I'll get right to it. I'm starting the posting of a new book called Dancing For Daddy. It is 28 chapters long and I wrote it specifically to address a common complaint - that I end my stories too quickly. The Foreword talks about that.
It will take about two weeks to post and, for the impatient ones, it will be available on Bookapy in complete form.
A note about that. If you buy one of my new books on Bookapy, remember to re-download it a month later. This is because, while Michelle and Andy do great work cleaning up my mistakes, the final review I do while posting inevitably leads to me "tweaking" things. I add and subtract things and errors slip back in. That means that, if I publish the book on Bookapy when I start posting it at SOL, those errors will be in that version of the book, too.
Nice readers often write to me and point things out, which then get fixed. Once I'm pretty sure everything got caught and fixed, I re-publish the book.
Okay, lastly, I don't get much room to write a teaser when posting a story at SOL. It's something like 400 characters. Publishing platforms often give you a "long version" of the teaser, so I'll print the long version of the teaser for this book in this blog entry. That is what follows:
Bob was a Marine, and his repeated deployments made his wife crazy. In her case, it was literally crazy. She thought divorcing him and taking their daughter with her would solve the problem and, to keep him from finding them, she even got the judge to let her change their last name. When he got back from his latest deployment, it was to an empty house. There was nothing he could do about it. The only clue he found were pamphlets from NGOs that typically worked in Africa, digging wells, or distributing aid. Had his wife gone there? Had she taken their daughter with her? He got out of the Corps and tried to move on with his life, but it was empty without his little girl. Then, one night, he took his visiting boss to the only strip club in town. His boss got drunk and was waving a fistful of money at a dancer dressed as the rodeo queen. Bob went to stop him from climbing up on stage and the rodeo queen looked him in the eye. His life changed forever when she said, "Daddy?!"
Thanks for reading.
Bob