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Downshift Excerpt
I’ve posted on my web site the first chapter of
Downshift
, my 1997 crime novel that was reissued in 2012 by Five Rivers Press in POD paperback and ebook editions.
Samples now on Archonate webstore
Thanks to my invaluable webpage manager and book designer, Bradley W. Schenck, the Archonate bookstore now offers samples of most of the titles available for sale.
In the fall, I'm going to put two more of my suspense novels up for sale: Downshift and Old Growth. They recount the adventures of Sid Rafferty, a freelance speechwriter living on Vancouver Island in the 1980s and 90s who gets drawn into mystery and murder. Any resemblances between Raff's life and my own experiences as a Vancouver Island-based speechwriter are not coincidental.
If you can't wait, both are available as ebooks and POD paperbacks from Five Rivers Press.
In the fall, I'm going to put two more of my suspense novels up for sale: Downshift and Old Growth. They recount the adventures of Sid Rafferty, a freelance speechwriter living on Vancouver Island in the 1980s and 90s who gets drawn into mystery and murder. Any resemblances between Raff's life and my own experiences as a Vancouver Island-based speechwriter are not coincidental.
If you can't wait, both are available as ebooks and POD paperbacks from Five Rivers Press.
Downshift -- free audio-book sample
For the past little while I’ve been working with a very talented voice artist named Bob Gonzalez who has been converting some of my novels into audio books through a packager named Listen2abook. He’s already done my somewhat-comic suspense novel, Downshift, and it’s available on Amazon and other platforms.
In the next couple of weeks, the audio-book sequel to Downshift, Old Growth, will be on sale. I’ve got the ebook and POD paperback editions of OG ready to go, and I’ll time them to coincide with the audio-book release.
Bob’s next project will be my sff short-story collection, Devil or Angel and Other Stories. More on that as time goes by.
But, just as I’ve put up text excerpts of my novels as free-read teasers, we’re going to do the same with audio samples of the Listen2abook editions.
So as of today a free-to-listen sample of Downshift is on my excerpts page. If you listen to it, you’ll get a sense of what it was like to be me as a scrabbling freelance writer on Vancouver Island in the late 1980s, with some adjustment for hyperbole – I didn’t have all that much to do with mafia-financed real estate developments.
In the next couple of weeks, the audio-book sequel to Downshift, Old Growth, will be on sale. I’ve got the ebook and POD paperback editions of OG ready to go, and I’ll time them to coincide with the audio-book release.
Bob’s next project will be my sff short-story collection, Devil or Angel and Other Stories. More on that as time goes by.
But, just as I’ve put up text excerpts of my novels as free-read teasers, we’re going to do the same with audio samples of the Listen2abook editions.
So as of today a free-to-listen sample of Downshift is on my excerpts page. If you listen to it, you’ll get a sense of what it was like to be me as a scrabbling freelance writer on Vancouver Island in the late 1980s, with some adjustment for hyperbole – I didn’t have all that much to do with mafia-financed real estate developments.
