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