Backstory Published

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BACKSTORY PUBLISHED MARCH 15

Second Novel Explores Who Get to Write the History

New York, NY March 15, 2021. Author William Michael Ried, in conjunction with CKBooks Publishing, today published Backstory, his second novel.

Backstory tells the story of Ansel Tone, a celebrity author on revisionist history and professor of propaganda who drives fast cars and runs with glamorous women. He’s up for tenure and writing a new book when he attends a Trinity College reunion. His ex-classmate Charlie announces he will base his next novel on meeting his wife during their year in the Dublin, on a campus cloaked in four-hundred-years of student pranks and mayhem. Ansel may accept that Charlie married the beautiful Tess, Ansel’s girlfriend that year, but how Charlie remembers the story threatens to upend Ansel’s life. He can’t let that happen and so sets out to revise history.

In New York City and the Hudson River Valley, Charlie digs into the past, Ansel struggles to rewrite his own past, and Tess wonders if she wound up with the right guy. Their unwitting ex- classmates will share the repercussions.

The paperback (ISBN 9781949085372) is available on Amazon and can be ordered worldwide through bookstores. Within the next few days the e-book (ISBN 9781949085389) will be available online and through bookstore orders worldwide.

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