The Lords: Part One Press Release - by N.L. Belardes
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For more information: August 17, 2005
The Noveltown Group
P.O. Box 10115
Bakersfield, CA 93389
661.900.2353
melody@noveltown.net
Lords of Bakersfield Resurface in Controversial Novel
Bakersfield Latino Novelist/Matt Drudge-style blogger to release controversial fiction on valley witchhunt…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., April 19, 2005 There is a book on its way September/October 2005 that uncovers more of the infamous Lords of Bakersfield stories made popular through investigative reporting in the Bakersfield Californian. If you ever read the ‘Lords of Bakersfield’ news stories by journalist Robert Price, the biggest news ever uncovered in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, (http://ww2.bakersfield.com/2003/lords/) then you have an idea about Latino writer N.L. Belardes forthcoming novel, Lords: Part One.
"I wanted to write literary fiction about a local story gone big, one that had seeds planted in the national consciousness; and that was Lords," N.L. says. "It’s a story that not only reflects the Southern Valley, but uncovers the corrupt nature of man sometimes hidden in small town Americana."
In the Hollywood movie storms of 1977 where films like Star Wars and Close Encounters spawned a maelstrom of epic adventure and wonder for kids everywhere, such streets also spawned another breed of child. Bitter, alienated, and lost in the punk-influenced beginnings of a feel-good era of disco-enflamed junkies, such kids slunk the streets of Hollywood and Hollywood’s backyard: Bakersfield, California, where they preyed equally on the hands that held them.
Based on the Lords of Bakersfield news stories of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lords: Part One is a story of media and high-profile corruption in a conservative city close to the Hollywood storm. For those who remember such a time, this story will sink its teeth into readers, just as that great dust storm of 1977 tore into the valley…
"N.L. Belardes weaves the fog of humanness into a novel of boyhood decay." -Tony Blanche
"...the corruption of the San Joaquin from its stormy media center." -M.J. Forrest
"The Cult Classic on Bakersfield for years to come." -Al Guevara
N.L. Belardes has written the Christmas kid’s classic, The Blimperwhirls. Forthcoming works to be released include: Thick White Crust, Cubicles, The Freaky Fish Show, The Citrus Girl, Lords: Part Two, and more…
For more information: August 17, 2005
The Noveltown Group
P.O. Box 10115
Bakersfield, CA 93389
661.900.2353
melody@noveltown.net
Lords of Bakersfield Resurface in Controversial Novel
Bakersfield Latino Novelist/Matt Drudge-style blogger to release controversial fiction on valley witchhunt…
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., April 19, 2005 There is a book on its way September/October 2005 that uncovers more of the infamous Lords of Bakersfield stories made popular through investigative reporting in the Bakersfield Californian. If you ever read the ‘Lords of Bakersfield’ news stories by journalist Robert Price, the biggest news ever uncovered in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, (http://ww2.bakersfield.com/2003/lords/) then you have an idea about Latino writer N.L. Belardes forthcoming novel, Lords: Part One.
"I wanted to write literary fiction about a local story gone big, one that had seeds planted in the national consciousness; and that was Lords," N.L. says. "It’s a story that not only reflects the Southern Valley, but uncovers the corrupt nature of man sometimes hidden in small town Americana."
In the Hollywood movie storms of 1977 where films like Star Wars and Close Encounters spawned a maelstrom of epic adventure and wonder for kids everywhere, such streets also spawned another breed of child. Bitter, alienated, and lost in the punk-influenced beginnings of a feel-good era of disco-enflamed junkies, such kids slunk the streets of Hollywood and Hollywood’s backyard: Bakersfield, California, where they preyed equally on the hands that held them.
Based on the Lords of Bakersfield news stories of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lords: Part One is a story of media and high-profile corruption in a conservative city close to the Hollywood storm. For those who remember such a time, this story will sink its teeth into readers, just as that great dust storm of 1977 tore into the valley…
"N.L. Belardes weaves the fog of humanness into a novel of boyhood decay." -Tony Blanche
"...the corruption of the San Joaquin from its stormy media center." -M.J. Forrest
"The Cult Classic on Bakersfield for years to come." -Al Guevara
N.L. Belardes has written the Christmas kid’s classic, The Blimperwhirls. Forthcoming works to be released include: Thick White Crust, Cubicles, The Freaky Fish Show, The Citrus Girl, Lords: Part Two, and more…
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