{"id":1854,"date":"2009-08-11T07:18:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2009-08-10T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T20:19:57","slug":"the-book-of-unholy-mischief-by-elle-newmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1498 Venice, Luciano is caught stealing a pomegranate in the market by the doge’s chef.\u00c2\u00a0 Chef Ferrero brings the homeless boy to the kitchen to begin life as his apprentice.\u00c2\u00a0 Luciano is provided with room and board in return for emptying and refilling the cistern and running the prepared food from the kitchen to the maids.\u00c2\u00a0 He may be promoted to vegetable cook by working hard and listening to Chef Ferrero.<\/p>\n

Living on the streets, he had only his friend Marco to advise him.\u00c2\u00a0 Chef Ferrero becomes Luciano’s new teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 The loyalty Luciano feels towards them\u00c2\u00a0sometimes conflict with each other.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

All over Venice conversations are taking place about the New World and about a mysterious book.\u00c2\u00a0 The doge believes it will contain a cure his syphilis.\u00c2\u00a0 Luciano believes it holds the key to a love potion and will make Francesca fall in love with him.\u00c2\u00a0 Marco wants the book to get the reward and live as a rich man.\u00c2\u00a0 When Luciano and Marco begin to suspect Chef Ferrero knows the book’s location they are at odds on what actions to take next.<\/p>\n

Elle Newmark first self-published the novel under the title of Bones of the Dead<\/em> after her agent stopped submitting it.\u00c2\u00a0 Spurred on by a low sales rank on Amazon and Carrie Bradshaw’s book release party on an episode of Sex and the City<\/em>, Newmark held a virtual book launch party.\u00c2\u00a0 Newmark intended to create a sales spike.\u00c2\u00a0 She got more than that -\u00c2\u00a0 a day before the virtual book launch she had offers from multiple agents to represent her.\u00c2\u00a0 Within a few weeks she had an auction for the book and had a two book deal with Simon and Schuster.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Retitled The Book of Unholy Mischief <\/em>it’s been released in multiple languages.\u00c2\u00a0 Newmark is hard at work on her next novel.\u00c2\u00a0 The Book of Unholy Mischief <\/em>is ultimately about a boy becoming a man by making some hard decisions and recognizing those crossroads.\u00c2\u00a0 Naturally, the setting invites all sorts of descriptions about wonderful meals and food preparation.\u00c2\u00a0 At times I had to stop reading in order to have an unsatisfying snack to quell my hunger pangs.\u00c2\u00a0 Newmark’s novel tells Luciano’s story with a sweet,\u00c2\u00a0wistful\u00c2\u00a0tone I haven’t found in a book for a long time.<\/p>\n

Elle Newmark’s web site has a book discussion guide and some terrific blog posts.\u00c2\u00a0 She may even be available via conference call to attend your book club discussion.\u00c2\u00a0 You can find it at http:\/\/www.ellenewmark.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1498 Venice, Luciano is caught stealing a pomegranate in the market by the doge’s chef.\u00c2\u00a0 Chef Ferrero brings the homeless boy to the kitchen to begin life as his apprentice.\u00c2\u00a0 Luciano is provided with room and board in return for emptying and refilling the cistern and running the prepared food from the kitchen to… Continue reading The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,188,189],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-elle-newmark","tag-the-book-of-unholy-mischief","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}