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  • Chapter 1-Out of Time-SampleSunday

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    This is the first half of Chapter 1 in my time travel novella, Out of Time. Follow the link to take you to the buy links for paperback and ebook. They had to escape from this period in time. The people they were visiting in the 1600’s definitely thought they were witches, and the spawn…

  • Today’s Sponsor on The Frugal eReader

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    I am today’s sponsor on The Frugal eReader Ever wonder what would happen if our worst fears were realized and we elected someone who was willing to destroy the USA, even if he was destroyed himself? The Usurper is that novel. It is a fictional account of what would happen if the Soviet Union and…

  • Announcing Shattered Earth, a science fiction novel

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    Shattered Earth is my fourth novel. What it’s about: Advanced humans, called Terrans, leave Earth when its threatened by a massive meteor. The remaining humans on Earth fall back into primitiveness. The advanced humans, and a group of aliens, the Ragnor, involve Earth in an interstellar war. Thousands of years later, the humans of Earth…

  • New cover to Out of Time

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    I decided to update the paperback, and uploaded it to Createspace. The original was published through iUniverse in 2008, but, I’ve updated it since then, and its been the newer version in e-book form for a little over a year. Here is the brand new cover. Stay tuned for updates! Available for $.99 on Nook,…

  • The story behind “Out of Time”

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    This was posted two years ago when I published Out of Time, and I thought I’d re-post it, and share it with everyone, since I’m in the process of publishing a more updated version to Createspace, with a new cover. Next after this will be Don’t Mess With Earth So, you’re probably wondering how I…

  • Updates on what I’m writing

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    It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, mostly because I’m concentrating on finishing up college, which will be this May if everything goes as planned. I have two stories in the works, one a sequel to Don’t Mess With Earth and the other one is a political thriller, not science fiction at all. I…

  • First Review

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    My first review for Don’t Mess With Earth, done by Feathered Quill Book Reviews Don’t Mess With Earth By: Cliff Ball Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Publication Date: March 2009 ISBN: 978-1602643413 Reviewed by: Will Gabbett Review Date: June 10, 2009 In the new book, Don’t Mess With Earth, intellectually and scientifically advanced humans, as well as…

  • What I’m writing next

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    I just thought I’d take the time to post what I’m writing about next, since I don’t blog as much as I should. I’m currently working on a re-write of my novella Out of Time. Since I published it last year, after working on it for what seemed like an eternity, so I had it…

  • Author’s Gathering place

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    I just thought I’d let everyone out there know about an author’s gathering place called Polkadotbanner.com. You can post your profile, sites to where your books can be found, links to your important websites, how you can be contacted and whether or not you can be contacted for signings or online chats. They even randomly…

  • Galileo in Don’t Mess with Earth

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    In my novel, “Don’t Mess With Earth,” Galileo Galilei is a Terran astronomer who decides to go to to Earth to convince the powers-that-be that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around. In real life, he was a normal human who tried the exact same thing and was punished for…