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Something Unfortunate: Clear Print Edition
At some point, every lawyer will encounter a client from hell. Kelly Adair finds herself in this exact situation, defending a lawyer accused of killing another. A power struggle within the Dallas law firm Christopher Clark & Oliver has left partner Ken Hargrove dead and Frank Oliver on trial. Convinced that her client might be guilty but bolstered by accounts of Oliver's irrational behavior, she decides to rely upon an insanity defense at trial. Soon, the resulting courtroom drama threatens to tear the firm apart. Will Kelly have hell to pay? This is the large print edition of Something Unfortunate, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
410 pages, Paperback
Published January 13, 2021
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About the author
Mike Farris
30 books13 followersMIKE FARRIS is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was an associate editor on the Texas Tech Law Review and was inducted into the prestigious Order of the Coif. Mike joined the Dallas firm of Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C., as Of Counsel in 2010, where his practice includes complex commercial litigation as well as entertainment law, focusing on the movie and publishing industries.
As a literary agent, Mike has placed several award-winning novels for publication, including Balaam Gimble’s Gumption by Mike Nichols, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters John Bloom Humor Award, and Sheldon Russell’s Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, winner of the Langum Prize for Excellence in American Historical Fiction. Mike also represents various university presses and has successfully placed subsidiary rights to their published books, including negotiating the sale of movie rights to producers and Hollywood studios.
Mike was the 2014 Chair of the Dallas Bar’s Sports and Entertainment Law Section, after serving as Vice-Chair in 2011 and previously serving as Chair in 2012 and 2009. He is also the editor of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Journal and is an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas in its Sports & Entertainment Management MBA program, where he serves on the Sports & Entertainment Advisory Board. He has taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at Texas Wesleyan University Law School and creative writing at Richland College in Dallas.
Mike is much in demand as a presenter at writers’ conferences around the country, speaking on topics ranging from legal issues for writers and understanding publishing contracts to principles of cinematic storytelling. He created and taught a seminar sponsored by the Dallas Bar’s Sports and Entertainment Law Section entitled Beyond Briefs: Other Forms of Fiction Writing for Lawyers, and is a regular presenter at the La Jolla Writers Conference. He has taught seminars on the art and craft of adapting source material into screenplays, and has adapted the novels of Air Force U-2 pilot-turned-New York Times-best-selling novelist Patrick A. Davis (novels adapted are The Passenger and A Long Day for Dying), as well as the award-winning novel Balaam Gimble’s Gumption, by Mike Nichols, which was produced as a short film by Dallas’s Blue Logic Productions. As a screenwriter, he is a multi-time semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and the Page International Screenwriting Awards. In 2014, his script The Catch was a Nicholl semifinalist, placing it in the top 3% out of 7,511 entries.
As a book writer, Mike collaborated with former ABC-TV anchorman Murphy Martin to write Martin’s memoir of his years in journalism, entitled Front Row Seat: A Veteran Reporter Relives the Four Decades That Reshaped America (Eakin Press). In 2009, the University of Oklahoma Press released Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood, Mike’s collaboration with rodeo cowboy-turned-actor/producer/director Robert Hinkle on Hinkle’s memoir of his years in show business. He is also the author of five published novels: Kanaka Blues (Savant Books), Manifest Intent (Savant Books), Rules of Privilege (Savant Books), The Bequest (Stairway Press), and Wrongful Termination (Untreed Reads). His thriller Every Pig Got a Saturday is set for a winter 2014-2015 release from John M. Hardy Press.
As a literary agent, Mike has placed several award-winning novels for publication, including Balaam Gimble’s Gumption by Mike Nichols, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters John Bloom Humor Award, and Sheldon Russell’s Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, winner of the Langum Prize for Excellence in American Historical Fiction. Mike also represents various university presses and has successfully placed subsidiary rights to their published books, including negotiating the sale of movie rights to producers and Hollywood studios.
Mike was the 2014 Chair of the Dallas Bar’s Sports and Entertainment Law Section, after serving as Vice-Chair in 2011 and previously serving as Chair in 2012 and 2009. He is also the editor of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Journal and is an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas in its Sports & Entertainment Management MBA program, where he serves on the Sports & Entertainment Advisory Board. He has taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at Texas Wesleyan University Law School and creative writing at Richland College in Dallas.
Mike is much in demand as a presenter at writers’ conferences around the country, speaking on topics ranging from legal issues for writers and understanding publishing contracts to principles of cinematic storytelling. He created and taught a seminar sponsored by the Dallas Bar’s Sports and Entertainment Law Section entitled Beyond Briefs: Other Forms of Fiction Writing for Lawyers, and is a regular presenter at the La Jolla Writers Conference. He has taught seminars on the art and craft of adapting source material into screenplays, and has adapted the novels of Air Force U-2 pilot-turned-New York Times-best-selling novelist Patrick A. Davis (novels adapted are The Passenger and A Long Day for Dying), as well as the award-winning novel Balaam Gimble’s Gumption, by Mike Nichols, which was produced as a short film by Dallas’s Blue Logic Productions. As a screenwriter, he is a multi-time semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and the Page International Screenwriting Awards. In 2014, his script The Catch was a Nicholl semifinalist, placing it in the top 3% out of 7,511 entries.
As a book writer, Mike collaborated with former ABC-TV anchorman Murphy Martin to write Martin’s memoir of his years in journalism, entitled Front Row Seat: A Veteran Reporter Relives the Four Decades That Reshaped America (Eakin Press). In 2009, the University of Oklahoma Press released Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood, Mike’s collaboration with rodeo cowboy-turned-actor/producer/director Robert Hinkle on Hinkle’s memoir of his years in show business. He is also the author of five published novels: Kanaka Blues (Savant Books), Manifest Intent (Savant Books), Rules of Privilege (Savant Books), The Bequest (Stairway Press), and Wrongful Termination (Untreed Reads). His thriller Every Pig Got a Saturday is set for a winter 2014-2015 release from John M. Hardy Press.
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January 10, 2021
Another great novel by one of my favorite authors. There is a great plot that was unpredictable. A very difficult novel to put down. This book is recommended
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