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Soon to be released: Literary, Poetry and
Children's Literature
Check back here for the latest books from
N.L. Belardes. Read a variety of excerpts from the most recent
projects. But check back regularly, there's more to come, including
covers, reviews, and more excerpts from these and other works
including: Cubicles, The Corn Cannons, Diva, Crash and Deliver:
The Ongoing Adventures of the Hard Crew, Country Star,
Chingpea, Lunchtime Spies and more!
( N.L. is not
responsible for the content of outside links or content of links
not on kid-oriented web pages. N.L. is a writer of works both
for kids and for a mature audience)
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SOON TO BE
A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!!
Lords:
Part One
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 the most controversial
work of fiction to ever come out of the Southern San Joaquin Valley.
It’s 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, spitting its own
aliens onto Great Central Valley streets already taken over by
unseen powers of the most corrupt kind…
"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
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Cubicles
A corporation sprouts
from the Bakersfield urban jungle; just another concrete tree
in a vicious cycle of capitalistic growth. One lone worker decides
to tear through its inner workings with a wry smile, a cast of
hilarious co-workers, and a strange sense of self-determination.
This delectable comedy of strange times during the daily grind
will leave you laughing and crying, and probably acknowledging
that 8-5 just might be the strangest and costliest part of life...
"...has
all the anti-corporate sentiment and comedy of Office Space
blended with the philosophy of a Star Wars rebellion."
-Tony Blanche
"...as
dangerous as Fight Club, as sarcastic, romantic and funny
as a Woody Allen movie. If you've never read anything anti-establishment,
this should be your book of dreams."
-Peter Prenshau
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Meet Turkish
photographer and artist Nur
Polat, designer of the Cubicles cover. |
February
2006! |
Thick
White Crust
Thick White
Crust is Chicano literature straight from the Southern San
Joaquin Valley. This experimental novella, the story of travels
from Las Vegas to California is a monument to one man's beliefs
in ghosts and visions as a result of lost love in a post-terrorized
society.
"...captures
the Chicano experience in the Southern San Joaquin during a tremulous
episode in American history. He connects the tragedy of 9-11 to
the deaths occuring around us at every ghostly hour. His take
on a Latino terrorist borne from anti-American thought is haunting."
-Al Guevara
"N.L. Belardes doesn't try to escape his own explosive origins
in this autobiographical glimpse into a past as seen through a
Latino 9-11."
-Tony Blanche
"...a
visionary novel describing the thick white crust of human loathing
surrounding our souls. Belardes' novel is a literary triumph from
the Southern end of the Great Central Valley."
-Peter Prenshau
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The
Citrus Girl
The Citrus Girl
is a journey into the urban underground and intellectualism of
California's Southern San Joaquin Valley in the mid-1990s. Through
the story's obscure narrator, Rick Molotovos, we follow Tommy,
a beautiful survive-by-the-seat-of-your-pants wanderer from Ohio
whose adventurous longings take her from the Sonora and Mojave
deserts into a tale of love, jealousy, and lust on the streets
of a desperate Central California city that has just begun to
infect MTV's pop culture youth.
"...an
exhilarating ride through the desert and urban landscapes of Southern
Central California."
-J.A. Maynard
"The
Citrus Girl employs the backdrop of California culture in
a web of youthful decay, disillusion, love and lust. The complex
history and bizarre social milieu of the Southern Central Valley
comes alive in this work, surely to be cited as a bouncing step
in the career of a successful American "non-fiction"
novelist."
-Randal Beeman
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Country
Songs to Live By
N.L. Belardes collection
of poems in Country Songs to Live By is a tribute to
his travels between Central California and Las Vegas, Nevada.
His desert crossings have been an inspiration for literature and
poetry and is a must read for those who want an understanding
how N.L. Belardes' works fit into his complex literary life.
"Country
Songs is forciful and delicate; a triumph of sorrowful words
that move deep in your soul like the chords of the old Bakersfield
Sound."
-Al Guevara
"...to
know such people and travels is more than worthy of country song
heritage."
-Peter Prenshau
"...a
new spirit in California's Central Valley poetry from the untouched
Southern End."
-Tony Blanche
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The
Blimperwhirls
Are
you aware that ghostly toys haunt the corridors beneath Santa's
Village? How about the origins of toy-making elves? Do they really
come from drops of sugar that are baked to perfection? You find
these things out and more in The Blimperwhirls, a zany
and sometimes scary Christmas story, where Santa suddenly thinks
his magical ways of spreading Christmas joy have been outdated.
But look
out! Big trouble comes Santa's way, including bubble ships that
drop paper package bombs, and a mischievous, candy-cane-hunting,
self-doubting toy that hasn't been seen in 10,000 years!
"Santa
is one of the most unexplainable, sophisticated, and extraordinary
people since the invention of candy canes. He has a crunchable
peppermint personality."
-Slim Pardoux, The North Pole Tabloid
"The
Blimperwhirls is a new twist on a traditional story. It takes
the North Pole, candy canes, elves and toy-making, then mixes
in a few spoonfuls of wacky science fiction."
- The North Pole Tabloid
"Here
comes a bubble ship story that's a bubbly book full of toys, with
big bubbly words to tell it. Yes, read The Blimperwhirls."
-Mrs. K.
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The
Freaky Fish Show
Beware, this isn't
a jazzy dance number about sea fish in top hats. With The
Freaky Fish Show you will embark on a creepy tour of the
freakiest fish show in the underworld. Meet octopus babies, mini-vampyros
and a death defying stunt that only the most mysterious gypsy
fish of the deep would ever attempt! But don't get too lost or
too curious, or you'll end up like our heroes. Meet Gloop and
Glop, two of the strangest octopus babies to ever witness the
uncanny strength of sea fleas, that is, if they ever survive what's
under the dark side of the tent!
"...a
scary deep sea story that leaves Spongebob out to dry."
-Salmon Rush
"Kids
can never get enough stories about adventures in the deep. The
oceans are certainly big enough to share... and this story is
daring enough to read!"
-Claude Poolaville
"...octopus
at a circus, cranky old snails, and freaky vampires from an unexplored
trench. Fun has never been so green glowy and creepy."
-The Submersibles Documentary Association
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