I have no idea if anyone but my dearest friends and family will read it, but I have accomplished something I set out to do a long time ago. When I tell people I've written a book, their first question is always, "What's it about?" And my reply is always, "Well...it's kinda hard to describe." The closest I can come is it's about 2 young men who are best friends in a not-designated future time and run a delivery service between planets out of their revamped VW van. See what I mean? They have problems they run into, of course, and the overall theme is the importance of friends and family. I named the book 'Space Dude - the Novel', because the main character has a propensity for using the word 'dude' so much it's become his nickname. It's got humor and drama both; there were times when I was laughing as I typed away, and there were other times I could hardly write through the tears I was shedding (although the most tears have been shed in book two). I guess to say I became involved with these characters is an understatement.
Anyway, for those of you who didn't graciously act as guinea pigs for me and download the book so we could test the payment system, or those of you who I haven't already given the url for the website to....here it is:
www.spacedude.co
And yes, it is '.co', and not '.com'. Jypsy is on the website as well. My nephew, who put the absolutely cool site together, wanted a picture of me to put on the author's page. Photos of me are almost always horrible and I don't have any good ones to put on the site, so he used one of my very favorites - Jypsy sleeping on a clean pile of laundry.
I had an idea for the cover I really like, but as I'm not a graphics person, I had to paste a picture of a VW van onto a space shot; the green grass the VW is sitting on still shows. Oh well. It's not on the website but maybe someday I can get someone to do an actual cover. Here's what I came up with:
Please check the site out and let me know what you think. The first two chapters are free!
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