I’m humbled by the reaction to Trench Coats, Episode I: The Meeting. So far, it has sold more than I anticipated at this stage (I anticipated about zero ~ give or take one:). Advertisers are serial-averse and social media is mostly un-read spam these days, so it’s hard to get the word out, making the fact that it sold at all a pleasant surprise.
So – Thank you for telling your friends about it!
Today, I’m launching the second episode, Jacob’s Story. It’s told in first person from the view of Agent Jacob Milik. I thought it a bit risky to change the source of the story in Chapter 9, but the character is a lovable bad-boy with a roving eye who contrasts Pia Sabel. He comes from the opposite end of the socio-economic spectrum. I was thinking: balance. I hope it works.
The story starts with him feeling honored when his boss, whom he has a crush on, assigns him a special task, but he’s devastated when he learns that minutes after leaving his apartment, she pressed her panic button and disappeared.
Within the hour, he finds himself dodging bullets and bombs while he methodically follows the clues that bring him ever closer to finding Ms. Sabel. Along the way he discovers shadowy connections to ousted CIA officers, political appointees, and questionable asylum approvals. What could possibly connect a State Department man to Syrian refugees and child traffickers?
FREE: If you want to recommend the first episode to your friends, it will be free in the next week or so (it takes a while for ‘free’ to trickle through all the booksellers). Keep your eye on that and recommend it on Goodreads because the first 50 reviewers* will get the remaining episodes free!
Episode III: Bring It is under construction (even though my wife shredded my favorite scene). And Episode IV: The Desperate exists in an early rough draft. I’ve outlined the remaining two, sorta. I’m excited.
Here is the episode list:
- Episode I: The Meeting, on sale now!
- Episode II: Jacob’s Story, on sale now!
- Episode III: Bring It, late June
- Episode IV: The Desperate, mid-July
- Episode V: Reckoning Road, early August
- Episode VI: The Tiger Strikes, late August
Let me know what you think I should do to promote the book. I’m running out of ideas in these over-saturated days.
Peace, Seeley
* Only have 10 at the moment, but there are a lot of copies sold, so I think they’ll fill in soon. Then I’ll have to give something else away, maybe the boy (he’s at that back-talk age).
