QUICK and the KID Now Available in Paperback, Hardcover, and eBook
In December of 2022, I wrote a novella called The Long Cold December. It had twenty-four chapters and I gave the book to my wife one chapter a day throughout Advent. For Christmas, I gave her a copy of the story printed in book form by Lulu.com.It was a parody of noir detective novels that became more of an homage and less of a parody as the story progressed.
She seemed to dig it so, this year for Advent, I wrote a story that was about twice the length of the previous year's. For some reason, this one was a western and included a character based on our son. By the way, he's the kid on the cover but that is definitely not me standing next to him. The only trait I share with Jack Quick is bad knees.
Before I'd even given her the first chapter, I sent it a couple of publishers and one of them liked it. It will be released on July 29 by World Castle Publishing as an ebook, paperback, and hardcover. It will also be available on Amazon and there will be an audiobook on Google Play.
When an aging gunslinger rescues the only survivor of a wagon train, he doesn't know his life is about to be turned upside down by a kid.
Jack Quick, a hardened gunfighter and bountyhunter, finds thirteen-year-old Jack Kidd alone on the Kansas prairie and takes him under his wing. Quick teaches the kid how to shoot, how to survive, and how to be a man.
In an isolated walled town called Hendrix Fields, Quick encounters The Baron, a rich, powerful, and corrupt man who needs the bounty hunter to do one more job for him. If Quick doesn't comply, the kid and the woman Quick loves will die.
Can Quick and a band of mercernary friends save the Kid and defeat the Baron?
It's a good old fashioned pulp style adventure of the Wild West.
In an isolated walled town called Hendrix Fields, Quick encounters The Baron, a rich, powerful, and corrupt man who needs the bounty hunter to do one more job for him. If Quick doesn't comply, the kid and the woman Quick loves will die.
Can Quick and a band of mercernary friends save the Kid and defeat the Baron?
It's a good old fashioned pulp style adventure of the Wild West.