Rust In The Wheat

After my publisher passed on this book I decided to self publish it. Here's why.I wrote my manuscript with a very strong dialect that wasand is prevalent in East TN the Carolinas and Georgiain the more rural Appalachian regions like i grew up in. My publisher thought it might only appeal to a small Appalachian reader base.SoI sat down to un-regionalize it to strip away the dialect and unconventional grammar from it but I couldn't. I felt I wasn't being true to it. I realize not many people will get it but for those who will it's worth it to me. Set in the Mid-80s and told through the remembrances of 14 yr old Early Prichardthis is how Perky County found itself caught in the grip of corruption. How whiskey makers and runnersbackroom dealingsand cold blooded murder led one man to start a county-wide war. The costly toll on the Prichard familymore specifically on Early who really only wanted a normal life may be more than it was worth in the end.