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Gavin Goode - Book Tour and Giveaway

6/27/2019

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Gavin Goode
by David B. Seaburn
Genre: Literary Fiction 

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“I don’t know how, and I don’t know why, but I think I died today.”

So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode and his family. What happened to Gavin and why? What secrets will emerge along the way? Frankie, his wife and a dress store owner, feels guilty, but why? His son, Ryan, who owns an ice cream parlor, and daughter-in-law, Jenna, who is a bank manager, are expecting their first baby. How will this trauma affect them? And what of Rosemary, Frankie’s best friend? Or Ben Hillman and eleven year old, Christopher? How are they implicated in the events that unfold around Gavin’s misfortune?

This is a story of despair and hope, dreams and reality, uncertainty and faith,humor, secrecy, forgiveness and beginnings. As in his previous novels, David B. Seaburn demonstrates his in-depth understanding of the human experience and his storytelling mastery.


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​“I don’t know why and I don’t know how, but I think I died today.”
​Gavin is a perceptive guy. He looks at this problem from every angle. Where is his body, for instance? Why doesn’t he see anything or feel anything? Hear? Smell? Where has the world gone? He doesn’t have a clue what happened. He doesn’t remember anything. Surely there would have been a warning sign, something that cried out, “Mayday, mayday! Brace yourself!” But there was nothing… He traces his final hours as best he can… He thinks back a little further, searching for clues. Last Tuesday he saw Dr. Nguyen for his annual. Blood test, prostate exam (not a fan), ticker check, everything was normal. “You are in good shape for your age, Mr. Goode,” said the doctor. “What does that mean?” thought Gavin. “Someone my age? I’m fifty-two, which isn’t young, I’ll grant you that, but it’s not old, not these days. Maybe in my old man’s time, but not today. Fifty has to be ‘the new’…something younger…”

He’d been afraid of death for as long as he could remember. Every lump or bump was cancer. And every odd looking crap was also cancer. He always assumed the Big C was sneaking around his insides, like ISIS metastasizing, calling up reinforcements, slinking around in his cracks and crevices, waiting for the right time to attack. It happens. Let’s say you feel great but you’re due for your flu shot, so you go to the doctor’s and just as you are leaving, you say, “By the way, doc, before I go, could you take a look at this thing on my leg?” And your doctor’s eyes narrow as she studies the tiny black bruise. She excuses herself and returns with a senior colleague who takes his glasses off the top of his head so he can get a better look, only to remove them again and shake his head. Your doctor shakes her head, too, and says, “Should have come in months ago.” You know the rest…
Gavin has issues. It all started with his grandfather, his Papa, who lived with them when he was a boy. He was close to Papa, who played catch with him, explored the woods near their house with him, read books with him, made bird houses with him, did just about everything with the young Gavin. As Gavin grew up and Papa got older, things changed. They didn’t hang together as much. Papa stayed home watching TV most of the time.
One day Gavin comes home from school and Papa is sitting in his recliner, Days of Our Lives blaring on the TV. Gavin calls to him, “Hey Papa, how’s it going?” When he doesn’t answer, Gavin figures he can’t hear, so he cranks it up, “PAPA, HOW’S IT GOING?” Nothing. So he walks over to Papa’s chair and taps him on the shoulder, at which point, Papa slumps over to one side. Totally scares the shit out of young Gavin. He thinks of doing CPR, but he can’t bring himself to get that involved with his grandfather’s mouth. The creepiness factor is too high. Anyway, as far as Gavin can tell Papa is long gone.
So he calls his mother who totally freaks at the news. She drops the phone and dashes home as fast as she can. But no matter what she does, it still takes at least twenty minutes for her to get there. Twenty minutes alone with dead Papa. What to do, right? Watch the show with him? Talk to him? Close his mouth? Prop him up and comb his hair so he looks more like himself when Gavin’s mother gets home? In the end, Gavin can’t touch his grandfather.
It had been a long day at school. Gavin missed lunch because of a meeting with his school counselor and he’s starving. So he goes to the kitchen to make himself a sandwich. He thinks of going back into the living room, but it seems disrespectful to eat in front of Papa, considering the condition he’s in, so Gavin stays in the kitchen.
That’s where he is when his mother gets home. Let’s just say she isn’t pleased and she doesn’t understand Gavin’s reasoning. “He’s your last grandparent! At least sit with him! God knows he sat with you often enough!” Gavin wants to say, “Hey, I’m, like, I came home and there’s Papa sitting in front of the TV, all dead, and no one’s around and it totally scared the crap out of me. At least I stayed in the house. I didn’t run out into the street screaming like a crazy person, which is what I wanted to do. Shouldn’t I get points for that? It may not have been ‘A’ work on my part, but it wasn’t an ‘F’ either; it was at least a ‘C’ or ‘C-’.” But in a moment of rare wisdom he doesn’t say anything. He realizes that basically she is right, though he still feels that eating a peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwich in front of his dead grandfather would not have been in good taste.


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In 2010 I retired after having been the director of a public school based free family counseling center. 

Prior to that I was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center for almost twenty years. During my tenure there I taught in a Family Medicine Residency Program, practiced Medical Family Therapy and was the Director of a Family Therapy Training Program.

In addition to this I am a retired Presbyterian minister, having graduated from seminary (Boston University) in 1975. I served a church full-time from 1975-1981 before entering the mental health field permanently. I am married; we have two adult daughters and two wonderful granddaughters.

My educational background includes two master's degrees and a PhD. Most of my career was as an assistant professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. There I wrote two professional books and over 65 papers and book chapters. 

In addition to long fiction, I write personal essays, many of which have been published in the Psychotherapy Networker magazine. 

I also write a blog, "Going Out Not Knowing," for Psychology Today magazine (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/going-out-not-knowing).



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My Writing Process
David B. Seaburn
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When I start writing a new novel, I never know how it’s going to end. I trust that the impetus to move forward, usually a feeling that is difficult to articulate, will be enough to I get the journey started. Although I am going out not knowing exactly where I’m supposed to go, I am not going blind. I have well-developed character profiles and life circumstances in which to put them that will stimulate the kind of conflict that makes for good narrative.
In the process, I discover what the themes are that I am working with. This may seem counter-intuitive, but I often don’t know what I’m writing about until I start writing. The writing process is always one of discovery. And this purposeful not-knowing gives writing an energy and serendipity that is remarkably generative. I feel like I am not just the creator, but the created, changing through the writing process as much as my characters change.
It is exciting to know that for the next 14-18 months I will sit alone with these characters and wrestle with issues, dilemmas, and conundrums that are important to me, and, I hope, to the reader. The beginning phase is expansive as the characters develop and their options are wide. Somewhere past the midway mark, though, those options narrow, as it become clear that there are some thing the characters would do and some they would not. In a sense, the characters exert as much influence over the story as I do. The end of the story comes to me first as something intuitive, a feeling, a sense that I am on the final leg of the journey even though I may not yet have words for what it will be. Often it is in the last fifty pages that the end will take form and words will coalesce into final scenes, paragraphs and sentences.
Of course, that is not the end. Editing before publication may go on another year or more. The drafts get shorter, tighter and more to the point.
In terms of my writing routine, I don’t write every day, which is to say I don’t sit in front of my computer every day. But when I am working on a novel, I feel like I am always writing; that something is at work in my mind even when I am not trying to put it down in words. I often edit as I go, reworking sentences, paragraphs, scene choreography, even characters. I like to have a well-crafted chapter before I go on to the next, even though the whole thing may change later. I have an office downstairs where I am surrounded by books and quiet. In the summer, though, I prefer to write on our screened-in porch.
I rarely have writer’s block. I think this is because I have accepted that I not only don’t know, but I don’t have to know where I am going in order to write productively.


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63 Comments
James Robert
6/27/2019 03:39:44 am

Good Morning! Thank you for the book description.These tours are great and we have found some terrific books so thanks so much.

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David B Seaburn link
7/12/2019 03:16:54 pm

Thanks! I hope you get a chance to read Gavin Goode.

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Bea LaRocca
6/27/2019 04:01:32 am

Thank you for sharing the book info. This sounds like a really interesting read.

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David B Seaburn link
7/12/2019 03:17:54 pm

Hi Bea: I may have replied to a comment by you on a different site, but thanks. I think you'd enjoy this book very much.

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Janet W.
6/27/2019 07:51:19 am

Interesting cover!! Sounds like a great read!

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David B Seaburn link
6/27/2019 03:23:50 pm

I like the cover, too. It wasn't my idea, so when my publisher sent it to me, it came as a welcome surprise. They got the idea from something in Chapter 1.

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David B Seaburn link
6/27/2019 10:30:53 am

Great to be starting this tour. It should be fun! I'm glad the excerpts look enticing.

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Rita Wray
6/27/2019 11:22:30 am

I liked the excerpt, thank you.

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David B Seaburn link
6/27/2019 03:22:23 pm

If you liked the excerpt, I think you'd like the rest.

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Calvin
6/27/2019 01:00:54 pm

Sounds like a wild read, neat and interesting.

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David B Seaburn link
7/15/2019 02:38:04 pm

I agree! I think you'd like it.

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Kristen
6/27/2019 01:36:37 pm

The cover has a 60s vibe.

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Debbie P
6/27/2019 02:56:10 pm

This book sounds like a very interesting read. Cool cover!

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David B Seaburn link
7/15/2019 02:38:41 pm

Thanks! I think you'd like it.

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wendy hutton
6/27/2019 02:59:45 pm

interesting looking cover, good luck with the book

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David B Seaburn link
7/22/2019 10:43:05 am

Thanks you! I think you'd like it.
Dave Seaburn

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heather
6/27/2019 03:41:58 pm

This sounds like a great book to read this summer and I love the cover too.

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David B. Seaburn link
6/27/2019 03:56:30 pm

I hope you like the book.

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Victoria
6/27/2019 06:36:05 pm

Sounds interesting!

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lynn clayton
6/27/2019 06:52:43 pm

love the cover looks like a great read thank you

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David B Seaburn link
7/22/2019 10:44:11 am

Thanks, Lynn, I think you'd like it.
Dave Seaburn

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Barbara Haynes
6/27/2019 09:28:34 pm

This sounds like an amazing book!

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Dave Seaburn link
6/28/2019 06:25:35 pm

I think you will like it. It a close look at ordinary people trying to respond to extraordinary circumstances.

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Alyssa Janine Busia link
6/28/2019 04:38:09 am

I am looking forward to read this book!

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David Seaburn link
6/28/2019 06:26:59 pm

Great! I think you’ll like it.

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Mya Murphy
6/28/2019 02:55:01 pm

Interesting, eye-catching cover!!

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Terri Quick
6/28/2019 09:06:58 pm

Very unique cover

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Kelly Nicholson
6/29/2019 02:23:35 am

What do you think of the book or the cover?

i like the art work

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Amy F
6/29/2019 10:51:10 am

Love the unique cover design!

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Lisa Ellison
6/29/2019 03:41:42 pm

I like the cover, very original

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Kathy Cozzarelli
6/29/2019 03:43:30 pm

This book sounds interesting.

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David B Seaburn link
7/15/2019 02:40:00 pm

It is, Kathy. I think you'd like it.

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Mary Cloud
6/30/2019 10:15:22 am

No questions - the cover is interesting.

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Mood Reader
6/30/2019 08:25:18 pm

Looks great! :)

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Marcy Meyer
7/1/2019 06:30:27 pm

The cover is very interesting. I like it. Sounds like a good read.

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David B Seaburn link
7/15/2019 02:40:49 pm

I think you'd really enjoy it, Marcy.

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Ann Fantom
7/3/2019 05:25:07 pm

I like the cover. It has great graphics

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Allison Swain
7/10/2019 02:57:11 pm

I am loving the art style that was used for the cover. It looks unique. Thanks for the chance to win :)

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David B Seaburn link
7/15/2019 02:41:26 pm

Thanks, Allison!

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Carole D
7/12/2019 02:46:18 pm

This sounds like a great summer read! Love the cover

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David B Seaburn link
7/12/2019 03:35:42 pm

Thanks, Carole. I think you'd like it.
Dave Seaburn

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Emmaline
7/14/2019 09:49:15 pm

Very interesting cover, very abstract, yet intriguing. What happened to Gavin? indeed!

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David B Seaburn link
7/15/2019 02:42:25 pm

Emmaline, there's only one way to find out for sure...

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adriana
7/21/2019 08:00:56 pm

LIke the cover. very nice.

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Zoey
7/21/2019 09:02:09 pm

Wow the cover is really intriguing. It almost reminds me of Tim Burton art in a way.

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David B Seaburn link
7/22/2019 10:45:29 am

Thanks, Zoey!

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MelodyJ
7/22/2019 10:33:20 am

I like the covers retro vibe.

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Dana Rodriguez
7/22/2019 11:25:14 am

This sounds like a great read. I love the cover!

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David B Seaburn link
7/23/2019 06:22:47 pm

Thanks, Dana. I think you'd love this book.
Dave Seaburn

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Bridgett Wilbur
7/22/2019 12:25:10 pm

This sounds like something I would love to read.

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David B Seaburn link
7/23/2019 06:23:58 pm

I think you'd love this book, Bridgett.
Dave Seaburn

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Ellen Thompson
7/22/2019 08:26:13 pm

The book sounds really interesting and the cover reminds me of the mask from the Scream movie or the painting The Scream

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David B Seaburn link
7/23/2019 06:25:59 pm

Great guess. I didn't have any input on this cover. The cover designed saw a reference in chapter 1 to Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, and that's what inspired the cover. I had made other suggestions, but the first time I saw it, I loved it.
Dave Seaburn

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Rebecca W
7/23/2019 03:24:32 pm

That looks like an interesting cover. How do you come up with ideas for your books?

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David B Seaburn link
7/23/2019 06:28:58 pm

Hi Rebecca--The idea for this book came from a phrase that kept repeating in my mind for a few weeks--I don't know how and I don't know why, but I think I died today. Finally, I set aside what I was working on and just continued to write whatever came to mind following that sentence. Soon enough I had to answer questions such as: What did happen to Gavin Goode? Why did it happen? Who else was meaningfully involved in of affected by what happened? The novel grew from there. I hope you get the chance to read it. Thanks for your question.

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Daniel M
7/25/2019 07:33:06 pm

like the cover

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Corey Hutton
7/26/2019 02:12:51 am

Good luck with the book and Thanks for the giveaway.

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Tara L
7/26/2019 02:06:39 pm

I think the cover looks great and very eye appealing. great work overall.

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David B Seaburn link
7/26/2019 02:23:28 pm

Thanks, Tara! I think you'd like the story.
Dave Seaburn

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Heather
7/26/2019 03:25:33 pm

Sounds like a good read.

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David B Seaburn link
7/26/2019 06:50:28 pm

Thank you, Heather. I agree...but of course, I'm a little biased. I hope you get a chance to read it. I think you'd like it.

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Laurie Nykaza
7/27/2019 10:13:58 pm

Such a cool cover love the art work.

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Jerry Marquardt
7/27/2019 11:17:21 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Gavin Goode, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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