Our audio series "The Authors Read. We Listen." was iriginally hatched in a NYC club during BEA back in 2012. It's a fun little series, where authors record themselves reading an excerpt from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard.
Today, Michael Carter reads an excerpt from his debut novel In The Belly Of The Bell-Shaped Curve. Michael graduated from Indiana
University with a bachelor's degree in English and the Indiana University
Robert H. McKinney School of Law with a Doctor of Jurisprudence. He practiced
law for years as a trial lawyer. Later, he worked in state government as a
deputy attorney general and as chief counsel for a state agency that provides
support to the impoverished and those in need. “In the Belly of the Bell-Shaped
Curve” is his first book. To learn more about Carter, please visit michaellcarter.com.
Click on the soundcloud bar below to hear Michael read from his debut.
What the book is about:
Turk is a frustrated claims adjuster for a large insurance company and has developed a plan that will free him from his boring life and make him rich. If successful, his plan will liberate a vast majority of human beings from the drudgery and monotony of their jobs. Turk hopes to create the Primo-Primate Project and train chimpanzees to operate technology like cash registers or machines used in manufacturing. Consumers would be able to buy the chimps as surrogate workers, in turn freeing humanity from the mundane and dull. Due to his job, Turk has access to the personal information of policyholders. To finance his project, he develops a scheme to embezzle money from the company by creating a fictitious claimant who suffers an injury. Once he crosses the line into white-collar crime, Turk’s life spirals out of control. He wanted excitement and more—and now, he’s got it, as he faces either madness or revelation.
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