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Shooting an Albatross combines:
TITANIC'S look to the past
The Notebook's touch of the heart
The Natural's love of a game, and
Psycho's prick of the spine
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Historical novel explores the year the United States Army took over and occupied a Los Angeles golf course
In Shooting an Albatross by Steven R. Lundin, a World War II Army general challenges a Navy admiral to an unauthorized game of golf, setting in motion intrigue, romance and friendly-fire murder
HILLSBORO, OR – Aug 10, 2009 - Shooting an Albatross by Steven R. Lundin is historical romance fiction that juxtaposes the world of the Hollywood elite with soldiers stationed on an occupied golf course.
During the only year in history the Professional Golfers’ Association’s (PGA) Championship was cancelled, a Los Angeles golf course draws Hollywood film moguls, the media, fans of the game, and two branches of the military anxious for relief from the war. Stationed on the golf course, the Army challenges the Navy to an unauthorized game of golf, and Pvt. Evan Wilkins finds himself enlisted into the game. When he begins to fall in love with the daughter of a Hollywood filmmaker, however, their budding romance is threatened by the mental instability of Wilkins’ commanding officer. To “shoot an albatross” in golf means to shoot something as rare as it is beautiful, but could that albatross be a person who hinders another’s achievement?
Shooting an Albatross is set in the only year in history when professional golf cancelled its season and the 170th Field Artillery Battalion took over the El Rancho Golf Course in Los Angeles. The novel is meant to be as fascinating as it is entertaining. Says The New Podler Review of Books, “literary quality…and a study in the nature of evil.”
Shooting an Albatross is available for sale online at ShootingAnAlbatross.com, Amazon.com and through additional retail and wholesale channels worldwide.
About the Author
Steven R. Lundin is a marketing director, vice president and co-founder of a foundation engineering company. He holds a master’s degree in business administration and won first place in an Authorlink 2007 short story contest.
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Steven R. Lundin
Email: printzview@yahoo.com
Phone: 503-664-0364
Website: http://www.ShootingAnAlbatross.com
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Press Release
You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover
Author Invites Voting for Book Cover
Hillsboro, OR, March 17, 2009: Author Steven R. Lundin invites readers to vote for the cover of his upcoming novel, Shooting an Albatross, a historical fiction story set during the only year in history the PGA cancelled the full season of professional golf and, unbelievably, the same year that a unit of the US Army occupied a golf course near Hollywood, California. Everyone who votes at www.ShootinganAlbatross.com will be entered in a random drawing to win one of three signed first editions of the book. The deadline for casting a vote is midnight, March 31, 2009.
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Shooting an Albatross is scheduled to be available on Amazon.com in May. For more information, visit http://www.shootinganalbatross.com/.
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CONTACT: Steven R. Lundin
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Date: February 28, 2009
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War Happened in Hollywood: Steven R. Lundin’s Novel, Shooting an Albatross, Uses Hollywood’s Unusual Past
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February 19, 2009 – Author Steven R. Lundin based his novel, Shooting an Albatross, on Hollywood’s little known and hard to believe past. The era-fiction story takes place during the only year in history that professional golf canceled its season, which turns out to be the same year that a unit of the United States Army took over and occupied a golf course near Hollywood. The year was 1943, the unit was the 170th Field Artillery Battalion, and the place was the El Rancho Golf Course in Los Angeles. Lundin uses these facts of history as the setting for his story.
The publication date of Shooting an Albatross is scheduled for July 26, 2009, the same day in 1943 that the army occupied the golf course. Lundin’s publisher, BookSurge, expects the novel will be available on Amazon by May.
The story begins when an Army general challenges an admiral in the Navy to an unauthorized round of golf. Because of their inabilities to play the game, each commander partners with the best player he can find from his own branch of the military, pitting Private Evan Wilkins and the general against the admiral and his man. On the back side of the golf course are mansions belonging to Hollywood film industry moguls, one of whom is the father of Amanda Nichols. When Evan meets Amanda, she introduces him into a world of opulence—one lacking nothing at a time in the war when much is lacking. Amanda secretly joins Evan’s daily practices out on the golf course, but what they practice, though, is much more than golf. They establish a wartime romance that could last forever, if not for the mental instability of Evan’s commanding officer, Floyd Akerly. From Floyd’s frustration with Evan’s golfing privileges to his jealousy over Amanda, Floyd goes from angry to hostile. He acts on his emotions during the intense, summer-ending golf game, again on the battalion’s trip across the Atlantic, and a final time during the battalion’s first fight in Germany.
To shoot an albatross on a golf course is to shoot something as rare as it is beautiful—a double eagle. Alternatively, an albatross can be either a sea bird or some person or thing that greatly hinders another’s achievement. In the novel, an albatross is shot, but which of the three? why? and by whom? The answers are found with intrigue, suspense, the game of golf, romance, and Lundin’s recently discovered history of Hollywood. They’re found in Shooting an Albatross.
Please see http://www.ShootinganAlbatross.com and vote for the book cover.
