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Bent Nails, Twisted Minds: Life Lessons in Wood Frame Construction
by Scott C. Davis
350 pages in ms (87,500 words)
First person narrative; narrated in past tense.
Based on the author's experience as a carpenter and building contractor from 1973-1998, focusing on the years 1973-1979..Author's statement: "As a young man, two years out of college, I discovered the trade of building construction--on the face of it a strange interest for an Honors grad from Stanford. In this book I describe my transition into economic self-sufficiency, my coming of age.
And my guides in this passage? I introduce Otto, the blues-singing union carpenter from Oakland; Chester the visionary/mental hospital escapee/inebriated insulation man from Alaska; Chuck, the rockclimber from Riverside with a knack for finding millionaire playboy clients; Alex the Lithuanian expatriate/artist/architect/megalomaniac. I tell of: remodeling Seattle's tallest whorehouse in the fog at midnight; my close escape remodeling the closet of a Yemeni Princess in her CIA safehouse; the abduction of my brother in Berkeley in a Chicano demolition scam gone wrong; the maneuvering of Greek restaurateurs in my restoration of an 1880s office building on Capitol Hill in the District of Columbia; my discovery of a secret room under the stairs in a hippie commune in the Oakland Hills."
Technical condition of ms: Author has completed a 250 ms page draft and is half way through a revision. He has published several related stories in Lost Arrow and Other True Stories and in the Christian Science Monitor. Lost Arrow is available from Cune Press. Click on "Bookshop" above.
Author's willingness to promote: "Yes"
Previous critical success: The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community (Kentucky, 1987) won the Washington State Governor's Award, was featured on All Things Considered, praised by the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal, was reviewed by a dozen urban dailies, and was accorded large feature articles by the Richmond News Leader and the Seattle Times.
Sales History of Previous Book: Patience sold 2,300 in hardcover plus 1,700 as a book club main selection.Chapters
(Chapter descriptions available to book editors.Email us: Cune@cunepress.com)
Writing Sample
(Excerpted from Lost Arrow and Other True Stories. "Baby Job" originally appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.)
Click HereAuthor's Bio
Scott C. Davis supports himself as a building contractor in Seattle. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications.
Davis' first two books The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community (Kentucky) and Lost Arrow and Other True Stories (Cune) won the Washington State Governor's Award and the King County Arts Commission Special Projects Award respectively.
Davis is the founder of Cune Press and the editor of An Ear to the Ground: Presenting Writers from 2 Coasts.
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English from the Roots Up is a Cune Press bestseller. (Published by Joegil Lundquist of Literacy Unlimited who sells an astounding 20,000 per year out of her garage.) It lists 100 common Greek and Latin root words and shows how they are used to build words in English. The key to understanding most long English words. Widely used in home schooling and to prep for SATs, this book is also an effective tool for writers who want to sharpen their command of English.For more info click on the "Bookshop" button above.
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