Besides the guy in the sombrero (more later), I’m also the author of BIG NUMBERS and BIG MONEY, the first two installments of The Austin Carr Mystery Series. I keep this website updated as often as I can, but my character Austin Carr blogs almost every day, frequently about our travels and experiences.
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I’ve also set up separate blogs for BIG NUMBERS and BIG MONEY , with blurbs, reviews, and sample chapters.
Now about that hat...
Although we now live in New Jersey, both myself and my character Austin Carr grew up on the east side of Los Angeles. We share a strong affection for virtually all things of Mexican origin--particularly corn tortillas, tequila, the Cisco Kid, refried beans, crispy stringy-beef tacos, live mariachi music, and yes, even the donning of silly sombreros during certain celebrations in May.
It could have been my early school trip to Los Angeles’s historic town center, Olvera Street, or a four-hour family visit to Tijuana one or two years later. Maybe it was my first love, a fourth-grade classmate, the freckled Miss Lopez. Whatever the reason, to this day I enjoy all things remotely connected to south of the border. Well, except bullfights.
It is therefore no coincidence that Austin Carr spends much of his fictional time belly up to the horseshoe bar at Luis’s Mexican Grill, home of spicy food and blue aguave tequila. If it’s May 5th, you might see both of us celebrating in our sombreros.
CONTESTANTS NEEDED: A First Edition, signed hardcover copy of BIG MONEY, and a “Big Money World Tour Official Staff” T-Shirt, to the ten best entries. Answer the following: In my debut novel, BIG NUMBERS, what is the thing Austin first finds for Luis, and Luis later gives to Austin? Symbolically, what do you think the thing represents? Why? Okay, too tough? How about multiple choice. The thing is one of the following, (and it represents):
1. A revolver (violence) 2. A key (wisdom) 3. A lucky rock (faith) 4. A knife (manhood) 5. A bar of soap (soul cleansing)
Deadline for this contest will be April 31, 2008, and all decisions of the judge--Jack Getze--are final.
Send your entries to jgetze@AOL.com
Jack’s Tip: Pick #4 and make something up about why. As of April 12, we’ve received only four entries. You can be a winner!
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BIG MONEY, published March 12 by Hilliard & Harris, was one of two Mystery Reads featured in Rediscovered Bookshop’s May newsletter.
In BIG MONEY, the second installment of The Austin Carr Mystery Series, Austin battles local and imported mobsters, a hit man he calls The Creeper, and a beautiful, shotgun-toting naked murderer. Here are some early reviews:
“Try not to drink any beverages while reading this one.” -- Jack Quick, BookBitch
“You end up both laughing outloud at (Austin’s) view of the world and rolling your eyes at his sexual impulses...” -- Liz Clifford, Reviewed By Liz
“You have gotta love Austin Carr.” -- Pat Reid, Books N’ Bytes
“...relax and enjoy Getze’s punchy dialogue and colorful characters--Bluefish’s henchman Max is an especially pungent creation--and his hilarious hangdog protagonist’s dissolute charm. If Elmore Leonard had gotten a securities license, this is the book he might have written.” -- Kirkus Discoveries, Featured in March Newsletter
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