VERY happy/excited/other stuff to officially be able to announce the release date of my forthcoming book, Emails from Heaven. (That’s the cover above.) This is my third book but first fiction novel, and I’m pretty damn happy with how it turned out. I put everything I had into this one, gang. Everything. So I think you’ll like it, I hope you like it, and if you don’t, I’m confident we can still remain friends or at least warm acquaintances.
So what is this book about? It says “heaven” on the cover but there’s also a picture of a cigarette. The hell is going on there? Below is a short description. I’m not sure it’ll clear everything up because it’s tough to sum up 70,000 words into a few paragraphs, but hey, it’s something.
David Grasso has gotten an email from no one. He knows this is impossible, but with a blank “sender” field and no other identifying marks, he’s left incapable of tracing the source. The email claims to be from his brother, but David knows it can’t be, because his brother is dead.
Upon reading the body text he becomes furious, not at the obvious attempt at deceit, but at what the email says. Furious someone would use his brother’s name to perpetuate a lie. Furious the lie existed at all.
EMAILS FROM HEAVEN is a 70,000-word novel following David Grasso’s struggle to make sense of the email and those that followed. As a graphic designer at a high-powered ad firm in downtown Chicago, David spends most of his waking hours at the office. He’d unmarried, has few friends, and his coworkers bore him. His life is a monotonous running clock. But when the email arrives, his world is turned on end, and he will go to any length to reveal the source and explain the seemingly inconceivable circumstances that led to it showing up in his inbox.
This is the story of one man’s struggle with mystery, death, and the idea of faith. When logic is suspended, all that remains is one timeless question:
What if?
Emails from Heaven will be released in paperback and digital format on September 2, 2014.