Smashwords Press Publishes Wisconsin Author Robert Townsend Novel Spirit Falls In Premium Edition

Aug. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- SPIRIT FALLS  "An affecting story of childhood friendship turning into profound love"      'compelling…line-to line writing is first-rate." Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize, Fiction 1993,; Must not be missed! Midwest Book Review

Spirit Falls, by Robert Townsend, is a coming-of-age novel set in the hardscrabble borderland between Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. On the longest night on the year 1959, during the one-room school Christmas program, the author begins a tale of childhood friendship on a harsh and austere land growing into profound love.

Spirit Falls is the prologue to the trilogy the author is writing about deception within families and between nations, war and peace in 20th century America, the men who fought those wars, the lies we accept and the ones we don’t.

About Smashwords, Inc.  Launched in 2008, Smashwords operates the leading e-book publishing and distribution platform serving authors, publishers, readers and retailers. Smashwords makes it free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to instantly publish and distribute a multi-format ebook. Smashwords puts authors and publishers in full control over the pricing, sampling and distribution of their works. Authors and publishers receive up to 85 percent of the net proceeds from sales of their works. Smashwords has distribution relationships with leading online retailers such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Amazon, and leading mobile e-reading apps such as Stanza, Kobo, Aldiko, FBReader and Word-Player, spanning all major mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry and iPhone. Smashwords is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at http://www.smashwords.com/.

About the Author: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War protests, the author flew 175 combat missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.  In early 1971, he transferred to Berlin, Germany as a signals intelligence officer, then to the National Security Agency before returning as a war planner at HQ USAFE, in Ramstein. Germany.  From 1982-1989 he was deputy chief, Air Force Intelligence Agency, counter-deception directorate (at CIA).  He is among some of the few men in America intimately familiar with the war of ruse and stratagem between the US and the USSR

Robert Townsend was born and raised on a farm in northern Wisconsin and writes of a life he has lived. For further information, see the author's website at http://www.roberttownsendonline.com/

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