Review: "Razor-sharp wit..."

Wonderful review from Ian Devaney, lead singer of The Static Jacks:

"When reading a novel, I generally judge it based on how jealous I get at the fact that I am unable to write one myself. After reading LBATPP, it is all too clear that Jealousy, that green-eyed monster, has its claws in me still.

In general, I read very slowly. A few pages here and there, I methodically chip away. Such was not the case here. Rather, I found myself staying up all hours of the night, my methodical chipping turning instead to more of a barbaric hacking.

The presentation of the story is fun and detailed, and breeds a curiosity that keeps pages turning. The hilarious detail brought each character to life in a very real way, and the razor-sharp wit kept me fixed somewhere between a wry smile and audible laughter throughout the entire read. It was almost exhausting.

LBATPP is a quick and lighthearted satire, bringing a smart jocularity to an important social revolution."

Thanks, Ian, for the kind words!

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First reviews are in and people are digging the book:
Brittany the Book Slayer

Love Bomb and the Pink Platoon is an adult novel that blends the military with a little don't ask, don't tell action. After pissing off the wrong people, General Newman Ginger is forced to participate in a top-secret government experiment that turns a whole platoon of unwanted soldiers gay. But that's not the only side effect...the men also acquire other special skills that make them into the ultimate fighting machines. Needless to say, the military does not take the news well, and what comes next is explosive.

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Sample - Love Bomb and the Pink Platoon

Here's a sample from my debut novel, Love Bomb and the Pink Platoon. Love Bomb is the story of a washed-up career General who faces a spiritual crisis when a military experiment turns his entire platoon gay, just before sending them into a war zone. Intrigued? Read on...

“Thank you for volunteering,” offered the sturdy redhead. The voice seemed a little cooler now, but Newman was grateful for the courtesy, however rote.

Over the next six hours he stood in line after line, queuing up to run on a treadmill, to be poked and prodded, weighed and measured, and finally to sign a stack of documents relieving the military of any duty to return him to society at any point, ever. As he scanned the documents for signature lines he couldn’t help but notice words like “in perpetuity,” and “waives all rights,” and “not responsible.”

It was the “not responsible” that stuck, playing over and over again in his mind, the record skipping on a crook in the groove. Here he was, signing over his right to make any assertive decision about his immediate future- his meals, his transportation, his lodging, even his minute-to-minute activities would be strictly controlled by the military- yet they were not responsible for him? They would direct and control his every move and monitor his every reaction, he was certainly no longer responsible for himself, but somehow neither were they. He could not be responsible for himself, and the military refused to be, and with each signature he felt one step closer to purgatory, suspended between this world and the next, floating between his past life and… something.

For the first time since he walked out of the jungle thirty years ago General Newman Ginger felt frightened. His mind raced with the possibilities. Torture. Maiming. Chemical poisoning. Legally, with this final signature, the United States military could do anything, he thought. They could fill him with stuffing and bake him like a turkey, he thought. They could force him to eat purple mushrooms and wrestle a bear, he thought. They could get bored and just shoot him, he thought, what if they just shoot me? What if that’s the entire experiment, they just shoot me and watch me die and then write a report about it, he thought?

He signed. And with this final signature he relieved the Defense Department of the United States of any responsibility for the consequences of their experiment. How can you sign a paper that grants someone the right to shoot you at will, with no consequences, he asked himself? It was insane. He felt insane. He saw himself scrawling the words General… Newman… Ginger… and he wanted to rip the pen from his own hand but he signed, controlled by some force beyond the hand, beyond the brain, beyond the panic.

Somewhere in the deepest, atrophied, dying core of Newman Ginger there was a man who craved the freedom and the terror of a complete loss of control.

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THANKS TO YOU for three days straight we were ahead of Slumdog Millionaire (Best Picture 2008), Marley & Me, and even Twilight. This is unheard of. We were the only true independent film in the Top 50, and the only film made for under $10 million.

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