I wish I could
share my entire novel Famous After Death
with you today as I intended, although I have some feisty snippets to whet your
appetite.
Yeah, I’m sort
of eating crow after previously announcing its release by June. I got a call
from a balling , book-starved Oprah, but I calmed her down and promised it
would be out soon.
What’s the hold
up? The novel has been edited. We need to put the finishing touches on a few
things, including the layout of the cover. My publisher Silver Leaf Books is
determined to release multiple books this summer and into the early fall, so I
must be patient as all of them are prepared. At this point, I don’t have a hard
release date from my publisher but I’m sure it’s close.
I’m sorry,
Oprah, I can’t tell you exactly how close. To make sure you get Famous After Death on your doorstep at
the earliest date possible, you can pre-order it from Silver Leaf Books here.
What I can do is
share some of my favorite lines from Famous
After Death with you. Like any good movie, a book should have plenty of
one-liners and, what they call in the wrestling business, verbal pipe bombs.
Here’s a sample
of what you’ll find in Famous After Death.
Better to live on a roller coaster than
treading water.
Clyde’s physique was perfectly sculpted for
a desk and chair. Occasionally, he met a paper clip that needed a firm
twisting.
“Just imagine how it’ll feel when we make
him lay belly-down on the pavement after he took Viagra. Raging hard-on, meet
unforgiving concrete.”
As Uncle Alberto had told him in his last
letter from jail, a man owns his transgressions. Just don’t let them catch you
owning them.
“You’re the man of the family now, Jorge.
Are you gonna be another faceless teenager? Or are you gonna be a roaming
panther?”
“You don’t trust seedy men, but that’s the
only kind you’ll attract acting all fakakta.”
“Don’t look at me like that,” his mom said.
“You don’t scare me.” (Response): “Then you don’t know me as well as you think
you do.”
“Sorry I didn’t dress the part. It seems
that my clothes were soaked with blood tonight. A woman’s blood. You know who
I’m talking about, don’t you?”
“It’s so easy to hide behind a computer and
laugh at the horrors of the innocent. But you’re not passive. They’re killing
on your behalf.”
“Get on your knees and put your hands
behind your head.” (Response): “Your momma can get on her knees.”
You think you know what it’s like to lose
everything you love? No you don’t. Not yet.
There’s plenty
more where that came from. When Famous
After Death is out, I urge you to share your favorite lines from the book
with me via video. Silver Leaf Books will post the best fan-read lines from the
book on its website.
More information
on this special video coming soon. After all, what’s a book about murder gone
viral without viral reader interaction?