Hey hey hey!
The Class of ’87 is now now available for you to read and enjoy.
For this first week, we’re discounting the price to from $9.99 to $7.99 for the paperback — and from $2.99 to only 99 cents for all digital formats.
You can get an paperback of The Class of ’87 exclusively from Amazon at this link.
And here’s the links for the digital versions of The Class of ’87 for the ereader of your choice:
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As I have said before, The Class of ’87 was a labor of love for both Robert Slawsby and me.
It began in the downstairs entertainment room of Robert’s house at night, just two guys sitting in comfy chairs telling each other stories about high school parties and prom shenanigans.
We decided the world needed a good 1980s teenage nostalgia movie, figured we’d be the guys to make it happen, and commenced writing a screenplay.
While our script got us several meetings in Hollywood and was at one time optioned, it did not make a leap to the big screen.
However, we love this story and its characters, hence our decision to turn The Class of ’87 into a novel.
It was a long and winding road from idea to the book, and many deserve our thanks.
Almighty God – Without Him, neither of us would be here, and as our pastor says, “God appoints our friends.”
God definitely brought us together as friends and provided our abilities to tell the stories we tell.
On the surface this book may not seem “godly” but in many ways it is a testament to God’s perfect love, grace, and mercy that allowed us each to survive the “invincible period” of our lives (AKA our teenage years).
Thank you Jesus for all You’ve done for us!
Dana Slawsby – Thank you for allowing us to turn the bottom floor of your home into our writers room for several months and supporting us in our various trips into Hollywood as we pitched this script and the others we wrote.
Eric Norton – Norty read nearly every draft of the script we pumped out. He always told us what made him laugh and what didn’t make sense.
He loved this story but unfortunately passed away before seeing the publication of this book. He was a huge fan of this story.
It was only appropriate that we dedicate it to him and even named a character after him.
David Abramson – You have been with us from the start of this project and provided us with many good notes on both character and pacing.
You even came up with the original variation of the story’s tagline.
Thanks for riding the development wave with us when this was still a screenplay. We hope you enjoy this adaption.
Lee Hobbs – You’ve read all of the screenplays we’ve collaborated on, including this one, and an early draft of this book.
Your feedback this time around was instrumental in fixing part of the ending that wasn’t quite clicking.
Hopefully we stuck the landing.
Diane White McGeevy – Diane, you read an early version of the screenplay and made a very important observation about the Scags-Gina “switching scene.”
This led to a change that turned out quite important to Scags later “wising up” and getting back with Debbie.
Thank you for that note.
Riley J. Ford, Kelly Jay, and Nancy Espinoza – Thank you for reading an early draft of our book and giving us your feedback.
Your support and enthusiasm for this story is most appreciated.
The Canton High School Class of 1987 & the Norco High School Class of 1990 – Our memories and adventures as teenagers in the mid to late 80s were a great influence and inspiration to us.
We hope we have accurately captured the flavor of our shared coming of age experiences from that mystical time and place we fondly call the 1980s.
And thank you to everyone that’s made this journey with us.
A story is nothing without people to tell it to, so we’re happy to tell you our story.
To get your copy of The Class of ’87, all you need to do is tap this link.
We hope you enjoy our tale and this fun trip back to the 1980s.
Please let us know what you think of the job we did.