Pro Bono Hardcover Now Available

Pro Bono was sort of my first "real book."  I had already done The Table of Truth before then, and had even printed a picture book of my movie Stolen Souls.  But Pro Bono was the first book that I really promoted and distributed.  It's where I learned how to do everything.  Thus, I got a lot of things wrong in the post-promotional period.  Still, it's remained my top selling book.

One thing I really wanted to do, but I had no idea how to do it, was make a hardcover version.  I couldn't do it on Createspace, where I do most of my publishing, so it went by the wayside for a while.  Then I discovered that I could do hardcovers on Lulu.  The problem was that by the time I got around to figuring that out, I had moved on to other projects.  So I've been trying to find time to do this ever since.

Meanwhile, as I was going to various talks, readings, and signings, people shared with me their memories of the Starkweather murder spree, and the ensuing trials.  I got more and more information, including an entire other case where the district attorney falsely accused another man of murder, and that man later sued the state for hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.  This other case was being appealed at the same time as the Fugate one, and the man's lawyers were often in the same courtroom just before or after my grandfather and father tried their cases.  I got more about this, and other elements of the story, out of my dad in the months after the Pro Bono paperback came out.

So now the hardcover is available here on Lulu:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/jeff-mcarthur/pro-bono-the-18-year-defense-of-caril-ann-fugate/hardcover/product-21985962.html