Stuff about Stuff...

A good chunk of the weekend was taken up with food and booze.  My youngest brother finally turned 20, and I think it's freaking my mother out that she no longer has any teenagers.  The fact that she now has five boys that range from 33, 28, 25, 23 and 20 doesn't seem to have quite the same effect upon my father.  He was in a great mood these past few days.

When I wasn't drunk and stuffing my face, I was setting up my new MacBook.  One brother was trying to use some strange alchemy to summon macbuntu linux into an ancient e-mac... just to see if he could.  However, another brother, working for a large university and going to master's school for computers, refurbished me a MacBook in the most ridiculous fashion.  While I only had the Kindle App on my iPod before, I now have it on this thing - and promptly downloaded 20 more books.  It will be especially amusing when I'm reading e-books at work, in my Used Books Store.

Regardless, I did get some work done this past weekend.  Besides getting a section of my damn fence back up that had blown over in these storms, I managed to go back in and fully re-edit the first 13 chapters of Stagnant Absolutions.  It was all about the terms.  Ever since the start, I had issues with certain definitions and terminology, but it wasn't until I pulled together the e-novella for Dark Red Press, Preeminent Hollows, that I realized where the problems were.  So, back in I went, 39,000 words to look over and make sure slight changes where made.  I'm still hoping to have Stagnant Absolutions out by the end of this summer.

Two more e-novellas are floating around in my head, as well.  We'll see...

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Gratitude hurled like Lightning

My new e-novella, Preeminent Hollows, is out now from Dark Red Press.  On page 5 (do these things count in an e-book?) the acknowledgements read as below.  These are only a handful of the folks who've allowed me to accomplish so much of what I've achieved.  I don't think they'll ever realize how essential their support has been.

This collection and the tale it's connected to could not have been told without the help of numerous people.  My thanks to C.L. Stegall and Saranna DeWylde for their experience in aiding me in the editing, and Chrystalyn Bradley-Rhodes for her exhaustive efforts in helping me run that bookstore.  My thanks to Amber McElreath and John Hill for their critical advice on my cover art, and to Quintin Steele on help with the layout.  A huge thanks to Dr. Roxanne Burns and Prof. Francis Graham of Kent State University for answering all my bizarre science questions, and to Dave & Shirley Marshall for putting up with my creative mood swings.  Finally, my thanks to people like Ashley Kite, Ken Gordhamer, V. Lloyd, Adam Womack and others who began reading this story years ago as Diary Of A Kaote.

 

Considering The Chaos Narratives are about a bunch of magical federal agents, this follows on the next page...

Dedicated to my friend,

Jonathan Joyce.

USMC and a

real hero...


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John Aurelius is the planet's latest Chaos Emissary, the first ever to join The Department of Diversified Securities run by the mysterious Quantum Courts. However, there were many events that occurred before he joined Earth's secret metaphysical police and some demand repeated whispers. More than just the haunted memories from associates and adversaries, these are the rumored incidents that led Aurelius to today. These are the stories of trickster gods and murderous ghosts, of Dimensionauts and S'allow Men. Stories of a mental asylum come alive, an occult shop best avoided, and a blacker house never seen. These are the Prologues to The Chaos Narratives. (an e-novella of 12 tales)

 

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