If Kisses Were Bullets...
by H.X. Sin
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There it was. Otherwise I am making this all up. Francis couldn't masturbate because God was watching him. Why would I create a man like that? Like any of the characters from any of my stories-my life.
Francis asks me, "You ever wonder if things will turn out for the best?"
Despite the under-funded poor quality care we were getting, Francis was becoming more lucid.
"It has to be like this," I say. "If Zack didn't scheme to get into trouble, he'd never learn his lesson in the end."
- Excerpt from If Kisses Were Bullets...
What The Book Is About
This is not a book most will understand and never claims to be. There’s no good way to explain what this book is about. The main character struggles against the aimless supervision of parents, adults, authority, expectations and the future. He’s what some might label generation y, a twixer or a child of the baby boomer generation. Beyond his struggles are his achievements, romance and death. This isn’t a murder mystery but it has one. It’s not a romance but there is some. It’s not a coming of age story but everyone grows up.
If Kisses Were Bullets... works its way through the history of the main character. We read from his perspective as love and life cut him short. Like the police and everyone around him we wonder if there was something in his past that could have created a brutal serial killer or was he in the wrong place at the wrong time or are his paranoid delusions real and he's being set up?
How The Book Came To Exist
If Kisses Were Bullets... is the culmination of efforts by H.X Sin the owners of Middle Muse. If Kisses Were Bullets... was crafted over a six year period of time pulling parts of actual events and mixing them with fiction. When it was done H.X. knew that getting the book published would be difficult. It was Middle Muse who came to the rescue with the idea of supporting quality writers who had created books that would be hard to get published by big publishers due to difficult marketability. So Middle Mused created a division with that idea in mind using If Kisses Were Bullets... as their flagship novel.
The rough road is still not over as both H.X. and Middle Muse discovered that they would be playing and competing in the big publishers world. Things like editing, layout and cover design that larger companies could do in days became month long process with the minimal Middle Muse staff. They also learned that getting reviews to read the book, newspapers to notice it or book stores to put it on their shelves is a challenge with so many people producing books and battling to get the best coverage. Even still Middle Muse and H.X. remain hopeful knowing that If Kisses Were Bullets.. and the ideas behind it can carry them through. All they need is a little help from their friends and hopefully their fans.
