What a great first day!  Thank you all for your support of The Marsden Wheel.  Each preorder today has been so encouraging.  Every share, every comment, and every preorder takes this book one step closer to publication.  I really hope to make the final five for the Nerdist contest.  

I thought it fitting in this first update to introduce you to Jack Dagon, the main character in The Marsden Wheel.   Jack is a private investigator, working the crimes that the police force of Little Hope, Maine can't be bothered with.  But private investigation wasn't always Jack's life:  in his prime, he was "Black" Jack Dagon, one of the greatest boxers to ever set foot in the ring.  Jack Dagon was unbeatable, invincible, and unstoppable, drawing crowds and winning purses through all of New England.  But a night of drinking followed by a bad decision brought his career to an abrupt end.  He came out of prison a decade later friendless, penniless and unknown.  Jack was broken, but not beaten.

When we meet Jack, he's passing the hours smoking his meerschaum pipe and emptying glass after glass of cheap ale in a filthy dive bar while trying his luck with the fairer sex.  A stranger interrupts his drunken pursuit with a proposal:  a big payday for resolving a recent murder. Jack isn't interested until he hears the victim's name...