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The Jake Eliam Chickenbone Mystery Series - Book Tour and Giveaway

1/28/2022

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Rabbit Shine
Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery Series Book 1
by Cliff Yeargin
Genre: Southern Fried Humorous Mystery 

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RABBIT SHINE A Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery

Book # 1 in the Award Winning Southern Fried Mystery Series

Jake Eliam spent a lifetime in baseball, until a chance turn that led him into the Atlanta neighborhood known as ChickenBone, where he ended up a part time private investigator thanks to a timely meeting with the man everybody called Catfish, the owner of the legendary 3 Pigs BBQ. When the top big league prospect for the Atlanta Peaches is killed in a car accident, the city mourns” But was it an accident? So in between his part time job of making custom baseball bats in his shop in ChickenBone, Eliam is hired to find out the truth. Along the way he runs into a wealthy former member of Congress with a penchant for quoting scriptures, two rednecks named Tater and Booger, an ex-con hired killer who scrapes up dead chickens for a living, a tattooed stripper, a flop eared dog named Chance, and a former sheriff turned moonshiner. And the truth gets lost in a mix of greed, ambition, jealousy, regret, and murder.
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˃˃˃ And follow the series in book #2 HOOCHY KOOCHY Awarded The 1st Finalist Silver Medal for GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
Jake goes deep into the world of snake handlers and snake farms of the south to track down a guitar player missing for 20 years
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​I pulled into the first place I saw that looked like a mechanic. It was a faded blue concrete building, surrounded by stacks of old tires, and a hand-painted sign over the door that said JUNE BUG’S TIRES. Maybe they would know a mechanic around here. I pulled to a stop, steam rolled out from under the hood.
My headlights landed on an older black man, wearing smut-covered overalls, sitting on a grease bucket eating fried chicken from a box with his weathered hands. I got out and went over to him.
“You June Bug?” I asked.
“That’s what the signs says, don’t it?” he said.
“I don’t need tires, but I was wondering…”
“Water pump,” he cut me off.
“Yeah,” I said. “Can you help out?”
“Gotta finish my chicken first,” he said and pulled out another drumstick.
June Bug told me that he had closed for the day but would take a look anyhow and see what he could do. I agreed and asked him if there was a place nearby that I could get something to eat while I waited.
“Chicken place done closed,” he said. “Next best place is ‘bout a mile away, 3 PIGS up that way,” he pointed up the street. “Best damn barbecue in ChickenBone.”
“ChickenBone?”
“That’s where you are, young buck,” he said. “Good living, but hard living.”
“I’ll walk up there while you take a look.”
“You toting?”
“Toting?”
“Carrying,” he said as he worked on the drumstick.
“Carrying what?”
“What the hell you think, big man? A gun.”
“No, I don’t have a gun.”
“Then, fellow look like you don’t wanna be walking up this street in the dark.”
I went around to the back of the Jeep, took a 34-inch blonde-and-brown bat out of my equipment bag, gave my keys to June Bug and said I would be back a little later.
“You one crazy-ass white boy,” he said as he shook his head and went back to working on his chicken.
Make a note: A man who eats his dinner with his hands while sitting on a grease bucket will always treat you right.
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Hoochy Koochy
Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery Series Book 2 

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HOOCHY KOOCHYA Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery
NAMED 1ST FINALIST IN THE 52ND ANNUAL GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARDS FOR MYSTERY/DETECTIVE NOVELS
After a long season of making baseball bats all Jake Eliam wants to do is relax and watch the World Series. But when his friend Catfish calls with what he says is easy money, his other job as a Private Investigator intervenes. Catfish’s former fraternity brother is looking for his own payday if can reunite all the original players in his "One Hit Wonder"college band and is willing to pay big bucks to track down the one missing member, the lead guitar player. The only lead, his classic Fender that went missing at the same time. The trail meets up with a late night DJ, a beautiful hippie turned wealthy housewife, a stoned drummer with a shaky trigger finger, a mysterious son of the Dixie Mafia and a church where snakes are served up along side apple pie. The search ends up on a snake farm run by a fellow named Sweet Thang who has a penchant for old TV shows and speaking in rhymes. As secrets come crawling out like copperheads, Jake Eliam begins to think he just might end up a "One Hit Wonder" himself.

˃˃˃ AWARD WINNING SOUTHERN FRIED MYSTERY SERIESBegin your time with Jake Eliam with Book #1 in the series RABBIT SHINE
Reviewers rave about the characters and places in this entertaining new mystery series:
"Every page seems to breathe with life and atmosphere. The inside of Jake’s head is a wonderful place to be."
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​The door swung open with a bang. We both jumped. Sweet Thang was holding the huge pot in both hands.
“Ain’t gone lie, got no sweet tater pie, all we got is stew, but it gotta do,” he sang out loudly. “Bless this meat, let’s eat.” The screen door slammed behind him.
One hour and two episodes of Hogan’s Heroes later, we had nearly finished off the whole pot of Mulligans Stew
“Where did you learn to cook like this?” JD asked Sweet Thang.
“Ain’t no cooking,” he said. “You just kill it, skin it, boil it, and eat it. Take a lot, throw it all in a pot.”
Make a note: When you eat with Sweet Thang, always check the meat for a pulse.
“Since you boys dug such a fine snake pit,” he said, as he popped up out of his chair, “you deserve some homemade dessert.”
He disappeared into the kitchen and came back a minute or so later with three red plastic cups and a jar of clear liquid. He sat them down on one of the little tables.
“Moonshine?” I said, “For dessert?”
“Grade A, certified, bonafide, Georgia corn liquor. Handmade, homemade, and one hundred percent guaranteed to tickle your toenails.”
“You make this?” JD asked.
“Nope, this here batch was made by my cousin Scooter.”
“He in the business?” I asked.
“Was. Run out by the Jehovah Witnesses, biggest moonshiners in the county.”
“Jehovah Witnesses.”
“Nothin’ like door to door to drive up your sales. Now, shut your pie hole and let me watch my shows.”
He hit the button on the remote and the theme music from Green Acres blared out of the large screen. He took a big swig of his drink and plopped back into his chair.
“This here is a classic. Arnold Ziffel opens up his own bank account and ends up solving a bank robbery. He’s a legend, shoulda won the Oscar for this one.”
I didn’t make it to the end of the show and all of Arnold’s performance. The corn liquor and ten hours of digging a snake pit knocked me out cold. When I woke up, it was a little after two in the morning. I felt the crinkle of paper in my shirt pocket and reached in to pull it out. It was a folded old worn envelope, torn open. On the back was a note scribbled in blue ink. It was from Sweet Thang.
Hear tell you headed into town. Get my list and do not dilly dally
Beer—Taterchips—Sodicrackers--Bacon pork rinds--White bread—Mustard--TP
And go see if Rusty has my spark plugs
PS I done checked your truck top to bottom Ain’t no snakes nowhere

There are times in your life that you realize that somehow you have taken a turn down some road you can’t find your way back from. I had turned down that road and become the errand boy for a man who milks snakes for a living. Catfish wasn’t going to believe this one, or maybe he would. Hell, far as I knew, Catfish might even know Sweet Thang. If not, I hope he at least knew Rusty.
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MudCat Moon
Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery Series Book 3

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Billy Ray Kincaid is in the catbird seat. He owns a TV Sports Network that showcases Cissy, a sexy young sideline reporter and televises the top college football game each week. But the self proclaimed turnaround artist went cheap and now BTSN is about to go bust. Enter Jake Eliam, a lifetime baseball man, who scrapes by making baseball bats on the edge of a train yard known as ChickenBone. When cash runs low his best friend Catfish, the owner of the 3 PIGS BBQ, steps in with hot pulled pork, cold cash and work as a private investigator. When Alabama faces Georgia in the biggest game of the year, Catfish wrangles Jake to play bodyguard to Cissy who is the subject of an unusual stalker. The easy payday soon turns into a blocked punt of greed and deception. As the trail winds to the old Dixie Dew Pickle Factory in the North Georgia mountains, Jake rounds up his friends and a team of misfits including a drunken former Bulldog they call Dumptruck and a reclusive ex-con named Boobytrap. His ragtag team has time to run one last play on 4th and long or end up permanently benched.
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From the author of HOOCHY KOOCHY The 2016 Georgia Author of the Year Silver Medalist Finalist comes another SOUTHERN FRIED MYSTERY



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​Catfish jumped on the line.
“The last time a dead man called me I hung up on him.”
“Last I checked I’m not dead, but the night is young,” I said into the crackling phone.
“That’s not what’s on the TV news,” Catfish said.
“The news says I’m dead?”
“Watching it now.”
“Any details you care to share?” I asked.
“Yep,” he said. “Says you were killed when Billy Ray’s security goons rescued Cissy.”
“Rescued Cissy from me?”
“You and your associates they say.”
“I have associates?”
“Apparently.”
“And we’re all dead?”
“According to Channel 10.”
“Breaking news,” I answered.
“Tragic. They still got your name wrong.”
“So, I suppose now would be a good time to fill you in on what’s really going on up here?”
“I was standing by for your call.”
“You were?”
“Billy Ray has been lying out his fat rear end since he was knee high to a billy goat.”
“And now he’s lying about this. You ready for the real story.”
“Talk fast. You running out of time.”
“How can I be running out of time if I’m already dead?”
“Cause Billy Ray has called the GBI and every damn news truck in two states.”
“How much time?”
“Hour at the most.”
“We need to get a move on, but can I ask you a question, first?”
“Make it quick,” Catfish replied.
“Did you just say this wasn’t your first call from a dead man?” I asked.
“I was drinking one night and I think I got a call from my dead high school football coach.”
“You’re not sure?”
“Could’ve been a dream or it might have been the whiskey.”
“Well you did start up with the bourbon two hours before kickoff today. You still drinking?”
“Why stop now,” Catfish said. “I’m talking to a dead man.”

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BirdDog Boogie
Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery Series Book 4 

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The latest in the Award Winning ChickenBone Mystery Series
Sammy ‘Shoestring’ Stubbs wasn’t a very good Major League ballplayer, but he was a Hall of Fame thief. During his short time in the big leagues, Shoestring stole every piece of baseball memorabilia from teammates and opponents that he could get his greedy hands on. Back home in Georgia, a nasty poker game turned into a double murder and Shoestring and his loot disappeared. Decades later, the scout who signed him has a lead on where it all might be hidden. Enter Jake Eliam, a former player turned PI, who teams up with an odd cast of characters that would rival any baseball team to track down the treasure. The cast includes his best friend Catfish, a wise worm farmer, a nosy reporter who dresses like a surfer, a bounty hunter named after Jerry Lee Lewis, a strip club owner that resembles the Fat Elvis and a guide famous for burning down a burger joint. Toss in a 150 year old ghost along with deep secrets hidden beneath a mysterious and dangerous shoals and you have got yourself one Southern Fried BirdDog Boogie.
“If you’re a Southern guy, the kind that loves MLB, College Football, and food from the Varsity, you’re going to love Yeargin’s books. Think Lewis Grizzard, okay.”
Shelton Stevens, Atlanta, Georgia


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​“She’s dead.”
“What?”
“I know dead, and she’s dead.”
The man who made this pronouncement leaned in for a closer look. Ashes from the cigarette in his lips dropped off. He poked at something. I cringed at the sound.
“Yep, she’s dead,” he said.
“You sure?”
He looked at me, cocked his head, and pointed at his partner.
“Tell him, Henry.”
“He knows dead,” Henry said and wiped his face with the sleeve of a dirty white t-shirt.
I stood in the ditch next to the road. The sun had drifted below the pine trees behind me. Nothing in view, left or right, except a long two-lane tar and gravel road. The man asked me where I was from. I told him.
“What you doing way down here?”
“Was on my way to see a man about a piece of machine gear.”
He looked me over and rubbed a hand across the stubble on his face.
“So, what do we do now?” I asked.
“Well, getting dark.” He looked up at the sky. “I guess me and Henry can haul it back to my yard and take care of it for you.”
“How much is that going to cost me?”
He took a long drag off the cigarette and tossed it in the ditch. “Five hundred dollars.”
“Really?”
“Look, son.” He turned to face me. “I don’t know where you’re from, but where I come from, five hundred dollars is a lot of money to give somebody for a 1974 Ford truck with a blown engine and rusty parts and I’ve still got to haul it back to my junkyard. A tree will be growing through it before I make my money back. Five hundred. Take it or start walking.”
“I’ll take it.”
“Go get the tow truck, Henry.” He fired up another cigarette.
An hour later, I was sitting on a stool outside a convenience store in the dark. I had five hundred bucks in my pocket. I was one hundred miles from home. I had a cardboard box with the remains: two screwdrivers, a hammer, a handsaw, three cans of motor oil, four baseballs, two bats, and a soon-to-be-empty bottle of Wild Turkey to mourn the loss of a good truck. May she rest in peace.

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SweetTater Tango
Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery Series Book 5 

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Catfish Wilson is a football man, Jake Eliam a baseball man.But when the Southern Nights Baseball League needs investors, Catfish switches sports to become part owner of the Tully City TaterHeads. Despite sensing a bad mojo, Jake signs on as Manager for a fat paycheck.The brains behind the league, Billy Bonz, cares more about pig races and ticket gate monkeys than baseball. During the season’s biggest promotion, a legendary car from a famous TV show barrels through the outfield fence and disappears into the night.Jake is forced to form a new team to find the car or everybody goes home broke. The lineup includes Sugar, a Smokey & The Bandit wannabe. BoDilly, an ex-con who hangs out with a beer-drinking hog, and his pals, Polecat and RoadKill. This team of misfits faces some high heat from a mean backwoods clan, a corrupt sheriff, and the Tully City Peanut King. With two out in the ninth, they have one last chance to steal a win or end up on the wrong end of a suicide squeeze.


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​I felt a poke in the ribs and turned to see Cool Breeze with his cane. He looked me up and down.
“Baseball is a funny game, ain’t it?”
“That it is. Especially tonight.”
“Ice cream,” he said.
“What?”
“You like a good ice cream cone?”
“Sometimes.”
“I do too. But these days you try and get that ice cream cone and some fool will cover it up with all sorts of things. Little sprinkles, crumbles, runny syrup and even jelly beans.
“How did we get to talking about ice cream?”
“Done mucked up baseball like my ice cream cone,” he said. “Can’t find the game under all them jelly beans.” He poked me in the ribs again with his cane and headed off toward his seat. “Game is still down there underneath somewhere. Just keep looking.”
I heard a giggle. A familiar one. Alex. She was dressed in khaki pants, white t-shirt, her black carry vest, a hip bag and one camera around her neck.
“I just had a chat with your friend from the Bandit.”
“Sugar?”
“The one and only. Dressed in white pants, red shirt and pink sunglasses.”
“Why?”
“Didn’t ask. Don’t want to know.”
“Did he ask you for a date again?”
“He did indeed.”
“The Bandit doesn’t give up easily.”
“He said I would come around sooner or later because as he put it, ‘he knows things’”
“What kind of things?”
“Didn’t ask. Don’t want to know.”
We were rudely interrupted by a blast of loud music from the ballpark speakers. Sharp horns in a familiar tune. The crowd inside began to cheer and point toward center field. We made our way to the fence next to the dugout. A black van with a red stripe and red wheels turned sideways in the middle of the field. The rear doors flew open and a big man leaped from the van. He wore jeans, no shirt that showed off big muscles, a huge band of gold necklaces ran down his chest. He sported a thick beard and his hair was cut in a tall mohawk. He flexed his large muscles and let out a big scream. Mr. T from the A-Team had arrived at the ballpark. Alex grabbed her camera and pointed it toward centerfield. “Pity the fool that misses this shot.”
“Jelly beans,” I said.


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Cliff Yeargin has spent his life as a ‘Storyteller, traveling the U.S. as a Writer/Producer/Photographer and Editor in Broadcast journalism.

He began his career in the mountains of Western North Carolina where he worked with two college buddies, both who went on to become Sports Broadcasting Legends. Yeargin did not, but he did shoot the only video of the first 3-Point goal in the history of NCAA College Basketball. This is NOT fiction…you can look it up!

His travels as a broadcaster have taken him to dozens of Major League ballparks, World Series, Super Bowls, Final Fours, NASCAR, National Championships and he managed to convince his bosses for many, many years that staying at a Baseball Spring Training camp for two months involved hard work and sacrifice.

He has written stories in more places than you can count. In dugouts with rats under his feet, smelly locker rooms, planes, trains, hotel bars, buses at 4AM outside Detroit. All while submitting a staggering number of falsified expense reports.

He grew up on a rural cattle farm in Georgia, which taught him many valuable life lessons, such as never poke a big bull in the rear with a big stick.

A proud Bulldog graduate of the University of Georgia, he has now returned to his native state and lives in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood.

There is no Atlanta neighborhood known as ChickenBone…but there should be.


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The first question I usually get when a reader picks up one of my books is “What exactly is a ChickenBone?” Well, ChickenBone is not a what, it is a where. It is a fictional neighborhood near downtown Atlanta filled with old rundown buildings, a working trainyard and the setting for my series.

The books are mysteries, but it’s not your Mamas’ mystery. When the last word in the Sub-Title is MYSTERY, folks immediately think about the ‘traditional’ mystery. You know the kind. Page one, somebody is whacked, a murder, a body and in comes a slick investigator and for the next 300 pages, readers are taken on a wild ride of twist, turns, thrills and clues and then on page 299, you are STUNNED at the surprise twist at the end. Well, if you picked up one of my books expecting this…you have made a serious purchasing error…The ChickenBone Series is more about the JOURNEY. Jake may have a little problem getting the truck started, but once it is rolling down some backwoods dirt road, it will eventually get you to where you’re going, and you will meet some dang interesting and odd folks along the way.

You see, if you pick up a ChickenBone book, you’re just picking up a dang good STORY. It’s more like a bunch of friends sitting around a fire and one guy starts telling a tale. He’s Rambling, running off into the ditch, the beer is getting warm and you’re saying to yourself…when the heck is this fool ever going to get around to telling us what happened.
Then an hour, two beers and a few logs later, you are leaning into the fire, hanging on for the ride to the finish. You just have to empty the cooler and burn through a pile of good oak to get there.

It’s real simple. The folks that end up reading the entire ChickenBone Series is the same person who would have absolutely no guilt or remorse when it comes to plopping down in a recliner with a bucket of fried chicken and watching a ballgame from start to finish without moving an inch.

So, I feel like I need to add a DISCLAIMER of sorts. Everything has got a disclaimer on it these days. Toothpaste has one, eggs have two and whiskey, oh boy, whiskey has a long list in small print to avoid any legal or personal repercussions. So, on the advice of my semi-licensed lawyer, Rufus B Bailey, a proud graduate of The Gilly Gilbert School of Law and Muffler Repair, I am officially posting this disclaimer just in case you grab a ChickenBone Mystery and go looking to
find some CIA guy chasing a Russian spy. That ain’t gonna happen. Disclaimer…Said and done.
All correspondence and complaints should be forwarded to Rufus. If you find him, let me know…he owes me money.


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66 Comments
Michele Soyer
1/28/2022 05:35:16 am

What an interesting series - the covers really interest me. Best of luck with the tour.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:29:19 am

THANKS Michele....

The covers are simple...but EACH Title has a meaning that will REVEAL itself late in the book...grab any and check them out! CLIFF

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Bernie Wallace
1/28/2022 06:00:18 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:31:12 am

Hi Bernie....

These are simple books, simple stories...if I didn't work full time AND if I wasn't somewhat distracted by sports...I would write faster! But each book only takes about 3 months for me to write....and that's while watching Baseball!

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Marcy Meyer
1/28/2022 06:55:10 am

Sounds like a good series. I enjoyed the excerpts.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:32:39 am

Hello Marcy!

Thanks for checking out the books and I hope you will check out the full series...I can promise you a few laughs and some 'down home' FUN!
CLIFF

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Beyond Comps
1/28/2022 10:16:59 am

Great cover!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:33:57 am

THANKS! They are simple...I lay them out, the photos I take myself and then my designer makes them happen! CLIFF

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Rita Wray
1/28/2022 10:39:31 am

Sounds like a great series.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:34:58 am

THANKS RITA! And thanks so much for following the TOUR....CLIFF

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Jon Heil
1/28/2022 11:46:16 am

Hope it isnt packed with roids

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:36:52 am

Hey Jon....NO ROIDS!! Just a bunch of SOUTHERN FRIED FUN and a bunch of oddball characters....powered by foolishness and maybe a beer or two!

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Debbie P
1/28/2022 12:04:41 pm

I love mysteries and this sounds like a really excellent series.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:38:12 am

THANKS SO MUCH DEBBIE! I hope you will take some time to browse the website and check out some of the books....CLIFF

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Bea LaRocca
1/28/2022 03:01:46 pm

Thank you for sharing your guest post and books' details and for offering a giveaway, the book titles are fun and the synopses intriguing. I have enjoyed reading about you and your work and I am looking forward to reading your stories

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:39:12 am

THANKS BEA FOR BEING A FAITHFUL FOLLOWER OF THE TOUR....I appreciate it a LOT!! CLIFF

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Wendy Jensen
1/28/2022 03:16:20 pm

The book details do sound like a humorous mystery.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:41:23 am

Hey There WENDY!
Yeah, I would say less MYSTERY and more FUN!! Not one Russian Spy in sight and James Patterson this is NOT! But it is a slow walking, slow talking journey with a bunch of fun folks to spend time with....grab one and have a few laughs!! THANKS! CLIFF

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Sherry
1/28/2022 04:32:34 pm

I love the excerpts and think the series sounds good.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:44:02 am

Hello Sherry! Thanks for checking out the excerpts...if you enjoy a nice slower paced mystery, with some fun characters to spend time with, I think you will enjoy visiting ChickenBone! Thanks for taking a look! CLIFF

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bn100
1/28/2022 05:01:24 pm

nice excerpts

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:45:41 am

THANKS SO MUCH! HEAD OVER TO THE WEBSITE AT cliffyeargin.com AND CHECK OUT SOME MORE! I HOPE YOU WILL GRAB ONE AND CHECK THEM OUT! CLIFF

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Kari B
1/29/2022 08:01:21 am

Sounds like a fun mystery series with some wild characters to read about.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:48:34 am

HI KARI
Yeah, ChickenBone is filled with some odd folks...led by Jake & Catfish, you will meet up with the likes of SweetThang, Booger, Sugar, PoleCat, RoadKill...and a good dog named Chance and an old Sheriff turned Moonshiner! Check them out! THANKS Cliff

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Barbara Montag
1/29/2022 11:06:52 am

Southern Fried Humorous Mystery - unique genre!
Thank you for sharing this with us.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:51:57 am

Hi Barbara....It is indeed unique! NOT for everybody, but if you like the South, you like music or sports in the South and you like to LAUGH OUT LOUD with the characters in a book...then pick one up and enjoy some SOUTHERN FRIED FUN!!!! Thanks! Cliff

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Kelly D
1/29/2022 12:38:59 pm

The book sounds great, especially the main character.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:55:04 am

THANKS so much Kelly!

Jake is the odd hero...he's a baseball man that fell into being a PI...so he's not good with guns, not a good fighter, not a slick investigator...he is just a solid guy who lives by the simple code or working hard and doing the right thing...EVEN IF IT LEAVES HIM BROKE MOST OF THE TIME!!
Thanks for looking and hope you will check them out! CLIFF

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Amy F
1/29/2022 02:00:49 pm

Sounds like a fun read!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:56:40 am

Hey Amy!

FUN is the key word....yes there is a mystery involved, but you will find yourself 'laughing' more than 'wondering' as the folks in ChickenBone try and figure out the mystery! THANKS Cliff

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Terri Quick
1/29/2022 03:43:10 pm

Nice covers

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 08:58:38 am

THANKS Teri!
Our plan was to make them simple and matching...THE TITLES all 2 lines...I take the photos myself and then they are cleaned up....And ALL the Titles have a meaning that is revealed late in each book! Thanks for looking! CLIFF

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Nancy
1/29/2022 04:02:37 pm

These books by Cliff Yeargin sounds like fun and entertaining reads. I like to read many of an author's books, one after the other.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:00:28 am

THANKS Nancy! I hope you do check them out...they are simple, fun and quick reads...and I promise some laughs along the way! You can start at the beginning...middle...or end...doesn't matter...grab one and enjoy some SOUTHERN FRIED FUN!! Thanks CLIFF

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Peggy Salkill
1/29/2022 08:30:58 pm

These sound good!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:02:35 am

Hello Peggy! Thanks for following the tour! I can't promise you James Patterson or John Grisham...BUT I can promise that you will have a really good time reading any of the series and I can promise you some fun times and laughs along the way! Grab one and ENJOY!!! CLIFF

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wendy hutton
1/30/2022 12:39:40 pm

great cover, this sounds wonderful

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:05:47 am

HI WENDY!

Thanks so much!....The books are just a slow journey through the backwoods of GEORGIA and you will certainly meet some interesting folks along the way...from Jake and Catfish to folks like Cool Breeze, BoDilly, DumpTruck, BoobyTrap and more...AND they are the GOOD GUYS!!
Thanks for looking! CLIFF

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sarah s
1/31/2022 11:02:48 pm

How did you come up with idea for the book?

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:08:30 am

Hi Sarah!
I grew up in rural Georgia around a lot of folks like the ones in the book...so I really do KNOW these people and RELATED to some!! From the Baseball side...like Jake, I was a failed Minor League player and I wanted to explore that feeling of ALMOST making and how it stays with you for life! I hope you will check them out!! Thanks, CLIFF

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LYNN CLAYTON
2/1/2022 08:17:08 pm

looks.good

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:09:45 am

Hey Lynn!

THANKS for looking. Head over the ChickenBone website and check out the full series....THANKS ---Cliff

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Heather Mahley
2/1/2022 10:42:46 pm

Sounds so good

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:11:30 am

Hey Heather!

THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS....I appreciate you taking time to browse through them....I hope you will take a trip over to the ChickenBone website cliffyeargin.com and check out the whole gang! I promise you some good ol' fashioned FUN! Cliff

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Tracie Cooper
2/2/2022 09:50:58 am

What inspires your book plot ideas?

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:15:34 am

Hi Tracie!

Thanks for following the TOUR...I grew up in rural GA on a cattle farm and grew up around a lot of guys that resemble the ones in the books....so that's where the characters come from. The plots are usually based on baseball or music and before I worked in sports, I played Baseball for a long time (failing like Jake!) and played in bands when I was young...so combine the two and throw in some oddball folks and you got yourself some SOUTHERN FRIED FUN!! Thanks so much...CLIFF

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Calvin
2/2/2022 05:58:26 pm

Incredibly impressive background in sports.. cool series!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:18:21 am

Hey There Calvin!
Thanks so much! I hope you will head over to the website cliffyeargin.com and check out some of the books...especially if you like baseball and football too! I appreciate the comments on the background...There are MANY days I can't believed somebody was crazy enough to PAY me to go to Spring Training or the Super Bowl!! BLESSED!! THANKS SO MUCH....Cliff

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Karin
2/4/2022 06:40:15 am

Nice excerpts

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:19:41 am

Hey Karin

THANKS SO MUCH FOR LOOKING!! I really appreciate it and I hope you will head over to the website and check out more...grab you one and have some laughs!! Thanks! CLIFF

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Alison
2/8/2022 12:27:57 pm

😀😀😀😀

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/10/2022 09:21:17 am

HI ALLISON...

If ONLY I knew how to do an IMOGI?!?! Helpless as I am, I can still write some stories that hopefully will make you laugh!!! or at least SMILE!

CLIFF

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Robin Abrams
2/19/2022 11:55:15 am

I enjoyed the excerpts. Sounds like a good read.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/19/2022 04:34:37 pm

Hi Robin!

Thanks for the kind words and for taking time to check out the ChickenBone Series! I promise the short samples are what you will get throughout all the books! It's a slow walking, slow talking, fun filled journey with a bunch of oddball characters that will bring you a dose of mystery and a double dose of SOUTHERN FRIED FUN!!! ENJJOY! Cliff

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Tammi Laney
2/26/2022 10:19:09 pm

The book looks like its a good one!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/26/2022 11:18:05 pm

Hi Tammi!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I hope you will take the time to head over to the website ---cliffyeargin.com--- and check out the series and the world of CHICKENBONE! I promise you a fun trip down some back roads filled with a interesting cast of oddballs to make you laugh AND follow the mystery! Thanks so much for looking! CLIFF

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Carol G
2/27/2022 03:14:45 pm

Although the author keeps saying the stories are simple in the replies to some of the comments, the characters as indicated in the blurb don't sound like simple people!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/27/2022 04:04:55 pm

HEY CAROL...You are right in some ways! The Characters may come from 'simple' roots and 'simple' lives....but dig beneath the surface and you will likely find more...Isn't that the fun of reading and following characters? You meet someone and come to a conclusion and then later on....bang!...you find out something deeper....it's the fun of getting to know the person! Take one of the main characters...CATFISH...He 'plays' the role of the 'Good Ol' Boy' ex-football player...BUT...he is also a person who can call up the Football Coach OR the Governor AND get both to answer on the FIRST RING!...Thanks for the observation and I think readers will find this as they dig into the whole series....I appreciate your noticing and commenting and following the TOUR! Enjoy!! Cliff

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jose rosado
2/27/2022 04:48:29 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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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/27/2022 04:59:31 pm

Hi Jose...THANKS! Much Appreciated...never take for granted anybody who will check out the books....I hope you will visit the website and take a look...Can't promise World Class Best Selling DRAMA...but I can promise some good times and some SOUTHERN FRIED FUN! CLIFF

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Ken Ohl
2/28/2022 01:28:06 pm

this book looks so intriguing

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/28/2022 07:24:49 pm

Thank you Ken! I appreciate you taking time to take a look during the Tour. If you like a good story...just a easy going, easy to follow good read and some laughs along the way, I think you will enjoy the Series...Try one out and see what you think...you will meet some interesting folks along the way and have some fun! Thanks...CLIFF

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Paula
2/28/2022 04:43:59 pm

Congrats on your new release.

Looks like a good read.

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
2/28/2022 07:28:10 pm

THANKS Paula!...Appreciate your time in checking the series out. They are ALL Mysteries...but nor your NORMAL mystery...it's a fun filled journey filled with some oddball folks who will take you down some backroads and I promise, bring you a large dose of SOUTHERN FRIED FUN!!

CLIFF

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Renata
2/28/2022 10:23:05 pm

Sounds good!

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CLIFF YEARGIN link
3/1/2022 01:00:34 pm

HELLO RENATA! Thank you so much for following the TOUR and taking a look at the Series! I am grateful for your time! I hope you will take a few minutes to head over to the website and browse around. You will find that you can read from the beginning or the end and although they are a lot about Sports and Music too, you don't have to be a fan to just enjoy a fun quick ride with a bunch of interesting folks...Check it out...REAL SOUTHERN FRIED FUN!! THANKS! Cliff Yeargin cliffyeargin.com

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