What The Book Is About

H.X. Sin has crafted a novel that pushes the lines in every direction. 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 Book contains two stories, reading them separately or combined give you a different feel for what is going on. This is a very different book from what you are used to reading.

The nameless main character fights to break free from the vicious circles of how things are done. The narrator delivers his personal critic of the world couples with a deep wisdom of life. He ponders the world around him wondering 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. But it's not easy when you've been accused of murder.

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?

It may take you a dozen readings to pick apart every aspect of this book.

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.

"What a nice boy, a good boy, so much potential he’s going to grow up to be a pediatrician, an astrophysicist, a judge, a porn tycoon."

"What a nice boy, a good boy, so much potential he’s going to grow up to be a husband, a father, a grandfather, a divorcee."

"What a nice boy, a good boy, so much potential he’s going to grow up to be ignorant, a chronic masturbator, lonely, lost."

"What a nice boy, a good boy, so much potential he’s going to grow up to be a cubical commando, a short order cook, fired, on unemployment."

"What a nice boy, a good boy, so much potential he’s going to grow up to be president, novelist, hypocrite, sellout."