Chapter One Released
24 07 08 - 23:08Several years ago I deployed to Saudi Arabia, and found that absent the distractions of spouse, children, friends, beer, and perhaps most importantly, Internet, one finds a lot of free time they didn’t have before. I wrote a book, Waiting for War, which may not have hit the NYT Bestseller’s List, was still a lot of fun to write and sold far more copies than I had predicted. I promised myself I would write another book next time I spent a significant amount of time deployed….
Well, as you probably know, my Big Deployment to the Persian Gulf was cut short by the rude arrival of my medical condition, and now I’m back in the States, with a new job, new bionic heart, and new uncertainties about my future. Such is life. In the meantime, I’d only gotten a small start on the book I promised myself I would write, and which I’ve basically forgotten over the last two months. However, I was talking on the phone to an old dear friend, and he asked if I would weave the heart condition into my book. I think it could work — my last book was based on real people, and this book was starting out to be pseudo-autobiographical, in that it was inspired by my life, but with a giant heaping LSD spoonful of creative license.
So, in a vain attempt to pressure myself to actually write the dang book, I’m releasing Chapter One
for free download (Copyright 2008 James Brokaw, license to distribute freely as long as attribution remains). If you like this, by all means leave a comment or send me a message to pressure me to find the time to continue it. If you REALLY like it and haven’t yet read Waiting for War, go ahead and read that, too.
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