Black Water Rising Reading and Signing Party June 15, 2009

Attica Locke, a graduate of Northwestern University, comes to Chicago to debut her new thriller, Black Water Rising. With pacing that captures the reader from the first scene through an exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.

Attica Locke (www.atticalocke.com) is a writer who has worked in both film and television for over ten years. She has written movie scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, Twentieth Century Fox and Jerry Bruckheimer films, as well as television pilots for HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab and most recently completed an adaptation of Stephen Carter’s The Emperor of Ocean Park. She is member of the Writers Guild of America, west, and is currently at work on an HBO miniseries about the civil rights movement, based on the writings of historian Taylor Branch. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

Book goes on sale Tuesday, June 9th, and can be found at the following retailers:

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books-A-Million
Booksense
Borders
Brookline Booksmith
Independent Booksellers
Politics and Prose
Powells
Rainy Day Books
Tattered Cover Book Store
Watermark Books

Official Website: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=72762132337