called Remote Area Medicine.
Please check out the link to the 60 Minutes segment about the organization.