Summary
Hello, I'm Del Chatterson, the author, publisher and entrepreneur behind this project.
Here's my story: about the project, the first novel, who I am, why I'm doing this and why you might be interested to support me in the adventure. (Or at least grab an author-signed advance copy or two of NO EASY MONEY)
Check the Indiegogo perks shown here for all the bonuses available. Thank you for visiting.
You can help in three ways
1. Share the fun.
Enjoy the novel! Share it with friends and family. Early readers tell me it's an interesting and entertaining read. Any purchase of the novel, the business books or the other perks listed here will help finance the sales and marketing campaign to share the books and the fun with more readers.
2. Share the message. Join the team.
Join me and my collaborators, followers, fans and readers in this project to produce a series of crime fiction novels with an entrepreneurial background that are a good read and also help to promote Enlightened Entrepreneurship. Everyone can contribute by sharing feedback, comments and reviews.
My intent, as a writer of both crime fiction adventure novels and non-fiction business books, is to help Enlightened Entrepreneurs be better and do better: for themselves and their businesses, their families and employees, their customers and suppliers, their communities and the planet. Please share the invitation and the link to this Indiegogo campaign with more potential readers and supporters.
3. Share the wealth.
My mission is to promote Enlightened Entrepreneurship that supports the development of better communities and a healthier world.
So I promise you all, supporters, readers and fans, that 15% of all the net proceeds from this Indiegogo campaign and 15% of all future net royalties from the Dale Hunter Series of novels will be shared with my favourite worthy causes: KIVA, UNICEF, MSF and Amnesty International. (Links to more info below)*
Please join me in this adventure with Dale Hunter and his new friends.
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NO EASY MONEY
"You never win playing by the rules.”
Entrepreneurs face challenges every day from inside the business and from the world around them. It’s hard to be a hero. This is the story of an entrepreneur who wants to win and not play too far outside the rules.
Dale Hunter is a young entrepreneur in Montreal running a successful business in the 1980s world of personal computers. He’s having fun and making money until the bad guys arrive. Now he has to try to survive without playing by gangster rules. It will require courage and creativity and the support of some new friends.
While fighting off the criminals, he still has to manage challenges from his employees and customers, the bank and his partners, and his two suppliers in Korea and Taiwan. He has to make deals with them all to survive and save his business and his family.
It starts with a demand for protection money and threats of violence to his family. Hunter agrees to make payments to a gangster named Jacques Talbot. But the pressure increases as Talbot squeezes him for more. Hunter decides to call the cops. That’s a mistake and the criminals raise their demands and the threats to his family. Hunter makes a deal with Frank the Fixer, a tough young Somalian refugee who now works on both sides of the law in Montreal. He can be more creative than the cops, but his first attempt to take out Talbot makes matters worse. Hunter tries to deal with the gangsters himself and only digs himself in deeper again. Frank and Hunter decide the solution is to raise the stakes with and ask the Montreal Mafia to take care of the other gangsters.
Hunter also appeals to his banker, his partners and his suppliers for help, but he is still not safe from the gangsters and he’s now caught between the first gang of thugs and the Mafia. Somebody is going to get killed. Dale Hunter may never get back to business as usual.
Early Reviews
INDIE READER Review: Rating 4 stars. Delvin Chatterson’s language conveys mayhem with a brevity that practically demands attention. Action sequences are rapid fire and corrosive and are offset by scenes of threatening undertones . Verdict: Chatterson pens crime drama that is as fast-paced and involved as the archetypal L.A. potboiler and deftly leaves open the possibilities for his characters to continue their stories in future adventures.
"Great read!!! I can't put it down. … I had to get up in the middle of the night to finish it!!!” Ken Collins (Man. Canada)
“I read this book in one day, I couldn't put it down. I wanted to know how Dale handled his mounting financial problems and how he would keep his family safe. … How do I get my hands on his next book?” Margaret Heaton (MI, USA)
More about the book: An Interview and Excerpts in text & audio:
An interview with the Author by Tellwell:
Listen at: https://tell-it-well.libsyn.com/episode-9-del-chatterson-on-crafting-business-centred-crime-fiction
Excerpts of NO EASY MONEY:
Free .pdf copies from BookFunnel:
@ https://dl.bookfunnel.com/ffkyj2czjs
Chapter 7, Meet Gino Boncanno
@ https://dl.bookfunnel.com/4tewucqhd4
Reading of Chapter 7 by Denis Senecal:
The Dale Hunter Series of Crime Novels
The Dale Hunter novels are stories of an entrepreneur's adventures with exciting drama, crime and suspense for an entertaining read by a wide audience. Without detracting from being a good read, the books are also interesting, informative and inspiring for hard-working entrepreneurs, for future entrepreneurs and for critics of entrepreneurs. (That's the subtle hidden agenda. Hopefully, it doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the novels!)
The Author - Delvin Chatterson
Del Chatterson is an entrepreneur and business advisor, consultant, coach and cheerleader for entrepreneurs. He has written extensively on business topics for two decades. He is now writing fiction with a short story collection and this series of Dale Hunter crime novels in progress.
Del has already published two business books: Don’t Do It the Hard Way, A wise man learns from the mistakes of others, only a fool insists on making his own and The Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Business Plans, It's about the process, not the product. Both business books tell real-life stories of entrepreneurs to share the lessons they have learned.
Like Dale Hunter, Del Chatterson is an engineer from UBC with an MBA from McGill and ran a computer products distribution business in Montreal in the 1980’s. Some of the stories in his first novel of the Dale Hunter series, No Easy Money, actually happened, most are fiction. “They’re all my worst nightmares,” he says, “that I decided to share through these imagined stories of crime and violence.”
Originally from the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Del has lived and worked for most of the past forty years in the fascinating, multicultural, bilingual, French-Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec. He is dedicated to sharing his ideas, experience and advice with entrepreneurs to help improve their lives and their businesses. He has helped entrepreneurs around the world, including volunteer consulting and financial support in developing economies and in Aboriginal communities. His own life experience includes running nine marathons after the age of fifty (setting no records, but never being last) and running for Member of Parliament in the 2000 Canadian Federal election. (He came second, not last.)
Learn more about Del at his websites: For readers at www.DelvinChatterson.com and for entrepreneurs at www.LearningEntrepreneurship.com. You may also follow Del on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
The Marketing Plan & Objectives
Any comments, feedback or reader reviews are much appreciated and I welcome the opportunity to keep in touch with future readers.