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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.

An Excerpt

Everyone has a dream of fame and fortune or love and life. They have simplistic versions of perfection in mind. Mounds of green cash that come from nowhere for no reason. The cash is always greener and on the other side is their reality.
Dreams of besting the world form-success in life that translates as success in status. Cities are built on dreams and schools teach these dreams. Everyday adulthood says that we can be whatever we want to be-astronaut or president it's all within reach. It's all there in our dreams as fears conquered.
I am the alpha dog of humanity and when I write the great American novel or win my academy award I'll scoff. I'll say my winning speech at the podium. I'll talk about how no one thought I could do it but strived and achieved.
Or will someone else say those words?
There are a million dreams in the naked society.
How many are the same as your own?
One?
Two billion?
That's an awful lot of inflation to go around.

		"Do you like when I'm unhappy?" I ask. "You know I don't support charity organizations." "I've been sending them a check and you get a tax deduction," Alisa says. "Well, why don't we donate to the local police department that way I get better protection and a tax deduction?" "Satan has a special place in his heart for you," Alisa says.

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. The book is about itself, it’s about trying to do things the way we’re told and then going back and having to do it the way we need to do it. It’s about not fitting into any category and about being unable to explain yourself. Like life this book is layered with meaning. If you’re one of us, born after 1970, you’ll want to read this book. And if you’re not then you’ll want to read this book to understand the goals and beliefs of the next generation, the ones who will be in charge some day. 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? Come watch the dance of love lost and love gained.
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. Bookmark this Page! An Excerpt Everyone has a dream of fame and fortune or love and life. They have simplistic versions of perfection in mind. Mounds of green cash that come from nowhere for no reason. The cash is always greener and on the other side is their reality. Dreams of besting the world form-success in life that translates as success in status. Cities are built on dreams and schools teach these dreams. Everyday adulthood says that we can be whatever we want to be-astronaut or president it's all within reach. It's all there in our dreams as fears conquered. I am the alpha dog of humanity and when I write the great American novel or win my academy award I'll scoff. I'll say my winning speech at the podium. I'll talk about how no one thought I could do it but strived and achieved. Or will someone else say those words? There are a million dreams in the naked society. How many are the same as your own? One? Two billion? That's an awful lot of inflation to go around. Check out the art work and music inspired by the novel. www.hxsin.co Get The Book At... Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com