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NEW RELEASE - JOSHUA'S COUNTRY

11/15/2017

RELEASE DATE: 19 November, 2017

Coming this Sunday is the release of our first book outside of the CRIS DE NIRO universe. JOSHUA'S COUNTRY is a modern War Western that answers the question, "What happens when an Islamic terrorist's hate for America faces an old cowboy's love for his grandson?"

Yet, JOSHUA'S COUNTRY became less a war story or terrorist tale than a story of a man's disillusionment with his country and dysfunctional relationship with his family. Joshua is a prideful man that paid a painful price for that pride.

In the end, JOSHUA'S COUNTRY is a story of second chances ... and of the power of love in a family. when the family is united.

"The strength of a family, like the strength of an army is in its loyalty to each other."-- Mario Puzo

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Gerard de Marigny is an American novelist, producer, and scriptwriter, starting with the publication of his 2011 thriller, The Watchman of Ephraim (2014), now in development. New books scheduled for release in 2017 are New Detroit (Cris De Niro, Book 6), the novella Joshua's Country, and the novella White Widow (ARCHANGEL, Mission Log #3).

Born in Brooklyn to an owner of an office supply manufacturer who served in the U.S. Marines in both WWII and Korea, and his wife, on June 28, 1963, de Marigny attended St. Francis Preparatory School, a Catholic private high school. He did not complete his senior year, leaving high school to help form the rock band, Americade. Americade went on to record two albums from 1981-1984, and their remake of Grand Funk Railroad's, "We're An American Band" video won "Best New Video - Heavy Metal" in 1983 on MTV.

After the original lineup broke up in '84, de Marigny went on to write, record, and produce music for other artists and for TV. However, his music career ended abruptly in 1996, when he was diagnosed with a recently-discovered sub-type of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma cancer. Unable to find work in the music industry after his diagnoses, surgery, and treatment, de Marigny finally earned his G.E.D. in 2006, and then attended Penn State University where he earned a degree in Information Science and Technology, graduating with honors in 2009.

In 2007, de Marigny began working in the financial services industry. By that time, he had started to pen a number of short works of fiction, initially in the Christian Speculative fiction sub-genre. None of them were published. In 2010, at the urging of his wife, de Marigny decided to resign from the firm to focus solely on his writing. It was at this time that de Marigny, who had been shopping the Christian Spec fiction manuscript, opted to shelve that manuscript and start work on an idea he had since he and his wife lost one of their dear friends, Daniel Afflitto, in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11. That idea became his first novel, The Watchman of Ephraim.

de Marigny shopped _TWoE_ and received 74 rejections before choosing to release the novel himself, independently. He founded JarRyJorNo Publishing in January 2011, and released TWoE on January 21, 2011. Sales were slow going in the beginning, with TWoE selling only 47 copies between January 21 and September 10, 2011. However, de Marigny woke up on September 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, to find that his novel had hit Amazon best seller lists in eight countries (US, UK, CA, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, and Australia).

The book's 9/11 basis resonated with espionage sub-genre fiction readers globally. It was considered to be extensively researched, very detailed and savvy when it came to the set-ups of a non-governmental counter-terrorism firm and modern geopolitics. By 2014, de Marigny had written four Cris De Niro novels and had introduced a spin-off Archangel novella series with two releases, focusing on The Watchman Agency's paramilitary arm, Archangel.

Outside of his fiction, de Marigny also began work on two rock memoirs, in 2014, when he was contacted by renowned producer Michael Greenburg (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis). Greenburg loved the novel and immediately identified the potential to turn de Marigny's Cris De Niro series into a Cris De Niro feature film franchise. He offered de Marigny the opportunity to co-write the script adaptation of TWoE and to become a co-producer. de Marigny has set aside his novel writing while he and Greenburg are completing work on the script adaptation of The Watchman of Ephraim.

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