No Big Thing

Hi everyone. Good news. My new novel, No Big Thing, has advanced to the Quarterfinals of the BookLife Prize for Fiction. The first round of judges gave it a 9.75 rating out of 10, and said "This vividly-imagined historical novel is a compelling, eye-opening, and important read." The novel , fairly short in length [70,000 words] follows a fictitious rural Missouri family in their quest to join the State's Adopt-A-Highway program, the problem being they are applying in the name of the KKK. The story has a colorful cast of supporting characters - a rough-and-tumble meth dealer, a budding social anthropologist, an idealistic lawyer, a Baptist minister, and a sexy Deadhead. No Big Thing is a funny and thoughtful take on the obvious and not-so-obvious forms of discrimination. It's based on actual events that took place in and around St. Louis in the 1990s and involved litigation that went all the way to the US Supreme Court.
The BookLife Prize is $5000 and if I win - big IF - I will be able to buy that pencil I've been saving for. BTW, it is available only on Kindle now [$2.99], but will be a paperback by late February 2018.