The Pool Boy's Beatitude
by DJ Swykert
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Jack Joseph understands physics. He understands the nature of quarks, leptons, dark
matter and the desire to find the God particle. What Jack doesn’t understand is Jack. He has a Masters
degree in particle physics, an ex-wife, a sugar mama into spanking, a passion for cooking and chronic
dependencies he needs to feed. He cleans pools to maintain this chaotic lifestyle. Spinning about in a
Large Hadron Collider of his own making, facing a jail term, the particle known as Jack is about to collide
with a particle known as Sarah.
The Pool Boy’s Beatitude convincingly portrays a life of romance, addiction, and entropy, filled with the
temptations of drink, drugs, and sex, broken with the miseries of ruined relationships, and balanced on
the needle of false hope. Somehow through it, all the story is hopeful, positive, humorous and oddly
enticing. The question is not so much will Jack survive as how will he survive, because surely, behind all
this science, there has to be a truth worth living for. A thinking readers' romance novel, The Pool Boy’s
Beatitude creates a character you long to hate and makes you love him.
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DJ Swykert is a former 911 operator and fiction writer living in Burlington, NC. His work
has appeared in The Tampa Review, Detroit News, Coe Review, Monarch Review, the Newer York,
Lunch Ticket, Gravel, Zodiac Review, Barbaric Yawp and Bull. His novels include The Pool Boy's
Beatitude, Children of the Enemy, Maggie Elizabeth Harrington, Alpha Wolves, For the Love of Wolves,
Sweat Street, Nude Swimming and The Death of Anyone.
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Guest
Interview:
Newest
release?
I
have eight novels and a collection of romantic short stories titled
Nude Swimming in print now. I'm working on a mystery titled Blood
Libel with a female detective, Benham, who appears in three of my
other novels. My newest release For the Love of Wolves is a story
about an elderly woman who shoots a bounty hunter to protect an
imaginary wolf. Wolves are a couple of my favorite characters,
and I mean real Gray Wolves, not fantasy werewolves.
What
can we expect from your stories, action, drama, romance, sex, blood
and guts?
In
my crime novels you’ll find action, drama, and the blood and guts.
The Pool Boy’s Beatitude you might classify as a dark romance.
There is some tasteful sex, even a woman into BDSM. I should have
written Fifty Shades of Gray.
Do
you have a favorite character in your stories? Who? and Why?
I’m
very fond of Jack Joseph my errant Pool Boy, he’s a little like me.
But I also have a female character, Maggie Harrington, who is the
wolf lover in three novels.
Give
us an interesting fun fact or a few about your book or series:
I
really do know how to clean a swimming pool. The inspiration for the
two stories with wolves came from my personal experience of raising a
pair of wolf hybrids.
Has
there been any other authors who have inspired your work or helped
you out with your stories?
Hemingway
and Tennyson.
What
can readers who enjoy your book do to help make it successful?
Review
them on Amazon and Goodreads or any review sites. The reviews do help
attract further readers.
Do
you have any tips for readers or advice for other writers trying to
get published?
Write
the best book you can, edit it, edit it, and then edit it again. When
it’s finally done, don’t ever give up on it. And don’t discount
self-publishing. There are many agents recommending it now as the
best deal out there for writers.
Do
you have a favorite author? If yes, what draws you to that person’s
work?
Hemingway,
because his writing is direct, simple and understandable. I don’t
care for esoteric stories where you need a compass to find the theme.
Can
you remember one of the first things you wrote? What makes it
memorable?
Maggie
Elizabeth Harrington, my first finished and published novel.
Where
do you gather most of the inspiration for your work?
We
all intake a lot of information in this highly technical world. What
I absorb I tend to think about, and what impacts me becomes a theme.
I write a story by first doing a characterization and then putting
them into a conflict, from the character and conflict a story will
always develop.
Do
you have any other interesting hobbies, pets or stories you would
like to share?
Favorite
places to travel or visit?
I
have a feral cat and would like one day to visit the holy land.
And
now, before you go, how about a snippet from your book that is meant
to intrigue and tantalize us: (Include links to where we can find
your work)
http://www.amazon.com/the pool
boy’s beatitude dj swykert
http://www.magicmasterminds.com/djswykert
Also
available on iTunes, B & N, Kobo and Goodreads.
The
Pool Boy's Beatitude
I
pulled her so close to me I thought I heard a rib crack. “Yes, it’s
for real, and forever,” I said, with my arrangement with
Rosemary fresh in my mind, but Delilah, no, Sarah, fresh in my heart.
As much as Rosemary was a part of my head, my lifeline to drugs and
cash, Sarah was my lifeline to my spirit and soul.
“I
mean it, Jack. This is real for me. It’s the love I’ve always
looked for and never felt. I’ve had relationships, several, but
this feeling I get with us, when you touch me, when we kiss, I’ve
never had before. I’ve been married, and it was sexual, and it was
good, and I don’t say that to hurt your feelings, but in spite of
how good that part of it was, it wasn’t enough, it didn’t
satisfy. You’re the one that satisfies.”
Talk
about the human conscience, the awareness of our actions, the
consequences. This stung like the welting I administered to
Rosemary’s derriere. It pinched me: slit me open like a dull blade,
every inch stinging more than the inch before. “I love you Sarah,
that’s the truth of me.”
Sarah
nodded and kissed me, a warm moist kiss, with real passion, not a
herky jerky fever fraught with sexual tension, but true passion that
penetrates the skin, gets into your fiber; that you feel to the
bones. That night we slept together in a huddle, like lambs, like a
pile of kittens, my bones against her bones, and we rested.
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