A Father’s Day weekend ebook giveaway offers “Father of Mine” for free on Saturday or Sunday, with the sequel “Son of Mine” available for 99 cents and a third book held up behind other projects.
Father’s Day has always landed like a small weight and a soft ache at the same time.
For the author behind “Father of Mine,” it starts with a memory that never really leaves. The last time he saw his father was on Father’s Day in 1998. Twenty-eight years later, he still thinks about him almost every day. He carries his father’s money clip everywhere he goes. and he admits he has no idea what happens “when our time on the bright side of the dirt ends. ” but says he chooses to believe he’ll see him again.
There’s a reason those details matter beyond sentiment. His father—“as the loyal PFT readers know”—was a bookie. and the constant refrain that “you can’t win” kept him away from sports betting. That same belief has shaped what he wants gambling to be: tightly-budgeted entertainment. not a way to get rich or pay bills. He also credits the long-term logic of that lesson—“over the long haul. you can’t win”—with influencing how he tells stories and what he hopes readers carry out of them.
This Father’s Day weekend, the author is turning those themes into a direct invitation. “Father of Mine. ” a ‘70s-era mob story inspired by the crew that ran the small town where the author’s father’s parents settled after immigrating to America. will be available as a free ebook. The giveaway runs “this Father’s Day weekend. ” with readers told to click on Saturday or Sunday to get it “for the low. low cost of not a penny.”.
If readers want to keep going, the sequel—“Son of Mine”—is available in ebook form for 99 cents. The third book in the series is ready to go, but it’s currently stuck behind “a couple of other projects.” A fourth book in the series is also “under construction.”
At the center of “Father of Mine. ” the author says. is the instinct to protect children at all costs—regardless of the relationship quality. fathers (or at least should) be ready to do whatever is required to help. guide. and safeguard the people they’re responsible for. That framing is why the author treats Father’s Day not just as a moment to appreciate fathers. but as a chance for them to renew their commitment to the people counting on them.
On a weekend built around family, the giveaway isn’t presented as a marketing splash so much as a hand reached across time—one story stepping into the gap left by a father who hasn’t been seen since 1998, and one promise that remembering can keep going, even when the answers can’t be known yet.
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