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$25 Giveaway Interview REAL SANTA by WILLIAM HAZELGROVE @Rocketman46

December 14, 2014 By Mary

$25 Giveaway Interview REAL SANTA by WILLIAM HAZELGROVE  @Rocketman46Real Santa by William Hazelgrove
Published by Koehler Books on 2014-10-01
Genres: Fiction, Holidays, Humorous
Pages: 235
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Real Santa by William Hazelgrove

George Kronenfeldt is an unemployed engineer with one shot to keep his daughters belief in Santa intact. When Megan tells him the only way she will believe in Santa is if she can videotape him and then tells her fourth grade class she will prove the existence of Santa Claus by posting her video to YouTube, George realizes he must become the Real Santa. He devises a plan to land nine reindeer on his roof and go down his chimmney, hiring a broken down movie director who eventually has him funding a full scale production that bankrupts him and and threatens his marriage. When George goes to find the Real Santa to help him, the line between what is real and magic is crossed. Real Santa is a funny heartwarming story of parenthood gone wrong and illuminates what lengths parents will go to keep their children happy.

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Praise for Real Santa

STARRED REVIEW BOOKLIST

“If somebody doesn’t make a movie out of this book, there’s something wrong with the world. This could have been played as an out-and-out slapstick comedy, but instead the author approaches the story like a character study: a portrait of a man with the best intentions in the world watching those intentions collide with reality. It’s a steamroller of a story, starting small, with George’s idea, and getting bigger and bigger as George tries to put the elements together, as his obsession takes him further and further away from reality. Beautifully done.”
~David Pitts Booklist
“The author marries the everyday dramas found in the novels of Tom Perrotta and Nick Hornby to the high camp of Carl Hiaasen or Dave Barry. Adults looking for a funny holiday-themed tale that doesn’t lose its sense of wonder in the face of realism will find a treat here. A lovingly crafted comedy about the madness that fatherhood inspires.”
~Kirkus Reviews
Best-selling author Hazelgrove (e.g., Ripples; Tobacco Sticks) captures the human need to believe in something good. This book will satisfy readers looking for a happy Christmas story.
~Library Journal
“Hazelgrove’s lively improbable narrative will appeal to the readers in the mood for holiday fiction.”
~Publishers Weekly

 

williamAuthor William Hazelgrove

William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of eight novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa and the forthcoming Jackpine and The Pitcher 2. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly,Kirkus and have been selected as Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Richmond Times Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, WGN. His most recent novel, The Pitcher is a Junior Library Guild Selection and was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors. net. His next book Jackpine will be out Spring 2014 with Koehler Books. A follow up novel Real Santa will be out fall of 2014.
He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.

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PLEASE WELCOME WILLIAM TO BOOKHOUNDS 

 

1.       What is on your nightstand?
 Roosevelt A Long Journey, Sylvia Plath The Belljar, Bukowski  Factotum,  Divergent
2.       What author would you totally fan girl?
 Tom Parrotta
3.       What makes you cringe?
  Authors who publish too early without learning their craft.
4.       Are you worried that your google history will get you into trouble?
 .No I don’t worry about my google history. There is nothing I have to be ashamed about.
5.       Do you obsessively plot out each point or just go with the flow?
 I go with the flow and let the story develop. I don’t keep an outline but a notebook where I sketch ideas as I go.

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. Patti L says

    December 15, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    Thank you for the offer. Sounds as though a lot of thought went into this book.

  2. Nancy Luebke says

    December 16, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    I didn’t put it on my wish list because I’ve already gotten it but haven’t had a chance to read it yet.

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