Welcome to KeithBPhillips.com. \u00a0My new novel will be released soon, and to get everyone excited about it I will be podcasting the first four chapters. \u00a0Stay tuned, final preparations are being made now.<\/p>\n
And here’s the pitch:<\/p>\n
AFTER LIVES \u2014 Beyond death’s door lies a second chance.<\/p>\n
Martin Coswell was a private investigator in his first life until the cancer ate his brain. \u00a0Then Medicore brought him back for a second chance, thanks to the reconstructive wonders of nanocells. \u00a0But now in his next life, he’s mixed up with a woman who drugs him, a boy who steals from unsuspecting ship passengers, a star hopping singer who moonlights as a federal secret agent, and computer program named Angel who is hell bent to find the body of a missing geneticist. \u00a0In a future where eternal life belongs to the rich and powerful, Martin heads out to the stars to find out who is stealing all the dead bodies on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Martin Coswell was a private investigator in his first life until the cancer ate his brain. \u00a0Then Medicore brought him back for a second chance, thanks to the reconstructive wonders of nanocells. \u00a0But now in his next life, he’s mixed up with a woman who drugs him, a boy who steals from unsuspecting ship passengers, a star hopping singer who moonlights as a federal secret agent, and computer program named Angel who is hell bent to find the body of a missing geneticist. \u00a0In a future where eternal life belongs to the rich and powerful, Martin heads out to the stars to find out who is stealing all the dead bodies on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32u0F-6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/www.keithbphillips.com\/?p=292","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"Afterlives: The Novel is now available!","author":"KeithBPhillips","date":"June 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Martin is a private investigator who gets involved in a mystery of galactic proportions. 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