I've Written Something I like. A Lot. Go Figure

I've lately been a typing fool and, as I've mentioned, have finished two novels. One is Ray Tatum-ish and is currently on submission to editors, a painfully slow process. Eaglesworth is the other. My book agent has made it clear she prefers the Ray Tatum novel, but I am far happier with Eaglesworth than anything I've written in a while. Those of you who have knocked around this blog know that's not the sort of claim I normally make about my work, but Eaglesworth is breezy and funny and very close to what I imagined it would be when I started on it.

So I'm just going to put it out and see how it goes. There is both an electronic version and paperback available at Amazon.

Here's the description that will appear along with the book:

A small Virginia town, long since bypassed by the interstate, has but two claims on historical significance — a plaque marking the route where General Longstreet’s army retired from a defeat and a near derelict Georgian mansion called Eaglesworth. The house sits on a hilltop, neglected and weathered, until an outlander rolls in to bring it back to life. The story of the sordid secrets the renovation reveals is told by a pack of local barflies, a ragged bunch of half-cocked civic boosters and gossips who give us history as seen through the bottom of a shot glass.

Funny, bittersweet, and glancingly philosophical, Eaglesworth is a fanciful biography of a place, a latter-day slice of the Old Dominion that the Sage of Monticello would hardly recognize.

I intend to submit this novel in a limited way for print reviews, but your responses will matter most. So if you decide to read this book, please take the time to write an Amazon and/or Goodreads review. Say whatever you like. Praise it or blow it out of the water, entirely up to you, but engagement matters now more than ever.

Since "professional" reviews are increasingly hard to come by and I've no plans to yodel in a Walmart, I need your help. That's the only way I can make a straight-to-Amazon book work, so let me know what you think. Let us all know what you think. And happy reading.

https://www.amazon.com/Eaglesworth-TR...