My first novel is now out for the Kindle and the Nook.

[Pab Sungenis]

I have decided that I have no future in the "publishing biz" and will never have a publisher or agent who will ever pick up anything I've ever written again, so I have gone to the dark side and e-published.



I wrote the first draft of Go To Hell over a period of 21 days during February and March of 2009. I was asked to write it by my then-agent, who wanted a story about a reformed bully to take to an editor specifically looking for such a story. When I sent her the first draft, the agent read the first five pages before passing on it. I spent the next two years in rewrites and polishes, and now despairing of ever getting it sold, I've put it out for those who want to read it.

The blurb is as follows:

Not only is there life after death, there is employment.

When high school senior, football star, and all around jerk Ryan Harper is accidentally killed, the man he thought was a talent scout hands him a card: “Go to Hell, go directly to Hell, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.00.”

Once there, he is offered a fascinating opportunity: instead of burning down below, he can opt to join a new employment program they’re launching to compete with the whole “guardian angel” thing. He tentatively agrees, and wakes up in a new body, transferred to a new school, and with his first assignment: just stay close to his new classmate Amanda. That’s all he has to do, just stay close and let things happen naturally.

However, as he fends off bullies who make his new life as difficult as he made other kids’ before, deals with a bunch of goth kids who fawn all over him when he drops a pamphlet entitled “So You’re Dead, Now What?” near them accidentally, and faces the unintended consequences of a budding romance with his assignment, he discovers that he might just be along the wrong career path. Only Heaven, and a few lucky Community Chest cards, can save him now.

I've put it in the Kindle and Nook stores for those who want to give it a try. If it sells well enough maybe I'll put out my other unsold books (Mall Bats and The Sidekick) and maybe even consider writing another one.

It's not fun when dreams, like mine of being a published author, die. But maybe I can pick up some of the pieces here.