For Immediate Release
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Monster has 400,000 Unit first printing
Peretti Novel Has Significant Laydown for WestBow
Nashville, TN, February 1, 2005 – WestBow Press announced today that advance orders for Monster, the new novel from bestselling author Frank Peretti, have boosted the first printing to 400,000 units. WestBow Senior Vice Present and Publisher, Allen Arnold, says Monster will have the largest laydown for the WestBow imprint during the 2005 fiscal year.
Arnold believes this large first printing represents the market’s fanatical interest in Peretti. “Monster is the first novel from Frank this decade,” says Arnold. “Retailers and consumers can’t wait to see what has taken Frank literally years to write. I believe it is his best work yet.”
The first sales superstar of spiritually-themed thrillers, Frank Peretti’s debut adult novel (This Present Darkness) spent more than 96 consecutive months on the CBA Bestseller lists—more than eight years. WestBow Press, eager to launch Monster onto national bestseller lists, has earmarked a healthy six-figure marketing budget for major advertising and publicity campaigns.
Frank Peretti’s combined sales of his books total more than 12 million copies. Almost overnight, Frank Peretti went from working in a ski factory to appearing in the pages of People, TIME and Newsweek. Despite his sales success and notoriety, Peretti and his high school sweetheart Barb still live simply in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
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February 15, 2005
Monster
By Frank Peretti
Available April 12, 2005, from WestBow Press Websites: www.TheMonsterHunt.com
Hardcover: ISBN: 0-8499-1180-X, $24.99, 464 pages www.Perettionline.com
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