Hello, and welcome...
I will be using this site to muse about my journey toward publication of my debut novel:
THE LIFE WE BURY
I spent a year writing it, and then jumped into the task of seeking agent representation. I am happy to announce that I have just signed a contract for agent representation with Amy Cloughley at Kimberley Cameron and Associates Literary Agency. I am elated and am looking forward to working with Amy.
Below is a brief description of my novel, THE LIFE WE BURY. It is difficult to describe a ninety thousand word novel in two paragraphs, so I hope this gives you a taste of the novel and I hope you continue to follow my march toward publication.
Below is a brief description of my novel, THE LIFE WE BURY. It is difficult to describe a ninety thousand word novel in two paragraphs, so I hope this gives you a taste of the novel and I hope you continue to follow my march toward publication.
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THE LIFE WE BURY
THE LIFE WE BURY
a novel by Allen Eskens
What
starts out as a college writing assignment leads to…
“As I went limp, a wave of disgust flashed through my
mind, disgust at my naiveté, disgust at not seeing the man’s tight grip on the
neck of that whiskey bottle for what it was, disgust that my life would end quietly,
unceremoniously, lying face down in frozen grass. I let this old man—this
whiskey-soaked, child molester—beat me.”
Joe
Talbert left his bi-polar mother and his autistic brother behind in order to
run away to college. At school, he gets an assignment to write a story about a
person who has lived a long life. Because he has no relative to fit the bill, he
goes to a nursing home to find a subject to write about and meets Carl Iverson, a man dying of
cancer who has been medically paroled from prison after spending thirty years
locked up for a grisly murder. As Joe learns about Carl’s life, especially
Carl’s valor as a soldier in Vietnam, Joe has difficulty reconciling the heroism of the soldier with
the despicable acts of the convict.
Joe throws
himself into unravelling the tapestry of a thirty-year-old murder, but is hamstrung in his efforts by having to
deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother and the guilt of abandoning his
autistic brother.
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...more to come.
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...more to come.
Since I was a teenager I do love reading different novels that are interesting.
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