The e-mail campaign to get early reviewers for Fatal Score launched today for a launch in mid-November. The first chapter is here as a pdf and here if you wish to listen to it. (I’m planning to put audio up on Amazon early in 2019.) 
I have some great reviews, and, reading through the current version of the book (which is rewrite 14), I realize how indebted I am to the many writers who have helped me grow in the craft.
There is a common story among writers about the first book: we write a draft, think it’s pretty good, send out queries to agents, realize the manuscript needs more work, rewrite, rewrite rewrite. When the book is finally as good as it’s going to be, we look back and chuckle at our naïveté. I started Fatal Score in 2011. Next one will be easier.
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Author: John Rogers
I have thought of myself as a writer for most of my adult life. In 2011, I became a fiction writer full time. I studied creative writing as an English major in college. Then came family and career. I worked in finance and biotech and did a wonderful stint in Vienna. Now, I have the opportunity to use those experiences as the substrate for my stories. My first novel takes on the world of Big Data and the very timely issue of cyber war. The second uses the manipulation of financial derivatives as impetus for attempted murder during a trip from Vienna to Budapest on the Danube.
I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis. I am finding writers’ groups to be very helpful as concept editors, as well as practical advice from the published authors. I am in three such groups. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis.
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Fatal Score was a great read! Excited for your book baby to officially come to life.
I am so excited for you about all you have accomplished. Of course I know you want the RESULTS but you have it published. Can’t wait to read it….
Looking forward to the launch of Fatal Score!!! Reading it along the way has been profoundly intriguing!