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Roastbeef’s Promise
By David Jerome

When your dad’s dying wish is to have his ashes sprinkled in each state, what’s a son to do?

David Jerome brings us the heartwarming, yet hilarious tale of Roastbeef’s Promise
(Smackbooks.com, in partnership with Emerald Book Company, a division of Greenleaf
Book Group, 2009). Loosely based on Jerome’s own experiences while visiting the 48
contiguous United States during the mid- 1990’s, the novel combines two of his biggest
passions: travel and comedy.

When Jim "Roastbeef" Hume embarks on a quest to sprinkle his father's ashes in each of the
forty-eight contiguous states, Roastbeef has no idea that a series of bizarre and ridiculous
adventures await. But nothing will deter him from fulfilling the promise he made to his dying
father – not even a brief incarceration in Iowa or a punctured lung in South Dakota!

As he travels across the country, he picks up numerous new friends, presides over the ultimate
frat party, poses as a lesbian's boyfriend, and gives away a very pregnant bride in a Las
Vegas wedding. Who could have dreamed that somewhere amidst the craziness of dropping
ashes from a crop duster and finding Elvis' toenail, Roastbeef would stumble upon a lucrative
career?

Join Roastbeef as he drives, bikes, hitchhikes, rides the rails, and mo-peds his way around the
country. This is one laugh-out-loud road trip you don't want to miss!! As you read along, not
only will you ponder what YOU would do in the very serious situation Roastbeef finds himself
in, but also laugh out loud at the side-splitting comedy of his travels.

Author David Jerome has previously worked doing stand-up comedy and writing for Jay Leno,
and has previously published The Irreverent Times, a comedy newspaper; and I’m a Big Fan:
Irreverent Fan Letters and the Celebrity Responses That Followed under his pen name, James E.
Spamm. Jr.