On Friday, November 7, book 5 of The Library Saga will be available to buy on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback, then a day later, as an audiobook as part of Audible Plus. If you’re into parody, with mix of fantasy, sci-fi, noir, and other genre mashups, then check out the series. Except for the first two, which was to pretty much introduce the characters and their world, books 3 through the rest are (or will be) the length of the novels I usually write.
Every character gets their own book and an adventure in different genres. The Unwritten Fallout was Alexandria’s, book 6 will be the Archivist’s, book 7 will be Bonnie, and book 8 will be Nora Clue. Books 9 & 10 will have them rejoin each other with new characters from their own adventures to take down the overall antagonist of the series.
Dewey has to team up with six cat heroes in his own adventure. They must rewrite their fate one thread at a time, but the saga is fracturing and a multiversal crisis is calling. They’ll have to deal with animal-verse fanfiction, a threat to their nine lives as cats, overlapping boss fights, and a genre-mashing antagonist before they can continue on. The Cat-alyst Chronicles is a surreal, genre-savvy adventure.
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Teaser from chapter 3
Dewey hit the ground with a thud, rolling through a patch of hay that smelled faintly of ink and cotton candy. He spat out a tuft of narrative fluff and staggered to his paws, blinking at the bizarre landscape around him. Wooden fences stretched in every direction, painted in garish carnival colors. Signs dangled from posts, each one scrawled with cheerful slogans:
“Pet the Plot Devices!”
“Feed the Foreshadowing!”
“Don’t Tap the Fourth Wall!”
Behind the fences, enclosures writhed with impossible creatures. A herd of Chekhov’s Guns clattered their triggers nervously, each one mounted on spindly legs like startled gazelles. A flock of Red Herrings flopped in a shallow pond and their scales glittered with misleading clues. In the distance, a towering Deus Ex Machina dozed in its pen, its golden wings twitching as if waiting for the perfect moment to swoop in and resolve everything.
The Cat-alyst Team tumbled in behind him, landing in a heap of capes, wands, and hoverboards. Pawlette scrambled upright, brushed hay from her fur, and exclaimed, “We’re alive! The system redirected us safely!”
Clawdia rose more slowly, her eyes narrowing as she scanned the enclosures. “Safely is a generous word. This place reeks of narrative containment.”
Meowgenta laughed, spinning her hoverboard in a lazy circle. “Containment or carnival, it’s all the same thing. Look at all the exhibits! It’s like a theme park for tropes.”
Dewey flicked his tail, unimpressed. “Yeah, a theme park where the rides eat you if you get too close.” He eyed a nearby pen where a pair of Love Triangles hissed at each other, their sharp angles sparking whenever they collided. “And I’m not buying a ticket.”
The HUD blinked back to life, its fonts now styled like a zoo brochure.
[Welcome to the Genre Petting Zoo!]
[Objective: Learn Cooperation by Touring Exhibits with Your Team.]
[Warning: Do Not Feed the Metaphors.]
Dewey groaned. “Great, a field trip, that’s just what I needed.”
The Cat-alyst Team perked up at the directive, as if the HUD had handed them a mission. Pawlette clapped her paws together. “This is perfect! We can bond as a team while exploring the exhibits.”
Clawdia’s ears twitched. “Or we can watch him fail again.”
Meowgenta grinned. “Either way, it’ll be fun.”
Dewey sighed, already dreading whatever “lesson” the zoo had in store. He padded toward the nearest enclosure, muttering under his breath. “If this ends with me singing another theme song, I’m using one of my lives to escape.”
The HUD blinked insistently, its fonts now styled like a cheerful zoo brochure.
[Objective: Learn Cooperation by Touring Exhibits with Your Team.]
[Warning: Do Not Feed the Metaphors.]
Pawlette perked up immediately, with her wand twinkling as she pointed toward the nearest enclosure. “Look! The Red Herring Pond! This is the perfect place to start.”
The pond shimmered with fish that glowed in misleading colors. Some were painted with arrows pointing toward nonexistent exits, while others had flashing signs like “This Way to Destiny!”
Dewey crouched at the edge, unimpressed. One particularly gaudy herring leapt out of the water and slapped him across the whiskers before flopping back in.
“Subtle,” Dewey muttered, shaking off the splash. “A whole pond dedicated to wasting my time.”
Clawdia smirked. “Maybe if you followed them, you’d finally get somewhere.”
“Yeah,” Dewey shot back, “straight into a dead end. Which, come to think of it, is probably your idea of progress.”
Hey, everyone, my novel The Falling Away was chosen as one of the “10 Exciting & Suspenseful Works of Christian Fiction” at the Ezvid Wiki.
A little background on Ezvid: They were founded in 2011 as the world’s first video wiki, and is now among the top 3,000 websites in the United States. Their YouTube channel has over 425,000 subscribers and 250 million views since founding. So, check it out, along with the other 9 Christian authors and their novels the site has chosen.
Update on what I’ve been doing, since I’ve been silent for a while. At the end of 2017, I finally managed to find a full time job, so I’ve stepped away from writing fiction for the time being. My current job is writing descriptions for muscle/performance car parts, such as Corvette, Camaro, Challenger, Charger, etc. and I write upwards of 10k words a day, or up to a 50k novel a week. This pretty much satisfies my writing itch for the time being, but I do want to have 20 novels written at some point.
Between 2012 and 2016, I wrote 10 novels, so I was burned out, but I did try to write a sequel to The Long Journey. It involved the Cherokee family going through the Civil War, but I found out that issue was complicated after doing quite a bit of research on the subject, so I decided to step away from that for a while to figure out what to do next. Then, I started writing a what-if novel about a Gen Xer who wanted to go back and change what happened in his life starting from when he was a teen. I actually wrote almost 18k words before I hit a creative brick wall, so I set it aside for the time being. One of these days, those will get finished.
Anyway, check out the above link to the Ezvid Wiki and have a great week.
The Long Journey is Christian historical fiction and the first novel in An American Journey series.
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law authorizing the removal of southern tribes to Indian Territory in the west. In 1838, the Trail of Tears occur when the remaining people are forcibly removed and marched a thousand plus miles on foot.
George Massey, a twenty year old Cherokee, finds himself being force-marched to Indian Territory during the winter of 1838. Eventually, he gets lost in the Kentucky woods and finds a family who takes him in. The novel follows his adventures as he travels west and gets involved in all sorts of historical events from the 1840’s to 1850’s.
Where to buy:
Paperback
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository, Books a Million, Createspace
eBook
Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, BN Nook, Kobo, Scribd, Smashwords
Audiobook:
My store, Audible, Kobo, B&N Audio, Apple, Google Play
Want to learn more about the historical events depicted in the novel? Then please check out these links:The Cherokee Nation website
The Trail of Tears on History.com
The First Emigrant Train to California (PDF) by John Bidwell
The Bidwell-Bartleson Emigrant Party on The California GenWeb Project’s website
The Emigrant Parties to California 1841-1846 (PDF)
Mexican-American War on History.com
Bear Flag Revolt/Republic on History.com
The Gold Rush of 1849 on History.com
Hi all, hope you’ve been having a great new year so far.
Well, I decided to come back to my wordpress hosted site, since the self hosted site doesn’t seem to be working out very well after trying it for nearly three years. Since leaving this site, I’ve finished The End Times Saga, which is a total of seven novels and two short stories. I’ve also written two more series, one is another end times series, called The Perilous Times, consisting of only three novels. The other series is historical fiction, called An American Journey, currently consisting of one novel, The Long Journey. For the second novel of the historical fiction series it was (or still is) going to be based during the Civil War. Since the main character is Cherokee, I was thinking of basing the story around the Cherokee Nation being involved in the fight, but due to what I’ve researched so far, they seemed to have mostly fought amongst themselves and what few engagements with the Union they did have, they were neither successful or unsuccessful campaigns. They were mostly hampered by lack of supplies and being cavalry mounted instead of infantry. I have no idea when I’ll have that novel finished. I’m also currently working on a what-if story, which will be standalone.
Right now, I’m redesigning this site, creating new pages, and updating all the links to where my books are being sold. I’m also in the process of having all my novels go wide instead of being exclusive to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, so I’ll be basically relaunching the novels with accompanying blog posts in the next few weeks, so please stay tuned for that.
Thanks and God bless.
Want to win copies of two of my science fiction/alternate history/time travel novels? I’m giving away 15 coupons for each novel to download them from Audible, and the giveaway will be open until May 2, 2014. All you have to do is click on the rafflecopter widget at the bottom of the post to enter.
In the 2150s, a scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn’t know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The U.S. government wants him to find out. The theme being to make right what once went wrong.
Narrated by actor Michael C. Gwynne, who had voiceovers in films such as Jaws…..
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Out-of-Time-Audiobook/B00F57TNFG
In this combination of the novels New Frontier and Final Frontier, this is the story of alternate timelines, partial political thriller, and time travel, in which a United States President is kept from being assassinated, but there are other unintended consequences as a result.
In 1976, Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States, declares the U.S. will plant a base on the moon by 1980 and a base on Mars by 1989. The Iranian Hostage Crisis occurs, but Reagan issues a stronger response, but as a result, Osama bin Laden rises to power earlier than he normally would have in the prime timeline.
Meanwhile, The Soviet Union decides to build a starship that will travel to the stars because they want to one-up the United States, but as is usually the case, nothing seems to go right.
In the early 1990s the U.S. and the Russians join forces, which leads the joint venture to the other side of the galaxy by means of a wormhole. When they attempt to return to Earth, they find themselves in the past, where they try to fix certain events in the past while they wait for history in general to catch up to where they launched the joint mission to begin with. Things go wrong as events do not play out as planned and numerous cases of unintended consequences result from the multiple attempts at fixing the timeline.
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Beyond-the-New-Frontier-Audiobook/B00GSX96KS/
Xavier Doolittle is the second short in my End Times Saga. It’s going for $.99 on Kindle, Smashwords, and Kobo currently, while the other sites will get the short story when they’re distributed to those stores.
Xavier Doolittle, a minor character from the novel, Times of Trouble, is the Secret Service Chief at the White House. We follow him when he first goes to college and begins abandoning the Christian life. Eventually, he begins working for the government, where they confuse him when it comes to what he believes. When the End Times approach, he discovers his attitude has been completely wrong in this short story in the End Times Saga.
A little over 9200 words and 30 pages.
Sample the Chapter Excerpt
Where to buy the story for $.99
Amazon Kindle (takes you to your store)
Apple (coming soon)
Have you read the other story, Jon Ryan yet? Currently available only on Kindle, and going for $.99. Is rated 4.4 stars with 5 reviews so far.
In this short story from Times of Trouble, Jon Ryan dreamed of becoming a doctor his entire life. Before he graduates from medical school, the government takes over healthcare, making him wary about the profession he’s going to school for, but not enough to quit chasing his dream. He practices medicine as medical plagues and disasters occur, all the while the government says they’re on top of things. Eventually, government oppression forces him to make changes to his practice that will affect his life as the End Times approach.
Six chapters, 8300 words, 27 pages.
Title: The Missing Piece (Inspirational Love Story)
By Carol McCormick
“Fresh dialogue, realistic characters, a powerful message,” The Romance Readers Connection
How does a man pick up the pieces when his world crashes around him? Misplaced priorities shattered his marriage. Problems almost crushed him. Love motivated him to mend the damage, once he found all the pieces.
After only a few months of marriage, Lorraine left Dylan on a wintry night after he’d spent one too many nights out with the guys. Unable to cope with the loss, Dylan escapes the painful feelings by drinking them away. This decision costs him a year-and-a-half of his life after he stops in a little mountain town and ends up in the local jail. When he’s released, he returns home in search of a job to get his life–and his wife back.
THE MISSING PIECE is not only a love story about a man who loves a woman, but is also a love story about a merciful God who loves mankind, even when he falls. The novel is an emotionally-charged journey of hope and redemption with a touch of spunk, a hint of humor, and a few twists along the way.
“Inspiring and encouraging. Anyone who desires a restoration to their spirit should read THE MISSING PIECE,” Myshelf.com
“A wonderful, heartwarming Christian romance. This is definitely a story that I recommend to all lovers of Christian romance,” Escape to Romance
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Carol began writing years ago after reading a ten-page story her grandmother wrote about growing up in the early 1900s. It was then that she began to write down her own stories to share with her daughters someday.
Later, she began to write as a way to draw herself and other people closer to the Lord. Carol writes for Christians to encourage them in their faith. She also writes for those who are unaware of God’s grace, to show them how to connect to Him in order to experience His love and goodness. Her writing is applicable to life with its direct, yet sensitive, and oftentimes humorous messages and lessons.
Carol has been a speaker for Christian Women’s Connection (Stonecroft Ministries International) for over fifteen years. She is also an international bestselling author who has appeared on regional and Christian television programs and has been a guest on over fifty Christian and secular radio stations.
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By Rebekah Lyn
Book Two of the Seasons of Faith Series
Musician Michelle Burton just had the best night of her life. Her band Tangled Web opened for Wonderland in downtown Orlando and the crowd loved them. Too excited to sleep she makes a fateful decision to go to work early. The best night of her life turns into the worst day of her life.
Nearby, at boutique Hotel Lago, Stephen Longbottom, acting concierge manager, is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the board of directors for Silken Pleasures, a multimillion dollar company based in New York and specializing in high end cosmetics, fragrances and lingerie. Their incessant demands before they even arrive are driving him to distraction. Meanwhile Lizzie Reynolds, his boss is on a romantic ski trip in Vermont leaving him to manage his first solo event.
Hope, forgiveness and love are an integral message throughout the book and like a fine tapestry the threads of God’s master plan for the character’s lives are woven into a fabric of great storytelling, conflict and humor.
Readers who came to know and love the characters of Summer Storms will enjoy catching up with Lizzie, Stephen, Michelle, Jeffrey and Ian.
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Rebekah Lyn
Rebekah is a Christian with a heart for new beginnings. She is a Florida native and a graduate of Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Fl. A love of history, research and journaling led naturally to a passion for writing. She enjoys travel and has traveled extensively across the United States and Canada as well as Europe and the Caribbean. Her reading taste run from the classics to light fiction. When she is not working or writing, she enjoys cooking,baking and sharing recipes on her blog, http://rebekahlynskitchen.wordpress.com
Her current works include, Summer Storms and Winter’s End, books one and two in The Seasons of Faith series, and Julianne the first book in The Coastal Chronicle series. She is currently working on the, as yet untitled, second book in the Coastal Chronicles set in coastal Florida during the early years of the space program.
Rebekah currently resides in Florida along with her “attack” cat, Mia. They would enjoy meeting with you on her Facebook page.
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