Ernest Fletcher Quick Has Arrived
Read the memoirs of one of the 20th century's greatest journalists (and cowards) beginning July 15, 2013, with the release of The Misadventures of Ernest Fletcher Quick.
With my publisher's blessing, I'm distributing the book as a serial, sort of like Dickens or Tolstoy, or the old serial movies of the 1930s.
The first episode is available July 15, 2013 then one new episode arrives every week. The first four are free and can be downloaded as ePub or Kindle files from www.chipwalter.com/Quick, but I will make all episodes free to any Goodreader who promises to provide feedback. Just drop me a message through Goodreads. Subsequent episodes will cost 49¢.
Free versions are also available on now Kobo.com.
If you don't want to wait for a new episode each week, paid, mult-episode versions are available on Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com (these sites require a minimum charge).
I hope you'll support this experiment! Here's the "flap" copy, but visit www.chipwalter.com/Quick to learn more about the book and the whole experiment.
"The winds of change have blown my way more than I care to recall," writes Ernest Fletcher Quick, "and they've given me a stiff neck every time."
How true. Because Quick can't seem to stay clear of trouble no matter how hard he tries. Lucky for him (and us), it made him one of the most revered journalists of his era.
In this first installment of his rollicking memoirs he reveals that he, not Teddy Roosevelt, led the charge up San Juan Hill, tells how he managed to not only remember the Maine, but solve the mystery of its destruction, and faced (despite all his best efforts) one of the nastiest villains of the 20th century.
No matter how much he cheats, skulks or runs, Quick--rake, womanizer and dedicated yellow-belly--always survives and comes out smelling like a rose; toasted and honored beyond his wildest dreams, and the favorite of his crazy boss Joseph Pulitzer. (That's a mixed blessing.)
Now, if only he could get Baily Stewart to fall in love with him.
"Like finding Hunter Thompson in a time warp!"
You can also learn more about my science writing for National Geographic Magazine and my latest award winning book Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived.
Love to get feedback before the book is published in hardback!
With my publisher's blessing, I'm distributing the book as a serial, sort of like Dickens or Tolstoy, or the old serial movies of the 1930s.
The first episode is available July 15, 2013 then one new episode arrives every week. The first four are free and can be downloaded as ePub or Kindle files from www.chipwalter.com/Quick, but I will make all episodes free to any Goodreader who promises to provide feedback. Just drop me a message through Goodreads. Subsequent episodes will cost 49¢.
Free versions are also available on now Kobo.com.
If you don't want to wait for a new episode each week, paid, mult-episode versions are available on Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com (these sites require a minimum charge).
I hope you'll support this experiment! Here's the "flap" copy, but visit www.chipwalter.com/Quick to learn more about the book and the whole experiment.
"The winds of change have blown my way more than I care to recall," writes Ernest Fletcher Quick, "and they've given me a stiff neck every time."
How true. Because Quick can't seem to stay clear of trouble no matter how hard he tries. Lucky for him (and us), it made him one of the most revered journalists of his era.
In this first installment of his rollicking memoirs he reveals that he, not Teddy Roosevelt, led the charge up San Juan Hill, tells how he managed to not only remember the Maine, but solve the mystery of its destruction, and faced (despite all his best efforts) one of the nastiest villains of the 20th century.
No matter how much he cheats, skulks or runs, Quick--rake, womanizer and dedicated yellow-belly--always survives and comes out smelling like a rose; toasted and honored beyond his wildest dreams, and the favorite of his crazy boss Joseph Pulitzer. (That's a mixed blessing.)
Now, if only he could get Baily Stewart to fall in love with him.
"Like finding Hunter Thompson in a time warp!"
You can also learn more about my science writing for National Geographic Magazine and my latest award winning book Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived.
Love to get feedback before the book is published in hardback!
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Childhood Is Why We Are the Last Ape Standing
This is from my January 29, 2013 Slate.com article which explores how our long childhoods enabled us to survive and become The Last Ape Standing. (Published by Bloomsbury/Walker Books.)
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