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Even though my years working in public relations and marketing has now surpassed my full-time newspaper days, I still feel like I belong in a newsroom. Despite all the problems the industry has and the way I know it would make me eat Tums like they are M&Ms if I ever went back there on a daily basis, I still believe in the power of print journalism.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ So does Russell Wiley. Or the titular character of Richard Hine<\/a>‘s novel “Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch<\/a>” at the very least believes that the people who have the future of the industry above their own interests have their priorities in line. I could definitely see myself hanging out with this guy.<\/p>\n

Russell has to deal with corporate weasels, disingenuous co-workers and a wife interested in everything, but him. He just wants to do a good job and go home at the end of the day to a nice life, but everyone else seems to prevent him from making all that happen.<\/p>\n

In reality, Russell realizes that he needs to get out of his own way before he can push those distractions aside. He bumbles and stumbles a little, but ends up coming out on top in the end even though Hine has you wondering if that will actually happen.<\/p>\n

My wife bought the book for me as a Christmas present, so I did not know what to expect. She knows I like stories about guys dealing with midlife-ish crises so I felt pretty confident I would enjoy the book. It also introduced me to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest<\/a>, which I’m submitting something I wrote years ago to just to try my luck.<\/p>\n

Hine tells a really nice story and seemed to know when to go for the cliche and went to take a different path to keep the reader interested. He passed my test when I was leaning forward as I read, preparing in my head an angry screed if he screwed up what I thought was a fun novel. He didn’t, and I can’t wait to see what he has up his sleeve next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"