Friday, January 25, 2013

You are cordially invited...


There's a place on a book cover where the author lures potential readers into entering the story. Sometimes it's on the inside front book jacket flap; paperback books usually put it on the back cover. Benson's Garage Memorial has its invitation there, on the back cover, tucked in next to the gas pump and ISBN barcode. 

“Some towns keep their history in glass display cases in a museum with creaky wooden floors,” Burt Benson often said.
      However, in this fictional story centered in the small Midwest town of Taylor Bend, seven decades of American history seep through the sturdy brick walls of Benson’s Garage. The characters’ stories penetrate Burt’s workshop and gas station, thus breathing life into the Garage itself and turning it into a hub of local news.

Will this entice you into reading the story? I hope so, because this is what is already set to appear on the back cover. 

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