First it was Saving Saddam, now Montanamo. Chris Leibig is back with another timely current events thriller. When the small town of Twin Rivers, Montana seeks a federal contract to house Guantanamo Bay prisoners, everyone from a state senator to the town mayor gets involved, and Twin Rivers finds itself in the national spotlight. Small-town secrets take center stage in this tale of personal ambition and political intrigue. As with Saving Saddam, Montanamo is released by Artnik Books, a UK imprint specializing in pop culture books. Saving Saddam was their first fiction title, and they couldn't wait to bring Montanamo to press.

Chris Leibig is a trial lawyer with Zwerling, Leibig & Moseley, P.C. and has appeared on several recent talk shows and news programs sharing his insights into events such as the Times Square bomb incident. "Chris has three assets going for him: the breadth and depth of his legal knowledge and experience, his astute instincts as a storyteller, and a strong, distinct authorial voice," said editor Peter Gelfan. "Editing is fun and easy when you're working with someone as smart and talented as Chris."

With Jesse Steele

{addthis off}First of all, Peter Gelfan is not a magician.  You might believe so after reading some of the testimonials written about his editing work, but his abilities to pull a rabbit out of a hat or make the Statue of Liberty disappear are still unproven.  While that might make Peter a poor candidate to entertain at a child's birthday party, at the Editorial Department we are ecstatic to put the nearly two decades he has dedicated to editing, ghostwriting, and generally making good writing great to quality use on our client's manuscripts.

JS: What do you do when you’re not writing or editing?

PG: Not much. (Laughs) Photography. I’ve often thought I’ve learned more about writing from photography than I have from books about how to write. It’s the same idea. You’re taking a picture of a particular thing for a specific reason, not just snapping away. You include the elements around it that support the image and the idea. You frame and selectively focus to eliminate all the things that don’t support the picture or might distract from it.