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Mike Slosberg once again brings his background-as one of Madison Avenue's most lauded professionals-to his career as a fiction writer. In this collection of ten short stories-TEN STORIES YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE THEY BECOME MOVIES-every tale Mike tells stretches the mind and tickles the funny bone. Hilarious twists and turns elicit surprise and loud guffaws. He keeps the reader laughing all the while pondering the mysteries of life as seen through Mike's particular creative lens.You may also want to dive into one of his novels: A BABY TO DIE FOR, THE HITLER ERROR, and THE AUGUST STRANGERS. While entirely fiction, each novel proposes seemingly insurmountable problems solved with thrilling suspense, mystery and humor. You'll enjoy the ride

Mike Slosberg once again brings his background-as one of Madison Avenue's most lauded professionals-to his career as a fiction writer. In this collection of ten short stories-TEN STORIES YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE THEY BECOME MOVIES-every tale Mike tells stretches the mind and tickles the funny bone. Hilarious twists and turns elicit surprise and loud guffaws. He keeps the reader laughing all the while pondering the mysteries of life as seen through Mike's particular creative lens.You may also want to dive into one of his novels: A BABY TO DIE FOR, THE HITLER ERROR, and THE AUGUST STRANGERS. While entirely fiction, each novel proposes seemingly insurmountable problems solved with thrilling suspense, mystery and humor. You'll enjoy the ride

1944, Nazi GermanyThe war is in its final hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers, using secret orders from the desk of Herman Goering, execute a plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds.Decades later, in a sleepy village near West Palm Beach, Florida, Moe Green, a retired octogenarian, seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp he acquired during the war, given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor.But when the stamp's existence surfaces on the Internet, blood flows.The action moves rapidly from New York to Florida, London, Israel and France as Jake Green, the old man's son, is sucked into the vortex of an international scheme to locate the diamonds. Suddenly, Jake is tangling with an elusive and ruthless assassin, an ex-Nazi general whose real identity has long ago been erased, and a beautiful Israeli spy.

Mike and Mandy August were a happy couple. They married, bought a house and eventually gave birth to a lie―so well guarded they almost believed it themselves. Now they live with their two terrific kids in a big white colonial with a tennis court and a mortgage in Westport, Connecticut.Then, their son falls ill and their tranquil existence begins to fall apart. The secret they've harbored for more than a decade threatens to rip their family to shreds. Mike embarks on an odyssey taking him from Connecticut to Los Angeles, then to San Francisco and into the mountain town of Aspen, Colorado seeking answers. The answers and the scheme Mike devises reveal what happens to a decent family when tragedy strikes, baring secrets and peeling apart lives lay-by-layer for all to see.THE AUGUST STRANGERS takes the reader into the lives of characters so finely etched they transcend the words that describe them. They live.Settle into a favorite easy chair to find out who the August Strangers are and what overpowering secret drives them to the brink.

"In Slosberg's ... third novel, a ruthless lawyer, a New York City detective and a vengeful sister collide in the wrenching world of black market adoptions...the intricate plotting throws in...gut-wrenching surprises and leads to a solid ending that lives up to its title. A thriller that refreshingly addresses tough issues..." -Kirkus ReviewsThe expose/advocacy novel has a long and successful history in bringing to the world's attention the cruelty of entrenched injustice. Mike Slosberg's A BABY TO DIE FOR fits squarely into that tradition. What Upton Sinclair did for the meat slaughtering industry in his novel, THE JUNGLE, and Harriet Beecher Stowe did to indict slavery in UNCLE TOM'S CABIN...A BABY TO DIE FOR takes on the horrors of the black market adoption racket....It has been a while since we heard from a novelist with the skill and knowledge to... produce] a thriller that gets to the heart of the subject and calls our attention to the duplicity, horror and heartbreak that ensue when evil perpetrators exploit the natural human yearning for offspring.-Warren Adler, Author of "War of the Roses"Start reading early or this novel will keep you up all night Slosberg's thriller plunges the reader into the world of barren couples desperate for a child and the predators who exploit them....With taut writing and colorful characters, he plays with our emotions by depicting the...innocent young women coerced into...birthing babies to be sold off to the highest bidder, and the lawyers and middlemen who profit from them.-Gail Sheehy, author of "Passages"Mike Slosberg's novel is a modern juggernaut. So clearly written with pace and intensity, bathed in a compassionate liquid that is the most primal of our humanity: procreation and the next best thing, adoption-at any cost.-Steve Guttenberg, Actor, Writer, Humanitarian

Mike Slosberg once again brings his background-as one of Madison Avenue's most lauded professionals-to his career as a fiction writer. In this collection of ten short stories-TEN STORIES YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE THEY BECOME MOVIES-every tale Mike tells stretches the mind and tickles the funny bone. Hilarious twists and turns elicit surprise and loud guffaws when the reader comes to them. He keeps the reader laughing all the while pondering the mysteries of life as seen through Mike's particular creative lens.You may also want to dive into one of his novels: A BABY TO DIE FOR, THE HITLER ERROR, and THE AUGUST STRANGERS. While entirely fiction, each novel proposes seemingly insurmountable problems solved with thrilling suspense, mystery and tragedy. You'll enjoy the ride

Mike Slosberg takes the age-old art form of haiku and turns it into an art form for aging. He proves that humor is the only defense against aging. His book is the celebration of the cardinal aspects of growing old, softened only with Mike's hilariously appropriate illustrations. It is an owner's manual for aging with humor, whether you are this side of forty or are simply slipping to the far side of eighty. It will keep you youthful. It is good for the digestion and low in cholesterol.

Humor is the alchemy that can magically turn tragedy into comedy. PIMP MY WALKER is a celebration of the cardinal aspects of growing old, softened only with Mike's hilariously appropriate illustrations. Think of it as an owner's manual for aging with humor, whether you are this or that side of 40 or are simply limping to the far side of eighty---It will keep you feeling youthful and it is good for the digestion and low in cholesterol.