Kyle Beachy >>"The Slide"<<

Hello, everyone...

I'm writing with a simple announcement which let's just go ahead and get it out there: my debut novel, The Slide, is now, as of this very morning, available on store shelves across the country. This is terribly exciting for me, and I cannot possibly stress how important these first few days of sales are. It's a numbers game, this one, and quite literally every sale makes a big diffference.

Here is the other part of the announcement: the book is crazy affordable. To reach more readers, The Dial Press decided to publish my book as a paperback original, which means it costs about half the price of a hardback. Plus the cover design by Anders Nilsen is beautiful, and I'm honored, and basically the whole thing makes me shiver with joy.

Here are a few early reviews, and www.kylebeachy.com for more things, a video trailer, various interviews, and others.

"Kyle Beachy has a knack for fantastic little nuggets of observation…Like his protagonist, the first-time author is brimming with potential." — Entertainment Weekly.

"The theme is American Home, that place that lesser writers sentimentalize and satirize. Beachy writes with bracing melancholy in a voice that is all his own, and his St. Louis, like Cheever's Westchester, is populated with isolated, self-aware characters, each of whom is new to us. Potter Mays is great company."
--Jincy Willett, author of The Writing Class and Jenny and the Jaws of Life

"Suspenseful, erotic, funny, and terribly sad, THE SLIDE presents the long, hot 22nd summer of Potter Mays, the most ethical sexual deviant this side of Portnoy--or Hamlet."
-- James McManus, New York Times bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street

"Refreshingly sincere."
-- Joe Meno, author of The Great Perhaps

"Kyle Beachy has written a knockout first novel. Part love letter to the American Midwest, part ghost story, and part heartbreaking tale of one young man's struggle to find forgiveness as well as himself, this is a book that you won't want to miss."
-- Cristina Henriquez, author of Come Together, Fall Apart

Thank you for your time, and thank you for your support.

Best,
kyle beachy

Trent Beachy

UP DATE ON TRENT: Trent has been released to live in an apartment on
the hospital campus in Denver. I asked if he could get along by
himself? He said he does pretty good. Cathy is there to lend a hand
also. He will be coming home the 24 of January and by that time they
will have given him all of his therapy exercises and directions for
exercises. They are treating the muscle tissue with electro shocks to
keep the nerve fibers firing and stimulating growth of the nerves and
muscles. This will increase the number of neurons firing . His Right
arm from the wrist up is now almost 100%. The last tree fingers on
his right hand are functioning pretty well but the thumb and
forefinger still lack gripping strength. The left arm is not
responding except to the electric shock. He spends most of the time
from 8:00 to 4:00 in therapy. Now that the rest of his body is in
the healing stage he discovered some injury to his ribs also. I
questioned Trent about his neck about flexibility and he replied
things are going well and he has good movement. So I felt this was a
good positive report. His phone number is 574-536-7806 and I am sure
he would be glad to hear from you. Gramp

Beachy Echoes: Trent Beachy, Injured Firefighter

Beachy Echoes: Trent Beachy, Injured Firefighter

Trent Beachy, Firefighter

Trent Beachy
Golden Firefighter Trent Beachy is back in Colorado after breaking
his neck during a trip to the Midwest over Thanksgiving weekend.
Beachy and two other people were injured when his pick up truck
veered off the highway in Iowa and rolled multiple times before
coming to rest on its roof.

Beachy had to be extricated from the vehicle and was hospitalized in
Omaha, Nebraska for two weeks where he underwent surgery to fuse
three broken vertebrae in his neck. The two passengers, Golden
Firefighter Bruce Peters and Beachy's girlfriend, were treated and
released with minor injuries.

Last week, Beachy was transferred to Craig Hospital in Englewood,
Colorado to begin his rehabilitation. Craig is nationally known as a
leading treatment center for spinal cord injuries. Doctors are still
evaluating his injuries, so no timetable has been set for his
recovery. Initial estimates indicated it could take up to a year for
Beachy to make a full recovery.

While Beachy has movement in all of his extremities, he still suffers
from some weakness in his arms.

Numerous members of the Golden Fire Department have taken time to
visit Beachy. Several people, including Chief John Bales and Chaplain
Kevin Kirby, traveled to Nebraska to visit him before and after his
surgery.

The volunteer membership took up a collection and purchased a new
iPod which they filled with music and movies from their own
collections to keep him entertained while he is in the hospital.

Throughout this experience, Beachy has remained positive and is
working hard towards a full recovery. He has developed a new
appreciation for life and his family at the Golden Fire Department.