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Win Shoot the Messenger and a $50 gift card

In case you don’t already know, Yancey Williams’ book Shoot the Messenger is an enchanting love story about murderous psychopaths, contract killers, and totally jilted lovers gone awry. Sounds like a good Valentine’s Day read, doesn’t it? Yeah, we think so, too.

We’d like you to win a copy, so we’re making it easy. Use the entry gateway to follow us on Twitter and Facebook and tell us which character in Shoot the Messenger you’re most like in the comments section below.

Elvis Octavius Palmer
Little man as in little people in today’s sqeaky-clean, spruced up vernacular. Midget to others. Ego more than sufficiently compensates for diminutive stature. Profession: Psychopathic contract killer. Previously, drug dealer. Well versed as hustler, pimp, and handy man to the malevolent and maladjusted. Positive attributes include a quick, demented wit, bawdy eye for pole dancers and night club strippers, as well as coefficiently equipped to handle any disturbingly filthy job you don’t want to do yourself. If you can call those attributes?

Vladimir Gagarin Yeltsin
Yes, cousin to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Or so he claims. Who knows? Ex-Russian mobster. For sure. Otherwise, believe what you want? If in his company, say you believe. Profession: Hit Man. Period. Attributes. None, less the soft spot for Elvis and an overcompensatingly salacious, anatomical affinity for the opposite sex. Is groping ever listed as an attribute? I didn’t think so.

Harriett O’Connor
The beautifully sensuous, unfaithful Yuppie-wife to the very wealthy, philandering Harry Axel O’Connor. Lover to Earnest Darwin, investment tycoon and candidate for the United States Congress. Harry, the wealthy, philandering husband is in Harriett’s way. Earnest’s too. Harriett’s used to getting her way. Not good for Harry. Profession: Yuppie housewife. Attributes: Beautifully sensual. Penchant for tiger sex.

Earnest Darwin
CEO of Galapagos Capital. In his spare time with his spare change, he’s running for the United States Congress. Additional sideline: ensnaring eligible women. Enter Harriett O’Connor. Or enter Earnest Darwin. It all depends on who you ask. Profession: Investment Banker. Attributes: Financially secure in spades. Penchant for tiger sex.

Thornton Alpert
Father. Husband. Profession: Insurance adjustor. The unassuming and unguarded target of Harriett O’Connor who’s looking to Alpert as a disposable means to collect on her dead (murdered) husband’s life insurance policy. Attributes: Willingly efficient and putty in the hands of the aforementioned Harriett O’Connor.

WhoreHay ManWell Reconquista Gonzalez
Illegal immigrant or undocumented immigrant as referenced now by the most politically correct of modern day verbage navigators. Profession: A trespassing, border-hopping little thief feigning employment as the O’Connor’s (hired by Harry primarily to appease Harriett or so it seems) handy man. Attributes: Self preservation.

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Rome & Joliet has just been released on Kindle, just in time for Christmas. Gift the book to a friend or loved one for only $3.99.

We asked author Yancey Williams why he wants his works available on the Kindle.

“Airport Terminal. Gate 27. Flight number 998. Louisville – Albuquerque. Guy in the blue business suit is seated comfortably upright holding his Kindle waiting to board. He’s chuckling. His reading glasses are perched on the end of nose. His smile grows by the second.

Guy in the relaxed jeans sitting in the opposite aisle across from the guy chuckling, watches the other guy smiling evermore broadly. He’s now noticing the guy chuckling out loud to himself as he reads along on his Kindle. The guy chuckling then spontaneously breaks out into a full blown belly laugh, remaining focused on his Kindle the whole time. The guy in the relaxed jeans in the opposite row sitting directly across from the guy reading can’t stand it any longer. He interrupts politely, friendly-like.

“Good read?”

“Rome & Joliet,” says the guy knowingly, hardly looking up, reading with an even broader smile and shaking his head with approval. It’s the old double fisted Kindle swag for the in-depth reader technique, recognizable anywhere, airport terminals, bus stations, subway trains, down through row 38, aisle seat D and window seat A. Something akin to the relaxed fit of a new born in the palms, natural, as it should be.

“Hey,” replies the curious stranger-guy in the relaxed jeans sitting across from the beamingly contented Kindle reader who’s still chuckling in the interlude and still wearing the ever more contented and broader smile.

“Hey,” says the curious stranger-guy one more time like he hasn’t said it the first time now fishing about frenetically in his carryon. The inquisitive stranger-dude in the relaxed jeans pulls out his own Kindle, waves it about at shoulder height, and replies, “Just wait until you get to the next chapter!”

“Yeah,” says the woman in the brown tweed jacket two seats over sporting her own Kindle HD in the raspberry ergonomic case. “And the conclusion! To die for!”

And that’s why Williams likes having his works available for Kindle.

Regarding the Kindle itself, Williams said, “For a youngish dude like me, younger than 65, somewhat older than Brittany Spears, who just bought his read-aholic girlfriend a Kindle HDX for Christmas, the little bugger is flat out amazing! What’s next? World peace? Not according to Rome & Joliet. And certainly not in the cards as to Shoot The Messenger!”

Shoot the Messenger Reviewed at BookReview.com