Bag of Bones, 11/22/63, and the Nook Tablet

“On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed forever.

If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you?

Would the consequences be worth it?

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald, and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.” http://www.stephenking.com/promo/11-22-63/promo_page/

If you do not know about this new release from famed author Stephen King, you obviously didn’t watch his most recent book to movie event, Bag of Bones, on A&E. Bag of Bones, if you were unaware, was released in 1998 and recently translated into a television mini-series. Now let me explain why I am writing about the King of Thrill. Well, as a writer my life is all about promoting, and Bag of Bones was one big ass promotion! His latest novel, 11/22/63, is receiving critical and fan acclaim. So much so that I am going to read it myself, and decide if this is in fact a triumph for the mighty master. Who am I kidding, of course it will be. How can it not be?

I also reviewed A&E’s Bag of Bones for BellaOnline. Look for the post on Thursday, December 22^nd!

Back to the brilliance of marketing –another marketing kudos must go to Nook for their push of the new Nook Tablet. I have seen Jayne Lynch in amusing musical celebrations, as well as Mr. James Patterson and the famed Danielle Steele. I have neither a Nook, a Kindle, nor an iPad, as I am poor, but any doubt that digital media would take years to cultivate and grow has been successfully squashed.

Once again I am brought back to the humbling question of how to be heard over the thousands of eBook voices.

What would Stephen King do?

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As a wife, mother of three, full time employee and aspiring novelist I have little time to do anything not focused. Having written for most of my life, my writing heart beats to the fast paced, twisting, romantic thriller and having read and watched many, I wanted to do it better. I believe Everything Happens for a Reason I believe in True Love I believe in Fate I believe in Optimism I believe in Imagination I believe in Hard Work I believe in Family Amy works as a Global Sales Analyst for a Ricoh Americas Corporation. Aworld wide leader in document solutions in Coppell, TX. She has lived in Texas for six years, having transplanted from Southern California in 2004. She currently resides in Mansfield, TX.

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