{"id":6244,"date":"2010-04-01T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/new-novel-set-in-memphis-coming-soon-pepper-jack-by-jon-pendergrass\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:27:51","slug":"new-novel-set-in-memphis-coming-soon-pepper-jack-by-jon-pendergrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/new-novel-set-in-memphis-coming-soon-pepper-jack-by-jon-pendergrass\/","title":{"rendered":"New novel set in Memphis coming soon &#8211; Pepper Jack by Jon Pendergrass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned of a new soon-to-be-published novel set in Memphis. Author Jon Pendergrass has written <em>Pepper Jack<\/em>, described as &#8220;a thriller much in the style of James Patterson. Jackson Pritchard journeys towards redemption across Memphis and beyond, towards a new love and then with her, while people around him are being killed one by one.&#8221; The book is currently at the printer and Jon hopes for the book to be selling by Tax Day. As soon as I hear that it&#8217;s selling in local stores or online, I&#8217;ll post a link.<\/p>\n<p>Jon will be in Memphis on May 8 for two book-signings. The first will be at 4 PM at the Midtown Blue Monkey. The Monkey is one of the settings in the novel.<\/p>\n<p>The second signing will be at 7 PM at another setting in the book, Mollie Fontaine&#8217;s Lounge. Great place to chill out and have a drink.<\/p>\n<p>You may wonder why I&#8217;m mentioning this book, since this is hardly &#8220;the literary blog&#8221; most days&#8230; well, it&#8217;s because Jon is my high school classmate. Funny to think that the guy who stood next to me on bleachers yelling &#8220;HALL HIGH WARRIORS&#8221; is now about to be a published novelist. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Join the group &#8220;Pepper Jack&#8211;The Novel&#8221; on Facebook to make sure you receive updates about the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned of a new soon-to-be-published novel set in Memphis. Author Jon Pendergrass has written Pepper Jack, described as &#8220;a thriller much in the style of James Patterson. Jackson Pritchard journeys towards redemption across Memphis and beyond, towards a new love and then with her, while people around him are being killed one by one.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/new-novel-set-in-memphis-coming-soon-pepper-jack-by-jon-pendergrass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New novel set in Memphis coming soon &#8211; Pepper Jack by Jon Pendergrass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->