Chapter 3 of Hired Gun has officially gone live. So far, I've been getting a really strong positive response. This book is really blowing up. Tons of new views on the new blog, which is cool.
I feel like Chapter 3 is where the story really starts to develop. You get to see Jason as a troubled hero with a difficult line of work, and he struggles with feeling that his efforts have little impact. Something I always tried to come back to while writing this book was that Jason Ingram is a man. Nothing more. Not Superman. Not Batman. Just a regular dude who does some really interesting stuff.
Urban fantasy seems to be a genre plagued with wizards, summoners, half-demons, half-fairies, gargoyles (as heroes!), vampires--you freaking name it, and some UF hero is one. That was tempting for me to fall into at first. I'd been planning to make Jason a faith-based hero, like a paladin or a cleric. But the more I wrote from his voice, the more I discovered that his plainness is what makes him special. The fact that every job is a life-or-death struggle made me really care about him. Anyway, I hope you like it. Happy reading. The new link is below.
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