NEW Blurb for Roads from Jon Boilard

Here's fantastic blurb that a writer I really admire, west Coast writer, Jon Boilard, gave me for Roads, A Novel, Forthcoming February 2023:

"Daren Dean reminds me of a prize fighter nobody has ever heard of through no fault of his own—because he’s sure putting in the damn work. He just hasn’t yet caught the big break. It’s coming soon though. I can see it. And until then, he’ll keep perfecting his craft to make certain he is ready to step into the ring under the bright lights on a Saturday night when he gets called up; yeah, he’ll keep slugging away in smokey barrooms and back alleys, grinding it out at the gym. His latest is a novel called ROADS that we should all be reading. His command of prose is so strong that I feel some of his sentences are just like that old one-two punch; they send me reeling and then stay with me for days." ~Jon Boilard, author, Junk City, Settright Road, The Castaway Lounge, A River Closely Watched

This goes along nicely with the blurb that the brilliant Ron Rash recently gave me:

"From the opening page, Daren Dean propels the reader into his story and never taps the brakes as his characters move toward an inevitable reckoning. Dannie Gail Posey is the novel’s young heroine, and we cheer her on as she navigates a violent world that seeks to entrap her even as she dreams of escaping it. Roads confirms Daren Dean as an important new voice in rural noir."-Ron Rash, Author of Serena, In The Valley, The World Made Straight