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The Exodus - Book Tour and Giveaway

2/16/2023

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The Exodus
by David Fairchild
Genre: Dystopian, SciFi 

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Two-time award winning book in the classes of E-book from NGIBA and Science Fiction from IAN

A girl who feels nothing; a boy who sees shadows and hears what others cannot; a baby without license to be born; a deaf teenager and scientific savant; offensive people; a general who passed law to hunt, imprison and kill them all. Where do they hide when the sub-nations of the United States draw their own lines in the ground that dictate which people get to be oppressed and who gets to be offended?


The Salvo Cartel built the tunnels to help them escape, to aid those with mental ailments, those who question, those who refuse to conform, gays, Christians, artists, people with scruples, and other deviants. Do they flee to Salvo's underground cities, with eyes set on a grander safeplace? Where do they go when Lady Liberty douses her light? Perhaps the same place she's been pointing her torch towards ever since she stepped atop her pedestal and realized at once that one day she too would be told to shut up.



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​The guard dropped a copy of Merle Dixon’s Huckleberry Finn: Revised on the metal shelf at Slieve’s feet. Slieve stared at the wall. He wanted to stay in that position, staring at the wall. The wall was his friend. It never betrayed him. Never asked him to swallow anything he didn’t want to.
He stared at the wall and pretended he could see the sun casting shadows of bars over it. The wall would have liked that. Slieve would have liked that. He was hungry but didn’t care and didn’t realize it. Did the wall know it? That he was hungry? Or did it know he had work to do?
Frank Lee Morris had escaped Alcatraz by digging a hole through the wall with a spoon, but Frank Lee Morris had a spoon to dig a hole to escape through.
A rat appeared in the sunlight, not real, like the sun. He knew that. Stare at a wall long enough and you know what’s real and what’s not.
The guard searching through his open metal cabinet, flipped through his journal and ate one of his chips from a tiny bag.
“Your chips are stale,” Officer Felman said. “How old this is?”
“How old is this,” Slieve corrected.
“Scuse me?” Felman spilled the chips on the ground, stepped on them, kept digging through Slieve’s shelves.
Slieve turned his gaze to his ceiling and imagined there was some sort of light fixture hanging from it. Ted Bundy had escaped through a light fixture, but Ted Bundy had a light fixture to escape through.
“God, this room is stank,” Felman announced, mostly to get under Slieve’s skin. Felman was good at that.
Felman was kind of stupid though. His back was to Slieve. If Slieve had a gun, he could have used it to take Felman Hostage.
John Dillinger carved a fake gun out of soap or wood, or something like that, and marched his way right out of jail. John Dillinger had a knife though to cut that gun. Why didn’t he just use the knife to take a real gun from a guard?
Guess it could have been worse, he could have used the knife to carve another knife, but they probably didn’t make silver shoe polish back then to make the blade shiny. In any case, Slieve didn’t have dumb enough guards for that.
Why couldn’t he have dumb guards like Dillinger?
Felman turned to the bed and waved his fingers back at him.
“All right,” he said. “Up.”
Slieve rolled, sat, stood from the bed, and Felman peeled back the mattress.
“Something funny, offender,” Felman asked.
“No, officer,” Slieve lied and thought about the prisoner who had made nectarines look like grenades to escape prison, but Slieve had no nectarines.
“Hello,” Felman announced. “What we got here?”
He held up a crucifix on a piece of thread. Slieve had made it out of a napkin and spit. The thread was from his mattress and fairly strong.
“Crucifix,” Slieve replied.
“I can see what it is,” Felman replied. “You ain’t supposed to have it.”
“I can have a religious object so long as it doesn’t pose a security problem,” Slieve replied.
“Say who,” Felman asked.
“The Supreme Court of the United States.”
“You ain’t in the Supreme Court. You in prison, and this offensive. You know you can’t have anything offensive. You got reprogram.”

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David Fairchild resides in Spanish Fork, Utah and teaches writing at Utah Valley University. He has a background working in the amusement and entertainment industry, including: amusement parks, haunted houses and theatre. He is a retired stand-up comic. He holds degrees in writing and communication. He wishes he could say that he loves to write in a way that entertains people, but that would be a lie. He never gets to write because all the characters he’s ever created keep stealing his keyboard. Did I say characters? I meant bullies. They’re all bullies! In fact, his work is always taken over by that bunch of bullies who each strive to fill the pages on David’s computer with their own stories, leaving absolutely no room for David to tell his own. To date, he hasn’t written a single one of his own stories. He just gives birth to bullies who take over his book pages and tell him how bad of a job he does talking about them. They’re so mean, and they talk behind his back. They say they’re not, but he can hear them. Anyway, he never gets to write what he wants. Well, there it is! Fairchild is a fraud who stands on the shoulders of the characters that have punched their ways out of that pea-brain of his. Suppose it makes sense. They’re all smarter than he is. His brain is just too small to contain all that bully intellect. David does want everyone to know though that some day he will finally write the story he wants, but what does anyone care? They all just use him so they can get close to his bullies.



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53 Comments
Marcy Meyer
2/16/2023 06:37:15 am

The blurb sounds really interesting. I think the cover looks good.

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Beyond Comps
2/16/2023 08:42:21 am

Great cover!

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Jon Heil
2/16/2023 10:11:19 am

Hope it does well!

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Rita Wray
2/16/2023 10:43:58 am

Sounds great, thank you for sharing.

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Heather Mahley
2/16/2023 04:17:32 pm

this sounds interesting

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Sherry
2/16/2023 04:31:59 pm

I really like the cover and the excerpt.

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Fairchild link
2/16/2023 08:58:47 pm

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. The most difficult part of showing this book off is picking an excerpt that doesn't give away a spoiler. My favorite pieces of any of my writing are all in this book. I hope if you read it, you enjoy.

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bn100
2/16/2023 09:08:48 pm

interesting read

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Allison Swain
2/16/2023 09:34:48 pm

The cover looks neat! I enjoyed reading the excerpt, and reading the descriptions of the characters. I would love to read how this story pans out!

Thanks for sharing :)

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Terri Quick
2/16/2023 10:04:15 pm

Nice cover

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Valerie Seal
2/17/2023 08:52:16 am

Seems interesting.

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Jamie N.
2/17/2023 10:10:56 am

This sounds like my kind of book!

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Barbara Montag
2/17/2023 11:11:32 am

This genre might not be for you and I have a good friend who would love it!
Thank you for sharing this with us.

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Debbie P
2/17/2023 04:43:17 pm

This sounds like a very interesting read!

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Wendy Jensen
2/17/2023 05:10:37 pm

The book details are very interesting.

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David Basile
2/20/2023 11:05:37 am

Looks like a interesting scifi read

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beth shepherd
2/20/2023 12:01:51 pm

This looks like a great read

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Bea LaRocca
2/20/2023 02:03:08 pm

Dystopian sci-fi is my favorite genre and I am looking forward to reading The Exodus. Thank you for sharing your bio and book details and for offering a giveaway

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Ann Fantom
2/20/2023 05:12:12 pm

This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

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Angela Heerde
2/20/2023 09:23:47 pm

I like book details

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David Hollingsworth
2/21/2023 12:15:04 am

This book sounds really intriging.

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MICHAEL A LAW
2/21/2023 06:13:07 am

This looks like a good book!

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MICHAEL A LAW
2/21/2023 06:20:52 am

This book sounds fantastic! Cannot wait to read it!

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Cynthia C
2/21/2023 08:49:29 am

The excerpt is interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

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Ellie Wright
2/21/2023 06:43:06 pm

The cover is great. I'm looking forward to reading it.

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Leah A
2/27/2023 08:36:49 am

Very intriguing premise. I like the art on the cover.

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Susan Smith
3/1/2023 03:29:02 pm

This sounds like an interesting Dystopian SciFi read. I like the cover.

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Laura DeLaRosa
3/3/2023 09:38:51 am

I like the excerpt. Thanks for sharing it.

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David Hollingsworth
3/4/2023 07:36:01 pm

Did you like school growing up?

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David Fairchild
3/8/2023 10:52:45 pm

There's a can of worms question right there. Not sure how I feel about answering it, but I don't want to leave you hanging. To be fair, not counting elementary school and college, I had three teachers between junior high and high school who were awesome and cared enough to see me. Beyond these, I found school to be more of an abusive relationship than what should have been an inspiring one. It was a very brow-beating environment and not productive to be part of. I even had a seventh grade English teacher tell me I wouldn't amount to anything. Eventually, I dropped out, got a GED and went on to college where learning was the exact opposite experience. So to answer your question as fairly as I can, when it came to junior high and high school, with exception of those three teachers, I hated every second of school life.

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Miriam Birch
3/6/2023 09:56:35 am

what a cool cover

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Christy R.
3/6/2023 09:06:02 pm

The book details sound interesting. What kind of beverages do you like to keep on hand while writing?

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David Fairchild
3/8/2023 09:02:00 pm

I wish I could say it was something exciting, but it's typically just water because sometimes water just tastes good. Otherwise, milk, because it's girl scout cookie season and cookies are nothing without milk.

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Calvin
3/7/2023 07:18:58 pm

That book is an awesome one. Interesting type of writing.

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Fairchild
3/8/2023 10:54:17 pm

Thank you. That means a lot to me!

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Cindy Merrill
3/7/2023 07:40:08 pm

The cover is awesome, but the gist of the plot gives me the creeps.

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Danielle Durham
3/7/2023 08:33:40 pm

This reminds me of a book I read in school. I am definitely going to read this.

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Daniel M
3/9/2023 05:50:14 pm

like the cover

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Stephanie Larison
3/14/2023 11:35:06 am

I like what I've read so far, very interesting and I'd like to read more.

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jose rosado
3/14/2023 01:23:33 pm

What do you think of the book details? Do you have any questions for the author?


A very good blurb

THX

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Danielle Day
3/14/2023 11:55:46 pm

It sounds interesting.

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Judy Gregory
3/15/2023 07:11:05 pm

Good luck with your endeavors.

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BILL HOFF
3/15/2023 07:58:26 pm

Looking forward to reading this

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Stephanie Liske
3/15/2023 11:52:08 pm

I like the book details.

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Debbi Wellenstein
3/16/2023 08:42:57 am

I enjoyed the excerpt. Thank you for the giveaway!

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Alma C Fisher
3/16/2023 10:15:55 am

looks great

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Alessandro Pampolino
3/16/2023 01:03:13 pm

love the cover

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Jen R
3/16/2023 04:00:31 pm

The Dystopian, SciFi book sounds fun to read.

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Jennifer Donelow
3/16/2023 04:21:41 pm

Sounds like an excellent read, love the cover

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Dreaa Drake
3/16/2023 08:53:18 pm

This sounds like a great book! Thanks for sharing!

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Sand
3/16/2023 09:11:59 pm

Sounds like a great book!

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Renata
3/16/2023 11:07:41 pm

Sounds good!

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Rajee Pandi
3/16/2023 11:29:32 pm

Love the book cover

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