Friday, September 6, 2024

Cover Reveal: How to React When Woken at 3am by Drunk Argentinian Backpackers While Staying in a Youth Hostel


GENRE:

Non-Fiction Humorous Memoir 

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 BLURB:

Book 4 of an original and hilarious book series of travel misadventures and dubious personal
introspection by Australian author Simon Yeats, who from an early age learned that the best
way to approach the misfortunes of this world is to laugh about them.
Simon shares his comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living life as an
Aussie ex-pat and having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as COVID hysteria in the early
part of this decade.
From how to negotiate traffic in Los Angeles when your car can only drive at 5 miles/hr, to what
to do when locked out of your hotel room in your underwear, to the emotions of attempting the
world’s second highest bungee when you have a pathological fear of heights, to how to deal
with the trials and tribulations of staying in a youth hostel with travelers who have no respect for
the other guests.
Simon Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary moments for
you to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to empty your bank account, get
squeezed sitting in a middle airline seat, or deal with border security at the Ukraine/Russia
boundary.





EXCERPT:

I stagger out of bed. I am barely able to stand. It is not the effects of the alcohol in my system,
but the ungodly bodily confusion of being abruptly woken from a rapidly achieved deep sleep.
The decline in physical coordination is no different than pounding six whiskey shots with beer
chasers over a two-hour period and then waking up the next morning with a massive hangover
after passing out in a large coil of rope in the parking lot of a casino.
My mind swirls fretfully with questions. Is it Con? But why would he be pounding on the door if
he has a room key? Was the self-serve burrito from 7-11 that far past its due date that he got
Salmonella and lost his mind?
Was it hotel security coming to notify me they found my wallet on the floor of the front lobby?
Surely they would be more discreet at 1 am than to take to my room door like they were Seal
Team 6 bursting in on Osama bin Laden.
Was it Jack the Ripper?
Of the three possibilities, the final one seemed to be the most probable as I stumbled across my
hotel room in my underpants.
I pull open the door to reveal a completely naked man standing in the hallway outside.
Sweet mother of God!
That was not one of my three options.




AUTHOR:

Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the number he
has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he expected to lead. He grew up a
quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen
wit and sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life.
With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was none, and
being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling
on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were
survived.

No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.
Author Page


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GIVEAWAY 

The author will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.



2 comments:

  1. Cheers for being a contributor to my cover reveal promotion. G'day to your audience. I sincerely hope you will all enjoy the tales of the bizarre and uproarious experiences that developed in my life after I naively headed out into the world 34 years ago thinking that I needed to live life to the fullest afraid that the reality of work and responsibility was going to show up one day and smack us all in the face.

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  2. Thank you so much for featuring today's cover reveal!

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