Ray Again

I've been going round and round with this latest Ray Tatum novel -- tweaking it, rearranging it, rewriting it, setting it aside, picking it up.
Editors are still reading an earlier incarnation, but I have little faith in that route, so I'm releasing a version on Amazon I'm well satisfied with.

In working through the process of setting the novel up for publication, I've learned that Amazon is no longer simply a publisher and retailer of books but also a wholesale distributor of physical books to brick and mortar bookstores. This is new and appears to mean a writer can now publish a paperback through Amazon and have it show up on the shelves of any bookstore in the wide world that cares to order discounted copies.

Now I'm left to wonder how long it will take for Simon&Schuster et al. to sink into the briny deep since Amazon will likely do their work far more efficiently than they've ever done it while paying royalties once a month instead of, you know, never. We'll see.

Anyway, Brigade is up for sale in both ebook and paperback editions, and I'm describing it as Rashomon for the blood and soil crowd -- Ray Tatum among the MAGAs.

https://www.amazon.com/Brigade-TR-Pea...

While I've arrived at a version I like, it has been thorny and difficult to decide what should stay in and what should go out and how exactly to tell a rather tough story. I needed time and distance to make (I hope) the right decisions in the end.

Enjoy, if that's the proper word. Some of these people are kind of awful. Not Ray, though. Never Ray.

(And do feel free to send me corrections here. I'm having to depend on copyediting software and my own eyes, neither of which is completely reliable.)