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Zero-charisma, middle-aged, semi-divorced Bill Lee travels from Maine to Hawaii for his final days. While searching Oahu for the perfect place to hide his own body, he mistakenly starts a religious cult, becomes the poster boy for a circular economy, and ends up at the center of a deadly literary mystery fighting to save Hawaiʻi’s literary soul.
I have been writing novel-length manuscripts since I was in high school. I leveraged a Masters in English (Writing and Cultural Theory) from a third-rate university into an early career in advertising. Now chest-deep into my 50s, for the past 25 years I made a living as a consultant to Governments, NGOs and Fortune 5 companies helping them tell stories of environmental sustainability and related social issues.
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