Category: Latest News from Exposit Books

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NEWLY PUBLISHED: Out for Queer Blood

New on our bookshelf today:

Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
Clayton Delery

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault. They chose Fernando Rios, who died from the beating he received. In perhaps the earliest example of the “gay panic” defense, the three defendants argued that they had no choice but to beat Rios because he had made an “improper advance.” When the jury acquitted the three, the courtroom cheered. The author offers a detailed examination of the murder and the trial.

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NEWLY PUBLISHED: Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy

New on our bookshelf today:

Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy: Healing from the Past, Embracing the Present, Creating an Ideal Future
Philip G. Zimbardo and Rosemary K.M. Sword

In his 2012 book Time Cure, psychologist Philip Zimbardo introduced a groundbreaking therapeutic approach for PTSD sufferers, co-developed with Rosemary Sword. “Time Perspective Therapy” shifts mental focus from the past to the present, and from negative to positive events, helping anyone achieve a more balanced view of life. Featuring real-life stories, this book describes how TPT helps people living with depression, anxiety or stress to move beyond past negative experiences—from toxic relationships to bullying—toward a more positive future.

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FORTHCOMING: Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios

Clayton Delery’s Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice is on its way to the printer.  Sarah Schulman, award-winning writer and gays rights activist, called it “a riveting and important work of grassroots LGBT history that reveals the connections and fissures between homophobia and anti–Latino prejudices in U.S. history.”   Schulman added that “Delery unmasks the origins of one of the most sinister legal and cultural foundations of anti-gay oppression: the false accusation of desire and how it has been used to excuse injustice.”

Delery’s 2015 work, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973, was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was named book of the year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

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IN EDITING: Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy

Coming up for Exposit Books is Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy: Healing from the Past, Embracing the Present, Creating an Ideal Future by psychologist Philip Zimbardo (conductor of the Stanford Prison Experiment) and counselor Rosemary K.M. Sword. This book examines the different ways in which people regard their past, present and future, and how their perspectives of these times can cause depression, anxiety and stress.

According to editor Lisa Camp, “The authors encourage their readers to be mindful of their time perspectives and in turn create more positive mindsets and healthier relationships—whether between peers, coworkers, romantic partners, or parents and children.  Readers are left with invaluable mental tools and the power to better not only themselves, but also the world around them.”

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NEWLY PUBLISHED: A Brief History of Oral Sex

New on our bookshelf today:

A Brief History of Oral Sex

by David DePierre

The ancient Greeks and Romans considered it degrading to both parties yet depicted it prolifically in art and literature. The Early Christian Church called it “the worst evil,” punishable by seven years of penance and fasting (murder was one year). Nearly all of the 13 original American colonies had laws against it—except Georgia. A Victorian handbook for young brides advised how to “dampen his desire to kiss in forbidden territory.” Attitudes about oral sex have varied through the centuries and across cultures—a death sentence in some nations, a religious practice in others. This book explores its history as well as its impact on world events.

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ANNOUNCING: Two Manuscripts Just Delivered

There have been two new manuscript deliveries today, and both are ready to go into editing. Kevin Sullivan delivered his manuscript about the crime of murder occurring in the homes of those who, through a matter of conscious decision or simply not paying attention, failed to secure their homes and to lock their doors, and because of this, were easily slaughtered. EJ Fleming has previously written for McFarland about Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites. Details about his new manuscript about the murder of Danny Croteau will be released soon.

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ANNOUNCING: Three New Manuscripts Just Delivered

The end of April was a banner week for Exposit Books, with our authors delivering three manuscripts.  Alan G. Gauthreaux, who co-authored Dark Bayou with D.G. Hippensteel, has written a new work about crimes in Louisiana in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Dean Scoville recounts his long career in law enforcement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in his new memoir, touching upon events such as the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez.  Lastly, Phil Zimbardo and Rose Sword (who broke new ground in transforming the lives of people suffering from PTSD) have written Living and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy.

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Wrongly Named Person of Interest in Wetterling Abduction

From The Washington Post March 31, 2017:

On the night that 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted by a masked gunman while riding his bike with friends in St. Joseph, Minn., Daniel Rassier was home alone, organizing his record collection. It was Oct. 22, 1989.  Rassier, an elementary school music teacher, heard his dog, Smokey, bark as two different cars pulled into his driveway, turned around and drove away.  Later that night, he learned a child had been taken from a site near the end of the driveway of the farm home Rassier shared with his parents. He would spend hours helping authorities search the area and would soon become a key witness…

Further Reading:

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/31/to-them-i-was-a-murderer-wrongly-named-person-of-interest-in-1989-wetterling-abduction-seeks-justice/?utm_term=.be90c0c89bcf
  2. Finding Jacob Wetterling: The 27-Year Investigation from Kidnapping to Confession by Robert M. Dudley

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ANNOUNCING: Sensational Murder Cases of the Early 20th Century

Mark Grossman’s collection of historical American true crime stories has landed in editing.  Grossman draws on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources to chronicle murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.

  • A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launches one of the most incredible murder cases in California history—still debated by crime historians.
  • The dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River in 1913, is traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S.
  • In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisons his in-laws—first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic—claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body.

The book is slated for release fall 2017, and we’ll post the final title and other details once they’ve been set…

 

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ANNOUNCING: History of Oral Sex

The bulk of David DePierre’s manuscript about the history of oral sex has just arrived.  Tentatively scheduled for fall 2017 or spring 2018 and tentatively titled A History of Oral Sex, his work examines the general rise, fall, and renaissance of oral sex in world history.  In addition to an overall perspective of the practice by various cultures, the book covers specific times that fellatio or cunnilingus altered the history of people and nations. Reasons for the decline and rebirth of the practice as well as explanations for the different views of oral sex across the globe are examined.

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ANNOUNCING: The Murder of Fernando Rios by Clayton Delery

Clayton Delery, the author of The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, has delivered his latest manuscript.  One evening in New Orleans, three Tulane undergrads wanted to beat up a stranger just because he was gay. Fernando Rios fit that bill. He was beaten and robbed in an alleyway, left unconscious on the sidewalk, and died later that day. During January of 1959, his assailants were charged but acquitted under the “gay panic” defense, and the courtroom cheered. Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice, to be released Fall 2017, delves into the connections between anti-Latino prejudices, homophobia, and societal norms in 1950s America.

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BOOK REVIEW: Finding Jacob Wetterling

9781476668925For their latest issue, Tom Giffey of Volume One magazine interviewed author Robert Dudley and reviewed Finding Jacob Wetterling: The 27-Year Investigation from Kidnapping to Confession.  Giffey called the book “a compelling read”  and that “the detailed exploration of the crime, its aftermath, and its ultimate resolution are gripping.”

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EVENT: Book Talk at Volume One

217122_66628_767_10_2_15_nightmarket_19On December 12 at 7:00 P.M., Eau Claire true-crime author Robert M. Dudley will discuss the story behind his research and books about the Jacob Wetterling kidnapping investigation. Dudley will detail how long-forgotten information from the beginning of the case was resurrected and how it led to resolution of the most notorious crime in the history of the State of Minnesota.  The free admission event is hosted by Volume One located at 205 N Dewey Street, Eau Claire, WI 54703.

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MEDIA COVERAGE: Author Robert M. Dudley Lends Expertise to “Monster & Mentor”

Robert M. Dudley, author of Finding Jacob Wetterling, loaned his expertise to the Fox Television investigative report “Monster & Mentor.”  The report provides coverage of the man known to be one of the most notorious sex offenders in Minnesota, and the one who likely groomed the man who confessed to kidnapping, assaulting and murdering Jacob Wetterling.  Watch and read the story in its entirety here: http://www.fox9.com/news/investigators/217325178-story

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Shopping Cart / Credit Card Payments Temporarily Down for Maintenance

Shopping cart maintenance on November 2:  The option to pay by credit card or PayPal is temporarily down for maintenance on the Exposit site.  Check/Money Order can be selected on the Exposit site.  For credit card orders, go to the McFarland website or call McFarland toll-free 800-253-2187 (Mon-Fri 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time) .

 

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McFarland Toll-Free Order Line:  800-253-2187

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McFarland Expands with New Imprint

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

McFarland Expands with New Imprint

JEFFERSON, North Carolina – November 1, 2016 – Scholarly publisher McFarland has announced the launch in November of Exposit Books, a new imprint combining serious nonfiction with a bookstore-first approach. Exposit’s initial offering is Finding Jacob Wetterling by Robert M. Dudley. The book covers in detail the 1989 kidnapping in St. Joseph, Minnesota, of 11-year-old Wetterling, the remarkable response from the community and local and state authorities, the 27-year investigation and its heartbreaking conclusion. The first full group of titles, set for a fall 2017 release, will likewise feature true crime topics.

“We’re releasing six titles the first season, and true crime authors Kevin M. Sullivan and Clayton Delery are both signed on and contributing books for the rollout,” said Executive Editor Lisa Camp. “We will be publishing a wide range of titles, eventually including books about entertainment, psychology, sex, health and history. Our plan is to bring Exposit to 24 to 30 books annually.”

Submissions from authors and literary agents are invited, and should be directed to Camp’s attention at expositbooks@mcfarlandpub.com.  For more information about the imprint, go to www.expositbooks.com.

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