Last Chance for Savvy Readers to Take Aim at Wall Street's Phonies and Win $1,200

The Bronoff's Rules Missing Rule Contest deadline is June 30. The prize is $1,200. To win, readers of Bronoff's Rules, a comic novel about playing the market and all-American greed, are invited to create a rule to add to the book's 15 rules for "How to Trade Like a Wall Street Insider."

New York (PRWEB) June 1, 2009 -- The Missing Rule Contest invites readers of Bronoff's Rules to contribute their own humor and wisdom to the comic novel and win $1,200. Contest details are at http://www.bronoff.com.

Bronoff's Rules is a fast-paced, funny novel about the mayhem caused by a hot stock tip gone awry. For its timely satire, Bronoff's Rules was called "the most prescient novel around" by the East Hampton Independent. It is hilarious reading from beginning to end.

The novel's comic hero, Sam Bronoff, a notorious Wall Street insider just released from a federal pen, is turning his own experience into a book of advice called "How to Trade Like a Wall Street Insider."

He starts this way: Rule #1: Expect to Lose Money. Readers can take it from there. Add a nugget of truth Bronoff has missed in the course of the story and submit it to The Missing Rule Contest. The postmark deadline is June 30. The prize is $1,200. You can read Bronoff's first six rules in Chapter 3 of Bronoff's Rules and learn more about the contest at http://www.bronoff.com.

The story of Bronoff's Rules starts when ex-con Sam Bronoff, just sprung after serving five years for insider trading and stock market fraud, shows up to begin his community service--teaching English to immigrants. He has garnered this choice assignment on the strength of his pending book contract for "How to Trade Like a Wall Street Insider." He quickly realizes that his students are much more interested in his stock market know-how than in his lessons in English grammar.

When one of his students, an energetic free-market believer from Russia, introduces Bronoff to a beautiful and sympathetic magazine editor, he shows his gratitude by sharing a hot stock tip. This leads him and all of his students on a path of hilarious mayhem through the landscape of American media, politics, Wall Street, and the social whirl of the rich and striving.

Bronoff's Rules moves with cinematic pacing and vividness into the deepest humor of the human condition. You can't help laughing out loud--at the infuriating hypocrisy of Bronoff's brother-in-law, the dead-on savvy of his estranged wife, the pretensions of Wall Street's finest, the hopes of the hangers-on, and Bronoff's own attempts to set things straight in "How to Trade Like a Wall Street Insider"--his humorous rules that couldn't be truer. Sample Chapter 3 of Bronoff's Rules at http://www.bronoff.com.

Author Nao Hauser wrote Bronoff's Rules because she felt there were too few books that made her laugh out loud and knew from her own experience playing the market ("a great way for a writer to survive--and prosper," she says) that markets work because they express the feelings, albeit irrational, that lie at the heart of us all. Hauser's own experience playing the market is recounted in The Author's True Confession at http://www.bronoff.com.

Hauser created The Missing Rule Contest as a way of recognizing the importance of the reader's imagination in the telling of a story. The Missing Rule Contest is designed to engage you in the story's direction while you're enjoying the reading. The deadline for contest entries is June 30. Bronoff's Rules can be ordered for $7.95 at http://www.bronoff.com, or from Amazon and Kindle.

If you miss this deadline, there will be other contests aimed at skewering Wall Street's phonies--and all others! Check for updates at http://www.bronoff.com.

About Nao Hauser:
The author of Bronoff's Rules is a food, travel, and culture journalist who has published hundreds of articles in major publications, including Bon Appetit, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, and The Chicago Tribune. She has been playing the market through a couple of crashes without losing faith--or hope! Bronoff's Rules is her first novel. She is currently working on a second novel about the survival of a restaurant.

Contact:
Nao Hauser, author, Bronoff's Rules
OMR Press
http://www.bronoff.com
212-222-8249

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