RAISE YOUR OTHER RIGHT HAND
a novel by Jody Weiner
Speaking Volumes, LLC

Praise for Raise Your Other Right Hand

• MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW - Small Press Bookwatch: July 2025

Jody Weiner’s Raise Your Other Right Hand is a romp of the best sort -- funny, wry, and so thrilling you can’t stop turning the pages. Set in San Francisco, Weiner creates a tale of a superstar caught up in a bizarre double shooting who doesn’t want to explain what happened but stands to lose everything if he doesn’t speak up. Add in a lawyer who would rather be writing his blog, his wife, a theatre producer with ties to organized crime, a glamorous District Attorney, and an international cyber theft ring, and you have a page-turner that will keep the reader guessing, but riveted, until the very end.

• Frances Dinkelspiel, Award-winning Author and Journalist
  

Author Weiner is himself an attorney and a sports fan, who describes the games of law and basketball with equal authority.  The title of the book, Raise Your Other Right Hand, reflects Weiner’s droll sense of humor in describing how members of a jury are sworn in.  He educates readers to such ethical questions as an attorney’s obligation to resist conflicts of interest.  

• Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Jewish World

In his seriocomic, fast-paced novel, Jody Weiner tells the story of Radon Jaalaba, a reckless, charismatic NBA superstar who stumbles into a double murder while scoring drugs – and becomes the prime suspect. Weiner sets his tale in San Francisco and he knows the city intimately: its natural splendor and rogue history, its gossip and intrigues, its escalating turf battles pitting dot.com greed against old-school liberalism. Weiner creates a wide kaleidoscope of colorful characters and, being a veteran attorney, offers an insider’s keen understanding of law and order, city politics and jurisprudence.

• Edward Guthmann, Author, Past film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle

• Byron Spooner, Author, Rounding Up a Bison: Stories, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of Dillydoun International Fiction Prize
  

Raise Your Other Right Hand is a winner from seasoned writer Jody Weiner. I enjoyed every part of it, so well written! Even the book cover has a nice feel. The story flows smoothly as he skillfully lays out the plot and character development. The language is elequent, witty and to the point, aiding the dramatic tension. Weiner leads the way of creatively expressing the drama without relying on cliches or profanity, rather more often wit and common sense. The references are well gathered, plausible and applied…Weiner did his homework. Use of vocabulary, first rate. The story is aided by keen transitions regarding time, circumstance, place, and it is all pleasantly familiar for those who know San Francisco. Writer Weiner accomplished something very important, in my opinion, by making the central characters people one would like to know. The descriptions of the characters are vivid, and human, without being overwrought. Seems main character Archie’s ability to use just the right words to the greatest advantage comes from an intelligent legal mind. Jody Weiner is an accomplished attorney, and in this very enjoyable read, he clearly shows his author gifts.

• Richard Cruser, Former On-Air Personality and Management at KJML - KXTV - KPIX - KMPZ - KRON - KOIT
  

• NewInBooks.com

Synopsis

Then NBA superstar Radon Jaalaba goes AWOL from a nationally televised game on Christmas and Archie is handed the case of his career. On the way to the arena Radon fled the scene of a drug-related shooting that killed his intimate friend and a responding police officer. Once America’s hero on the basketball court, Radon is now on trial for his life, battling addiction and the weight of a career-threatening secret.

Raise Your Other Right Hand
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Release Date: March 11, 2025
ISBN-13: 979-8-89022-250-3
(e-book): 979-8-89022-249-7

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