Kennewick -Four months ago, we introduced you to Patrick Carman, a local author whose children’s book, “The Dark Hills Divide,” was just hitting store shelves.Little did we know then that sales would skyrocket, with “Dark Hills” out-selling the “Da Vinci Code” throughout the Northwest.

Carman returns to the Tri-Cities this week to read to local students and sign books this evening at Barnes and Noble.The book store has also set up game stations related to chapters of the book.

Patrick credits his hard work in marketing for the partnership with Scholastic Books.This partnership will mean a nationwide tour and book signings in states across the country, and even in London.Patrick says he is thrilled to work with Scholastic because they have the same common goal, getting kids excited about reading.

About The Dark Hills Divide
This enthralling new series is set in a fantasy world in which animals can talk and enchanted stones can predict the future. In Book I, The Dark Hills Divide, the heroine, 12-year-old Alexa, has spent her life living behind the four-story walls that surround her village and the three others that make up Bridewell Common. But Alexa’s curiosity for what lies in the hills and forests on the other side sends her on a daring adventure into a secret world in which nothing is as it seems to be. Originally released by Amped Media, the series was purchased by Scholastic in March of 2004.

ORDERING The Dark Hills Divide
The Dark Hills Divide is available through Partners West. To place an order, call 1-800-563-2385.

About Patrick Carman
A Northwest native, Patrick Carman lives in Washington State with his wife, Karen, and daughters, Reese and Sierra, now seven and nine. He grew up in Salem, Oregon, and graduated from Willamette University with a degree in economics. Carman then spent a decade living in Portland where he founded and ran an advertising agency. After selling the agency in 1998, he created a series of popular board games including “Applause,” and founded and built Mywebpal.com into the third-largest provider of online newspaper publishing in the U.S. before selling the company in 2002. In addition to speaking about his books the author speaks to youth and adults alike about the effect technology has had on culture and how reading can be used as an important (and entertaining) alternative to TV, radio and the internet.

For more on this story contact Jeremy Gonzalez publicity liaison for Patrick Carman at:

509.301.3060
jeremy@landofelyon.com
www.landofelyon.com

Patrick Carman has been featured in the following print publications:

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Miami Herald
Tri-City Herald
The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Everett News Tribune
The Dalles Chronicle
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah)

TV appearances:

KTVB _ NBC Affiliate, Boise ID
KEPR_ CBS Affiliate, Pasco, WA

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