Released on: October 24, 2008, 12:13 am

Press Release Author: Jim Turner

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Novelist william elliott hazelgrove goes back to his roots
for important book

Press Release Body: Chicago, IL, October 24, 2008 -- Most writers start with a small
press and then move on to a larger one. William Elliott Hazelgrove is no exception.
The Chicago writer had started with Pantonne Press, a small literary publisher in
Chicago. The press brought out his first novel, Ripples, that was compared to A
Cather In The Rye by United Press International, but that didnt' bring the expected
bounce writers need to move on to greener pastures. His second book, Tobacco Sticks,
did the trick.

After a starred review in Publishers Weekly, the novelist was launched into a
paperback auction that put him with Bantam now owned by Random House. There,
Hazelgrove brought out his third novel, Mica Highways and seemed on his way. But
then a funny thing happened. He came back to the press that gave him his start.
"Well, Bantam really didn't want the books I had to offer," the author said from his
studio in Ernest Hemingways attic, http://www.billhazelgrove.com. "They wanted me to
write more Southern novels, but I had moved on and come up with this book that I
thought was important for the times now." Rocket Man is the novel Hazelgrove felt
had to be published. Already, the online community is raving about this book due out
in December about the demise of the American Dream, a satire about a man losing his
home in the suburbs. "William Elliott Hazegrove's ROCKET MAN is a brilliant piece of
writing, a work that meticulously dissects contemporary life in America with such a
keen eye that the author is able to catch at least passing glances at us all." So
says, Grady Harp, Amazon's sixth ranked reviewer.
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0615213073/re...

But publishing with a small literary press is a lot different than being with the
largest publisher in the world. "Well, the money is a lot different," the novelist
laughs. "But, yeah, you have to do everything yourself," Hazelgrove shrugs, leaning
back in the old chair he writes from. "At Bantam, they pretty much took the book and
then you waited for things to happen. Not the way it is with a small press. You want
something to happen, then you have to make it happen." The forty eight year old
author smiled. "It's the way I began...so I guess everything's a cycle in the end."
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