Now on Kindle!

"The Missionary and the Brute" is now available on Kindle! Check it out if you have a chance. Only $2.99 puts mystery, drama and a ripping good tale set in Africa right in your hands today! Enjoy!

If you have the inclination, please LIKE "The Missionary and the Brute" on the Amazon page and after you've read it - please consider writing a review and sharing it with others!

Thanks so much!

And speaking of sneak peeks...

Here is the cover for the/a next book in the Ross Family Saga. I have realized that my fiction all works within a unified context. Here are the next books - not necessarily in order. I work at them simultaneously though one is typically way at the forefront.

• Chiaroscuro Bums (The tale of Jadwin Ross continues as he awakens in an Amsterdam hospital. A sequel to The Missionary and the Brute - 10% complete)
• The Blue Man (Alwyn Ross, younger brother, is an animation historian who discovers not only a long lost African American animation studio from the 30s in his research, but also a cold case murder - 60% complete)
• The Straw Man (Dotty Ross, middle sibling, is a midwest housewife on the run. She catches a ride with an eccentric English professor who is obsessed with the thought that cows and hay bales are engaged in an apolcalyptic battle - 40% complete)
• Animated Lives! (A series of interviews with real animators conducted by fictional Alwyn Ross - 100% complete)
• Believer: a political fable (An Oral History Tale of Alwyn - Before, during, and after Blue Man in sequence - 30% complete)
• Reject (Alwyn/Dotty story of their youth - 80% complete)
• Ira and the Seeker (Middle era story of Alwyn researching his familial roots - 90% complete)
• Untitled (Short stories that have been pulled together featuring the Ross family. - 25% complete)
• Lifecycle (One segment of this complex, compilation work features a Ross family member - 60% complete)

I liken these stories to Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Saga, wherein some characters repeat, themes repeat and we get to know concepts, themes etc. Sometimes they will cover the exact same timeframe - Blue Man, for example, is contained within a single chapter of Believer, but even that chapter has more and less details from differing perspectives (not all reliable narrators) that add to the characterizations. It is interesting in that the stories are not written in the same style. At all. But I like it that way. The way they are written, they allow me to truly take them pretty much anywhere I want to go. And I want to take them pretty darned far...

Sneak Peek - Work in Progress

From time to time I'll share a bit of my works in progress here. Since we are focusing primarily on "The Missionary and the Brute" here, today I'll give you a few paragraphs of a scene from its sequel, "Chiaroscuro Bums". Not going to give away too many spoilers - especially ones that bespoil the ending to Missionary, but I will set the stage a little bit.

This is from an opening chapter. The setting is a hospital in Amsterdam. What follows is a portion of a nightmare that haunts one of the patients there.

Congratulations goes to...

...Lisa Guthrie Van Scoyk for winning an autographed copy of "The Missionary and the Brute"! Lisa will receive an email verifying that she won requesting details of how she would like it personally inscribed.

Thanks to all who participated! Please continue to watch this space for more exciting blog entries, contests, and events!

Now available in more outlets!

"The Missionary and the Brute" continues to expand its reach. Check out the various ways to purchase copies today!

• From this blog: https://www.createspace.com/3380799 (For each book purchased here, $1 will go to Brick by Brick for Tanzania!, Inc.)
• On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/MISSIONARY-BRUTE-John-Kenworthy/dp/1442148411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325857363&sr=8-1 (Kindle version available soon!)
• Also on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8PWE0 (My Author page newly updated!)
• At AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=6529158873&searchurl=afn_sr%3Dgan%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26isbn%3D1442148411%26pfxid%3Da_1431705745%26sortby%3D2%26sts%3Dt%26x%3D79%26y%3D15 (A UK site. Interesting, and available now!)
• On Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-missionary-and-the-brute-john-kenworthy/1036936009?ean=9781442148413 (They are just rolling this out - so the page is slowly populating.)

Check them out, and buy a copy or two if you have the inclination - which I think you might! And if you want to help promote the book, click LIKE, share on FaceBook, Twitter and Google+, Add tags (or confirm tags), give it a rating, grant it a review, or tell them you want it in a different form (Nook anyone?) All of that helps the synergy of the process!

Woohoo! Thanks for checking it out. Happy Friday!

To market to market to buy a fat book

Some folks have asked me what I am doing to take "The Missionary and the Brute" to market. LOTS of things - actually. One of the key things I am doing is mailing out marketing DVDs to independent booksellers. Each is an autorun disk that looks and acts like a website, but is truly self-contained on the disk itself.

Teenage Fantasy Horror Author interviews John

It is always fun to be interviewed by passionate young writers. Alisa Jeruconoka is author of a teenage fantasy horror novel called "Unparallel Worlds" and has chosen to expand her genres/interests to include a lovely little interview about "The Missionary and the Brute" and me.  I am honored.

Check out my take on genres (I think I am 'trans-genre'), writer's block (just do it) and much much more..

Click here to access the interview. Make sure you thank Alisa and check out her work too!

Alisa Jeruconoka interviews author, John D. Kenworthy