Dear Reader,
I’ve been told that if I want to be a successful
author, I should have a newsletter to my readers. I was reluctant at
first, but remembered how powerful word of mouth and the Internet can be,
how you’re supposedly only six people away from knowing everyone in the
world, and so, here we are. You are receiving this email because you
either have at one point shown interest in my writing and work, or you are
a friend/relative of mine in which case this is forced upon you. In
either circumstance you can be rid of me by hitting the delete key in your
inbox and replying to this email with the words “unsubscribe” in the
subject.
My first novel, The Janitor is finally
making it into the main stream. It was released in paperback in February
and in the last two months has made its way into bookstores and online
mediums such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Pretty much any bookstore in
the world can now offer it. If your favorite store doesn’t have it on the
shelves, please ask that they order it. They’ll ask for the ISBN. Give
them this: 0615153801.
You can still read the first six chapters for free or
download
the entire novel off my website.
Sales have been
increasing every month it seems. They are hard to track since so many
different venues offer The Janitor, but that is a good thing I
guess. I’m super close to the tipping point, of busting through and being
able to write full time. It just takes time and more than anything
patience.
Several people I’ve
met online are reviewing The Janitor. There is nothing better for
readership than a few good reviews from ordinary folks. The days are gone
of having some bigwig review your book. The Internet has brought the
power to the people so to speak, considering Amazon drives about 90% of
the book sales in the United States. If you have an account on
Amazon or
Barnes & Noble, have read The Janitor, and can spare 3 minutes
to write a quick review, you’d be doing me a great service. Thanks in
advance!
Somewhat of a book tour is forming. I’ll be in
Mansfield, IN for the Covered Bridge Festival, Oct. 12-21;Walden Books in
Danville, IL, Nov. 3; Illinois State University for National Library Week,
next April. Several more dates are being hammered out, mostly in Central
Illinois and Indiana, but I’m crazy enough to go anywhere. If you want to
see my ugly mug in the flesh, have your favorite bookstore manager get a
hold of me. If they want my phone number let me know, otherwise they can
email me.
There’s a new poem on
the website entitled Relentless.
It can be applied to a whole spectrum of things so I’m not going to tell
you what I think it’s about. I don’t consider myself a poet, but
sometimes I have an idea that just won’t grow into a story, so it ends up
in the purgatory of poetry. Poor idea.
Would You Rather,
my new short story should be on the website by Oct.1. It’s a horror story
that will hopefully scare the poo out of some folks. If you’re prone to
nightmares, like happy endings, or are allergic to raccoons, you might
want to steer clear of this one.
I hope to have Feel
No Pain (new novel) done by January sometime. This one is begging to
be let out, and I’m afraid if I don’t set it free on paper, I’ll lose it
forever. It’s about a guy named Tom Broxton who has a real disease called
CIPA or Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis. I’m not going
to give up much here, but just think, I guy who can’t feel pain, might be
really hard to stop. Also this one is going to start at the end and work
itself to the beginning, one chapter at a time. The challenge for me with
this is writing it in three months. The Janitor was basically written a
little bit at a time over four years. I’ll have to condition myself to
write everyday for several hours (probably in the late night/early
morning). Pray that my brain is up to it. This will be free on the
website until it gets published.
A special thanks to my
wife, Jamie, who lets me stay around, and gets behind every hair-brained
idea I ever come up with, regardless of what she really thinks of it. And
finally, I wish to thank you. Whether you know it or not, your support
has helped get me this far.
Happy reading,
Adam
