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February 11, 2022
What?!? Still Only How Much?!?
In this issue: Out of Due Season Information, A Word about the Sequel, New Posts, An Indie Author Program Review Selection (a review). Get Out of Due Season at the Lowest Price Out of Due Season: The First Transit was released on February 8, 2022 and will remain $0.99 through February 14th. Don’t miss out…
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February 10, 2022
Review: Gathering of the Four by A. E. Bennett – A 2022 Indie Author Review Selection
Description • The Review • Author Interview • More About the Author Description (from Amazon.com) “In the Realm, every citizen knows their place.” Leora of Mae is a young woman orphaned at birth and raised on a remote farm. As a wielder of Xanthcraft, her abilities set her apart from her adoptive family and the…
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February 8, 2022
The Genesis of a New World Begins…Today!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The genesis of a new world begins today! Out of Due Season: The First Transit is now available. Get your copy for $0.99 the first week. What if humanity had a second chance? On a June afternoon, a body is discovered floating in a remote lake in northwestern Washington. When a recovery…
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February 4, 2022
Four Days to Go (and Some Early Reviews)
We are just four days away from the release of Out of Due Season: The First Transit and the launch of the whole Transit series. That’s right: on February 8, 2022, the genesis of a new world begins. You’ll want to get in on the story of how it all started, because once the Transit…
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January 29, 2022
Review: The Chair Man by Alex Pearl
Description (from Amazon.com) Michael Hollinghurst is a successful corporate lawyer living a comfortable, suburban life in leafy North West London. But on 7 July 2005, his life is transformed when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. While most passengers in his carriage are killed, Michael survives the explosion but…
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January 28, 2022
Religiosity in Fiction
Religiosity in fiction covers a broad area. Religious cults and religions are not confined to horror or fantasy novels. They can, in fact, act as both antagonist and protagonist within any genre and certainly bring a different level of realism to the sci-fi thriller reading experience. I am sure that any reader can think of several examples…
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January 25, 2022
A Semi-Not-Horribly-Regular Newsletter #5
In this newsletter: Out of Due Season Preorder Information, New Posts, 2022 Indie Author Review Program Selections, This Past Few Week’s Work, news about the Transit series, and Recent Reads (a review). But first… Now through February 7th, you can enter to win one of 100 copies of Out of Due Season: The First Transit…
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In Just Two Weeks…
In this issue: Out of Due Season Preorder Information, New Posts, 2022 Indie Author Review Program Selections, This Past Few Week’s Work, and Recent Reads (a review). But first… Now through February 7th, you can enter to win one of 100 copies of Out of Due Season: The First Transit through Goodreads. Just click the…
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January 24, 2022
Review: Broken Pledges by Kevin Kilgarriff – A 2022 Indie Author Review Program Selection
Description • The Review • Author Interview • More About the Author Description (from Amazon.com) A Kappa Chi Rho pledge dead. A pledge brother investigated for murder. A father with a secret intent on proving his son’s innocence. Broken Pledges tells the story of how a father and son learn that they’re related by more…
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January 20, 2022
Research: Some Odd Findings
As writers, we joke about the research we do and what the NSA or CIA or INTERPOL or whatever other agency out there might think of us. Personally, I don’t really believe any of that. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve looked up how to [redacted] or fit a [redacted] into a…
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