We are pleased and proud to announce Joshua Corin's wonderful Nuclear Winter Wonderland was awarded as one of the TEN TOP CRIME debuts from American Library Association's Booklist From Booklist: Nuclear Winter Wonderland. By Joshua Corin. 2008. Kunati, paper, $15.95 (9781601641601). After his twin sister is kidnapped by a strange man with plans involving a nuclear device, Adam Weiss joins forces with a former Mob enforcer and a Croatian female clown (who only speaks Spanish) to track down the maniac. This richly comic thriller is surreal without being silly and wonderfully playful in its use of language. Nuclear Winter Wonderland also scored a rare STARRED REVIEW from the same venerable trade magazine.

STARRED REVIEW FROM BOOKLIST in previous issue:

From Booklist
*Starred Review* Adam Weiss’ twin sister, Anna, is kidnapped by Ebbetts, an unpleasant and possibly cancer-ridden man who might have plans that involve a nuclear device. Desperately searching for Anna, Adam acquires a couple of sidekicks: Filbert, a man of small stature who used to do something brutal for the Mob, and Cherry Sundae, a Croatian female clown who only speaks Spanish. If that isn’t enough to make you dive right into the novel, consider this: it is remarkably polished and stylishly written (remarkably, because the author hasn’t been doing this for years: this is his first novel). It is richly comic, surreal without being silly—except where it intends to be silly—and playful in its use of language. Christopher Moore writes this way, and so does Robert Rankin, although it would be a serious mistake to assume that Corin is imitating them or anyone else in any way. If you can judge a writer’s future output based on his first novel, Corin is one of those writers who, years from now, other newcomers will be imitating. --David Pitt

Nuclear Winter Wonderland

A wild tale of nuclear terror, kidnapping, gangsters, and family values.

Joshua Corin

Soon to be a motion picture!

Trade Paper 6x9” | Pages 288 | Fiction/Thriller US$ 15.95 / CDN$ 16.95 | ISBN 9781601641601

College senior Adam Weiss wants to be home for the holidays, even if home is New Jersey. When a lunatic nuclear terrorist kidnaps his twin sister Anna from a highway rest stop, Adam’s plans take an abrupt twist. He soon meets up with two people willing to help him rescue his sister, a dyspeptic ex-mob thug and a Spanish-speaking female clown. Adam and his friends have just six days to save his sister—and the world—from a cancer-doomed maniac.

• “Beyond being hilarious and truly unpredictable, Nuclear Winter Wonderland engulfed me completely -- I was having such a great time and so involved in the story, I didn't realize until I finished the book just how attached I'd grown to these characters.  I knew I had to make this movie.” —Producer Kristy Hamer, SENTINEL Entertainment

About the Author — Joshua Corin

Joshua Corin, author and screenwriter, is a native of Rhode Island. He has a wide range of writing credits, including the screenplay Nuclear Winter Wonderland, soon to be a major motion picture based on his novel, and the screenplay for Windfall, first place winner in the Open Door Contest.