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‘One Last Wave’ Worth the Ride

One Last Wave

By Kent Ostby (Indie author. November 2023)

Pages: 280

Genre: Fiction

“Nothing is impossible if you are too stupid to give up.”

Colt Weiss is a surfer who’s “built his life around the waves.” He lives in central California’s Arroyo Grande and tends bar at Ultimates Surf Shop & Grub. (Think Pismo Beach’s Panchos.) Courtesy of a Secret Lies TV episode, readers soon discover that Colt lost his first wife to cancer. He’s lost other women to The Grim Reaper, too.

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‘Bag of Lies’ & a Breath of Fresh Air

Is it spring yet?

During Snowmaggedon. One of us was really, really cranky about being cooped up indoors. Since like, the 12th of Never. So when the author reached out to us about a book review, saying he’d actually read our submission guidelines, we accepted. We got the ARC the next day.

You know that phrase “breath of fresh air”? Well…

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