Riders of the Mapinguari Launch Party

Today is the publication date for Riders of the Mapinguari, by Gaddy Bergmann.

To celebrate, we are throwing a virtual launch party. We are on Twitter giving books away and tweeting news about the book (using the hashtag #FeralWorld). We will be posting press releases and author interviews here on Gather (ReadWriteRoylaty.gather.com). We will be offering discounts all through the day at our website (FlyingPenPress.com). And we are having fun fun fun.

Here is the book information sheet:

Riders of the Mapinguari.
The third novel of The Feral World series.
By Gaddy Bergmann.
Published by Flying Pen Press LLC, June 2009, under the imprint Flying Pen Press Fiction

312 pages, map, glossary, bibliography, author notes.
ISBN: 978-0-9795889-5-2. Trade paperback. Cover Price: $16.95.
LCCN: 2009928660

5.5" x 8.5" x 0.653", 0.88 lb.
Flying Pen Press catalog number FIC-L-01002

Annotation:

Riders of the Mapinguariby Gaddy Bergmann is the final novel in The Feral World trilogy, a post-apocalyptic odyssey set 3,000 years in the future. Humanity has barely survived a near-extinction-level event – the collision of a major asteroid with Earth in the middle of the Twenty-First Century.

Riders of the Mapinguaritakes The Feral World in a radically new direction. Blake and his friends have traveled through the Great Plains and are living peacefully in the Warmland, when they are attacked by an enemy quite unlike any they have ever faced before: the Terran army. Poised to conquer the Warmland, the Terrans not only greatly outnumber the natives, but they also have hundreds of mapinguari – giant beasts that can overpower anyone who would oppose them. Blake and his people must face them, though, if they hope to save not only themselves, but the entire Warmland.

The Feral Worldtrilogy is unique in offering an optimistic view of post-apocalyptic society, which has come to consist of local tribes that depend on hunting and gathering. Gaddy Bergmann (Denver) is an ecologist and zoologist, and he carefully crafted a world where the biosphere develops naturally in the absence of humanity’s misguided management of the planet.

Biography:

Gaddy Bergmann is a naturalist and scientist. He has performed research in both ecology and microbiology. He has also worked in education, teaching elementary, secondary, and university students in the subjects of math, science, and composition. An admirer of animals and wildlife since childhood, he was inspired to write The Feral World books by the beauty of the natural wonders he saw all around him.

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Riders of the Mapinguari is avialable where great books are sold. It won't be on Amazon for a few days yet, is it has just come out.

Booksellers, this title is listed as "Returnable," and standard trade discounts apply. This book is available fro FLying Pen PRess directly (send book orders to BookOrders@FlyingPenPress.com), and Ingram.

We are having special sales pricing today; the coupon code to use at our website is being tweeted from titme to time on Twitter. Booksellers, all day on June 17, 2009 (today) you can buy any book in the Feral World series (Migration of the Kamishi, Trials of the Warmland and Riders of the Mapinguari) at a 55% retail discount if you order directly from us. This offer expires at 9pm Mountain Time tonight.

You can find my Tweets at my Twitter account, @DavidRozansky.