SMFS Member Publishing News: Good-Looking Ugly: A Novel by Rob D. Smith

 

SMFS list member Rob D. Smith reported that his book, Good-Looking Ugly: A Novel, was recently published by Shotgun Honey Books. The book is available at the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors.

 

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About the Book

Daniel Brown was born with the face only a mother could love and his mother couldn’t much stand to look at him either. This constant scrutiny of his looks brought out over-the-top physical acts of rage from Daniel bringing him into altercations with his family, school, and eventually the authorities. While attending court-ordered anger counseling sessions that are the only thing keeping him out of prison, his long-absent country cousin Jayla Durand meets him at his basement apartment in the city begging his favor.

She wants to rip off a cockfighting championship held at the Bluegrass Sportsman Club run by her ex-boyfriend Archie Mudd. She asks Daniel to harness his fury to help get her out from under the thumb of her abusive ex and the Kentucky Fried Mafia who run the club and all of the crooked law enforcement of Marion County. With a score close to a million dollars, she expects they could both upgrade their lives. Daniel agrees to his cousin’s half-ass caper so long as he returns in time to make his scheduled therapy session or face the judge for prison sentencing.

Jayla has held back some pertinent details involving the cockfighting heist such as their getaway driver Meg is her new girlfriend. His cousin’s biggest unrevealed reason is the real impetus causing her to risk the wrath of Bluegrass crime boss Johnny Mudd and his Kentucky Fried Mafia. Will Jayla’s secrets burn their heist plans down, will Daniel’s unchecked rage destroy that quicker, or are things about to get really ugly?