The Sunset Rises: A 1990s Romantic Comedy is On Sale Now!

Now available here on Amazon and from the trunk of my car at various local bookstores… until parking lot security kicks me out.

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When I was in college in the 1980s, a classmate in a literature class proclaimed that his goal in life was to write THE great American novel.  Even back then, I thought that his goal was kind of selfish; it was okay to want to write a great American novel, I thought, but wanting to write THE only great American novel seemed too much.

I wasn’t so ambitious.  I just wanted to write a decent novel. At the time, I knew I was a decent writer, but my writing didn’t fit a niche and I didn’t trust my ability to make a living from writing alone, so I became a public school English teacher.

Even though I knew I had a novel in me, I never thought that I would end up writing a romantic comedy.  During my thirty years of teaching, I tried writing a mystery novel, a horror novel, a sword & sorcery novel, and even a time travel novel.  I almost finished the mystery novel.  By ‘almost finished,’ I mean that I wrote a complete rough draft but never went back to finish it.  Looking back, that mystery novel kind of sucked.

When I retired from teaching, I began looking over my accumulated unfinished works and decided to focus on a romantic comedy short story that I had written in 2013/2014. The story dealt with several aspects of relationships that people usually don’t discuss openly, and it was by far the most popular of my short stories (judging by comments and views at the time) on my blog.  Even after I decided to expand my romantic comedy short story, it took me several years to put everything together in the form of a novel.

Now I finally have my ONE novel.  This is it.  I might write another book someday, but I’m probably not going to write another novel.  If I do, it will probably take me another ten years.

So, here it is… The Sunset Rises: A 1990s Romantic Comedy!  Buy it now while supplies last!