The Singular Adventures of Jefferson Ball by David Perlmutter Book Tour and Giveaway :)
The
Singular Adventures of Jefferson Ball
by
David Perlmutter
Genre:
YA SciFi Fantasy
There
never was a heroine like Jefferson Ball. And, thankfully, there may
never be.
She
is, simply, the most powerful humanized female dog in a universe full
of them. Faster, stronger, more attractive to boys. Unbeatable as a
lover. Unfortunately, her brains are not up to this quality, but
don’t tell her that.
About
the only one who can is Major Hamilton Pomeranian, the diminutive
ex-soldier who is Jeff’s best friend and conscience. When she gets
too big for her limited clothing, Hamilton tells her what for. And
it’s usually only after that point that they are able to escape
from whatever convoluted situation they find themselves in.
This
potential collection will have readers both laughing and awestruck at
the events that happen. And, hopefully, you will be one of them.
Jefferson Ball was drunk. She was also, for good measure,
scotched, tipsy, pickled, loaded, smashed, lit, hammered, jonesed,
stoned, tippled, bashed, pixilated, looped, high as a Georgia pine,
gassed, Harvey-wallbangered, flipped, up-set, just drinkin’,
salted, hard-boiled, fried and [insert your own term for inebriation
here. There are many to choose from.] The most obvious evidence was that
she, the most powerful human-shaped female dog in a universe chock
full of them, was lying face down on the floor of the bar she was in-
one of many ignominiously-styled establishments in her home town of
Hugopolis. Clad only in her trademark monogrammed black bikini and
black boots, she seemed much more like a typical skid row derelict
barfly, someone who had long ago abandoned herself to the winds of
fate, chance and alcohol, than the larger than life heroic- or, as
her enemies saw her, anti-heroic figure she truly was. Jefferson Ball possessed many
virtues, chiefly of the physical variety, that she was wont to
exploit in her favour, manipulative creature that she was.
Fortunately for herself and the universe around her, she used most of
them in the service of her kind. Centuries of breeding and body
conditioning among her ancestors, coupled with some shady DNA and
genetic manipulation at one point, had created, in Jefferson, a
creature possessed of astonishing physical abilities, among them the
ability to run a four minute mile in less than two, and powerful
physical strength, enough to balance hundreds of thousands of pounds
on her fingertip alone. Not surprisingly, these abilities,
plus a deadly accuracy with the whip she always kept at hand, made
her a very formidable opponent of the forces of evil, particularly
all aliens, robots, and other supernatural beings who thought they
could outfox her in the speed and muscle department, and especially
those who employed those beings in a futile attempt to destroy her. But, like most heroic types, she
had an Achilles heel. Two, in fact- both of which she bore the scars
of, though less than you might think given her remarkable resiliency. The first of these was the more
obvious and the more hurtful to her reputation. Boys of her race- and
the males of any alien race she encountered- and plenty of them! In
both the actual evidence known, and her own personal Munchausian
exaggeration of her abilities, she was, indeed, a formidable lover.
Mata Hari and Mae West had nothing on her! But, rather
than experienced lovers, she preferred to initiate virgins-
especially fine young things- into the ways of the world. It
was common for her, during her adventures, to regularly slip out of a
young male’s boudoir, having blown his genitals to smithereens
(metaphorically) with her own, more powerful ones, and to leave him
permanently longing for her touch- and/or cursing her to the heavens
for tricking him into giving up his cherry for good. As powerful and influential she was
as a hero or lover, however, Jefferson had an equally colorful
reputation as a drinker- or, more accurately, a lush. When boys were
not available, she drank, and, even when they were, she drank.
Socially and professionally, she drank as well, and this damaged her
social status as much as her being a lover of renown. For this
reason, most beings of her gender, despite her heroism, were
reluctant to establish lasting friendships with her on two counts.
She would, it was said, either steal your “man” from you with her
charms, good looks, and muscular, pneumatic physique, or she would do
so in a duplicitous way- by drinking you under the table! It was at this point, almost on cue,
that Jefferson’s sole female friend- indeed, the only friend of
either gender she truly had in the whole universe- entered the
bar-room, spotted Jefferson sprawled on the floor, put her paws on
her hips, and exclaimed: “So there you are!”
David Perlmutter is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of America Toons In: A History of Television Animation (McFarland and Co.), The Singular Adventures Of Jefferson Ball (Amazon Kindle), The Pups (Booklocker.com), Certain Private Conversations and Other Stories (Aurora Publishing), Honey and Salt (Scarlet Leaf Publishing), The Encyclopedia of American Animated Cartoon Series (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming) and Orthicon; or, the History of a Bad Idea (Linkville Press, forthcoming).
What
are your top 10 favorite books/authors?
My
top ten writers are, in no particular order: Jack London, Robert
Bloch, Frederik Pohl, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edmund Wilson, Northrop Frye and G.K.
Chesterton.
What
book do you think everyone should read?
“Patriotic
Gore” by Edmund Wilson. The Civil War as told by the people who
lived through it. You’ll never look at those times and those people
the same way again.
Do
the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them
come to you as you write?
It
never comes completely at once. Things evolve as I write about them.
That’s why I keep going back to my main stable of characters- to
flesh them out and be able to tell more fully developed stories about
them.
What
kind of research do you do before you begin writing a book?
Extensive.
I spend much more time doing research than writing, to make sure I
get things right.
Do
you see writing as a career?
Yes.
Do
you read yourself and if so what is your favorite genre?
Yes.
Science Fiction, Fiction and Horror. Especially the old masters and
mistresses, who did it so much better than I possibly could.
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