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Introducing... Delivering Virtue!
We'd like to use this week's blog post to introduce a work of adult fiction that will be published by Diving Boy Books this fall - November 7th! Today, it is now available for pre-order as an ebook and print edition at most major on-line retailers, like Amazon and Smashwords.
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It’s 1854 and Didier Rain doesn’t want to be a rogue. He prefers to think of himself as a gentleman poet. And yet every time Rain finds himself in questionable circumstances, some animal instinct leads him into wrongful behavior. Maybe it’s his Oedipal upbringing that’s to blame. Or maybe he’s just never found a good moral example that hasn’t let him down. But now Rain has to put away all of his failings because The Church of the Restructured Truth has hired him to fulfill a prophecy – Didier Rain is to venture into the American Wilderness and deliver a bride into the waiting arms of the Prophet Nehi. It won’t be easy, what with all the hooligans, natural phenomena, and carnal temptations between here and there. Not to mention that Virtue – the would-be bride – is at present no more than a babe. But maybe the invisible gods will lend Rain a hand in the endeavor. Maybe Virtue is as much of an angel as she appears. And maybe, by epic journey’s end, Didier Rain will overcome the odds, experience a miracle, and find a way to secure his own dubious salvation.
At once ribald, irreverent, and charming, DELIVERING VIRTUE features one of the most despicable and endearing characters ever to gallivant through the pages of American Literature. Join Didier Rain on his escapades as he navigates that precarious line between the sacred and the profane, all the while protecting Virtue from the legions of evil that would seek to do her harm.
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It’s 1854 and Didier Rain doesn’t want to be a rogue. He prefers to think of himself as a gentleman poet. And yet every time Rain finds himself in questionable circumstances, some animal instinct leads him into wrongful behavior. Maybe it’s his Oedipal upbringing that’s to blame. Or maybe he’s just never found a good moral example that hasn’t let him down. But now Rain has to put away all of his failings because The Church of the Restructured Truth has hired him to fulfill a prophecy – Didier Rain is to venture into the American Wilderness and deliver a bride into the waiting arms of the Prophet Nehi. It won’t be easy, what with all the hooligans, natural phenomena, and carnal temptations between here and there. Not to mention that Virtue – the would-be bride – is at present no more than a babe. But maybe the invisible gods will lend Rain a hand in the endeavor. Maybe Virtue is as much of an angel as she appears. And maybe, by epic journey’s end, Didier Rain will overcome the odds, experience a miracle, and find a way to secure his own dubious salvation.
At once ribald, irreverent, and charming, DELIVERING VIRTUE features one of the most despicable and endearing characters ever to gallivant through the pages of American Literature. Join Didier Rain on his escapades as he navigates that precarious line between the sacred and the profane, all the while protecting Virtue from the legions of evil that would seek to do her harm.
Meet the Rogue
Salutations and Bonjour! My name is Didier Rain. I am the primary player in the new novel, DELIVERING VIRTUE, penned by the singularly talented Mister Brian Kindall. Said tome will enjoy its debut in November, and is rumored to be a tantalizing read full of ribald mischief, spiritual mystery, cunning word play, with a large dose of pulse-quickening adventure to boot. It will surely make me famous and financially solvent beyond my most fanciful fictional dreams. If landmark, life-changing narrative is to your liking, then this book, I trust, will not disappoint. It is already receiving flattering accolades among the literati. Some have even compared it to the works of Shakespeare and Milton, although, admittedly, other more critical puritans have been less kind, citing my own humble character as an example of all that is bombastic and disreputable in the analistic byways of American Literature. Phooey! At any rate, you are well advised to investigate this novel’s many merits, as your earthly existence will most assuredly be improved by so doing.
Mister Kindall has asked that I step in for him this week as an intercessor to his usual posting of a blog – a sort of dashing and witty blogular surrogate, if you will. It seems as of late that our scribbler has been overburdened with too much intellectual pursuit and worldly worries to accomplish the obligation of his weekly broadsheet. He is, instead, lying prone and all atremble – a steaming tincture tea within his easy reach, and a cold-press dabbed upon his overtaxed pate. Please forgive Brian his many mortal failings. He understands your addiction to his sterling prose and is, I assure you, wretched and aching with an insuperable guilt over his inability to provide you with a literary opiate more ingenious and insightful than this modest vaudevillian proxy.
Mister Kindall has asked that I step in for him this week as an intercessor to his usual posting of a blog – a sort of dashing and witty blogular surrogate, if you will. It seems as of late that our scribbler has been overburdened with too much intellectual pursuit and worldly worries to accomplish the obligation of his weekly broadsheet. He is, instead, lying prone and all atremble – a steaming tincture tea within his easy reach, and a cold-press dabbed upon his overtaxed pate. Please forgive Brian his many mortal failings. He understands your addiction to his sterling prose and is, I assure you, wretched and aching with an insuperable guilt over his inability to provide you with a literary opiate more ingenious and insightful than this modest vaudevillian proxy.
