My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun
I am an author trying to obliterate the conventions of genre.
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RM DAmato received a B.A.from California State University, Northridge in 1982 and an M.A. from U.S.C. in 1983. He worked as an assistant editor for the Los Angeles Times but spent most of his career as a teacher in California and Florida. He is married with one daughter. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at Florida International University. His second novel, I Have Three Things to Tell You, will be completed in 2014 and will illustrate the state of the public educational system in the near future. My principal literary influences are Chaucer and Bukowski.
Birth Place
Brooklyn, NY USA
Accomplishments
2014 National Excellence Indie Awards SciFi Finalist--I Have Three Things to Tell You My Friend.
2013 Foreword Review Awards SciFi Finalist--The Last Seminarian
2014 SciFi Nominee Global eBook Awards--The Last Seminarian
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