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Gary Soto really appreciates letters from students and fans. But because of his writing and travel schedule, he cannot answer individual letters. He is more than willing, however, to answer letters from students provided that they arrive together in a large envelope (not individually). In fact, he encourages teachers to have their students write as a classroom.

Sadly, Mr. Soto cannot answer letters regarding school projects on his work. It is up to every student to do his or her homework alone.

Gary Soto
43 The Crescent
Berkeley, California 94708

BETTER DEAD
THAN NEVER
CWAA'S 2007 BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL
NED KELLY AWARDS SHORLISTED
TOP 4 FROM 11 NOMINATIONS

Patricia Lunn takes on a hopeless case after an old friend from her days in uniform asks her to dig into a supposedly wrongful conviction of a serial rapist turned killer.

But as she knocks at the doors of the city's most influential people, someone wants her dead before she finds out the truth.

She uncovers a world filled with police corruption, racism, sexual debauchery and a killer who will do anything toprotect his identity...including putting a contract on her head.

"One of Australia's top four criminal writers."
Geelong Advertiser

'...there are a lot of things to like in this novel; it speeds along at a cracking pace, the chapters are short and sharp and facilitate the action sequence effectively without ever getting too bogged down in descriptions. The denouement...is still satisfying as the sustained tempo means that there is no time to lose interest.'
Caroline O'Donnel, Best First Crime Fiction CWAA 2007 Judge.

Laurent Boulanger

email: laurent@boulanger.com

tel: 0423 981 708
int tel: 613 423 981 708

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LAURENT BOULANGER, AUTHOR

             Welcome

              LAURENT
BOULANGER was born in Strasbourg, France in 1966. He came with
his family to Australia at the age of thirteen without any English.
After working a multitude of dead-end jobs, he returned to study and
earned a Bachelor of Arts in Writing from Deakin University and
subsequently a Master of Arts in Writing from Swinburne University.
Since 1995, he’s been Australian Correspondent for Writers’ News,
UK’s largest circulating magazine for writers. 

              

Laurent has written Murder on
45th Street, a novella for ESL students with accompanying CDs,
published in 2002 by BELT Books, a division of Pascal Publishing, and The Girl from
France published in 2006 by independent small press outfit The
Rock View Press. His crime
novel Better Dead Than Never
has been shorlisted
for the CWAA's 2007 Best First Crime Novel. He is a principal tutor at
Swinburne University's Postgraduate Online Writing Program, where he is
also a Ph.D. candidate.

              

              ‘Laurent
Boulanger is a gifted
writer with an acute understanding of
individuals and the choices they make or have forced upon them. His
writing in The Girl From
France
is cool, clear and unfettered by
hyperbole. He brings a refreshing honesty to everything he describes,
be it young Clotilde disconnected from her home, or the landscape of a
country whose shape she doesn’t yet understand. Boulanger is a talent
worth watching.’

              

              Venero Armanno, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award
Winner for Best Fiction  
            

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Read my short story 'Outpatient' published in 2006 in the anthology
Dying For It: Tales of Sex & Death
published by Thunder's Mouth Press, New York and edited by Mitzi Szereto.

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