GREENSBORO, NC – Self-published author and stay-at-home dad Roger Slate proudly announced this past weekend that his latest novel Long Live Louis King—a thriller set in Paris following the story of a mob kingpin murdered by guillotine—met his lofty goal of selling thirty-five copies after only fourteen months of being displayed in his library’s basement.

“I was very pleased,” said Slate, a stocky former history adjunct at UNC Greensboro with a fireman’s moustache. “It was a lot of work, but it feels incredibly worthwhile now that I’ve achieved my lifelong ambition of only losing a couple bucks on distribution.”

The book, according to Slate, is the sixteenth in a series of action novels chronicling the adventures of Carlos Danger and his well-bosomed, Puerto Rican spy counterpart/frenemy/fuck buddy, as they traverse a world full of intrigue and murder.

Librarian Mae Fesdt of Greensboro Public Library said, “His writing has always had an endearing realism to it. I will never forget the four hour long car chase through downtown Chicago that ended with Carlos finally abandoning his car in traffic and taking the subway.”

Slate is currently working on a direct sequel to Long Live Louis King tentatively titled Napoleon vs. the World.