Surviving a Nuclear Disaster

Add captivating reading to your library with books or eBooks from Alva Press, Inc. or eAlvaInk in Poughkeepsie, New York. We publish books that touch on difficult subjects such as nuclear survival. Our prominent author, Roberta M. Roy, has written and published JOLT: a rural noir which tells a thrilling yet touchingly human story of survival in the wake of a nuclear crisis. A Living Now Awards Medalist in Inspirational Fiction, Roberta is delighted to invite you to read Jolt: rural noir now as an eBook. She also invites you to check out and post comments to her blogs.(Links below)

Alva's Latest Novel - JOLT: a rural noir

If you enjoy reading stories that involve courage and overcoming difficult circumstances, you will love JOLT: a rural noir. This novel has just won the 2011 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Fiction. Essentially, this book tells the epic story of a group of American townees whose lives are overrun by an influx of forced emigrants from an area hit hard by a nuclear meltdown. Roberta M. Roy was inspired to write this tale after learning a great deal about the medical effects of ionizing radiation in an intensive course taught by the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) in Bethesda, Maryland. The events and character development that unfold will keep you glued to your seat.

Available in Book and eBook

JOLT: a rural noir is available in paperback version at $19.45 each and hard cover at $29.45 each, shipping included. We also offer the option of a bulk order of 6 paperback copies for $97.25 and 12 copies for $194.50, shipping included.

the eAlvaInk Link

In late August the Alva Press subsidiary specializing in eBook publication, eAlvaInk, released JOLT: a rural noir as an eBook. Download of JOLT: a rural noir through this site is available for $11.95 per transmission.

Let the eAlvaink Link to Publish Your Manuscript as an eBook

We believe that great fiction combines a well-told story with a model from which to gain important life lessons. If you are almost done with your own novel or looking to publish your own captivating story as an eBook, we would love to hear from you. We accept excerpts with bios and project perspectus as well as full versions of manuscripts for consideration for editing, design, and publication in Nook and Kindle compatible eBook forms.

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Alva Press is offering to publish the first three accepted writers' manuscripts in eBook forms free.  Alva will then distribute them from this and other agreed upon aggregators. Kristen Henderson has been the first writer so accepted. Alva Press, Inc. looks forward with anticipation to the early release of Drum Machine. Henderson's Drum Machine is page after page of beautifully-written, emotion-driven lyrical poetry.You can read one of Henderson's well-wrought poems right now if you like by simply clicking on the Visiting Writers' tab above and scrolling downward.

Already Published? Apply to Become One of Alva's Visiting Writers

Alva also accepts excerpts for consideration for publication on Alva's Visiting Writers' Page. Published authors interested in being listed as a Visiting Writer are invited to submit brief 150 word excerpts from published works and 25 words bios including link for consideration for publication as one of our Visiting Writers. Yes, those selected can wratch it up a bit by joining the well known writer Nancy Means Wright such talented published authors as Kathy Reinhart, Tia Silverthorne Bach, Angela Beach Silverthorne, and Kristen Henderson. 

Order your copy of

JOLT: a rural noir

and experience a community's rebirth in the wake of distant terrorism

and a nuclear power plant meltdown at Magdum Heights

Alva Press, Inc.

(845) 454-5200.