Doug Hewitt - author guest post

I am happy and thrilled to welcome Doug Hewitt, author of The Dead Guy, to Cafe of Dreams!

BIO:

Doug Hewitt was born and raised near Detroit, Michigan and now lives in North Carolina. Along the way, he did a four-year stint in the Marine Corps and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. He has been writing short stories for over 20 years and has been getting them published for most of that time, with over 80 stories in print. His stories have appeared in anthologies such as The Dead Inn and 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories. He has appeared in the premier issue of Apex Digest and has seen his chapbook, Slipstream, published by Scrybe Press.
He turned his attention to longer works and had his first novel SPEAR published in 2002. The Midwest Book Review calls SPEAR "a thrilling and deftly crafted novel." After being remarried in 2004, he and his wife, Robin, founded HewittsBooks.com. In addition to authoring a non-fiction parenting book, The Practical Guide To Weekend Parenting, Doug and Robin teamed up to write The Joyous Gift of Grandparenting.

Doug returned to his original passion, writing fiction, and wrote The Dead Guy, which St. Martins author Lynn Chandler-Willis calls a "high-octane, pedal-to-the-metal ride through the criminal underbelly of the automotive world." You can visit Doug Hewitt and read a free PDF chapter of The Dead Guy at http://www.hewittsbooks.com/.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Jack Thigpen works in Detroit, nicknamed The Motor City, the perfect place for a fraud investigator who specializes in car insurance scams. He is on a case he believes is a typical, low-level crime, but it quickly turns into a situation with ominous international consequences. Ironically, as he is targeted for death because of his investigation, Jack is diagnosed with a fatal disease that is untreatable, a disease that will end his life within months. And instead of killing Jack, the hit man shoots Jack's best friend. Struggling to come to terms with his impending death, Jack vows to track down his friend's killer.

Jack plunges into the world of corrupt car dealerships, chop shops, and fraudulent auto repair shops. He is soon swept into the darkness of Detroit's criminal underbelly to uncover the truth about power struggles within organized crime rings. Death is staring him in the face, but Jack doesn't back down. He pushes ahead, plowing through perilous roadblocks planted by his enemies, propelling himself toward the finish line and a teeth-gritting, heart-pounding conclusion.

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GUEST POST:

10 Things You Might Not Have Known About Doug Hewitt

Doug Hewitt is an author new to the mystery genre. His recent title is a Motown mystery novel, The Dead Guy, which St. Martins author Lynn Chandler-Willis calls a "high-octane, pedal-to-the-metal ride through the criminal underbelly of the automotive world." You can visit Doug Hewitt and read a free PDF chapter of The Dead Guy at http://www.hewittsbooks.com/.

Here are 10 things you might not know about Doug Hewitt.

1) He eats about a gallon of ketchup a month.

2) He's published over 100 short stories.

3) He played football for Kalamazoo College.

4) He once jumped out of a plane (at 2800 feet). (Yes, he did have a parachute.)

5) He was in the Marine Corps.

6) He can throw a cigarette behind his back and catch it in his mouth.

7) He loves to watch cheesy horror movies.

8) He likes to do oil paintings (and is good at it!)

9) He enjoys making movies. His latest is a video trailer in which two Mr. Potato Heads reenact the murder scene in The Dead Guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVpQiDu-F0&feature=channel_page
Watch Spuds Reenact Murder Scene.

10) He has written an eBook at http://www.freefundsforcollege.com/ about finding college scholarships.

Doug Hewitt

http://www.hewittsbooks.com/ (download the first chapter free here!)

http://www.twohewitts.blogspot.com/ (where Doug blogs about book promotion)

http://www.parentswrite.com/ (where Doug blogs about parenting)

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Win Prizes!

THE DEAD GUY VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on February 2 and end on February 27. You can visit Doug's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in February to find out more about this talented author!

As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.