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My name is David Baldwin and I have written a novel that I would like to get published. However I have had little success so far with the traditional, some might say 'antediluvian', procedures and hoops that one has to jump through to get someone of influence to read your work. I'm speaking here of Literary Agents, Publishers, Editors, even family and friends.
Therefore, I have published the book on my own web site and I would invite anyone who finds this Blog, to follow the link and read it. I would greatly appreciate any comments, be they constructive, destructive or even down-right rude. I can guarantee, that if you read the whole novel, you will enjoy it. Here is a short synopsis.

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Synopsis of "The Life of Riley" – By David Baldwin


RILEY LOCKSPRING was different from other boys, but just how different, even he never suspected.
He was born in Russia, but his origins were in another world altogether.
As he grows up, through school and university, a feeling that, out there somewhere, in the vastness of the universe he will find the "meaning of ‘his’ life" draws him in. He plans to do a PhD in Astro-physics and dreams of one day travelling into Space.
Is it a whim? Or is it his calling?
His plans are scuppered when his adoptive father, Richard, becomes gravely ill and Riley instinctively knows that he is the only person who can save him.
With a mind unencumbered by practicality and convention, the battle to save his father leads him on a voyage of discovery; a voyage dictated by fate, folly, misfortune, genius and love! It's a voyage that he appeares to have no control over. But someone or something, is controlling it.
He finds it difficult to make friends and constantly yearns for the love of an extended ‘family’ just like his friend Jasper finds in the Army. He feels that he is alone in a world that doesn't notice him but there are two groups of people keeping a very close eye on his development; some Russians and the inhabitants of an Alien planet. But which of these factions have his best interests at heart and which is out to kill him?
Eventually his past and his future collide in a bloody battle for his soul, and he finally discovers who he really is.

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If this synopsis makes you want to read on, please click here.
If not, please tell me why this synopsis does not sell you the book, read the book anyway and then tell me why the synopsis is pathetic.

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