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April 21, 2024
Yeah-Uh-Huh! with Phil & Lisa & Aaron
Gerald drops into Lisa and Phil’s living room as Aaron looks on…Almost as kinky as it sounds!For the first half of the show, what were Phil and Lisa doing in the dark? Aaron wasn’t quite as shy. He was hiding in the shadows.
A wide-ranging gabfest with free associations among both current and ancient topics of interest.
Key question: Was the Book of Revelation an exceptionally vivid psilocybin trip?
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This Week's Audiobook Episodes GP721 - GP724
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Here’s a list of the final four weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
New episodes will be posted each weekday morning at 8 am Eastern / 5 am Pacific until all 24 episodes in the book have been released.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Monday, April 22GP721 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 21 - Chapters 38 and 39 (27:21 minutes)Tuesday, April 23GP722 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 22 - Chapters 40 and 41 (22:05 minutes)Evan tracks down the young attorney who helped Bob follow through with his plan.
Wednesday, April 24GP723 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 23 - Chapter 42 (26:44 minutes)Evan confronts Edie and tells her how Bob's last wishes are sure to be carried out. He gets a startling confession from one of his friends about what really happened the morning Bob died.
Thursday, April 25GP724 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Episode 24 - Chapter 43 - Last (09:28 minutes)Bob's memorial service does not proceed as planned. It's a surprise to almost everyone, and they seem to accept that the case is closed.
A final revelation discloses the real reason Bob felt he couldn't go on.
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April 19, 2024
Chapters 35-37: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP720
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP721 will be posted Monday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Episode GP720 DescriptionGP720 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 35, 36 and 37 (25:41 minutes)Evan recovers in a broken-down motor lodge and gets help from an unexpected ally and Arthur Redwine. Bob's last-minute plan to save the Emmett farm becomes clear.
Chapter 35
Thursday Noon
Ak-Sar-Ben Motor Lodge
The Ak-Sar-Ben is a cluster of separate fifties-style bungalows, a haven for one-night-stand truckers and even shorter-term tryst-ers. The cabins are small and overheated. The microwave and the mini-fridge were new when Nixon was president. The Sony Trinitron TV screen is a CRT with knobs for controls. The ersatz wood paneling on the walls is lithographed vinyl laminate on plywood, a proud feature of the “recreation rooms” of a bygone era. Two small framed Audubon art prints show those ubiquitous, insolent mallard ducks.
Ducks!
The bathroom tile is linoleum, the counters Formica, and the carpet in the bedroom is worn down along the traffic pattern almost to the sisal backing. To Evan, the place smelled faintly of mothballs and disinfectant. But the bed linens were clean and the towels fresh. The horsehair blanket was old-school heavy and would keep a body toasty against the winter chill.
And the modest price was right because Evan’s sole credit card couldn’t take much more.
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TT020 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
Evan recovers in a broken-down motor lodge and gets help from an unexpected ally and Arthur Redwine. Bob's last-minute plan to save the Emmett farm becomes clear.
April 18, 2024
Chapters 33-34: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP719
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP720 will be posted Friday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Episode GP719 DescriptionGP719 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 33 and 34 (26:40 minutes)A seemingly angelic intervention gets Evan out of the clinic, assisted by Zip, who loans him a car and says he won't be responsible for what happens next. Rather than running back to the sheriff, Evan decides he'd better hide out for a while.
Chapter 33
Thursday Morning
Myerson Clinic
Perhaps the seventy-two hours had come and gone, because Evan’s head felt clearer, and his lethargy had lifted. The IV spike had been removed from his arm, and he was no longer hooked up to the heart monitor. Maybe there were risks to keeping him sedated, or for some reason he couldn’t guess, they’d changed their plan to hold him here.
By the way, who are they? Does Shackleton own this place? What do they hope to achieve? Keep me out of the way until the house is gone? If they knew the terms of the will, they’d realize that’s not enough.
As he sensed his vitality and strength returning, he wondered how he’d manage outside dressed in his flimsy pajamas and paper slippers. If they were intending to keep him, picking up the bedside phone wouldn’t be any use. It rang the receptionist, who placed any outside calls. When he had tried, he’d been politely informed that making calls and taking walks on the grounds were privileges to be earned in the program. For any urgent need, he should press the nurse-call button.
What would Travis McGee do? Maybe he’d recruit an accomplice who would sling him over his shoulder and carry him through the snow drifts to safety. James Bond would have a miniature device hidden in his mouth to summon a remote-controlled car. Philip Marlowe would guess there was someone in the clinic who could be tempted by the promise of a bribe, possibly Doc Wilmer.
If Evan were to remain true to character, he’d pray his way out of this mess.
But what to pray for?
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TT019 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
A seemingly angelic intervention gets Evan out of the clinic, assisted by Zip, who loans him a car and says he won't be responsible for what happens next. Rather than running back to the sheriff, Evan decides he'd better hide out for a while.
April 17, 2024
The “How-To” of How-To Books
If you consider yourself an expert at anything, telling your readers how to do it might be the best way for you to make serious money as a writer. An IWOSC Panel discussion and Q&A
Tuesday, April 30, 20246 to 8 p.m. Pacificon Zoom
Readers snatch up how-to tips and tricks in any field and any format, including advice, instruction, or simply motivation. Our guest panelists bring experience as authors in business management, digital media skills, and nutrition. They’ve also been successful in using their books to promote their professional services in those areas.
In a full and frank exchange of views in our Zoom session, we’ll ask our guest wizards:
To comment on this publisher’s advice: “We don’t hire writers. We hire experts.”
Who is your audience, and what are they looking for?
Do you design your books to be read cover-to-cover?
Did you work under a publisher’s contract or self-publish? Describe the editorial process in your case.
In what ways are you an expert, and how much research do you have to do?
Do you cite case studies from your personal experience?
Did you or your publisher beta-test the book?
In what ways have you leveraged your books to generate professional income? Speaking engagements? Seminars?
Have you used a sales-funnel approach in your marketing that links related products?
Have you had success marketing to schools and libraries? Professional groups? Have any of your books been adapted as courseware?
What advice would you give writers who want to monetize their instructional skills?
Meet Our PanelistsWoody Woodhall
Woody Woodhall, CAS, is an award-winning supervising sound editor, sound designer, and rerecording mixer. Woody authored the college textbook, Audio Production and Post Production, which is used at universities across the world, and he writes the Sound For Film column for .
Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews joins us from Melbourne, Australia. His business management books include Startup Success, Get the Cheese, and Get Sh*t Done. In his casual tone, he uses anecdotes in these accessible guides to demystify the simple, easy life, along with business steps to growing revenue and profit.
Ruth Frechman
Honored IWOSC member and perennial Reads-Its-Own host Ruth Frechman says, “Everything I needed to create the multi-award winning The Food Is My Friend Dietwas because of IWOSC!” Using her experience Ruth self-published The Food Is My Friend Diet Quick & Easy Cookbook and Fresh Start Weight Loss, a five-module online course.
Our Host – Gerald Everett Jones
Long-time IWOSC member Gerald Everett Jones recently published his fourteenth novel, but for many years in his checkered writing career, he wrote mostly business and technical books for publishers such as Sybex, Peachpit, and Wiley.
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Chapters 31-32: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP718
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP719 will be posted Thursday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
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Episode GP718 DescriptionGP718 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 31 and 32 (33:52 minutes)Accused of breaking into the pharmacy to steal drugs, Evan is heavily sedated and held at the clinic, a drug rehabilitation center.
Chapter 31
Tuesday – Wednesday
Myerson Clinic
Evan slept on and off for what seemed a long time. He hadn’t realized how tired he was. Staying awake to fend off some pharmaceutical attack was pointless. He craved the injections because they were painkillers. The opaque curtains in his room were drawn and the interior lights dimmed. So he had no sense of whether it was day or night, or days or nights. Sometimes he’d look up and see Naomi sitting there patiently. But she didn’t say anything. Nurses and attendants would come and go. They didn’t say anything either. Or if they did, he didn’t remember.
* * *
The drugs they gave him did more than sap his energy. They made him extraordinarily sensitive to light, to noise, and to the maelstrom of images racing through his tormented, post-traumatic brain.
Outside, the raging storm which had begun when Evan was down in the cellar continued unabated. The driving blizzard winds whirled and whined. Evan’s hospital room was insulated from outside temperatures but not from those woeful sounds. In his dimmed mental state, as he drifted in and out of consciousness, the fury outside inspired and magnified his inner visions.
It wasn’t a dream because it made too much sense. Perhaps it was a semiconscious vision induced by his delirium, because Evan remembered it afterward in vivid, color-saturated detail. It began with a pleasant, realistic memory and ended with an overwhelming, surreal horror.
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TT018 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Audiobook
Accused of breaking into the pharmacy to steal drugs, Evan is heavily sedated and held at the clinic, a drug rehabilitation center.
April 16, 2024
Chapters 28-30: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP717
Here’s the next post in the weekday releases of the 24 episodes in the Preacher Finds a Corpse audiobook.
Episode GP718 will be posted Wednesday morning at 8am Eastern / 5am Pacific and the other episodes each weekday thereafter.
May you find the novel intriguing and compelling, and please don’t hesitate to leave your impressions in the Comments section of the posts.
Episode GP717 DescriptionGP717 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 28, 29, and 30 43:42 minutesIn the midst of a blizzard, Evan searches for the missing document in Bob's secret hiding place in the cellar of the pharmacy. Evan ends up with nothing and confined to a hospital bed.
Chapter 28
Sunday 10 PM
Taggart’s Pharmacy
In the short time Evan had been with the sheriff, snow had accumulated on the Mustang. Evan scolded himself for leaving his ice scraper in the trunk of the Taurus. He didn’t want to wait around for the car’s defrosters to melt the snow, so he got in and started the engine for the warmup, then got out and brushed the snow off the windshield with the sleeve of his coat.
He jumped in the car and drove through the thick downfall to Taggart’s Pharmacy, which was only four blocks away on U.S. 52. Bob still owned the building and the business. He had recently hired another in an inconsistent series of druggists, young Phil Vanderhorn. That store and the C’mon Inn were the only businesses open late on a Sunday night in AC. Other than the rare medical emergency, on the weekends Vanderhorn sold painkillers for hangovers and condoms for wishful party animals.
Naomi was in the passenger seat. She framed it as a question, but she knew the answer: “It’s not a joke, is it?”
“Oh, it’s a joke,” Evan told her. “But it’s also an instruction. Bob is still giving me orders.”
“Do you think Otis bought your story?”
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