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Novel: For the Sake of Happiness – Now Up For Sale!

For the Sake of Happiness has finally been published on the CreateSpace store. It’s been a long, long, very long year and a half writing and editing this work, and I’ve finally made it available for purchase once and for all.

I’ve ordered a couple of proofs since the first time I readied it for publishing, and I’ll include photographs of the latest proof.

This was a lot tougher than I thought it would be. Once I got it ready for publishing, after reading and checking the proof, I was still too scared to release it. No matter how many fixes I make, I still see it as amateur. But if I keep working on this one book forever, I’ll never be able to write anything else. I have so many ideas brewing, and sitting on just one project for two years is way too time-consuming. That, and I have been reading and editing this book for so long, that I’ve gotten sick of looking at it. It’s time to release it into the wild, to show it to the public. The question now is: how well is it going to do? I suppose that’ll be my readers’ call. I tried as hard as I could to release quality work, gave it my best, worked my ass off, and attempted to give them what they pay for.

As for the novel itself, and what it involves… well, let’s just say, in a twist of irony, it’s not a very happy story, but a very dramatic one. Cory, a young man in his early twenties, discovers that he has a stalker, someone who has been pursuing him for two years, and who has decided to write him anonymous letters explicating their undying devotion to him. Cory goes on a frantic search for the mysterious individual, hoping to catch them in the act. When he learns the identity of his admirer, he attempts to learn all he can about them.

Proof copy photos:

The book is available in trade paperback here: https://www.createspace.com/4504831, and will soon be available on Amazon, as well as released for Kindle. It will be enrolled in the Matchbook program, and possibly for Kindle select (Lending Library).

Release for Amazon and Kindle to soon be announced!