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What The Book Is About
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. The intro explains it best.
Excerpt from the introduction:
These things happen and happened. Don’t get disheartened. You are about to get very confused-as much as the main character does. There may be places in the story where you don’t know what is going on. This book was purposely written with pace, word choice, layout and design in mind. The best suggestion is to continue forward. You can always read it again and, in fact, you’ll have to.
There are two ways to read this book. The first is to read part one (the text on the left side of the book, denoted by font) then go back to the beginning and read part two (the text on the right side of the book).
This would be the linear way to proceed.
The second way is to read part one and part two simultaneously as if reading two stories at once. Moving forward thusly will provide you more insight into the events as they play out. This would be the philosophical/analytical way to proceed.
Re-reading the book may reveal something new. Feel free to go back and try again. It’s up to you.
H.X. Sin has crafted a novel that pushes the lines in every direction. If Kisses Were Bullets... works its way through the history of the main character. The narrator delivers his personal critic of the world couples with a deep wisdom of life. 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?
It may take you a dozen readings to pick apart every aspect of this book.
The narrator is a character you'll love to hate.
I’m caught off-guard as Alisa pushes me against the wall.
I try to think of her as my sister because I’d only let a sister get
away with something like this, a very sexy sister.
I disturb me.
Alisa has never bothered to dance around my celebrity.
It’s the only kind of assistant I’d have.
“You have no tact,” Alisa says.
“I’ll just have to woo her until she learns that I’m not as
bad as I seem. When in reality she’s changed me into a better
man. We’ll fall in love and get married.”
“That only happens in the movies,” Alisa says.
“That’s what she wanted, she came here with those hopes
and I’m the one responsible? I have to waste my time with tact?
I’m sorry if Hollywood has presented us with a confusing reality.”
“We don’t need jokes out of you.”
“Who’s joking? I’m only saying what I want in a humorous
way.”
“That’s just it,” Alisa jabs a finger in my chest, “you only
say what you want.” Alisa storms off to somewhere.
I’m yelling after her, “If I’m not talking for myself who am
I? Whose words should I be saying? This old hags?” I point to my publicist.
“Why say anything to anyone if you’re going to be an asshole?”
How The Book Came To Exist
If Kisses Were Bullets... is the culmination of efforts by H.X Sin the owners of Middle Muse. While the novel itself took several years to write getting it published took as long. 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.
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