FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com
Title: Waving at Strangers
Author: David Allen
Category: Nonfiction
Publication Date: September 18, 2024
Pages: 392
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-949790-96-2
Suggested Retail Price: $21.95
Claremont, CA – January 20, 2024 – Pelekinesis is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Waving at Strangers, nonfiction from David Allen, available September 18, 2024 worldwide.
Waving at Strangers collects 75 of David Allen’s best columns from the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Within these pages, he eats his way through a restaurant’s 144-item menu, joins ghost hunters at the Fox Theater and laments the loss of his childhood phone number.
He bears witness as a charming bridge on Route 66 in Rancho Cucamonga is demolished and listens as an Ontario cemetery manager muses about the stories untold on the gravestones. And as grand marshal of the Pomona Christmas Parade, he waves at strangers (and signs one autograph) from the back of a convertible.
Spanning the five years from 2006 to 2010, these columns by the Inland Empire’s best-known chronicler will make you laugh and make you think. If you’ve read them before, you can greet them as old friends. If they’re new to you, hello. Don’t be a stranger.
Waving at Strangers by David Allen will be available through Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Gardners, directly from the publisher's website, and in fine local bookstores worldwide.
The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/david_allen-waving_at_strangers.html
For more information please contact Mark Givens at 909-293-9270 or mark.givens@pelekinesis.com
About the author
David Allen has been digging up stories in the Inland Empire for three decades. After starting his career at newspapers in Northern California, he moved south to work in Victorville for the Daily Press and then to Ontario for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, his home since 1997. His popular column covers people, places, government, history and more with a light and humane touch.
Besides the Daily Bulletin, his work appears in print and online in The Press-Enterprise, The Sun and other Southern California News Group newspapers. His work has been collected in four earlier books, all published by Pelekinesis: Getting Started: 1997 to 2000, On Track: 2001 to 2005, Pomona A to Z and 100 Years of the Los Angeles County Fair, 25 Years of Stories.
A native of Illinois, he didn’t grow up in the Inland Empire, but he’s lived here longer than he lived in the Midwest, so what does that tell you?
About the publisher
Pelekinesis is a small book publishing company focusing on the development of independent authors and artists by creatively embracing the evolving publishing paradigm and utilizing modern distribution platforms. Full catalog and press material can be found at http://www.pelekinesis.com
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Supplemental Material
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