``China Attacks:'' Novel Becomes Highest Ranked Print-on-Demand Book on Amazon.com.Business Editors & Internet/Publishing Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000 "China Attacks," a novel about a sudden Chinese attack on Taiwan, has become the number one ranked print-on-demand book out of more than 3,500 titles available on Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ). The book's popularity has received boosts recently from a large story in the Aug. 19-20 weekend edition of The Financial Times (owned by British media group Pearson, OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :PRSNY), an entire page in one of Taiwan's largest papers, The Taiwan News, on Sunday, Aug. 27 and other, smaller write-ups in America. Co-author Chuck DeVore commented, "`China Attacks' is striking a chord with its audience. People instinctively know that tensions between China and Taiwan may flare into open conflict at any moment. When the story on the book broke in Taiwan this Sunday, Web traffic to our www.ChinaThreat.com site increased tenfold and our Amazon sales ranking soared." DeVore, an Irvine resident, co-wrote "China Attacks" along with best-selling Northern Virginia author Steven W. Mosher A mosher is a person who is crossed between goth/punk/skater they have long hair and listen to music like slipknot and metal music. Some people call them headbangers. At certain music shows they have something called a mosh pit, basically its a fight pit with loads of people bashing each other. . Available from print-on-demand publisher Buy Books on the web.com, "China Attacks" is also available through Borders.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ) and will soon be offered by Barnes & Noble.com (Nasdaq:BNBN). The novel, as well as a one-chapter excerpt, can also be purchased in electronic form at www.MightyWords.com, a division of FatBrain.com (Nasdaq:FATB FATB Florida Association of Ticket Brokers ). DeVore served as a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon, once worked on Congressman Christopher Cox's (R-CA) staff, and is now a major in the Army National Guard where he's a combat brigade team intelligence officer (S-2). He also serves as an Orange County (CA) Republican Party Central Committeeman com·mit·tee·man n. 1. A man who is a member of a committee. 2. A man who is a party leader of a ward or precinct. Noun 1. , a post to which he was re-elected last March with more than 22,000 votes. Mosher, a White Post, Va., resident, is the best-selling author of several non-fiction books about China and Asia including "Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese" and "A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy." Mosher's latest book, "Hegemon heg·e·mon n. One that exercises hegemony. [Greek h  gem : China's Plan to Dominate
Asia and the World," was recently published by Encounter Books and
is listed on Amazon.com.
Note to Editors: Chuck DeVore and Steven W. Mosher are available for interviews by contacting: mailto:ChinaAttacks@aol.com. Source: Janet King Klein |
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