Fans of local author Mike Faricy will be excited to learn of his latest release, End of the Line.  Set in St. Paul, it’s another laugh a minute tale of quirky Faricy characters woven together in a hilariously bizarre tale.

Businessman Perkin Hoyt, a victim of the great recession and a long trail of bad luck, is unable to even get an appointment at the bank, not to mention a loan.  Meanwhile, across town, handyman Christy Keenan purchases a hot laptop that comes with ‘additional attachments’ such as the inept Lewis brothers, Morris the hit man, Alfie the scammer, Dallas the schemer, not to mention a bank heist.
The laugh a minute story line weaves Perkin and Christy together as two of the more sane individuals in another of Faricy’s deliciously engaging worlds.  It’s truly the End of the Line, the question is, for whom?
Mike Faricy is a regular contributor to the Irish Gazette.  He spends his time between St. Paul and Dublin.  End of the Line is his sixth novel and is available for electronic download on Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.  To learn more see the author’s web site at MikeFaricy.com.
We recently caught up with Mike in St. Paul;
Gazette: End of the Line is your sixth novel, any plans for a seventh?
Faricy: I’m working on number seven as we speak and hope to have it available by November.
Gazette: Your books are only available for electronic download, why’s that?
Faricy: Economics.  Well, and the fact I couldn’t get a publisher or agent to look at me.  It’s like being a kid and looking for your first job, ‘we only hire people with experience’.  Publishers tell me they only publish authors who’ve been published.  A couple of them told me even if they accepted a manuscript today, it would be twelve to eighteen months before it was ink on paper.  A year to a year and a half?  Don’t get me wrong if they said we’ll take it, I’d crawl over on my hands and knees, but that’s not happening right now.
Gazette: Have you received many rejections?
Faricy: I think I lead the league.  I’ve sent out hundreds of query letters.  It’s a standard one page, three paragraph format with a self addressed, stamped envelope.  My favorite rejection was my query letter, unopened, with large red letters stamp crookedly on the envelope, ‘Return To Sender’.  On the back was a hand written note from the publisher that read ‘this does not fit our needs at this time’.  They never even opened my query letter.
Gazette: How often do you write?
Faricy: Seven days a week.  A lot of it before 7:30 AM and after 6:30 PM.  Six months out of the year I’m in Dublin.  I can write from about 8:30 in the morning until 4:30.  On an average day I hopefully write about ten pages, edit those the following morning, write another ten.
Gazette: Next book coming out in November you said?
Faricy:  Right, people can check my website, MikeFaricy.com.  All the books are there, along with release updates.  I hope your readers enjoy my work, please let the folks at Amazon, Smashwords or Barnes and Noble know you liked it.

The following is a list and thumbnail sketch of Faricy's other five books which can also be seen on his website, MikeFaricy.com

Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick: Hub Schneider receives  an email from his girlfriend listing 22 reason she never, ever wants to see him again.  He leaves Minnesota for Florida to try his luck there.  Now he’s got psychotic mob enforcer Crazy Bobby Falconi and Atlanta crook J.W. Brooks after him.  Murder, mayhem and a sprinkling of double cross are the order of the day.
Baby Grand: St. Paul childhood pals Mickey Donnelly and Dell Dolan come up with the ultimate pension plan.  Between uncooperative husbands, tell all mistresses and a mob contract, success doesn’t come easily.  In the end only their stupidity and comic ineptness can save them.
Chow For Now: Dickie Mullins, sometime private eye, owner of a failing bar and driver of a DeLorean lives on a houseboat in the St. Paul Marina. His life would be a lot smoother if he didn’t listen to ex wife Rae Nell’s get rich schemes.  But then that’s how Dickie operates.  Fortunately for Dickie his girlfriend is still talking to him, and eventually he listens.
Merlot: Anthony DiMento owns a St. Paul bar with money problems and a week to make it right.  Wouldn’t you know this is the time he falls for sweet bank teller Cindy.  Add Otto O’Malley, State Fair food mogul to the mix.  Season with a sprinkling of spice from exotic dancer Serpentina.  Top off with a dollop of the sinister Ditschler brothers, Mendel, Lucerne and Elvis and you’ve got the perfect recipe.
Finders Keepers: Perpetual screw ups Austin and Andre Boothe decide stealing the receipts from an armored car in northern Minnesota would be just the thing to augment their income.  Mobster’s are involved and take the brother’s get rich scheme personally, proving there’s a very fine line between brilliant and bone headed