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Shrugging
Jack Cross has the power to end existence with a thought. He calls it the Shrug. To prevent triggering it irrationally, he has devised three rules to guide him, and he sinks into a stagnant life dictated by an inflexible routine.
When Jack suffers a head injury, everything changes and he is forced to make the ultimate decision. He seeks answers in the cold logic of physics and from the visitors to his website. He is inexorably drawn to the strange, intriguing Pauline Swanson and haunted by visions of his dead father. And the life he has built to avoid The Shrug will be exactly what pushes him ever closer to it.
Hardcover features over 30 pages of bonus material.
When Jack suffers a head injury, everything changes and he is forced to make the ultimate decision. He seeks answers in the cold logic of physics and from the visitors to his website. He is inexorably drawn to the strange, intriguing Pauline Swanson and haunted by visions of his dead father. And the life he has built to avoid The Shrug will be exactly what pushes him ever closer to it.
Hardcover features over 30 pages of bonus material.
351 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2021
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About the author
James L. Peters
4 books9 followersA life-long Wisconsinite and lover of writing, James began his career in television production and moved on to all forms of marketing and advertising, always with a writing and creative focus. When not writing professionally or creatively, he invested significant time and money along with bandmates pursuing music.
At the end of 2003, he and his wife Melanie left their careers, sold their home, and joined James’s best friend and fellow musician on a multi-year musical focus performing live across Wisconsin (for the first time in their lives in their 30s). It was during that time James wrote his first two novels, Shrugging and Turntable (the latter very loosely inspired by their musical adventures).
Having shook the music bug out of their systems, they transitioned back to careers. It wasn’t until the pandemic and doing a small run of his first two novels that he discovered people seemed to enjoy his novels, and he dove back into his one true, life-long passion.
He lives with his wife in the beautiful Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin, where he writes fiction, designs board games, and also occasionally does things to earn money.
At the end of 2003, he and his wife Melanie left their careers, sold their home, and joined James’s best friend and fellow musician on a multi-year musical focus performing live across Wisconsin (for the first time in their lives in their 30s). It was during that time James wrote his first two novels, Shrugging and Turntable (the latter very loosely inspired by their musical adventures).
Having shook the music bug out of their systems, they transitioned back to careers. It wasn’t until the pandemic and doing a small run of his first two novels that he discovered people seemed to enjoy his novels, and he dove back into his one true, life-long passion.
He lives with his wife in the beautiful Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin, where he writes fiction, designs board games, and also occasionally does things to earn money.
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November 13, 2024
Took me a chapter or so to really get into it, then I couldn't put it down. The author's prose is exquisite. Sometimes I read paragraphs a few times just because the language was wonderful. The characters had depth and mystery, leaving me wanting more. FYI there is pretty course language early on, so if that would bother you, just skim those few pages. This story is so unique and well written. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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