And Sometimes Bone: entire novel up on my site
I’ve posted the entire novel AND SOMETIMES BONE, the prequel to NOTHING SAVE THE BONES INSIDE HER, on my website.
To find the novel, simply hover over title on the menu above. There you’ll see each chapter. Click on the link and read away.
I posted the novel this way, instead of making it available as a PDF download, because I’m interested in learning how many folks who read enough chapters to get into it, will follow through to the end.
My reasoning? If a person quits after a couple chapters, he probably isn’t in my target audience. You have to dig grit lit, obscenity, brutality, and raw justice to get into my writing. It isn’t for everyone and most folks know within a chapter or so whether they’ll find value or not.
So if a hundred people click on chapter five, and ninety-nine click on chapter twenty-eight, I’ll assume that most of the folks who generally like my stuff generally like the novel. In that case I’ll publish on Kindle and paper.
If only twenty make it to the end, I’ll delete the whole thing and beg forgiveness.
So what’s the story, you ask?
Well, see, for those of you who’ve read NOTHING SAVE THE BONES INSIDE HER, you’ve met Angus Hardgrave. You know he’s got McClellan blood, and you know there’s a mysterious walnut tree that drips evil down by the lake. AND SOMETIMES BONE is Jonah McClellan’s story, and tells how he wound up haunting the walnut tree on Devil’s Elbow. (Not to give it away, but he made a deal with some dead Indians. Jonah was a whoremaster and it turns out even dead men like women.)
You’ll see a young Angus Hardgrave, a boy tough as nails and full of ornery promise. You’ll meet his aunt Grace, a woman with more grit and steel in her spine than the men around her. You’ll also see pure refined cowardice in the form of Hoot Hardgrave, Angus’s father. Last, and best of all, you’ll get a bellyful of Jonah McClellan. I’d easily put him on par with Sheriff Bittersmith and Angus Hardgrave, in terms of being pure cold evil.
This is gritty, scheming, brutal stuff. If you like that sort of thing, I’m hoping you’ll like this.
It’s up on the website for your enjoyment.
Here’s the cover. If you click on it you should be able to read the back flap:
