The author’s biography is something of an adventure as well. According to his website (RogerDubin.com): “I was born in New York City, raised there and on Long Island. At the age of sixteen and just graduated from high school, I lied my way into the Merchant Marine and shipped out on a tramp freighter bound for North Africa. A seminal experience, as the saying goes, which eventually provided the backdrop for The Coin of the Realm.

“My seafaring itch scratched, I came home and embarked on what became a series of regrettable forays into several colleges—the regret was mutual, mine and the colleges’—then for a decade worked on-and-off as a musician, including a few years as a starving songwriter in Hollywood. Between gigs and recording spurts, I wrote news copy and ad copy, and that led to an award-winning career as an executive in the cruise and travel industries, principally in San Francisco, Hawaii, and New York. Finally I got off the corporate merry-go-round and climbed aboard the consulting roller-coaster, which I'm still riding today.”

Mr. Dubin, who is currently working on his second novel, and his wife Barbara, an artist, moved to Prescott in 2001, after eleven years on the island of Maui.  Their two grown children live on the east coast.  

The Coin of the Realm is published by Tarsus Press in trade-paperback edition (360 pages; 5” x 8”; ISBN 978-0-615-23848-7). It’s available at a discount from Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com, and to the book trade at the regular trade discount through Ingram Book Group. Consumers can also order The Coin of the Realm from their local bookstore.



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Article contributed by the Publisher. Posted March 4, 2009.