My First Post Ever

Sweet and Sour. That about describes me. Ask my mother, you might get sweet. Ask others, surely you'll find someone who says sour. It's just my nature. I got a couple kindle books on Amazon, and I want to plug them before I forget. So, here's a brief commercial break:

<a href="www.amazon.com/The-Petoskey-Stone-ebook/dp/B004EYTBM6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293830105&sr=8-1">The Petoskey Stone</a>

Publishers Weekly said of this (no lie):

Hotshot investigative reporter Steve Flaherty takes on a powerful real estate developer, corrupt politicians, and an ill-tempered city editor who hates his guts in this tightly plotted crime fiction novel set in a mid-size Michigan city.

Two construction workers who specialize in high-rise welding have plummeted to their deaths in a gruesome crane accident at the city's almost-completed sports stadium and within minutes there are rumors that someone on the work site knew the enormous crane was going to fall. Flaherty, ordered to stay away from the breaking story by editors who felt his previous coverage of the stadium developer had been too critical, protests and is suspended from his job. He nevertheless races to the scene, and is grudgingly reinstated based on the authoritative story he calls in. The fast-paced plot follows Flaherty's investigation into the two deaths and into the odd behavior of two other construction workers who, after witnessing the crane collapse, got in their truck and fled home to Wyoming.

Flaherty's style is a mix of shrewd, gutsy reporting and horrendously bad career moves and personal gaffes (pursued by a female reporter who finally gets him into her bed, he ham-handedly extricates himself from the fling, only to learn that she's been promoted – to be his editor). Flaherty's constant whiny self-deprecation and social cluelessness make him a hard protagonist to warm up to, but the story – trim and taut and filled with strong, memorable characters – never lets you down.

And here's my other book:

<a href="www.amazon.com/The-Ride-Home-ebook/dp/B004TZKEMQ/ref=pd_sim_kinc_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2">The Ride Home</a>

And here's my pitch (no lie):

A reporter covers the crime he committed.

Pedaling home one night, reporter Mark Wagner is harassed and knocked off his bicycle by three men in an SUV. Chased into a park, he is attacked by one of them with a knife. He passes up a chance to run, and defends himself with his bike lock, seriously injuring his attacker before fleeing.

He keeps the incident secret from his wife, a county prosecutor, and in the morning, his editor calls and asks him to investigate a report of violence in the park. As the days pass, Mark moves deeper into the life of the person he injured, with consequences he can’t foresee.

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So, well, check them out!

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