Local author offering novel free today only. https://amzn.to/3zIIqsS (digital version only) This book is a love letter to the great Canadian tradition of reinvention by road trip. When Jupiter Hart survives massive cuts in her government office only because she’s young, she quits on principle. It was suffocating anyway. There’s only one financial solution: quickly design then print thousands of greeting cards and road trip across Canada selling them to gift shops.Though courageous in behalf of others, she has zero self esteem. She’s unprepared for constant artistic rejection, paranoia about being on the road alone, financial pressure of selling enough cards to keep the gas tank full, untimely death of two friends, romantic failure and accidentally getting mixed up in a terrorist plot. Eventually she realizes she would have failed by now if she had no redeemable qualities. Looking for love and greeting card sales, she approaches both with yearning and abject fear. She tenaciously pushes through crippling self deprecation to unconventional victory. Author's note: This story takes place circa 2001, but don’t get caught up in the details, memory is a funny thing. People and events are completely fictional, but names are changed to protect the guilty. It’s 2022 as I write this, I hope this pandemic is over. It’s been a hard 40 years in lockdown, I’m poised for some rash behaviour. Jupiter’s pluck, determination and forceful tenacity has inspired me to chart a spectacular course to victory. I don’t have the starry eyes of young Jupiter, but being hella seasoned does have advantages. I hope this book helps you understand you can do it, whatever it is for you. Your fears, breakdowns, crying, homicidal/suicidal tendencies are completely normal. I hope you laugh, but more, I hope it will help you along your way. The pandemic took the stuffing out of me. I needed this project to remind myself who I am and get myself up and going again. I hope you have big plans on your horizon and when you face those inevitable roadblocks remember this: You are someone who gets up. You try again. If that doesn’t work, you think up a different way. You don’t give up. You have a tiger in your tank. You are tenacious. You have a fire inside you that will not be put out. You are determined. You are successful. You are learning. Godspeed. https://theoryknight.com/