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Hey lit, I just finished the draft version of my first novel. It's short, only 55k words. I have no high hopes for it. No fame or fortune. But it's an honest work. I had fun crafting this, and it's made me a better, more disciplined person in creating it. I'm happy to have created something.

Would anyone be interested in reading it?

Here it is, eat your hearts out.

>https://larthurhunt.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/green-country-anon-watermarked.pdf

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>>16080210

SYNOPSIS:

Semi-biographical about my father. Corporate lawyer loses job due to alcoholism. Turns violent. Loses his wife and children, his only love in the world. Ditches the booze and gets a job at a golf course cleaning the greens and doing grunt work. He falls in with a nefarious crowd of retired lawyers and big wigs at the course. There are children running around everywhere at the golf course. There's always little kids in the restaurants, hallways, etc. Protagonist gets spooked.

Eventually the protagonist finds himself caught up in a criminal kabal / secret society operating out of the golf course.

The powerful men in the kabal promise to get the protagonist's family back if he commits a certain evil deed.

Entire novel is interspersed with flashbacks to his former family life and life as a corporate lawyer, depicting how it fell apart. There are essentially two timelines.

The final scene is ambiguous as to which timeline it takes place. Whichever timeline you believe it to be will alter how the preceding climax transpired.

I'm not good at synopses.

>> No.16080219

>>16080210
We already had this thread. Go away.

>> No.16080221

For fucks sake, upload it to Amazon KDP already

>> No.16080222

>>16080210
>>16080214
Advertising is not allowed.

>> No.16080235

>>16080222
This isn't Reddit, he can self promote if he wants. But he never uses any of the critiques. If they're positive, he's happy and doesn't change anything. If they're negative, he tells us that we're entitled to our opinion and doesn't change anything.

>> No.16080297

>>16080214
I like the re-worked synopsis. But you should use real sentences instead of greentext in sentence form. Your novel looks ready for wide distribution now. You can try Amazon's self-publishing service, B&N press, Google Play Books publishing, or something similar to that

>> No.16080308

>>16080210
Please stop posting this