Erin Lale Will Sign Her New Book, Skinflint Hints, At Book Boutique November 12 2011

Online, September 29, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Book Boutique in Henderson, Nevada will host a booksigning for Erin Lale's latest nonfiction book, Skinflint Hints, on Saturday November 12 from noon to 2pm.

Skinflint Hints is a guide to saving money. The back cover copy says it's "a guide to surviving the 'new normal' for the formerly middle class" and promises that it is "guaranteed to save you at least ten times the cover price." Lale says her friends urged her to write this book because she is "the biggest tightwad in Vegas."

Lale is a prolific author who has published 15 books this year, about half nonfiction and half science fiction. Most of her books are exclusively ebooks. Her other two recent print books are Asatru For Beginners, a short introduction to the heathen religion, and How to Run for Office on a Liberty Platform, co-authored with Alexander Snitker and other liberty candidates, about the authors' experiences running for office in 2010. Lale ran for Nevada State Assembly District 29 (the Green Valley area of Henderson, Nevada) on the Libertarian ticket in 2010. She will have these books available to sign at Book Boutique, too.

Book Boutique is located at 19 W. Pacific Ave. in downtown Henderson. It is across the street from VJ Hats & Art Gallery, which carries Lale's original sunprints. Lale is the world's most prominent contemporary sunprint artist.

The cover art of Skinflint Hints is Lale's sunprint "Three Sisters." Lale says, "It's an example of skinflint charity. I wanted to give back to Native Seed Search because I've benefitted from their program in which they distribute free food crop seeds to Native Americans. I grew several different kinds of traditional Native American Indian food plants from the seeds that Native Seed Search provided, made a series of sunprints from them, and donated the art to Native Seed Search, which auctioned them as a fundraiser. A sunprint is a contact photograph made with a 19th Century process that predated silver process photography. The sunprint Three Sisters depicts seedlings of a corn, tepary bean, and squash plant."

In addition to illustrating an example of how to live a skinflint lifestyle, the cover art is also green, which Lale says represents that "You can be green while saving your folding green. Prices are a good guide to how much resources you're using, so a lot of the tips in Skinflint Hints also help you conserve resources in addition to helping you save money."