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Day Shift Werewolf CoverAuthor bio: Jan Underwood teaches Spanish at Portland Community College,
and when she's not at work, writes and practices Tae Kwon Do. 
She has lived in Canada, France and Mexico and now makes her home with 
her daughter in Portland.
Day Shift Werewolf is her first novel.

Excerpt:
"Downtown, at the convention center, there's a gathering of young Republicans.
That sounds pretty palatable. I find a doorway facing away from the main
boulevard and wolf up. Then I go into the center from the back and prowl
around for a while. On the fifth floor I find a sauna. It looks like there's just one guy here, a gauzy brown shape in the haze. Perfect. I slip in, slit his throat
with a steady claw and have a young Republican for dinner.
 

Here's a revelation. This man should have been a delicacy. His flesh is 
tender. He's been well fed. His blood is iron-rich. He's clean and 
lightly steamed from sitting in the sauna. Yet I find I don't like the 
way he tastes. And I realize, now that I've thrown open the doors of 
self-examination, that deep down I've never really cared for man-flesh. 
I always told myself I just had a small appetite, but now that I reflect 
on it, I never get tired of my tomatoes and zucchinis. I know this,
with sudden and terrible knowing: it's human meat that I don't love.

I feel deeply, deeply subversive. I come from a very long line of meat 
and potato men. Pop would roll over in his casket if he knew. 

Of course, Pop did die of coronary artery disease. Like most of my 
family. Heart attacks, strokes, atheroscelerosis. No silver bullets for 
them. Not many of us have the honor of martyrdom."

 

A thorough delight that will make you laugh out loud."                                       Jan Underwood was born in Pennsylvania...
--Bay Area Reporter Jan Underwood

"These funny and believable characters sparkle."
--Geist magazine

"Zestful and funny."
--The Bookmonger

Listen to the podcast! Click the link for an interview with Jan Underwood for Authors in Your Pocket (links to podcast in various formats is about halfway down the page).

Day Shift Werewolf
by Jan Underwood
ISBN: 155152208x
3-Day Novel Contest She teaches Spanish at a community college and writes, acts and plays piano in her spare time. Day Shift Werewolf is her first novel. ...
www.3daynovel.com/DayShiftWerewolf.html

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