Bob Stevenson

Co-op available Significant bound galley printing for media and booksellers. eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss. Additional bound galley giveaways possible at the American Library Association Annual conference and through the PNBA New Title Preview program National print, public radio, and online media outreach Author statement available in sales kits and press material Tour: Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; Boston, MA; Las Vegas, NV (including appearance at the Vegas Valley Book Festival); New York, NY; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Tacoma, WA Additional promotion/author appearances possible at PNBA and MPIBA regional bookseller shows Reading group guide development and book club outreach Simultaneous eBook publication and promotion Postcards available Early reviewer promotions through Goodreads and LibraryThing Blurbs forthcoming from Geraldine Brooks, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Caryl Phillips Promotion through author’s website (www.richardwileyauthor.com) and BLP’s social media networks and website (www.blpress.org) Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light

A psychiatrist falls for a charismatic patient and must unravel the mystery of his identity"A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale." --Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost Child Dr. Ruby Okada meets a charming man with a Scottish accent in the elevator of her psychiatric hospital. Unaware that he is an escaping patient, she falls under his spell, and her life and his are changed forever by the time they get to the street. Who is the mysterious man? Is he Archie B. Billingsly, suffering from dissociative identity disorder and subject to brilliant flights of fancy and bizarre, violent fits? Or is he the reincarnation of Robert Louis Stevenson, back to haunt New York as Long John Silver and Mr. Edward Hyde? Her career compromised, Ruby soon learns that her future and that of her unborn child depend on finding the key to his identity. With compelling psychological descriptions and terrifying, ineffable transformations, Bob Stevenson is an ingenious tale featuring a quirky cast of characters drawn together by mutual fascination, need, and finally, love. Richard Wiley is the author of eight novels including Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and Ahmed's Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. Professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Tacoma, Washington.