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Hi everyone

Just testing the self-publishing waters a little. I am not quite ready to put this on Smashwords or anything---it's a draft and needs a bit of work yet. But I posted about it elsewhere and people said I might try things out here first, see how it goes etc. I may post it elsewhere, in a modified form, if I do decide it merits further updating.

Title: Hel's Angel

Genre: Mystery

Synopsis: Helena Snowden is a twenty-something hack journalist whose tame little word is thrown into disarray when her estranged father, a local literature professor, dies suddenly. As her long-underutilized reporter's sixth sense kicks in and she begins investigating, Helena finds herself competing with her arch-rival Alex Calvin for a hot local story, caring for the odd, orphaned half-brother she never knew she had and plundering her Riverside Shakespeare for messages from her father which may lead her to his killer and which will take her deeper into the troubled world he inhabited...

Notes: This is a draft and requires/will possibly undergo revision and re-issuing in an altered form. I reserve all rights to it. Apologies for any wonky formatting---the forum would not let me upload an RTF file greater than 1 mg so I had to export it as a PDF from Neo Office and then run it through Stanza to get an epub...

Comments and feedback are welcome and appreciated. I had fun with this novel and hope you enjoy it!

UPDATE: For those who can handle word docs, I have uploaded that version as well. You can save it as HTML or plain text and easily convert it to a format of your choosing. You'll get a much cleaner copy that way, I hope.