Last February, Agate offered readers a free download of the ebook edition of Wading Home by Rosalyn Story, partly as an experiment to see if we could raise greater awareness of this title. That experiment was a success, and we’re now going to try it again this year with O.H. Bennett’s terrific Creatures Here Below. The ebook will be available as a free download from our website in both PDF and EPUB formats, and from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. We are making this free download available for one day only: this coming Friday, January 13. (Actually, it will be available on Agate’s site from Thursday night through late Friday–we’re not exactly sure how long it will be free on the retailer sites.)
Creatures Here Below is O.H Bennett’s third novel. You can learn more about it here, on the book’s webpage on our site, from which you’ll be able to download it on Friday. Agate’s Bolden imprint has gotten a lot of attention lately for publishing the acclaimed Where the Line Bleeds, the first novel by 2011 National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. We also publish Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts, Jr., and our novels in particular have earned terrific reviews and award recognition from across the country. Creatures Here Below is another great example of the fiction we publish here–readerly and absorbing, but also treating the realities of African-American life in all its breadth.
One of the great things about ebooks is the ability to do a promotion of this sort and reach people who might not have taken a chance on a book otherwise. Please tell everyone you know about this one-day offer. We hope that if you enjoy Creatures Here Below, you’ll spread the word about it–O.H. Bennett is the kind of writer whose work truly merits the attention.
O.H. Bennett