Here you go, Lin--I typed it out for you so you can see it.
Dear Bookseller,
As the publisher of some of the finest horror books ever written, it takes a lot to get me excited about a new horror writer. Such a writer has now appeared. In March, Richard Bachman sent me his fourth novel. Richard is a good writer whose novels have been published in Signet paperback editions over the past several years. Since he has not been a horror writer, Richard advised me in his covering letter that I would be in for a surprise when I read his new manuscript.
It had a short title. THINNER.
From the first page I was immediately hooked. Set in a small town in Connecticut, it is about a perfectly ordinary man, Billy Halleck, a lawyer, with a nice wife and an attractive teen-aged daughter, whose world turns suddenly and irrevocably upside down. In an unforgettable scene, Billy's car strikes and kills an old woman in his home town. She's a gypsy, and it wasn't really Billy's fault, was it? So why does he start to lose weight? Dangerous amounts of weight, even though he eats more and more!
There is no medical explanation; they say it's all in his mind. But it isn't his mind that is wasting away; it's his body. And Billy knows only one man can stop it--the old gypsy who touched and cursed him, mysteriously uttering the word, "Thinner." Billy, in desperation, realizes he must find that gypsy, and it becomes a race against time.
What happens is most unexpected, and all I can guarantee is that after you read this chilling, compelling page-turner of a novel, you will never think about dieting again.
All of us at NAL were so excited by this book that we decided it deserved a hardcover launch. So therefore we are doing this special ABA edition of THINNER so that you can have the opportunity to share our enthusiasm. We have big plans in store for it, with a 50,000-copy first printing and a $50,000 ad budget.
Richard Bachman is an incredibly talented writer, and THINNER is a riveting novel that gives a new meaning to the word "horror." Read it and enjoy.