Buying the book from Amazon

Heres the link if you want to buy the book in the UK. Its only 5.99 with free delivery.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_24?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=david+kennedy+afterwards&sprefix=david+kennedy+afterwards

To buy the book

http://www.raiderbookshop.com/product.sc?productId=424&categoryId=-1

Visit this link and type in my name to buy a copy of the book.

Press release from Raider Publishing

Afterwards by David Kennedy-Now Available!

Raider Publishing International announces the release of Afterwards by David Kennedy. Sep 09, 2010 – In a dystopian future the year is 2050; it's the narrator's 50th birthday. William Kenneth Ian Right is a downtrodden man. He lives alone with the cracks in the ceiling, angles, pie charts, and the traffic outside his window and the darkness within his four walls. He has been beaten in his life into a shadow of his former self, he casually and uninterestingly floats around his apartment, ghost like, eating and sleeping and thinking, living off 'The State'. Suddenly he decides he wants to end his life and knows what to do; he calls 'The State' to arrange his death and funeral. This story, Afterwards, is a detailed account of the last 5 days of William Kenneth Ian Right's last week on this planet. He arranges his assisted suicide and funeral, he visits his family, he has a 'Freedom Day' and he prepares his apartment for the next occupant. Then comes his final day, his execution, his judgment day. Set over a century in the future, this story travels through time highlighting the evolution of politics, the destruction of man and the ultimate question of faith. Does God exist? What if there is no God? What if science were the saviour of the day? What if science could resurrect you? If you had another chance, if you were dealt the same DNA cards over again and if you knew what lay beyond, what would you do, Afterwards? # # # Raider Publishing International is a publishing company based in New York City, London and Cape Town. With authors in over seventy different countries world wide, Raider Publishing International is an award winning organization that has published bestsellers on four different continents. For more information about Afterwards, David Kennedy or Raider Publishing International, please contact the address above. The author and publisher are currently available for interviews and a free review copy of Afterwards is available by request to all members of the credited media.

Legend

David Kennedy was born in 1969 and went through the motions as a child, and still does as an adult. Having never studied at school or university, he instead discovered his literary tastes after everyone had gone away. This book is his first published work. He lives in Glasgow.

This is the best photo of me ever taken as I am so un-photogenic. I like this picture because you can't really see me.

New cover

This is the new cover to the book. I took the picture myself one cold December day in Glasgow's George Square, where each year the carnival arrives in the centre of Glasgow. This picture depicts the helter skelter at this carnival. What, or really, who you can't see in this picture is my son at the top of the tower awaiting his turn to slide down.

The reason I chose a helter skelter for the front cover is in the book the main character arrives at this helter skelter (or one similar) this signifies the last moment of free will for William in the story. If he ever had any at all.

The overall feel for the cover was inspired by the new publications of William S Burroughs books by Penguin. I like the darkness and overall rather frightening feel of something would should be fun.

The future

The reason I set Afterwards in the future was to allow for the evolution of politics to catch up with moral arguments. The book begins in the year 2050 with the main character turning 50 that year, which means he was born in 2000. A really scary thought for me. Thinking back throughout our modern history, especially from the industrial revolution and onwards through the Victorian age and into the last century we have never been more politically ruled. As the years roll on to the present day the politicans have taken over each and every facet of our lives, if you think about it nearly everything from how hard we can smack our children, to the shapes of banana's and from the point of view of my book, the euthanasia argument. I believe that we have not allowed our politicians enough time to decide whether it is morally correct for a nation to have a law legalising euthanasia, so to combat this I set the book in the future to allow the powers that be enough moral time to come up with a watertight argument regarding the pro's and con's of euthanasia. I always like to think that it wasn't that long ago that the politicans decreed it to be illegal to be homosexual, or deny women the vote, this list is truly endless and I believe that in time we will have euthanasia as a legal viable thing in the UK, once they at Westminster decide we are allowed it.
Another reason I set Afterwards the future was for the advancement of medicine, without giving too much away we travel 50 years on from 2050 to the same character somewhat more alive than we left him 50 years previously, this is solely down to the advancement of medicine in the year, 2100.
In the year 2050 I shall be 81 years of age, a scary thought for me although in the year 2100 I would be 131 years of age a less daunting number because, well, I've no hope of living that long no matter how much the science of medicine evolves. Is fear only produced through attaining a goal? I would say yes.