WATER: A Vic Bengston Investigation

WATER: A Vic Bengston Investigation LAUNCHED!

This is the official launch of my new mystery novel: WATER: A Vic Bengston Investigation. You can find it on Amazon.com as a Kindle eBook along with a fun mystery novella set in Key West (not a Vic Bengston story, by the way). Check out both books on Amazon. Or visit my website: richardjschneider.com.


The trade paperback edition of WATER will be released in the Spring, along with other eBook formats. And the second book in the Vic Bengston series, VOTE, will be released this summer. (See my webpage for how to convert your Kindle book to other eBook formats.)

I have to tell you, that 1) I am very excited about this launch, and 2) I am thoroughly unhappy with Facebook as an understandable method for communicating to you all. It makes absolutely no sense to me. But it is the only game in town until Google gets its act together. If there is repetition and goofiness, I apologize. I’m learning on the fly. However, I digress.

Vic is a creature of my imagination – mixed in with a few decades of life experience. Like many of you, he is a baby boomer. He worries about his heart. He has aches and pains. His children are grown.

And he has passions. One of them is journalism, a profession he left a long time ago to pursue the mighty dollar in the corporate world.

But Vic is back. Nearing his 60th birthday, he lands a job at his old newspaper, the Rocky Mountain Sun, in Denver. His new boss is a young female city editor the age of his daughter. And on his first day back in the newsroom, Vic gets his chops busted by her, Peggy Mayer. Throughout the book, they parry and work together, gaining respect for each other. Readers can have a bit of fun with this professional relationship, as I did writing about it.

Vic’s first assignment seems routine, but it turns out to be a sensational story. He gets to work it – for one news cycle – before the “pros” take over from the gray-haired “rookie.”

None of this deters Vic, who is as tenacious as he always was. When he sinks his teeth into a story he does not let go.

So he ignores the admonitions from his new bosses, scoffs at the warnings from the cops, and continues to work the story on his own.

I hope you enjoy Vic Bengston’s return to his first love, investigative reporting, as he turns over rocks, wakes up his old sources, chases down his own list of suspects. His investigation takes to the heights of power in Colorado, into the life and death struggle over water rights in Colorado farm country, and finally to a deadly confrontation wit the killer.

All with a little bit of fun along the way, some insights about water and the West, and not too much blood and gore.

I hope you have as much fun reading Vic’s story as I have had writing it. Post your reviews on Amazon. Send me your comments, and good reading.

Who Killed Porkchop? A Key West Mystery

Just launched the Key West Mystery novella, Who Killed Porkchop?, on Amazon.com as a Kindle eBook. To take a look, head for:

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Porkchop-ebook/dp/B006Z1VPIE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326914401&sr=1-1

This is a quick read for Kindle Readers or Kindle for PC/MAC (readers you can download for free to your laptop or desktop).

What's it about? Here is the blurb:

JAMES O'SHEA KELLY was not happy… His knee ached. The coffee stunk. He wanted a beer. His best pal was down in the ER shot full of holes. The mayor of Denver was under guard out at the air base. And he had lost the best butcher in Key West. All because of that darn pig…

Up next: WATER: A Vic Bengston Investigation scheduled for publication as a Kindle eBook Feb. 1, 2012, and as a paperback March 15, 2012.

Check out my author's page at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B006ZAOV2M

And my fiction writing page at:

http://richardjschneider.com/

Amazon Prime members can download Who Killed Porkchop? for free! Or you can buy this 16,600-word novella for just 99-cents.

Who Killed Porkchop? will be available in most other eBook bookstores after mid-April 2012.

Good reading..

How to Write

I learned it from Bill Logan. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News,
covered the legislature for many years and then wrote about trout
fishing.

“You put down one word on paper,” he told me. “Then another, and so on.”