Roastbeef’s Promise

When Your Dad’s Dying Wish Is to Have His Ashes Sprinkled In Each State, What’s a Son to Do?

David Jerome

When Jim Roastbeef Hume embarks on a quest to sprinkle his father's ashes in each of the forty-eight contiguous states, he 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 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 party, poses as a lesbian s boyfriend, and gives away a very pregnant bride in a Las Vegas wedding. And who could have dreamed that somewhere amidst the craziness of dropping ashes from a crop duster and finding Elvis's toenail, Roastbeef would stumble upon a lucrative new career?

Join Roastbeef as he drives, bikes, hitchhikes, rides the rails, and mo-peds his way around the country. This is one warm and funny road trip you won't want to miss.

In this, his first novel, David Jerome combines two of his passions: travel and comedy writing, into one warm, and funny, travel-adventure. A Promise, An Urn, And An Atlas is loosely based on the authors experiences while visiting the 48 contiguous United States during the mid-1990s.

Prior to this effort, Mr. Jerome had written jokes for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, and performed his own monologue on the ABC late night talk show, Into The Night With Rick Dees. From 1994-1996 he wrote and published a comedy newspaper, The Irreverent Times. Under the pen name, James E. Spamm Jr., he authored a collection of humorous fan letters to celebrities and other notables called, I'm A Big Fan.