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A Semi-Not-Horribly-Regular Newsletter #8

In this issue: Beneath Gehenna, Updates on In Sunshine and Shadow: Exodus, or the Second Transit, New Posts, An Indie Author Program Review Selection (a review).

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The Beans of Anafi: A New Kindle Vella Serial

Available now to read on Kindle Vella: The Beans of Anafi, a serialized young adult literary fiction novel with heart.

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Psychological Injunctions, Drivers & Your Characters

In legal terms, injunctions are authoritative warnings or orders, typically given in the court system. Drivers are quite the opposite. They are the things you should do. So how can we relate these to your characters?

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Review: Shadows & Starstone: The Immortals Part One

Description (from Amazon.com) Something smells off and it’s not just the undead. Emaranthe and her team are sent to protect a village. They must stop the enemy from taking the Starstone hidden in their mines. With it, an unimaginable power source, the enemy can create portals and use them to spread destruction across the planet…
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Choose Wisely

A Lovecraftian steampunk apocalyptic sci-fi horror with just an edge of comedy and a hint of romance. What else could be missing?

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Review: Squid Face Girl: & A Wretched Little Book of Poems by Allen Isom – A 2022 Indie Author Review Selection

Description • The Review • More About the Author Description (from Amazon.com) Kali felt like a freak most of her life, but having tentacles on the bottom half of your face will do that to a person. Her peers at school bullied her, and her parents didn’t treat her much better, but everything changed when…
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On Wind & Emotion

Just like clouds and emotion go hand-in-hand (with respect to literature, anyway), so does wind and emotion.

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Win an Autographed Hardback of Out of Due Season: The First Transit & an Amazon Gift Card!

I’m giving away an autographed copy of my book Out of Due Season: The First Transit (hardback with dust jacket) to one lucky winner! I am also including a $50 Amazon.com gift card and bookmark. All entrants will receive the 1st 6 chapters of the book’s sequel In Sunshine and Shadow, Exodus or The Second…
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A New Anthology by the Pikes Peak Writers

Dream: Tales from the Pikes Peak Writers, a new anthology, is now available! I'm really excited about this publication, not only because I'm in it, but because I am humbled by the caliber of writers who also appear.

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Review: Scoundrel in the Thick by B.R. O’Hagan

Description (from Amazon.com) Colorado, 1882. When his best friend’s fiancée is kidnapped, an unlikely hero must battle robber barons, bandit gangs, the US Cavalry, and Cheyenne warriors to bring her home. Along the way he will also have to foil a plot to steal a country. Civil war hero and adventurer Thomas Scoundrel didn’t expect…
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