The Chronicles of Huttle: October 2013

Monday, October 7, 2013

What's in a name?

Faithful readers of this blog have been anxiously waiting Bagnoose Media International's new designs and, yes, new titles for the book series featuring hapless writer Tom Huttle. The wait is over, dear readers! Steven Booth of Genius Book Services--www.geniusbookservices.com--has done a wonderful job of capturing the tone of the series, which is now known as The Chronicles of Huttle.

There are currently three books in the series: The Spy Who Loathed Me, set in 1982, introduces Tom, although he is not the central character in this story.

In Huttle We Trust, Book Two in the Chronicles, is set in the mid 1990s, and finds Tom with his wife and family in the quirky town of Echo Valley as he struggles to complete Garbage, his first book.

Book Three, Huttle to the Rescue, occurs in the late 1990s, as Tom and his wife, Amy, are swept into various intrigues in the Middle East.

Currently in progress is the fourth book in the Chronicles, Huttle On Fire.

All are currently available in Paperback! Kindle, Nook, and Apple Editions coming soon! See the images to the right.

The Pyongyang Paradox

Where the spy novel and novelist intertwine After decades of writing utilitarian copy for trade magazines, Tom Huttle believes that he is on the path to a glamorous new life when he completes the first chapter of his novel, The Pyongyang Paradox, featuring dashing hero Buck Samson. The novel might give Tom the confidence he needs to pursue the woman of his dreams, and fulfill his abiding conviction that he is destined for a life of action and romance. Tom gets more excitement than he bargained for when the explosion of a top-secret satellite sends him to Buck Samson’s fictional world, just as Buck takes over Tom’s pedestrian life. For Tom, living a life of relentless peril and intrigue is a far cry from writing about it, and Tom’s normal world may not be ready for the likes of Buck Samson. A rollicking blend of espionage, romance, and science fiction, The Pyongyang Paradox is laced throughout with Chris Westphal’s quirky brand of dark humor and psychological insight.

The Spy Who Loathed Me

Hollywood, 1982. Struggling sitcom writer Tom Huttle has the ideal side gig: writing personality profiles for an insurance company’s newsletter. If only he knew that the company is a CIA front. When a CIA agent is murdered, Tom is the key suspect—at least in the eyes of bumbling FBI Special Agent Terrance Tillberry. If Terrance weren’t hopelessly in love with undercover KGB agent Petra Tarasova, maybe he would see that Tom has no idea what’s going on. But this is Hollywood. Nothing is really what it seems.

Huttle to the Rescue

The Emperor of Japan is a pyromaniac, living in the orange groves of Echo Valley. Tom Huttle, his house destroyed by a frozen ball of piss from a passing airliner, is in Baltimore to collect a writing award, while his wife and her bawdy traveling companion are kidnapped by Arab terrorists while on an Egyptian holiday. It’s up to Tom to save the day—and he might be able to do it, if only Cairo CIA Station Chief Harry “Hump” Purvis didn’t believe he was at the center of a plot to conquer the world. Fast-paced, twisted, and always surprising, Huttle to the Rescue skewers everything from post Cold War political paranoia, to sexual taboos, to our fascination with youth, beauty and celebrity.

Deadlines: A Jack Teller Mystery

As editor of the Empire City Dispatch—a struggling twice-weekly newspaper in coastal Oregon—former investigative journalist Jack Teller thinks he’s found refuge from his traumatic past, until he discovers the body of the outcast scion of the region’s most powerful family, Jesse McLennon. Tragic events closer to home force Teller to delve more deeply into Jesse’s life and death. Teller quickly finds himself in conflict with the McLennons, who will stop at nothing to maintain their positions of power and respect. Dark and brooding, Deadlines evokes the mist-shrouded Oregon Coast as Jack Teller is drawn into a plot of deception and revenge, and reckons with his own troubled past.