November 28, 2010
My newest novel, Imeros, was released in mid-December, and it is now available for download at all the major ebook retailers. Imeros is my fifth novel--only the fourth that I've decided to publish--and I think it may be my most competently written work yet.
Imeros is the story of an aging poet and college professor, Jacob Schorr, who has been struggling to get any creative work done. After the death of a similarly aged colleague, he begins to wonder if his creativity has passed him by. He looks back at his most successful collection of poems, Imeros--now twenty-five years in the past--and tries to pinpoint what it was that made it such a success. It was during that period that he lost his fiancee, and the great love of his life, Melissa. He begins to think that he needs another Melissa, another muse to boost his struggling writing life.
Jacob's colleague, and friend, David, recommends that Jacob should simply look around campus for inspiration. Jacob is troubled by the idea of looking at women more than twenty years his junior to reattain his lost desire. But then Joelle moves in across the street. She is a young, college-aged woman, and she carries a striking resemblance to Melissa.
If you're interested in that crudely brief introduction to Imeros, then download a sample--the first 40%--of the novel and see if it's something you might enjoy reading.
All of my books are currently available for $2.99. I would have dropped the prices even lower, but Amazon does not allow sellers who want to benefit from their higher royalty rate to go lower than $2.99. They also make authors sign a sort of non-competitive agreement that we can not try to undersell them through another retailer. That's business, I guess.
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