It's Up!

When you've been working on something for several years, and really spending a lot of time on it for a couple of months, it's funny how anti-climactic it feels for that thing to be done in two clicks of a mouse.

Self-publishing is like that. Writing takes months (or more). Editing takes nearly that long (don't get me started). And while CreateSpace is really pretty straightforward, I had a couple of glitches I needed to figure out which took some time.

And then click click - it's up in the CreateSpace Store. Wait a few hours and it's up on Kindle. Wait a day and it's up on Amazon. It feels a bit like magic.

The novel? Yeah, I should probably mention the name: Passing Semis in the Rain. It's a suspense thriller featuring a woman who is not going to spend the second half of her life within the same sort of constraints that she spent the first. 

Here's the pitch:

When your life falls apart, and it wasn’t much of a life to begin with, the simple response for Tina Johnson is to head for New Orleans. Except it’s not so simple when you look like a federal witness and mob bookkeeper who knows where a drug cartel keeps its cash, and now you’re being hunted by the feds, the mob, and the cartel.

What begins as a road trip quickly turns into identity theft—more like identity armed robbery—and a dangerous race to prevent an assassination and collect the big payoff. Along the way Tina discovers romance, friendship, and her own strength. She also learns that even though it’s scary as hell to pass a semi-truck in a rainstorm, you’re better to get around the truck than to endure the slow misery of life behind the semi. From New Orleans to Miami, this is not the kind of vacation that visitor bureaus advertise.

You can check it out.

I'll keep you posted how this whole publishing thing works out.