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October 14, 2015
The Halloween 99-cent Sale Continues!
Just a reminder that the 99-cent eBook sale is still running!
For the entire month of October, you can purchase eBook versions of my paranormal mystery novels Testing the Prisoner and By Your Side for 99 cents directly from Smashwords. Our latest anthology, Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity, is also available for the same low price!
Simply click the links below to go to Smashwords and use the appropriate coupon codes when purchasing. Thank you for supporting independent and small press authors and Happy Halloween!
Testing the Prisoner – $0.99
Coupon Code: LA88N
Expires: November 1, 2015
By Your Side – $0.99
Coupon Code: PW44K
Expires: November 1, 2015
Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity – $0.99
Coupon Code: TY45L
Expires: November 1, 2015
October 12, 2015
The Conclusion of Steven H. Wilson’s “Of all the Animals”
The conclusion of Steven H. Wilson’s latest Arbiter Chronicles adventure is available for your FREE listening pleasure at Prometheus Radio Theatre!
The Arbiter Chronicles is a Mark Time and Parsec award-winning SF audio drama that spans over a dozen audio episodes, eight novellas, and two novels. Click here to check out the Arbiter Chronicles and other books by Steven H. Wilson on Amazon!
October 3, 2015
Halloween eBook Sale!
For the entire month of October, you can purchase eBook versions of my paranormal mystery novels Testing the Prisoner and By Your Side for 99 cents directly from Smashwords. Our latest anthology, Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity, is also available for the same low price!
Simply click the links below to go to Smashwords and use the appropriate coupon codes when purchasing. Thank you for supporting independent and small press authors and Happy Halloween!
Testing the Prisoner – $0.99
Coupon Code: LA88N
Expires: November 1, 2015
By Your Side – $0.99
Coupon Code: PW44K
Expires: November 1, 2015
Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity – $0.99
Coupon Code: TY45L
Expires: November 1, 2015
September 30, 2015
Get Eternity at a Discount!
The paperback version of our anthology, Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity is currently just $5.79 on Amazon. Not sure how long this price will last as Amazon likes to adjust prices without warning.
For your money, you will get 13 fantastic tales of Fantasy, Science Fiction and the Paranormal. Each story is accompanied by a black and white illustration by artist Mike Riehl who also created our amazing cover.
Thank you for supporting small press writers!
September 27, 2015
“Of All the Animals” Part III now available!
Part III of The Arbiter Chronicles episode, “Of All the Animals”, is now available for your FREE listening pleasure on Prometheus Radio Theatre. The Arbiter Chronicles is the award-winning SF audio drama created by Steven H. Wilson.
September 18, 2015
Free Stories on Wattpad!
You can sign up with a free account on Wattpad and read thousands of books and stories for free, including four of mine. I just posted “Water to Share”, a SF story originally published in Somewhere in the Middle of Eternity.
Click here to sign up for Wattpad and read the story!
You can also read “My New Shiny”, my urban fantasy tale published earlier this year in GLWVG Writes Stuff, the anthology published by the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group.
September 14, 2015
A New Arbiter Chronicles Adventure on Audio!
Steven H. Wilson’s Parsec and Mark Time award-winning SF audio series, The Arbiter Chronicles, returns with a new four-part story called, “Of All The Animals”.
If you enjoy reading and listening to beautifully written and thought-provoking science fiction, look no further than Steven H. Wilson’s Arbiter Chronicles series. The Arbiter Chronicles is a character-driven space opera in the tradition of Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones and Joss Whedon’s Firefly.
You can listen to parts one and two of the latest story for FREE on Prometheus Radio Theatre podcast!
Click here to listen to “Of All the Animals” Part One
Click here to listen to “Of All the Animals” Part Two
September 12, 2015
Reminder: Witches Day Out in Allentown, PA
As autumn approaches, it seems many are looking forward to Halloween–myself included!
To that end, I would like to remind everyone that I will be appearing at Witches Day Out, an event to take place in Allentown, PA on Saturday, October 24. I will have copies of all of my books available to sell and sign.
Where: Historic Benner Mansion, 25 S 15th St, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18102
When: Saturday, 24 October from Noon-4PM
What: Come join the fun!
Dress in your best witches costume or come as you are!
Looking for Divine Guidance or a message from a love one in spirit? Visit one of our Physic Mediums and card readers.
Shop a variety of vendor products.
Tricky Tray ~ Chinese Auction.
Vote for your favorite costume.
Free admission & Door Prizes.
Pneumonia, Keep on Walkin’!
Have not posted here in a while. Life has been busy with both successes and frustrations. Regarding the former, I am proud to announce that on September 4, I passed the first of two Microsoft exams needed for my certification in Office 365. Unfortunately, three days later I developed walking pneumonia, from which I am still recovering.
On the writing side, I completed and submitted an essay to the second volume of my local writers group anthology due out in 2016. I am now working on a short story for that book as well. Submissions are due October 24.
I also managed to finish a short story called “Break and Enter” for a paranormal series set in the mountains of North Carolina. All accepted submissions in this series will be first podcast as audio stories then collected into an anthology and published in print and ebook. I’m just awaiting feedback from critique partners then I plan to submit the story by end of September.
Once I kick this pneumonia, I will begin studying for the second Microsoft exam with an eye toward taking it before Thanksgiving.
That’s all for now. More updates to follow…
August 30, 2015
Book Review: Phoenix Without Ashes by Edward Bryant and Harlan Ellison
In an ultra-religious agrarian community known as Cypress Corners, young Devon has become an outcast not only for questioning authority, but also for falling in love with Rachel, a farmer’s daughter who has been betrothed to Garth, the local blacksmith. Garth and Devon had been friends since childhood, and since Rachel and Garth do not love one another, the blacksmith is all too happy to turn a blind eye toward the “secret”—and forbidden—romance.
While living out his temporary exile in the hills beyond the town, Devon survives on care packages brought by Rachel, who sneaks away from town after evening prayers. When his penance is complete, the town elders escort Devon back to Cypress Corners, expecting him to repent. Yet Devon remains recalcitrant and soon discovers that the Creator’s Machine, from which the Elders receive their instructions for leading the community, is broken. The Elders have since learned how to record their own orders into the machine and play them back at will.
After attacking the Elders and stealing the recording device, Devon tries to reason with Rachel and her parents, but they do not believe him. Knowing he will soon be arrested, Devon flees for the hills. While there, he discovers a portal that leads to a strange and wondrous place. Devon soon learns that he, and everyone in Cypress Corners, is aboard an ancient interstellar Earth vessel known as the Ark.
Upon finding a library computer, Devon learns that the Ark’s purpose was to transport millions of humans from a dying Earth to a new home across the galaxy—until an accident diverted the ship from its course and sent it on a path directly toward a star. If the Ark cannot be repaired and its course corrected, the ship and everyone aboard will be dead in five years.
This mysterious catastrophe, having occurred 400 years ago, also terminated communications between the thousands of communities aboard. As a result, no one in Cypress Corners is even aware of the other societies, or the truth about their very existence.
Can Devon convince the Elders of this new information and enlist their help in repairing the ship, or will they sentence him to a brutal end for his blasphemy?
Edward Bryant did an admirable job of adapting Harlan Ellison’s screenplay for The Starlost into the novelization. The chapters are brief, averaging about 5 pages, and the pacing is solid.
It would not be a Harlan Ellison book without an introduction as interesting as the story itself. This time, Harlan describes the debacle that ensued from the time he pitched The Starlost all the way through the ineptitude of the producers in marketing it, and their ignorance in utterly misinterpreting the series bible that they had pressed him into writing on an impossible deadline.
As a result of his experiences, and his dissatisfaction with the quality of the production, Harlan removed himself from the television project and demanded that his nom de plume, Cordwainer Bird, be used in the credits. Harlan was known to employ this pseudonym as a symbol of his objection to the mistreatment of his work by others.
