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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                 Murder and intrigue highlight upcoming mystery novel by an award-winning New Jersey writer     CENTRAL NEW JERSEY – Murder and international intrigue come to the Pinelands in a new novel, INSIDE STORY: Murder in the Pinelands by Larry Moniz, a New Jersey journalist, publicist and author who knows the area well.  He resided in the Pinelands for several years and was a daily and weekly reporter and newspaper editor in Ocean and Monmouth Counties.  The book is slated for early November release by Sleeping Kangaroo Books.  The book will be available through local booksellers and via Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com INSIDE STORY: Murder in the Pinelands is the saga of a Jackson police officer’s 15-year-burden of guilt for failing to investigate a murder that superiors had ruled a suicide.  Sgt. Bert Looney’s career begins to disintegrate under mental pressures which also contribute to the shooting of a rookie partner during a traffic stop.  Looney finally must face his demons and calls on INSIDE STORY Magazine, a true crime publication that’s a favorite of the nation’s police agencies.  The magazine’s editor assigns an ensemble team of investigative reporters and former local, state and federal police investigators who then unweave a tangled web of conspiracy reaching from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s office to the State Attorney General’s Office and eventually to Washington, D.C.  “Larry is no stranger to the book industry; in the first half of the 1980s he was an account supervisor for the major New York City public relations agency that helped Harlequin Books to become the dominant figure in the romance genre.  Other clients have included Shorewood Fine Arts Books and individual authors,” said Dindy Robinson, CEO of Texas-based Swimming Kangaroo Books. “He holds a dozen Journalism writing awards and was senior account supervisor on the Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids account, one of the major product publicity successes of the mid-1980s,” she said. “In addition to being a member of the Mystery Writers of America, he’s a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Working Press Association, Garden State Journalists, Society of Environmental Journalists, and the association of Military Reporters and Editors.  Further information is available at www.LarryMoniz.com     - 30 -

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:     New Jersey writer inks mystery novel deal with Texas publisher   DALLAS-FORT WORTH -- Veteran New Jersey Journalist and Publicist Larry Moniz of Warren County, N.J., has signed with Swimming Kangaroo Books of Arlington, Texas, for his first novel, INSIDE STORY: Murder in the Pinelands.  SKB has purchased exclusive world-wide English language rights. “We are thrilled to be able to publish Larry's book,” said Dindy Robinson, publisher of Swimming Kangaroo Books, www.swimmingkangaroo.com. “The acquisitions editor who read his book enjoyed it very much and we’re fast-tracking it for an Early November release.  It will be available through Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.”  Swimming Kangaroo Books is a relative newcomer to the traditional book publishing industry.  Currently it has eight books in print.  INSIDE STORY: Murder in the Pinelands is about an ensemble investigative team of fictional magazine reporters who work to reveal a cover-up and apprehend an Iraqi spy who killed a Pinelands native. “Larry is no stranger to the book industry; in the first half of the 1980s he was an account supervisor for the major New York City public relations agency that helped Harlequin Books to become the dominant figure in the romance genre.  Other clients have included Shorewood Fine Arts Books and individual authors,” said Robinson.     “He holds a dozen Journalism writing awards and was senior account supervisor on the Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids account, one of the major product publicity successes of the mid-1980s,” she said.   “In addition to being a member of the Mystery Writers of America, he’s a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Working Press Association, Garden State Journalists, Society of Environmental Journalists, and the association of Military Reporters and Editors.     - 30 -