Book: EXTREME
Author: Joan Gelfand
Pub. Date: July 14, 2020
Publisher: Blue Light Press
Find it: Amazon | Kindle | B&N | TBD | Bookshop.org
Book Overview
Hope Ellson is from the wrong side of the tracks, but her genius transcends class. When Hope joins FearToShred, a Silicon Valley extreme gaming startup, Hope’s mission is to groom the scrappy company for prime time.
Enter Doug Wiser, her very married ex. While the two work in tandem, nefarious forces are at work behind the scenes. Adding to the excitement of this thriller are the stars and heroes of surfing and skateboarding. With a keen eye on women in tech, business ethics and dangerous stunts, “Extreme” will leave you breathless.
With a poet’s sensibility and a novelist’s instinct for plot, Joan Gelfand has produced a whip‑smart page‑turner of a book, complete with startup fever, romantic intrigue, and a cast of sympathetic ‑‑ and not so sympathetic ‑‑ characters. Read Extreme and you’ll have a better sense of what really goes on in Silicon Valley, far better than TV shows like Silicon Valley could ever provide.”
– Katie Hafner, Author, New York Times and Wall Street Journal columnist.
Book Review
Extreme takes the reader on an in-depth ride into Silicon Valley and what’s really behind closed doors.
Joan Gelfand has written her characters so well that you forget you’re reading the story. I found myself falling in love with some and feeling real negative emotions to others. Joan writes in a way that can illicit your full range of emotions while reading and still keep you on the edge of your seat.
Extreme is a wild ride that will keep you engaged right up until the very end. This is a read you’ll enjoy!
Giveaway Details
The author will be raffling off a $10 Amazon Gift Card during the book tour! (International)
About the Author
Joan Gelfand’s reviews, stories and poetry have appeared in national and international literary journals and magazines including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Kalliope, The Toronto Review, newversenews.com, The Sycamore Review and RiverSedge. Joan’s work has also appeared in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable” and “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions”
Chair of the Women’s National Book Association National Writing Contest, a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a juror for the Northern California Book Awards, Joan blogs for the Huffington Post and coaches writers. She is the recipient of over twenty writing awards, nominations and prizes.
“The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics,” a poetry film based on Joan’s poem was featured at the 4th Annual Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, the Meraki Film Festival in Madrid and won Certificate of Merit in a juried art show at the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
Joan has been teaching at book festivals and writer’s conferences on “You Can Be a Winning Writer” for the past ten years. She coaches writers around the country.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Adam Hertz and two beatnik kitties – Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Author Links: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Goodreads | Amazon
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