Locus Award Nominee "The Winter Boy" Selected for Amazon & Kobo July 4th Promotion

POCONOS, Pa. - July 1, 2016 - PRLog -- Pixel Hall Press is pleased to announce that The Winter Boy by Sally Wiener Grotta has been selected to be included in the Independence Day Weekend sales by both Amazon Kindle and Kobo. For this weekend, the eBook price has been reduced to $1.99. In addition, autographed print copies (paperback and hardbound) are available from the Pixel Hall Press website.

About The Winter Boy

Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell and Ursula K. LeGuin, The Winter Boy explores important political and social issues within a dynamic, character-driven otherworld, wrapped up in masterful storytelling.

The Valley of the Alleshi is the center of all civilization, the core and foundation of centuries of peace. A cloistered society of widows, the Alleshi, has forged a peace by mentoring young men who will one day become the leaders of the land. Each boy is paired with a single Allesha for a season of intimacy and learning, using time-honored methods that include dialog, reason and sexual intimacy. However, unknown to all but a hidden few, the peace is fracturing from pressures within and beyond, hacking at the very essence of their civilization.

Amidst this gathering political maelstrom, Rishana, a young new idealistic Allesha, takes her First Boy, Ryl, for a winter season of training. But Ryl is a "problem boy" who fights Rishana every step of the way. At the same time, Rishana uncovers a web of conspiracies that could not only destroy Ryl, but threatens to tear their entire society apart. And a winter that should have been a gentle, quiet season becomes one of conflict, anger and danger.

The Winter Boy was nominated for the prestigious Locus Award and is a Bookwatch Reviewers' Choice.

For more information about the Kindle edition of The Winter Boy, please go to https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Boy-Sally-Wiener-Grotta-ebo....

For more information about the Kobo edition, please go to https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-winter-boy

About Sally Wiener Grotta

Sally Wiener Grotta is a consummate storyteller, reflecting her deep humanism and appreciation for the poignancy of life. As an award-winning journalist, she has authored hundreds of articles, columns, essays and reviews for scores of glossy magazines, newspapers, journals and online publications. Her fiction includes Jo Joe, a Black Bear, Pennsylvania novel.She has also authored numerous non-fiction books.

A member of the Authors Guild, Sally Wiener Grotta is a frequent speaker at conferences. schools and other organizations storytelling, creativity, the business of writing, as well as on photography and the traditional tradespeople of her  American Hands narrative portrait project. She welcomes invitations to participate in discussions with book clubs (occasionally in person, more often via Skype, Google Hangout, or phone), and to do occasional readings.

About Pixel Hall Press

Pixel Hall Press is a relatively new, old-fashioned small publishing house whose focus is on discovering literary gems and great stories that might otherwise be overlooked. Our mission is to publish books that energize the imagination and intrigue the mind, and to be a conduit between readers and provocative, stimulating, talented authors.

In this era of digital technology, Wall Street involvement and merger mania, many mainstream publishers seem to have lost sight of core principles and the purpose of publishing. At the other end of the spectrum is the veritable avalanche of self-published books that are notoriously uneven in quality. Small boutique imprints like Pixel Hall Press are reclaiming the heart and soul of publishing by reviving the idea that a publisher's raison d'être is finding and nurturing great writers, and to provide readers with beautiful, meaningful, truly enjoyable books.