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Flip Side Prologue
I wanted to give you all a sneak peek at the current novel I’m working on that should be out before the end of the year, Flip Side.
Prologue
My story starts out pretty much like most, I guess. I was nobody special- a beat cop, walked the straight and narrow. Had a wife I didn’t cheat on. Had a kid I played ball with in the back yard on Sundays after church. You know, a typical nine ta five schmoe.
Then my kid got sick. Something was eating him up on the inside. Docs said there was nothing they could do, not on a flatfoot’s salary. My kid dies. My wife, she can’t handle it, so she takes the easy way out by putting my service revolver in her mouth.
Prohibition passes, the market crashes, and what they’re now calling the “Great Depression” hits like a wrecking ball.
The Families get organized and kick things into high gear. The law scrambles to keep up, and it’s a prime opportunity for cops that don’t have whatcha’d call moral hang-ups. All my life I walked the straight and narrow, and I think to myself, what has it gotten me? A dead kid. A dead wife. A crummy salary with a weak pension that barely covers what I need to get by. So I start to thinking that maybe the crooked path might be worth a shot.
I tell myself it’s not a question of morality, it’s a question of pragmatism.
So I make detective and start playing as an inside man for the other team. I hook up with a family and make good dough. I run with fast women and drive fast cars. Every once in a while I get to rough up some wise guy that don’t know how to pay on time or who don’t toe the “family line”. I like it. I like it a lot. I start wondering why I didn’t take this path sooner. I start wondering why I ever bothered trying to be a good man. I think: being bad is so much more fun; being bad makes so much more sense.
Then the demon comes calling one night, and my story gets a whole lot more interesting…
Coming Soon
Copyright © J.R. Broadwater 2012
All rights reserved
All the characters are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Paperback Release of Down With the Thickness and Other News
Hello folks!
I’ve had a few requests from people to release a “hard” copy of the book as opposed to digital, so me and my team are working hard to comply. We’re hoping to have a paperback version of the release ready to order in the next few days. I’ll be sure to post here as soon as it’s available. We’ll also plan on having both a paperback and digital version of our books from now on. The digital copy will always be cheaper, because I think it’s silly to pay the same price for a file as you do something that you hold in your hands and have to wait to receive. I also promise I’ll do my best to keep the prices of these paperback versions of the books as affordable as possible. We’re shooting to release You Only Die Twice, our first fiction novel, sometime next month. You can check out a short blurb about that under our “books” page. I’ll have a sample chapter available for you to check out next week. I really appreciate all of the support everyone has shown. Please continue to spread the word, and don’t forget to head over to the Amazon page and write a review when you get a chance.
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Thank You
I just want to thank everyone who purchased a copy of my book the last few days. I really appreciate your support. I have an even bigger thank you for those of you who have helped to promote, re-tweet, and link on Facebook. This thing is getting around by word of mouth more than anything and I really appreciate you taking the time to do so. On that note, if you’ve finished reading the book and have a few minutes, please stop by the Amazon page for the book and write up a short review. The more reviews and ratings I have, the better the chance someone might stumble on it. I’m honestly not too concerned about making money off of it (it’s one of the reasons it’s priced at $0.99, the lowest Amazon will allow), I’d just really like for people to see it as I think it might be able to help those who struggle with a lot of the issues I have my whole life. To that end, if you have purchased a copy, I enabled “lending”, so you are able to lend your copy to a friend that has a Kindle. I’m not sure how that process works exactly, but it’s an option.
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Spacing issues…
For those of you reading DWTT on a smartphone the spacing for the titles, etc. might look funky due to the font type and the smaller screen size. It should look much better on a tablet and it looks like my draft did on the PC app. Lesson learned. I’ll need to choose a different font/size for future books so it works better with smaller screens.
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Down With the Thickness is Now Available
My first e-book, Down With the Thickness: Viewing the World From a Fat Guy’s Perspective is now live and available for purchase for the Amazon Kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle that’s okay, because you can still read a copy using a free Kindle App download available for most smartphones, tablets, PC’s and Mac’s. Please check it out and help spread the word! I’m poor and need the money! :-p Click Here to purchase.
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I’m an Idiot…
Okay, so I’m an idiot. This is not news to those of you who know me. When submitting DWTT apparently under “contributors” I didn’t add myself as the author, because I thought putting myself as the publisher and everything else covered that. I thought contributors was for the additional people that helped. So, after 24 hours of submissions I finally got an e-m ail that said “hey, stupid, you didn’t list an author. Long story short- in another 12 hours it should be available.
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Get Down With the Thickness!
Okay boys and girls, assuming everything goes right and there isn’t any hitches that need to be fixed by 3 A.M. or so Down With the Thickness should be available for purchase on the Amazon Kindle store for all English speaking countries. It should be available world-wide in the next 24-48 hours (it takes that long for translation). I’ll probably post this again, only with more gusto, tomorrow when it’s official and available. But please, pick up a copy, tell your friends, have them tell their friends. Please help get the word out. It’ll only be $0.99. You can read it on basically any electronic device known to man (there’s an app for that). You spend more for a pack of gum or an item on the dollar menu at McDonald’s and I’d like to think you’d get more out of my book.
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DWTT Final Cover
Well, here it is, the final cover for Down With the Thickness by our own Shawn Skvarna:
Purty, ain’t it? I’ve got a few final things to get into place, but if everything works out the book should be on sale for the Amazon Kindle by the end of next week. It’ll only cost $0.99, and even if you don’t own a Kindle you can still purchase and read it on your PC, iPhone, Android, iPad, etc. The Kindle app is free to download on any PC or device. Please spread the word, won’t you?
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DWTT Cover Rough Draft
Well, here’s a rough draft of the cover by Shawn Skvarna. I think it looks awesome, and it’s scary how much it looks like me. He’s still playing around with the title and backgrounds but I think it’s a great foundation.
DWTT Cover RD
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