Yes, folks, I’m taking the plunge into self-publishing. I feel like I’m about to dive into shark infested waters only to find out that I’ve dropped a fresh, raw steak into the pool. I have no grandiose illusions that all will be well, or that I won’t find a hideous mistake on the first page of the book the second I upload it to KDP. But I’m not one to linger too long in the preparation stage of a project. I expect to make mistakes, have regrets, build a tale to laugh at a few months from now. Still, I believe the story is all that I want it to be and those who happen on it through whatever means I can promote this speck of plankton in the sea of books, will not be disappointed.
So, if you’re looking for a book that isn’t a romance, isn’t action packed, isn’t X-rated or sanitized, then I encourage you to look for “Finding Home” – Tyler’s Story- Book One launching in about a week. You may not have planned stepping into the world of a twenty-two year old young man whose life is taking steps backward, away from his dreams, but you’ll finish this book feeling that you know him and want him to succeed. You’ll love and hate those around him. You’ll laugh. You may cry. You may yell. You will finish the book and say, “when is Book Two coming out”?
Every day this week, I will post an excerpt from the book. Leave a comment! Leave a “like”! It would make my day!
Excerpt from “Finding Home” Tyler’s Story- Book One
My mom’s voice echoes in my mind: “Tyler, that’s your problem. You think too much.”
Like I don’t know that already. She offers bits of useless advice like that. Things easy for her to say, but the truth is she never thinks enough. She just plows forward, getting chewed up by anything in her path. She used to drag me along. Not anymore. Mom made it easy to leave Grangeville. My waste-of-a-life stepfather, Stan, too. My girlfriend, Linda, and her plans to have five kids before she turns 30, gave me the last shove. Sometimes I fool myself and say I only left because of the apprentice position that opened. Like I was pursuing a dream. Sounds good. Sounds smarter than getting the hell away from people who kill my soul. I put a solid eight hours between them and me. That’s the way I want it. That’s the way it will stay, even though I’ve lost everything but my car.
Happy New Year! Don’t forget to stop back tomorrow for another excerpt and thanks for stopping by today! Clare
About – “Finding Home”
Finding Home – New Adult / Contemporary Literary Fiction / 81K words/38 Chapters
Short Summary:
Tyler can’t escape going back to his hometown where he faces not only his beer-guzzling stepfather, his four young half-brothers living the life he ran away from, and a bitter ex-girlfriend, but also a family history his mother doesn’t want him to know.
Clare Graith 