Mojo Snake Minuet has been published

[johnlitweiler]

My new novel "Mojo Snake Minuet" is now for sale. The web site goodbaitbooks.com is finally up, so you can buy it there. The publisher is Goodbait Books, an obscure but honest company.

To quote a blurb: "'Mojo Snake Minuet' takes place in an America where black people are the majority aalnd white people are the oppressed minority. The hero is Yakub Yakub, a typical music critic: tall, dark, handsome, beloved by lovely ladies, and a talented but unappreciated songwriter. The plot is a murder mystery with gangsters and crooked cops; legal cannabis and cocaine, illegal alcohol; a movement for white civil rights; an Orthodox Voodoo priest and priestess; beautiful divas Shakeaplenty and Honeypie who sing opera arias in inner city symphonic joints; a licensed, hardboiled private witch; griots who sing the news on TV; and much more arbitrariness.

"'Mojo Snake Minuet' blows the cover 'off the black-and-white race racket, the music racket, and the newspaper and politics and religion rackets, among other shameful rackets.'"

FWIW one reader has already accused the book of being satirical. Nevertheless, I hope it brings some readers some smiles.

[Jazzmoose]

Wow...I didn't even know you wrote fiction! I can't seem to find the website you mention, though.

[Chuck Nessa]

This works HERE.

[Larry Kart]

This is one crazy book, in the best sense of crazy. John takes our current "realities" of race and culture, holds them up to an oblique bright light, and whacks them like a diamond cutter. Perfect title, too.

[paul secor]

I look forward to reading it, John.

[Hoppy T. Frog]

Sounds like Ishmael Reed (not a dis).

[rpklich]

The hero certainly sounds like a music critic I know in Chicago. Howard something or another....

[johnlitweiler]

For the present it may be easiest to buy Mojo Snake Minuet at 57th Street Books or Seminary Co-op Books in Hyde Park or through http://semcoop.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp. The actual price is $15 -- my Goodbait web site is wrong. Hope to get that and the PayPal button corrected in a few days.

[johnlitweiler]

Now you can buy Mojo Snake Minuet with PayPal even though the non-working PayPal button is gone. Or go to Sandmeyer's Books, 714 South Dearborn, or to the Jazz Record Mart. Or I'll sell you a copy from here at Goodbait Books headquarters. And deface it for you if you wish (books defaced by the author increase in resale value).