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My first novel, The Mean Reds, will be published by Stephen F. Austin University Press in October. As many of you know, pre-orders are extremely important for small-press books. They pump up those online algorithms, which helps get more eyes on your book. Please read the summary below, and if you’re interested, consider ordering a copy of the book.

Sam Drift is a small-town movie reviewer who is forced to write an article about an exotic dancer that recently died outside of an unpopular strip club. His editor says it’s a simple slip-and-fall, but Sam isn’t so sure. Maybe the dame had a drug problem. Perhaps she ran afoul of the mob. Now she’s swimmin’ with the fishes, see. In the meantime, Sam’s ex is back in town for a film festival, where she’s attending the premiere of a movie that she stole from Sam when she left him. Will Sam solve the murder and get the girl? Or is he in over his pot-smoking head?

Part Big Sleep and part Big Lebowski, The Mean Reds is a quirky small-town mystery told by one of the most unreliable narrators ever known.

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