<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-docs-internal-guid-ceb53551-f258-fd76-372d-4a9bb751d0f0"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_15d4e6c68ba82bc9" alt="Inline image 1" width="348" height="544"><br></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NESFA Press is proud to announce the publication of the trade hardcover edition of:</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Lit Fuse</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, an Exploration
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by Nat Segaloff.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Somerville, MA (July 17, 2017) - Delving into the life of the science fiction icon Harlan Ellison through exclusive interviews with Ellison himself, his colleagues, his family, his friends, and his enemies, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">A Lit Fuse</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> is now available in an unlimited trade hardcover edition. The book includes a 32-page color photo section. </span></span></span></span></p><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span"> </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Lit Fuse</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is authorized, but that doesn’t mean it’s a hagiography,” says Segaloff. “The first thing Harlan told me when we started our adventure was that he wanted me to write the truth. Considering that that’s what Harlan himself has been doing for the last sixty-five years, I had a clear mandate.”</span><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tracing the fractious Ellison’s life and career – and including, for the first time with permission, excerpts from his work –  the biography explores his fears, his demons, and his doubts as well as his principles, his hopes, and his triumphs. “It is, without question, the most vulnerable and intimate he has ever allowed himself to appear in print,” Segaloff says. “This is a portrait of the man and his intensely personal creative process, not the usual list of lawsuits, melees, or tantrums, although they’re in here, too.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Those interviewed include Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, David Gerrold, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, J. Michael Straczynski, Robert Silverberg, Paul Krassner, and Walter Koenig. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Along the way the reader is
treated to</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> an analysis of the Connie Willis controversy, the infamous dead gopher story, allegedly pushing a fan down an elevator shaft, and the final word on </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Last Dangerous Visions</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">What emerges is a rich
portrait of a man who has spent his life doing battle with his times and himself,
always challenging his readers to reach for a higher plane and goading himself
to get them there. It’s funny, wise, shocking, and—well, it’s Harlan.</span></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“NESFA Press is honored to be publishing </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Lit Fuse</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,” says editor David G. Grubbs. “So much has been written about Harlan Ellison without Harlan’s input that we are happy to finally have the man himself on record. This will be a revelation, even to people who know him.”</span></span></p><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">... a vivid portrait of [Harlan Ellison], told with respect and affection but also without pulling any punches. ... I've read most of Segaloff's books ... and say without hesitation that this is the best thing he has ever done. I fully expect this to be on next year's Hugo ballot for "best related work," ... </span></font><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Whether you're a science fiction fan, a devotee of Ellison, or simply interested in what it means to be a writer, this is an essential book. Harlan Ellison trusted Nat Segaloff with his life, and Nat Segaloff repaid that trust with a book fully worthy of its subject.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> — Daniel M. Kimmel, author of Jar<i> Jar Binks Must Die... and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies</i> and <i>Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel</i></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To order your copy of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Lit Fuse</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> please visit <a href="http://www.nesfapress.org/ALitFuse" target="_blank">http://www.nesfapress.org/ALit<wbr>Fuse</a> or go to <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">www.amazon.com</a>.</span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-1686725215516931070gmail-m_1988405597454749472m_-6569169714072807285gmail-m_5070922848151796955gmail-m_900118044404858824gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size: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