About
Charles S. Weinblatt was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1952. He is a retired university administrator. Weinblatt is the author of published fiction and non-fiction, including the popular Holocaust novel, "Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story." His biography appears in Academic Wikipedia, the Marquis Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Education. Weinblatt is a prolific reviewer for The New York Journal of Books. He writes novels, short stories and articles.
Size Zero (Visage Book 1)
Description
<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>"A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style."</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>
Story Behind The Book
If you’re an author, especially for fiction, your author platform is your critical pathway to reach readers. Authors who can build, maintain, and leverage their platforms will have a significant competitive advantage over those who cannot. Think of author platform as a multi-layered infrastructure that allows you to reach both existing and potential readers. Elements of this infrastructure emerge whenever you interact with social media followers, in all possible ways. It includes subscribers, blog fans, your Facebook Fan Page, LinkedIn marketing, etc. Platform encapsulates your celebrity. You must constantly leverage your platform into social media opportunities; to reach potential new fans, to get your message out. There are two primary factors that will drive sales of your book. The first is consumer awareness. The second is desire. Once a consumer is aware of your product or brand, they must desire it sufficiently to make a purchase. This book is remarkably simple. It's a short "how-to" manual for marketing your talent and celebrity. There are no miracles here. No pill you can take and it's over. Marketing your book(s) can be described as. "Difficult, often tedious" and "sometimes expensive." But it's not rocket science.
