hallelujah, i finally finished my novel. it's not that one novel took me forty-five years, but i've been trying to finish one for forty-five years, and this is the first one that went all the way to that point. i have it on kindle now and you will soon see big ads splashed all over the place for it. i am not happy with the cover and still have to work on a good cover for both kindle and book version. but it is on its way.

one of the hard things about it is that i know both friends and family will read it eventually, and it's all pretty personal including unfaithfulness, lots of marijuana, all kinds of crazy people, and in general me as a twenty-one-year-old not having a clue what i was doing. i ended up putting it all out there, not even fictionalizing a whole lot except the names of my friends, and just running with it the way it was. i like it that way because i can stick pretty much to some of the wildest things that happened in that era and i feel like i'm documenting the era pretty truly. it was a wild period of time and i think it deserved a pretty good view of it.

as the week unfolds i will do an entire ad campaign, here, on the other blogs, on facebook, everywhere. i'll even get it on instagram which is ordinarily way out of my sight, not on my radar. linked-in too. it's big, and it's worthy of telling all my friends. i'll have you know that you here on this blog are one of the first. but before it's over, everyone will know.

it's called tall corn state. keep your eye-bulbs peeled, as we say in my household. it'll be coming around soon.