Rob Jeffers has it all: fame, money, and the life of a rock and roll star.
Welcome to the April 1st stop on the blog tour for One Helluva Gig by Kevin R. Doyle with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.
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About the Book
One Helluva Gig
by Kevin R. Doyle
Published 23 MArch 2022
The Wild Rose Press Inc
Genre: Romance
Page Count: 65
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Rob Jeffers has it all: fame, money, and the life of a rock and roll star. Frank Peters is a regular guy, a newspaper reporter who just happens to have a passing acquaintance with the Great Jeffers. As Jeffers’s career shoots up, Peters’s fortunes follows in his wake.
And when Jeffers passes away at the height of his fame, Peters’s life begins a steady unravelling. Until a chance encounter on a minor story gives him a new outlook on the celebrity lifestyle, and new hope for his own future.
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After graduating, I decided to make a stake for my future in California. Naturally, imbued with youthful naïveté (a nice euphemism for stupidity), I submitted my portfolio at the L.A. Times and The San Francisco Examiner. I naturally figured that it would require only a cursory examination for them to see my undeniable genius and hire me on to work on their front pages.
Didn’t work out that way, not at all, and by the time I’d worked my way through the second tier, and then the third tier papers, I finally managed to snag my first professional newspaper job.
In Lodi.
Lodi, for Chrissakes. I mean, that Fogerty guy even wrote a song once about the dumpiness of Lodi. However, by the time they floated the offer, I was so hungry, cold, and desperate that I would have taken anything. Then, once I’d moved my few knapsacks of belongings down there and found a room I could rent by the month, came what seemed like the final indignity.
They put me to work writing obituaries.
Understand, in the early eighties, practically everyone in newspaper work got started in the obits. Even so, it seemed like the drudgiest of drudge work. Six days a week, I sat at my desk, scanning the death notices, calling hospitals and checking with the cops to fulfill my daily quota of morbidity.
About the Author
A high-school teacher, former college instructor and fiction writer, Kevin R. Doyle is the author of numerous short horror stories. He’s also written three crime thrillers, The Group, When You Have to Go There, and And the Devil Walks Away and one horror novel, The Litter. Recently, he’s begun working on the Sam Quinton private eye series. The first Quinton book, Squatter’s Rights, was nominated for the 2021 Shamus award as Best First PI Novel. The second book, Heel Turn, was released in March of 2021, while the third in the series, Double Frame, is due out March of 2022.
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Giveaway Alert!
Kevin R. Doyle will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
a Rafflecopter giveaway| Mar 21 | Fabulous and Brunette | Mar 22 | Andi’s Book Reviews |
| Mar 23 | Hope. Dreams. Lif… Love | Mar 23 | Rogue’s Angels |
| Mar 24 | Momma Says To Read or Not to Read | Mar 24 | Long and Short Reviews |
| Mar 25 | Words of Wisdom from The Scarf Princess | Mar 28 | Sandra’s Book Club |
| Mar 28 | Wendi Zwaduk | Mar 29 | Viviana MacKade |
| Mar 29 | The Faerie Review | Mar 30 | Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’ |
| Mar 31 | All the Ups and Downs | Apr 1 | Westveil Publishing |
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Thanks for hosting!
I’d also like to thank you for hosting. I’m going to be at work during the day, but will check in this evening to reply to any comments or questoins.
Sounds great, thank you for sharing.
This sounds like an excellent read.
Happy Friday! I hope that you have enjoyed your book tour and I wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors. I have enjoyed reading about you and your work throughout this tour and I am looking forward to reading your book. Have a great weekend!