While I'm working with my cover artist in Canada, my proof reader in Texas, and at the same time sending out request for usage rights to half a dozen companies fo "Between the Clown & the Corpsecicles, I've also started my new book, "The Wager". It too will feature Tuba Lemoyne and be set on the Gulf Coast.
Synopsis:
In early 1960s Biloxi, a loan shark antis-up $10,000 in a high stakes game of murder. If Tuba can prevent the intended victim from being killed for two months, he runs the chance of winning a lot of money. But if he fails, the victim will lose more than his wager; he'll lose his life.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Updates to book status
Today I found out that the correct Nook version of "Life is Hellin Illinois" had made it to the Barnes & Noble web site. I was really worried that it would never get corrected.
The first draft of Between the Clown & the Corpsecicles is in proofing. That's when I discovered I was spelling it wrong. I had it spelled like bicycles instead of an icicles. Thank God I haden't gotten an ISBN number yet. Uhg.
I'm working on expanding it the latter a bit. Right now it stands are just under 55K words. If I'm ever going to break out of the "short story" or "short novel" label, I'm going to have to expand it to at least 100K. But then, maybe I was never meant to go beyond the shorter formats. I won't add words just to adding words.
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The first draft of Between the Clown & the Corpsecicles is in proofing. That's when I discovered I was spelling it wrong. I had it spelled like bicycles instead of an icicles. Thank God I haden't gotten an ISBN number yet. Uhg.
I'm working on expanding it the latter a bit. Right now it stands are just under 55K words. If I'm ever going to break out of the "short story" or "short novel" label, I'm going to have to expand it to at least 100K. But then, maybe I was never meant to go beyond the shorter formats. I won't add words just to adding words.
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
Between the Clown & the Corpsecicles
I have finished the first draft of a short novel about a detective who lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I'm hoping to have it e-published in time for Christmas giving.
I'm not sure what made me decide to write detective fiction. Maybe it was a good idea; maybe not. I'll have to wait and see the response from my readers.
The main character, Theodore Lemoyne has several nicknames. To his family, he is Teddy. To everyone else, he is Tuba. The book tells how he got the nick name Tuba, as well as fills the reader in on his background.
Tuba is like no other detective I can remember reading. He is not swift on the up-take, logical, methodical, fastidious, strong, or even good looking. He considers himself well groomed when he has more food in his stomach than on it.
In this introductory book to what might or might not become a series, Tuba, who became a private detective shortly after graduating from high school, is asked by an old school mate, Debbie Benton McGee, to help her investigate a series of murders that have taken place since they graduated. Each murder occurred exactly seven years after the previous one. More strangely, each fell between two specific dates in December. The earlier date coincided with the death of the former Chief of Police who had become a child's party clown (The Clown). The latter with the deaths of five members of one family who were found frozen to death at a home construction sight (The Corpsecycles).
At first, Tuba is reluctant to investigate what he sees as nothing more than a series of coincidences. When Debbie goes missing, he has a change of heart. But it isn't until after several attempts are made to removed him from the picture, and another death, that he turns up the heat on the investigation in an attempt to find the perpetrator before another murder is committed.
I'm not sure what made me decide to write detective fiction. Maybe it was a good idea; maybe not. I'll have to wait and see the response from my readers.
The main character, Theodore Lemoyne has several nicknames. To his family, he is Teddy. To everyone else, he is Tuba. The book tells how he got the nick name Tuba, as well as fills the reader in on his background.
Tuba is like no other detective I can remember reading. He is not swift on the up-take, logical, methodical, fastidious, strong, or even good looking. He considers himself well groomed when he has more food in his stomach than on it.
In this introductory book to what might or might not become a series, Tuba, who became a private detective shortly after graduating from high school, is asked by an old school mate, Debbie Benton McGee, to help her investigate a series of murders that have taken place since they graduated. Each murder occurred exactly seven years after the previous one. More strangely, each fell between two specific dates in December. The earlier date coincided with the death of the former Chief of Police who had become a child's party clown (The Clown). The latter with the deaths of five members of one family who were found frozen to death at a home construction sight (The Corpsecycles).
At first, Tuba is reluctant to investigate what he sees as nothing more than a series of coincidences. When Debbie goes missing, he has a change of heart. But it isn't until after several attempts are made to removed him from the picture, and another death, that he turns up the heat on the investigation in an attempt to find the perpetrator before another murder is committed.
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