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The Rys Chronicles fantasy ebooks now available at Diesel Ebook Store

The availability of my fantasy novels The Rys Chronicles continues to expand, at least in digital formats.

I confirmed today that all four of my novels are listed in the Diesel Ebook Store. I've read a couple good comments about this retailer from ebook enthusiasts at Mobileread.com. Diesel sells the epub format that many reading devices can accomodate.

Here are the links to my novels at Diesel:

Union of Renegades
The Goddess Queen
Judgment Rising
The Borderlands of Power

Peer into the Past at The Secret Museum of Mankind

Once upon a time there was very little mass production. The peoples of the world were more isolated than connected. They designed and made their own clothes. They lived their own cultures. Mass media either did not exist or had little influence. People of the world today are more homogeneous in appearance and culture than they realize despite all the focus on differences.

The rise of photography in the nineteenth century allowed the cultural and ethnic diversity of the past to be captured. An...

Readers - browse indie books, Authors - gain exposure

The Indie Books Blog operated by thriller author Scott Nicholson features a new ebook by an independent author three to five times a week. Each post gives visitors a quick summary of the ebook along with a short three-point interview with the author. Subscribing to this blog offers readers an easy way to monitor titles from sources other than large publishing companies.

Today, the first novel in The Rys Chronicles series "Union of Renegades" was featured. Hopefully I'll be able to introduce a...

Big eastern coyotes thriving in Midwest, see video evidence

They might be watching you on a bike lane or hiking trail at dusk. Maybe one of them ate your cat. Some people find it hard to believe that they are even there.

They are coyotes. In the Eastern United States and Canada they are growing bigger thanks to abundant food and some unexpected cross breeding with Great Lakes wolves starting in the 1920s.

Designated as eastern coyotes, this emerging species often grows to over 50 pounds and has larger skulls and jaws than the coyotes of the West. The...

On the menu at the Fantasy Tavern

Last night I completed my review of the fantasy book Ivan and Marya by Anna Kashina. I publish my reviews of fantasy books at the Fantasy Tavern. To find out more about this beautifully written Russian folklore based fantasy please visit the Ivan and Marya review. I recommend the novel and will soon be sharing a review with the author at this blog.

The Fantasy Tavern also includes a listing of links to free fantasy ebooks. I also started a page with links to free fantasy art. Fantasy writers a...

The inspiration of archaeology

When I walk through museums and look at antiquities I think about the people whose hands once touched the artifacts. I think about their lives and how the relics were used. Looking upon a big broadsword from the Middle Ages I wonder if it was ever used in battle...and if that blade ever killed somebody.

Going further back in time, the glimpses of ancient and mysterious civilizations brought to us by archaeologists have always excited my imagination. I believe my fascination with the dim ages ...

Movie about Robert E. Howard - review of The Whole Wide World

I recently ran across a gem of a movie called The Whole Wide World. Directed by Dan Ireland, the 1996 film attracted my attention because the famous writer Robert E. Howard was a central character in the story. Most famous for creating Conan, Howard is a writer who inspired my love of the fantasy genre. His work has a worldwide following despite his less-than-literary pedigree of being a pulp writer in the 1930s. His tragic 1936 suicide I think has simply added to his fame. His readers can ea...

African heritage inspires Jason McCammon's fantasy adventure writing

Freelance camera man and gaffer, Jason McCammon has created the African culture inspired fantasy novel Warrior Quest: Search for the Ifa Scepter and the children's illustrated version The Adventures of Farra and Bomani. Although his film and television gigs and wedding events keep him busy and traveling in locations ranging from New York to Miami, McCammon has added creative writing to his life and is admittedly addicted to his new passion for authoring adventures.

Jason McCammon shared his ex...

What if Medusa hit the dating scene?

This week's Friday fun plays with online dating profiles and shows that the singles' scene is harder for some than others.

Mature single female seeking male for possible romance

For the man looking for a lady who's a little different, I'm your gal. For starters, I'm fluent in Greek and have a few pet snakes. (You must be relieved to read a profile of a lady not talking about her cats, right?)

I'm not a high maintenance lady either. I don't even worry about bad hair days. I just accept that I c...

Book Review: The Invisible Sex - Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

I have always been fascinated by human evolution and the mysteries of the prehistoric era. I think this field of study that pieces together rare clues and proposes possible narratives appeals to my imagination. The vast bulk of the human story is unrecorded, and, as the authors of The Invisible Sex point out, the prehistory pieced together by paleoanthropologists has overlooked the important role that females played in the evolution of humanity and the technological and social development of ...