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The royal command ship Calpernia leads the Hyperion fleet deeper into a mysterious space sector. Although the ships carry hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children, they represent only a small portion of the once great Hyperion empire. They are the survivors; refugees from a doomed planet ravaged, and ultimately destroyed, by internal strife. Hyperion, in the grips of civil war, had exploded into lifeless fragments hurtling in all directions, allowing scant time or resources for all but a fraction of their race to escape through a wormhole and join the Calpernia in orbit around Earth’s moon. Under the leadership of their new king, Kevian, the surviving Hyperions constructed a fleet of massive starships that now serve as their temporary home until a habitable planet can be found and declared New Hyperion. But like all quests, the Grail remains elusive.
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Young Adult Science Fiction - Fantasy series!
A prolific American writer of short stories, novels, nonfiction books, and newspaper and magazine articles
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Hyperions, Book One - Pre-order Now!
Monday, August 12, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK EIGHT: FISHING WITH THE AMOEBA GUY - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK EIGHT: FISHING WITH THE AMOEBA GUY Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 8, Fishing with the Amoeba Guy, teenage werewolf Benton Cartwright makes new high school friends and powerful alien and supernatural enemies. The vampires search for Gaunt, whose blood is being used to synthesize a drug that gives users the attributes of vampires. |
Friday, August 9, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK SEVEN: NEW BEGINNINGS - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK SEVEN: NEW BEGINNINGS Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 7, New Beginnings, Alexander plots to unleash the body-snatching Void Wraiths on the vampires at the mansion, and the Conclave of Elders wants to put Gaunt and Sebastian on trial. High-schooler Benton Cartwright arrives with a deadly secret and an uncanny ability that might save the world. |
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK SIX: TIL DEATH DO US PART - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK SIX: TIL DEATH DO US PART Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 6, Til Death Do Us Part, as the American government increases its brutal oppression of the Hyperion alien refugees, Courtney Cartwright makes a life-altering decision. Gaunt's failure leads to an Elder's demise. The NSA Domestic Threat Division closes in on the vampires. |
Friday, August 2, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK FIVE: ALIEN LIVES MATTER = Now in AUDIOBOOK!
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK FIVE: ALIEN LIVES MATTER Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 5, Alien Lives Matter, the vampires must contend with public exposure of their existence, while the alien refugees face increasing prejudice from the humans, including calls for their incarceration in concentration camps. Alexis must choose between her brother Brandon's support for the Alien Lives Matter movement and her fiance Parker Wellington's leadership role in the Earth For Humans League. Pete Riley's ultimatum to resign from The Daily Inquisitor over publisher Channing Reynolds' edict to print only anti-alien articles forces editor Douglas Reynolds to choose between his mentor and his father. High Priest Jezdan plots to eliminate Kevian. |
Monday, July 29, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK FOUR: THE JABARI INVASION - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK FOUR: THE JABARI INVASION Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 4, The Jabari Invasion, Kevian's past from the Water Wars returns to haunt him and threaten the safety of Earth, as anti-alien prejudice breaks out on the planet. The vampires must deal with a werewolf in their midst. Courtney Cartwright confronts Sebastian after discovering his secrets but has his inadvertent action already sealed their fates? The Jabari have learned their former foes the Hyperions have been decimated and are helplessly in orbit around Earth's moon. Now the Jabari fleet is headed into our solar system on a mission of vengeance and obliteration! |
Thursday, July 25, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK THREE: HUDDLED MASSES - AUDIOBOOK
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK THREE: HUDDLED MASSES Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 3, Huddled Masses, reporter Pete Riley discovers the existence of both the aliens and the vampires but that knowledge may cost him his life. The aliens face the prospect of turning from invaders to refugees but will the Earth perceive them as victims or villains? New arrivals among the Hyperions initiate a conflict between church and state in the aliens' society, while newcomers to the mansion include an Ancient vampire older than the Earth itself, and an Elder hiding a deadly secret. |
Monday, July 22, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK TWO: REBELLION - Now in AUDIOBOOK
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK TWO: REBELLION! Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 2: Rebellion! Sebastian arrives. He's a mysterious Elder sent by the Conclave of Elders, who disapprove of Gaunt's decision to handle the alien threat without consulting the Conclave. But Sebastian has his own secrets. Hailey Rumson also arrives in town to start classes at the local college in the fall -- and to investigate her cousin's mysterious death. And a rebellion among the aliens threatens to leave Kevian and Kira marked for death. |
Friday, July 19, 2024
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK ONE: ARRIVAL - Now in AUDIOBOOK
VAMPIRES VS. ALIENS, BOOK ONE: ARRIVAL Now in AUDIOBOOK format! In Book 1: Arrival, teenager Courtney Cartwright meets handsome young Nicholas and attractive Kevian, unaware the former is a vampire and the latter is an alien warrior prince from the planet Hyperion. Nicholas resides in a boarded-up mansion on the outskirts of town with his "family" of vampires, while Kevian and his sister Princess Kira are the first of many Hyperions to depart their command ship orbiting the dark side of the moon to assimilate on Earth. |
The Age of Magic Omnibus - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
The Age of Magic Omnibus AUDIOBOOK All three novels in The Age of Magic story arc - Alterverse; Warriors & Wizards; and Return of the Djinn are collected in one huge omnibus edition. A perfect companion to the Halos & Horns Omnibus and the Fangs & Fur Omnibus, this volume is 7x10 like its predecessors and features brand new cover artwork and an interview with the author. Clocking in at 586 pages, The Age of Magic Omnibus contains the complete third story arc in the Halo & Horns fantasy saga. |
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Return of the Djinn- Now in AUDIOBOOK!
What would the Age of Magic be without the Arabian Nights? Aladdin and his magic lamp; Ali Baba and the 40 thieves; genies and djinns and ifrits, oh my! Flying carpets, desert palm trees, and harems filled with voluptuous women. That Moorish architecture, and oh the clothes: turbans, fezzes, and curled pointy shoes. Belly dancers, and the Dance of the Seven Veils. The bazaar and the café. The magical city of Baghdad, with its spires, keyhole arches, and minarets glittering more brightly than the Emerald City of Oz. And then there's vampire Sharon Mordecai, a prominent character in every Halos & Horns novel since the first book but noticeably absent in the previous installment, the ninth book in the series. Where was Sharon? All we were told was that she was on a case with her spectral private investigator partner Kara Islington. Readers got a clue at the very end of the previous book when Ursula Fenris, teenage daughter of Sharon's BFF Pandora, was polishing an oil lamp she had been given by the mysterious proprietor of an even more mysterious curio shop. Kara's ghostly form wafted from the lamp's spout with the dire message that she and Sharon had been captured by a djinn. But how on Earth did they end up in such a predicament?
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Friday, July 12, 2024
Warriors & Wizards - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
Taking place 15 years after the conclusion of the Halos & Horns story arc, The Age of Magic marks Lucifer's return to the series but much of the story follows the next generation: the children of Samantha (witch) and Lucifer (demon) Cypher; Pandora (vampire) and Cody (werewolf) Fenris; and Kita (kitsune) and Reggie (mortal) Forster. Alaric Cypher spends his summer before starting college in Japan with the family of the kitsune Kita, where he finds love and danger. Lucifer travels back to the ancient land of Thenesia to aid the barbarian King Caliban and the wizard Balthazar in their fight against the Dark Gods. Bartholomew follows twins Quinn and Ursula Fenris through a dimensional portal to the Otherworld, where the Morrigan is preparing for final battle with Hecate, the goddess of all witches. A traitor is discovered at Nosferatu, Inc., and Asabi returns to Siofra after Alterverse... but in a dramatically different form.
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Monday, July 8, 2024
ALTERVERSE - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
ALTERVERSE - Now in AUDIOBOOK format!
Book One in The Age of Magic story arc
The forces of Chaos have defeated those of Order and recreated reality. The result is a dystopian multiverse ruled by the Dark Gods and policed by vampires who serve as their high priests. Into this Alterverse comes a heavensent African, gender-switching, interdimensional traveler who now finds himself permanently stuck in female form and tasked with the unenviable job of restoring reality. He/She must locate 17-year-old Alaric, son of the imprisoned witch Samantha Twitch and the banished demon Lucifer, and help him form a rebellion. But in this altered reality familiar faces are not who they may seem and some who had died now still live. Pandora and Cody's teenaged children Quinn and Ursula join Alaric's nascent resistance alongside the demon Asmodeus, Grand Duke of Hell Eligos, Nitrate (an emotive from the Dreamscape), Kita the kitsune, and a Kunoichi (Japanese female assassin) against overwhelming odds, as they seek not merely to change the world but the entire multiverse, and overthrow the gods themselves.
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
The Fangs & Fur Omnibus - Now in Audiobook!
All three novels in the Fangs & Fur story arc - Flashbacks; Nightstalkers; and Nosferatu, Inc. are collected in one huge omnibus edition. A perfect companion to the Halos & Horns Omnibus, this volume is 7x10 like its predecessor and features brand new cover artwork and an interview with the author. Clocking in at just over 600 pages, the Fangs & Fur Omnibus fills the gap between the previous Halos & Horns story arc and the subsequent The Age of Magic story arc. |
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
NOSFERATU, INC -- Now in AUDIOBOOK!
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Sunday, June 30, 2024
NIGHTSTALKERS - Now in AUDIOBOOK!
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Friday, June 28, 2024
FLASHBACKS- Now in AUDIOBOOK!
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Halos & Horns: The Omnibus Edition -Now in AUDIOBOOK!
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Halos & Horns: The Omnibus Edition "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5). A naïve angel and amoral demon discover the truth of Shakespeare's words, when a wager between God and the Devil lands them on Earth. In the guise of Las Vegas private eyes "Gabe Horn" and "Lou Cypher", the archangel Gabriel and trickster demon Lucifer embark on personal quests of their own in search of their humanity. Their personal journey is also a physical one, spanning both time and dimensions, through the centuries to Camelot and 17th century Salem, exploring the seven Heavens, the nine levels of Hell, the Dark Dimension of the ancient Dark Gods, Thenesia - an ancient land of swords and sorcery, the somnolent realm of the Dreamscape, and the eerie emptiness of Limbo. Beneath the prosaic veneer of urban life, mortal humans live in blissful ignorance alongside preternatural and supernatural creatures: warlocks and witches, vampires, werewolves, the Fae, kitsune, and creatures whispered of in myths of African, Irish, and Japanese cultures. Seers gaze at the Sands of Time as the golden grains tumble through the mystical hourglass, seeking to divine what the Fates have woven. Through these memorable characters and exotic settings, the author explores the nature of good and evil, free will versus predetermination, man's inhumanity to man, universal versus moral relativism, nature versus nurture, loss of innocence, coming of age, death, love and friendship, the quest for power, individualism, sacrifice, and faith versus doubt, among other literary themes. This Omnibus Edition collects all four volumes in the Halos & Horns fantasy saga, replete with 61 new color illustrations; the "Guide to the Halos & Horns Multiverse" detailing each character, place, and object; previously unpublished essays by the author; and the novelette The Pandora Chronicles, a preview of the forthcoming spin-off trilogy, Fangs & Fur. |
Saturday, June 22, 2024
The Witches' Cauldron - Now in AUDIOBOOK
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The Witches' Cauldron Picking up where To Hell in a Handbasket left off, the fourth installment of the Halos & Horns fantasy series finds the angel Gabriel and the demon Asmodeus fighting for their lives against usurper Baphomet and his demonic horde in his bid to take dominion of Hell; Lucifer brought for judgment before the Fates for the murder of an Eternal; and the witch Samantha Twitch joining forces with her sisters Drusilla and Calliope against the sorceress supreme Morgana le Fay and her Dark Fae minions. Will teen witch Emma regret her decision to stand by the changeling Damien? Can Damien find a way to halt his rapid aging? Will the critically injured Detective Mordecai survive? And if not, will he take the secret of his daughters to the grave? An attack on Nosferatu, Inc.'s Japanese headquarters by the ancient vampiric demons known as the Empusae not only threatens Lady Chiyoko's territory, but will change the young hypnalis Kaya's life forever. Meanwhile, one character must journey back in time to 17th century Salem in search of the secret to defeating Morgana le Fay. But what other secrets does the Salem coven hold? No one is safe. As the Halos & Horns saga draws to its conclusion, who will survive? |
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
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To Hell in a Handbasket Picking up where And a Child Shall Lead Them left off, the third installment in the the Halos & Horns fantasy series finds the angel Gabe Horn and demon Lou Cypher questioning their roles, as each embarks on a personal journey to discover his humanity. The cast of characters must adjust to the changes brought about at the conclusion of the previous installment. With the Devil taking charge of Heaven, Gabriel rebels, searching for answers in the most unlikely of places. As Samantha ponders his proposal, Lucifer finds himself a reluctant ruler. Síofra, the Irish changeling, must adjust to life hiding from Alaric in Japan with the ingénue Kaya, unaware of the girl's deadly secret. A familiar figure rises from obscurity to seize the reins of power at Nosferatu, Inc., while Morgana le Fay seeks vengeance for the fate of her son, Mordred.
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Sunday, June 16, 2024
And a Child Shall Lead Them -- Now in AUDIOBOOK!
And a Child Shall Lead Them Picking up where Paved with Good Intentions left off, the second installment in the the Halos & Horns fantasy series finds the angel Gabe Horn and demon Lou Cypher facing the Dark Gods in their bid for domination of the multiverse; Lilith, the mother of all succubi; and Armageddon! Ditzy vampire Pandora is dating a werewolf! Resident witch Samantha gives birth to Alaric, but is his father Lou or the warlock Mordred? All your favorite characters are back, along with some intriguing new arrivals. And meet the kids: Emma the Cockney witchling; Siofra, the Irish changeling; Asabi, the African emere; Kaya, the Japanese hypnalis; and Artemus, the boy vampire. But how long can even these supernatural children survive now that the ancient child-devouring succubus Lilith walks the Earth once more? |
Friday, June 14, 2024
Paved With Good Intentions -- Now in Audiobook Format!
Paved With Good Intentions Exiled on Earth, naive angel Gabriel and amoral demon Lucifer, in the human guise of “Gabe Horn” and “Lou Cypher”, form an unlikely partnership as private investigators in Las Vegas. Their adventures take them across the seven heavenly realms, into the nine levels of Hell, through the dream realm of the Dreamscape, and even through time to Camelot. Along the way, the pair encounter a wickedly funny assortment of angels, demons, witches, warlocks, vampires, and other supernatural creatures. Meet some of the most imaginative characters in contemporary fantasy, including an intriguing array of protagonists (Miss Twitch, a Salem witch; Emma, a British schoolgirl and witch-in-training, and Morgan Summers, a Dreamwalker) and antagonists (sadistic witch-hunter Nathaniel Thornhill, a golem, a Paiute Shaman, the corporate vampires of Nosferatu, Inc., trampires, gangsters, and nefarious demons). Some of the vampires include Sharon - she’s Jewish, crosses don’t bother her; Pandora - trouble follows her like a shadow; Claude - he’s too claustrophobic to use a coffin; and Artemus - a 10-year-old boy who’s been a vampire for nearly 457 years. But the real stars are the ultimate odd couple, Gabriel and Lucifer, whose comedic banter and improbable escapades will amuse and thrill readers and leave them asking for more. |
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
The Wonderland Trilogy, Omnibus Edition - AUDIOBOOK!
| The Entire Trilogy -- In One Volume! The Wonderland Trilogy, Omnibus Edition collects all three novels in the Wonderland series -- Wonderland, Oz, and Neverland -- into a single volume! More than 600 pages with a stunning wrap-round cover! This is one rabbit hole you'll want to tumble down! |
Sunday, June 9, 2024
NEVERLAND - Nowin AUDIOBOOK format!
Neverland isn't a place -- It's a state of mind! The final book in the Wonderland trilogy! Peter Pan is enticed into joining a river pirate on his quest for buried treasure: casks of water from the legendary Fountain of Youth that hold the promise of eternal youth. |
Friday, June 7, 2024
OZ - Now in AUDIOBOOK format!
| Zebediah Hugson books passage on The Wizard of Odds with Cap'n Bill and his first mate Trot to sail from Emerald City, Kansas downriver to Wonderland in search of his missing cousin, newspaper reporter Dorothy Gale. Meanwhile Tinka Belle, guilt-ridden over having overdosed Wendy's sister Detective Alice Dodgson on the hallucinogen fairy dust, has fled Peter Pan's luxury penthouse that towers over the futuristic art deco city of Wonderland. Tinka Belle returns to her roots in the dark underbelly of the city of tomorrow – the slums of Wonderland, where she shares an alley squat with her young friend Tip, a boy with a long-held secret and a hidden past. This sequel to Wonderland reveals what lies in the shadows of the glitz and glamor of the art deco architectural marvel of Wonderland, where the Yellow Brick Road leads through the dangerous Tenement Row, home of Old Mombi who sells abducted children and young women to the highest bidder; the local brothel, Glinda Goodwitch's Palace of Pleasure; The Quadling, the seedy bar belonging to ex-prizefighter Jack Pumpkinhead, whose face resembles a smashed gourd; and the territory claimed by Gen. Jinjur and her army of punk rock lesbians. |
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
WONDERLAND - Now in AUDIOBOOK format!
| Detective Alice Dodgson follows a summons from Police Chief O'Hare to the futuristic city of Wonderland to assume the job of Wonderland's chief detective. Alice agrees, hoping to find her sister who was abducted 15 years earlier. O'Hare's late for a tea party being given by Mademoiselle Milliner, one of Wonderland's patrons and socialites, who made her fortune from designing outrageous hats. He leaves her with Police Captain Jim Hooker, known as Capt. Hook because his left hand has been replaced by a metal hook. Alice encounters Dorothy Gale, a Kansas reporter following a lead on a local criminal enterprise led by gangster Edmund Tusk, known as The Walrus. Alice learns the Walrus and his partner Carpenter are luring girls into white slavery, their child sex trafficking emanating from Wonderland to Kansas and other locales. She decides to stay in Wonderland, suspecting her missing sister Wendy may have been one of their victims.
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Monday, June 3, 2024
The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer Omnibus Edition - AUDIOBOOK
The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer Omnibus Edition NOW IN AUDIOBOOK FORMAT! Collecting the entire trilogy in one volume! The 25th Hour; The Tomorrow Paradox; and All the Time in the World. Mackenzie Mortimer is a typical junior high geek. He’s shy, awkward, a bit clumsy, late with his homework, and always late for class. There’s never enough time to do everything he needs to do; after all, there are only 24 hours in a day. But when Mac finds his grandfather’s pocket watch buried deep inside a trunk, he discovers his days have an extra hour. According to the eccentric inventor’s journal, the pocket watch can add up to 60 minutes to a single day by freezing time around whomever holds the watch and presses its button. Time is running out... but fortunately, Mackenzie Mortimer has a few more minutes than anyone else. |
Thursday, May 30, 2024
All The Time In The World - Now in Audiobook!
All the Time in the World: Book Three in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer Mac has left Gramps' diary behind in the future and Victoria Carmichael's ex-husband, Jeremy Bentaine, has stolen it along with Gramps' journals. Now, Bentaine Industries seeks to be the sole possessor of time travel technology... and that means eliminating Mackenzie Mortimer before he discovers the pocket watch! But Mac has followed Gramps' trail to WWII Nazi-occupied Belgium, where he must use his future technology to stay alive, locate Gramps, and unite a pair of star-crossed lovers. The horrors of WWII that Mac encounters will change him forever, but if the Bentaine family has its way, forever will be a very short time for Mackenzie Mortimer! Time is running out... but fortunately, Mackenzie Mortimer has a few more minutes than anyone else. |
Monday, May 27, 2024
The Tomorrow Paradox -- Now in Audiobook!
The Tomorrow Paradox: After confronting the mysterious time traveler who had been stalking him, Mac's pocket watch was destroyed. Now Mackenzie Mortimer’s troubles are just beginning! Mac finds himself a stranger in a strange land, surrounded by familiar people he doesn’t really know, with only Gemma, a 15-year-old clone, to guide him through the labyrinth of the future. Will the mysterious black, iron key unlock the secrets to returning him home, or is it a harbinger of his impending doom? Time is running out... but fortunately, Mackenzie Mortimer has a few more minutes than anyone else. |
Friday, May 24, 2024
The 25th Hour - NOW IN AUDIOBOOK!
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The 25th Hour: Book One in The Adventures of Mackenzie Mortimer -- NOW IN AUDIOBOOK FORMAT Mackenzie Mortimer is a typical junior high geek: shy, awkward, late with his homework, and always late for class. He's never got enough time to do everything he needs to do; after all, there are only 24 hours in a day. But when Mac finds his grandfather's pocket watch, he discovers his days have an extra hour. The eccentric inventor's journal reveals the watch can add up to 60 minutes to a single day by freezing time around whomever controls it. When a crisis looms for Mac and his friends, time is running out... but fortunately, Mackenzie Mortimer has a few more minutes than anyone else. |
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD - AUDIOBOOK!
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (audiobook format)
From the American Midwest to the Middle East, to London, and even to the Alpha Concordance — a section of the galaxy at the edge of man's celestial peripheral vision — eight explorers of differing genders, cultures, and religions seek to uncover the mysteries of the universe. What is the true nature of the soul? What is the long-lost secret of the origin of mankind? Does God exist? And if so, where is he now? Is there life in the cosmos? How does one even define life? Is a man without a soul alive? Is an android that walks and talks like a man? Can a sentient artificial intelligence computer be alive? And what defines humanity? Does man's inhumanity toward his fellow man stem from evil, madness, or something more? With the long-term survival of humanity at stake, the intrepid explorers find themselves transported across the universe to somewhere they are not supposed to be, having learned reality is not what it seems and the laws of physics were never really laws at all, merely suggestions. Will their disparate differences — in gender, cultures, philosophies, and religious beliefs — aid these explorers in piecing together the mysteries or pull them further from the truth? Or are they, along with their developing interpersonal relationships, merely a commentary on the human condition? A novella in three acts, blending philosophy, religion, and quantum mechanics. |
Sunday, May 19, 2024
JUSTIN TYME -- NOW IN AUDIOBOOK!
Thursday, May 16, 2024
The QuaranTeens! NOW AVAILABLE IN AUDIOBOOK!
Friday, May 10, 2024
JUST PUBLISHED: VVA Book 8 - Fishing with the Amoeba Guy
JUST PUBLISHED: VVA Book 8 - Fishing with the Amoeba Guy
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The Hyperions have left Earth but Gaunt and his family of vampires face other threats, both alien and supernatural. The blood-sucking Nightcrawlers are indomitable alien symbionts, as deadly as they are unstoppable. Body-snatching Void Wraiths are amoeba-like aliens from a micro-scopic dimension targeting our world. Ancient vampires from other planets reside on Earth, as do home-grown werewolves, witches, and geomancers. Even humans, like government security agencies, corrupt politicians, and wealthy entrepreneurs pose a threat to the vampires. | In Book 8, Fishing with the Amoeba Guy, teenage werewolf Benton Cartwright makes new high school friends and powerful alien and supernatural enemies. The vampires search for Gaunt, whose blood is being used to synthesize a drug that gives users the attributes of vampires. |
Saturday, May 4, 2024
COPS AND ROBBERS - NOW AVAILABLE IN AUDIOBOOK!
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COPS AND ROBBERS A pair of FBI agents set up a bogus movie production as part of an unlikely sting operation to snare a mob kingpin. They buy the worst script in Hollywood and hire a failed movie producer whose career is on the skids; a third-rate aging actress whose claim to fame is having performed Shakespeare… on a cruise ship; an amphetamine-enhanced screenwriter; a hooker; a Yiddish-speaking accountant; a black, flaming gay actor; and a Native American actor who insists on dressing like an Old West dime store Indian. However, throughout the course of the film, the mobsters and one of the FBI agents become so enamored by the glitter and glamour of Hollywood that they actually end up working together to try to make the movie a success. Our hero is a hitman in search of the redemption he doesn't believe he deserves. He realizes the fake film was never meant to be produced and develops a conscience believing it's wrong to allow the innocent actors and film crew to spend months of their lives working on a movie no one will ever see, despite the delusions of everyone else involved. Knowing their hopes and dreams will be dashed, our hero sets about trying to do the right thing. |
Thursday, May 2, 2024
JUST PUBLISHED! Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
From the American Midwest to the Middle East, to London, and even to the Alpha Concordance — a section of the galaxy at the edge of man's celestial peripheral vision — eight explorers of differing genders, cultures, and religions seek to uncover the mysteries of the universe. What is the true nature of the soul? What is the long-lost secret of the origin of mankind? Does God exist? And if so, where is he now? Is there life in the cosmos? How does one even define life? Is a man without a soul alive? Is an android that walks and talks like a man? Can a sentient artificial intelligence computer be alive? And what defines humanity? Does man's inhumanity toward his fellow man stem from evil, madness, or something more? With the long-term survival of humanity at stake, the intrepid explorers find themselves transported across the universe to somewhere they are not supposed to be, having learned reality is not what it seems and the laws of physics were never really laws at all, merely suggestions. Will their disparate differences — in gender, cultures, philosophies, and religious beliefs — aid these explorers in piecing together the mysteries or pull them further from the truth? Or are they, along with their developing interpersonal relationships, merely a commentary on the human condition? A novella in three acts, blending philosophy, religion, and quantum mechanics. |