Genre-busting literary fiction by Vermont writer J. Kilburn
CEREALNOVEL brings you Vermont writer J. Kilburn's latest novel: BEFORE is a fun-filled coming-of-age tale with roiling dark edges!
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BEFORE - a novel by Vermont writer J. Kilburn
BEFORE by Vermont writer J. Kilburn takes your average teenagers, gives them family and community, and then plausibly and seamlessly drops them into international intrigue in a small college town. These teenagers go about their sweet and sordid adventures blissfully unaware of their role in larger and more complicated regional events. BEFORE is a Coming-of-Age story, but it's also a story about international Organized Crime and the role that small-town folks, your neighbors, your loved ones, and even the Honors Student next door might play in that dark and dangerous world.
Coming-of-Age / Crime Fiction - 500 pages - 2022
PUBLISHER’S CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION INFORMATION:
LCSH: Teenagers - Fiction | Parenting - Fiction | Organized Crime - Fiction | Career Development - Fiction | Moral Development - Fiction
BISAC: FICTION / Action & Adventure | FICTION / Coming of Age | FICTION / Crime
ISBN - 9780578379180 (KDP Paperback) $16.99 - $19.99 SRP
ISBN - 9781005477080 (Smashwords EPUB) $6.99 -$9.99 SRP
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Writer J. Kilburn introduces three teen characters in this book: one of them will soon become a mother, one a father, and one of them will be dead before the arrival of their twenty-sixth birthday. Readers shouldn’t make any early assumptions as to which end will befall whom - Kilburn weaves a tangled web of fate and circumstance that will leave readers shocked and delighted in equal measure. A large and loveable supporting cast fleshes out the lives and adventures of these central characters. Readers will finish the tale hand-in-hand with a community of new Old Friends who will be fondly remembered long after the book is closed.
The tale starts with money - lost and scattered cash that is loose to the winds on a tree-lined rural Vermont road. The money scene ends with a clean segue into the introduction and character development of Bruce Sutton, a young man scouting potential college choices.
Other characters are gradually introduced, and along with them come romance, international intrigue, and an array of moral conflicts. By Chapter Three readers are absorbed in a family and community drama and have likely forgotten all about both that money and the looming fate that awaits one of these endearing characters. There are many inter-woven tales told in this book, but they all coalesce in the final two chapters, where readers once more see the wind-blown money and realize that they have been happily consorting with the maker of all this ill-gotten gain throughout nearly every page of this remarkable and well-crafted book.
Crime and Coming-of-Age Fiction
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BEFORE is a fun and edgy novel that follows the adventures and misadventures of Just Regular Kids as they come of age in a pastoral and peaceful college town. Buckle your seatbelts - all may not be as it seems. Events in a far-away Organized Crime empire lurk in the background as these teenagers take their first steps into adulthood. Adventurous readers will discover that two Sweet Sixteens have a lot more in common with hardened criminals than you - or they - might realize. Surprises are in store for everyone! Writer J.Kilburn brings readers a sweet and whimsical coming-of-age adventure with roiling dark edges.... Crime/Coming-of-Age, 500 pages, 2022
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Sweet Sixteen or hardened criminal?
Sometimes those Honors Students next door have a LOT more going on than you might suspect!
Press Release poster for the Advanced Reader Copy Edition of BEFORE, released to Reviewers and Advanced Readers in April of 2022.
Interested in becoming an Advanced Reader? Send an E-mail with contact information and credentials to: jkilburn@cerealnovel.com