If Kisses Were Bullets...

A Sick Romance Novel

by H.X. Sin

Available through- Barnes and Noble and Amazon

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. H.X. Sin has crafted a novel in an attempt challenge everything. He began by developing his own linguistic rhythm and combined it with a stylistic design in the hopes of taking books a step forward. In simple words that is what the book is about, going forward. The nameless main character fights to break free from the vicious circles of how things are done. We watch from his perspective as he gives us an interesting insight into why ignorance begets ignorance he is torn between his loathing of human nature and his desire to lead mankind away from its own destruction. Yet above all else he must never give up to the pressure of other peoples beliefs and always following his own personal moral code.

How The Book Came To Exist

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. He refused to change it to make it more "marketable" according to the big publishers. H.X has several paintings and a CD that he created for the book.

"There are too many interconnected and tightly packed elements to change anything and besides f#*$ them"
- H.X. Sin

It took several more years and some good friends before the possibility of getting the book published came into view. Middle Muse Publishing was launched with the sole purpose of reaching out to other writers like H.X. who had written a good story but would never see their books in print due to difficult marketability.

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