Matt Kilrain
Author of Chief Blackbear

With Contracts on His Head
And the Cops on His Tail
Afraid to Wind Up Dead
Chief Blackbear Jumps Bail
He Squares Up With Those
Who Try to Take His Life
His Biggest Foe Happens to be His Wife
His Teenage Son Drives Him Insane
The Kid Has Too Much Fun
He Ain't Got a Brain
The Chief Dreams of Peace
But Spends His Life At War
Because the Nighmares Never Cease
Chief Blackbear Always Settles the Score

Chief Blackbear is an Action-Adventure Fiction Crime Novel About a Big Time Dealer Who Got Busted in the 1970's

It Features Shoot-Outs With Crooked Cops, Gnagsters, and Outlaws, Kidnappings, Love Triangles and Raging Tempers


Growing up on the wrong side of the law and being on the run gave Matt Kilrain plenty to write. Inspired to write Chief Blackbear by his father's life and the way he was raised Kilrain moved to peaceful Santa Barbara where he was able to lay low long enough to write this novel.



I began writing Chief Blackbear in 1979 and initially published Chief Blackbear around 2005, but my personal life was too chaotic to properly market the novel.

I took the same writing class for about 15 years here in Santa Barbara, and initially wrote Chief Blackbear as an ebook in the 1990's. Chief Blackbear was one of the first Print on Demand books and was inititially published in 2005.

I never had time to properly market Chief Blackbear so I am getting ready to re-release Chief Blackbear and try some of the marketing tips I have been learning about.

They say a Newsletter is one of the most important marketing tools and they say to get a bunch of early reviews by giving people a free advanced reader's copy of the ebook and asking them to give an honest review when the book is released

I have set up a Constant Contact Account and I am asking you to join my mailing list so that I can send you a free advanced reader's copy of Chief Blackbear and I can let you know the release date so that you can leave an honest review.

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Before my daughter was born I paid an actor to read Chief Blackbear and a friend of mine recorded it in his studio. I have uploaded the first scene of Chapter 1 to Chief Blackbear's youtube account and you can play it by clicking below.



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