Member: RayInNewOrleans

Hi

Just a quick note to let you know that my new novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available. Thought you might be interested since you're from NOLA. I was born and raised in New Orleans, and the novel is actually set there. Here's a summary in case you're interested:

Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.

If you'd like to read the first chapter, you can read it here:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...

Take care,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 7:23 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009

boo to you too

posted by tmcharlotte at 12:29 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2008

Hi Ray in NO, this is nautilus_library, and i noticed you joined Crescent City Connection (which i started a few months ago under my earlier LT identity SmellTheCoffee). Actually i havent spent much time at the group's page lately -- other stuff intruding, but i started the group because i could find no other on LT with this focus.

Judging from your photo you are hard at work trying to make things better!

I'm hoping to be in NO in early July.

posted by nautilus_library at 4:29 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2007