I have not written much about Everton's current success, approaching fifth in the EPL and booking a trip to the F.A. Cup finals at Wembly stadium to play the team currently sitting three places above them in the league, Chelsea. Just two weeks to June 30. Cant wait!
Not to worry. To get there we knocked off teams sitting in the first, second and fifth place, so while it will be no walk in the park I'm not stressing. We are after all the mighty Blues and we will be playing in our first team uniform while Chelsea will have to play in an all yellow strip. if you are superstitious then we have the upper hand before the whistle even blows. My prediction? 2-1 in overtime.
It has been hard to keep up with soccer because my precious spare time has been concentrating on getting my debut novel, Blood on His Hands out in print. Finally, on that day of infamy, May 8, 2009, Infinity Publishing announced the book available on their site.
My website describes the novel thus, "Blood on His Hands is one man's tale of the inner struggles that we all deal with in our lives. Mike Renton struggles between doing the right thing or doing that which will benefit himself; taking the road to righteousness or the one the one leads to deceit.
His life seems to end the moment he pulled the trigger sending his unfaithful wife and her lover into oblivion.
On the lam, his journey takes him from rural Oklahoma to the glitz of Las Vegas. He had not however, anticipated the determined tenacity of private investigator Ian Walker, who tracks him down to northern Georgia on to the Appalachian Trail just outside of the sleepy hamlet of Helen. Was the path chosen by both men the trail to redemption, forgiveness and repentance, or was it one that will eventually pull them into tempest and despair; a black hole into oblivion?
Nine months later, in the spring of the following year human remains are discovered by a hiker just off the Appalachian Trail. How will the decisions made by the White County coroner’s office affect the final outcome of the journey Mike Renton started when he killed his wife and will he be able to deal with the repercussions that come along with the choices he made? Blood on His Hands leads us from wanton despair to the promise of a new life no matter the cost."
I spent a considerable amount of time traipsing over the Appalachian Trail (see prior postings from the birth of this blog)and felt compelled to share with the world some of the experiences I went through to get to the end of my journey. Because so many greats have gone before me, men like Bill Bryson, David Miller, or Rick McKinney, and written their AT journey I decided rather than jostle for my place in a crowded field at Trail Days I wrote the next great American novel instead.
Loosely based on experiences I had fun for about three years patching the story together, drawing on many past experiences, to complete what I hope you will all buy. As of today it is only available at my publishers site; it takes Amazon 2-3 three months to get a self-published novel available and Barnes & Nobles almost a year, so to help establish me as a top-selling author you will need to fork out your $14,95 and buy it on line today via Infinity Publishing. This also means that it is only available to audiences in America for now. I will write again and advice you all when it comes out to all the international audience.
Totally off the subject, I have once again been asked my the good folks at SoccerPro.com to take their product and test it out and write about it here on my blog as a separate feature, so watch out for the review here shortly.
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