Miss Simon's Dime Novel

Miss Simon #3

by Tony Laplume

Jim has been thinking about that favorite subject among Star Wars fans: whether or not Han Solo shot first. And so he’s cobbled together a narrative of his own, about early Western actors Jack and Al Hoxie, whose real lives he retells in spectacular fashion. As he weaves his almost mythic tale of the rise and fall in fortunes of the Hoxie brothers, Jim reaches an inevitable conclusion: once again, a fatal shootout occurs, but which one shoots first? Will the indomitable Miss Simon agree?

130 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2016

About the author

Tony Laplume was born in 1980, spent a few years in Rhode Island, but started making his mark in the world when his family relocated to Maine, where he attended every year of his schooling, including college at the University of Maine in Orono (except for a year at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA), where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in English. In high school, he created the comic strip "Newsroom" for the Academic Advocate, which published it from 1998-1999. He wrote a regular opinion column for UMaine's Maine Campus from 2002-2003. He co-founded and worked on the Hemlock literary journal from 2003-2004. In 2007, he co-created the short-lived literary journal Dead Letter Quarterly with A.C. Hall and Derek Koch. He also self-published The Cloak of Shrouded Men that year. He has since completed two additional novels, Pale Moonlight and The Whole Bloody Affair.

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spends too much time debating whether Han shot first.