Debut, hard-boiled mystery fiction
for men. Stephen King’s son describes a fitting genre as MANfiction (the
opposite of Chick lit).
Casey
Holden, former cop, current PI in Virginia Beach, VA, screens his clients the
way he screens his women, based on whichever drop-dead gorgeous woman happens
to waltz through his door first and manages to hold his attention. So when
Felicity Farren, widow-at-large, struts into his office asking him to solve the
two-year-old murder of her husband Artis, she intrigues him. When Casey starts
digging, he learns the murder isn’t what it seems to be and he doesn’t have a
big enough shovel to unearth the truth. And to top it all off, his former rival
at the police department, Greg Gilman, is determined to disrupt his
investigation. Casey's challenge is to learn what really happened to Artis, and
why Gilman can’t seem to remove his head from his butt. And he’ll need all of
his wits to complete the task.
MANfiction Description
If you want to describe
the way of the gun, then you’re poised to write MANfiction. Flowing imagery and
needless metaphors need not apply. But the way a fist slams into a cheek, or
the way the bullet riddled his barren body, or the way the baseball sliced
through the air like a glob of spit, then that’s when you know you’ve written
MANfiction. The feel of the wheel, the hum of the engine, and the click into
fourth gear are important actions. Each one deserves its own place on the page.
If you’re writing first
person, seeing the world through your main character’s eyes becomes important. With
MANfiction, the closer the reader is the better. Diving right in should be
important as well, because it’s not about setting the scene: it’s about taking
over the action and making it your own. It’s about establishing a connection
that fires on all synapses. It doesn’t take massive amounts of brain power to
read MANfiction, and while you can do more than just pure, simple
entertainment, you don’t want to leave the reader questioning your intelligence
either. While intellectuals often need not apply in MANfiction, you want to
know the difference between a semi-automatic and a revolver, a Smith &
Wesson and a Glock, as well as a manual transmission versus an automatic.
If you bring action to
the reader, get most of the details right, and give your edits more than just a
cursory glance, your reader will thank you, and MANfiction will appreciate your
contribution.
Robert Downs is the author of Falling Immortality: Casey Holden, Private Investigator.
A sample chapter of his MANfiction mystery debut, as well as other interesting
information about the author, or his main character, can be located at his
website.you can pick up the kindle book here
for more info about the author click here
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