I
was going to wait and post this until after all the formats are available
(specifically ePub), but since word is already out (yes, I 'spilled' the beans* on Facebook), I might as well officially
launch Spilled Coffee, my latest work.
I
love this story. It’s a little ‘darker’ than Uncharted, in as much as it deals
with more adult issues, although they are tempered through the eyes of a nearly
fourteen-year-old boy, Benjamin, back in 1969—a more innocent, dare I say naïve time for someone not old enough to comprehend all the complexities of the social
revolution taking place around him. Like Uncharted, I wrote Spilled Coffee in the male,
first person point of view. Here’s the description from the back cover:
Benjamin Hughes is on a mission. He has just bought back the New Hampshire lake cottage his
family lost eighteen summers ago, in 1969, just before he turned fourteen—just
before his life blew apart.
Still reeling from a broken engagement,
Ben has committed himself to relive that momentous summer for the next
twenty-four hours.
Every summer as a boy, Ben has gawked
at the pretty redhead Amelia, granddaughter to the richest man on the lake, Doc
Burns—owner of a Cessna floatplane and the Whispering Narrows estate. During
the summer of ’69, Ben not only sneaks around with Amelia, but he learns how to
fly with Doc, and meets an eclectic cast of characters that will change him
forever. The best summer of Ben’s life turns out to be the worst as the Burns’
family dysfunction collides with his own family’s skeletons.
Here’s where you can purchase a copy, in either trade paperback, or for your Kindle. It will soon be available for your iPad through Smashwords, but
remember, there’s a Kindle app for that! If anyone is interested in a Review
Copy, in either eBook, PDF, or paperback version, please e-mail me via: bridget at jbchicoine dot com. If you like it well enough to leave a review, that would be groovy. You can also find it on Goodreads.
*yes, that would be coffee beans!
