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Quality of Quantity: Redemption of an American Expatriate. Title available in hard cover. Click here. Or in paperback. Click here.
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An expansive narrative of love and loss, trust and aging, duplicity and regret, and learning how to live. Quality of Quantity exposes the vulnerability of the mind, the soul, and the senses. The author engages unresolved Houstians with the question they've been asking themselves: Was that all there was to life?
Houts, a wealthy retired executive, finds the answer to that question as he narrates his story of global travel, business acumen, fraud, world exploration, and self-discovery. Tormented by guilt since his twin sister's death when they were ten, and his drug overdose death when they were sixteen, Houts blames himself for not protecting her. After an exciting life of libertine excess and emotional isolation, Houts finally learns the truth behind a life based on anxiety.
Written with plot twists reminiscent of Flynn's Gone Girl, the raw honesty of Strayed's Wild, and the architectural structure of McCaffrey's The Road, the novel seduces the reader with the guilty allure of a traffic accident.
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Quality of Quantity, the sixth book and third novel by James J Houts, won the NABE Pinnacle Book Award, the Reader's Choice 5 Star Award, and was Finalist for the prestigious Book Excellence Award.
Spirit of Error, the author's first novel, is the winner of three 2011 eLit Awards: Science, Current Events-Foreign Affairs/Military, and Fantasy/Science Fiction.
James J Houts' Non-Fiction Book, Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea was the winner of the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Summer 2014. The second book in the series, The Stock Market Flea: Trading the Crash of 2008, won the NABE Pinnacle Book Award for Fall 2014.
Explore some of this author's short stories at www.medium.com/@jamesjhouts.
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Here is what informed readers are saying about the author's Stock Market Flea series:
"The author's example of employing used options as a real estate down payment instrument, is a powerful strategy. It's like using someone else's expense and I had a James T Jones broker's license."
Brandon Elliot
"This is a fascinating read about not only options trading, but also the history of the markets. I am now in a position to actually start trading, which is very good news!"
"The detail is enormous, with screen grabs of material for the beginner. The material is easy to read and amusing; the tone is light and keeps while the detail is manage as to stay informative. The more energetic will enjoy it."