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Update on Fried Windows
It's official, the release date for Fried Windows (In A Light White Sauce) is set for May 30, 2014. As the excitement builds I have been toying with the idea of a prequel as well as a sequel. As some of my fans know, I have a number of books and several of them include Brent Woods, the main character in Fried Windows.
Brent is an alter ego for me in many ways, the guy I wasn't but could have been - not sure I would have wanted to be him, though. Like me, Brent grew up in west central Ohio, on a farm near South Charleston. He went away to college first in Indiana and then in Texas. Although there is a great deal of deviation from my actual life, there are parallels up to that point, at least... and some similarities. Like me Brent joins the Air Force and worked in military intelligence. Unlike me, a super secret government agency recruits Brent during college to enter a elite force of spies known as The Program.
How Brent connects into many of my other books is through his teenage friendship with a musician, Lee Anders Johnston. Lee first appears in One Over X. He marries Caroline Henderson, heir to Joseph Henderson's industrial empire and sister of Andrew L. Hunter, her adopted brother. Anyway, that is how Brent knows both Lee and Andy. Although Brent appears in One Over X, he is not a major character. However his role in the overall storyline of my fan sty worlds is significant.
Brent is a straddler. He is a hybrid humanoid who can exist in two worlds, one outside the veils of reality and one inside. Straddlers have dual existences and usually, early on in their lives, their connections tow both worlds is severed as each part of his or her internal nature becomes resolved and distinct.
Each part of a straddlers being is a different persona. In Brent's case, in the inside, or Inworld, he is Carlos, Lord of Bartoul. In the outside, or Outworld, he is Brent. In Fried Windows, Brent is a middle aged computer technician working for a retailer.
As the story begins he is delivering a computer system to an elderly lady named Mrs. Fields, who is not exactly who or what she seems to be. The confusion begins when Brent meets Lucy who claims to know him well and calls him Carlos, then seems disappointed that he doesn't remember her at all.
In the course of editing Fried Windows and working on a sequel it became clear to me that there is a lot of meat left on the bones of Brent's back story. And so I have decided to feather in a details of Brent's past relationship with Lucy, as Carlos of Bartoul, in the inside while also telling the story of Brent's early life as a seven and eight year old farm boy who originally went by his first name, Elliot.
For all the readers in the world, the telling of Brent's story will begin with Fried Windows, due out in a couple of months.
In other news, my second novel with Pandamoon Publishing, Becoming Thuperman, has a target release date of April 30, 2015. BT has only eh most tangential connection to the entire Brent saga. The idea came from one of my other manuscripts about Brent's first semester at college, when Brent claims to have been a cape less crusader who talks with a lisp. The only other connection with the rest of Brent's fantasy universe is the main BT character's mother who grew up with one of the subordinate characters in One Over X and The Wolfcat Chronicles, Terry Harper.
Becoming Thuperman is about a couple of eight year old kids, a boy named Will and a girl named Sandra, who are best friends spending a summer together in Normal, Illinois. It is also about a supposedly haunted house on their street where an old maid (presumed witch) and her brother live. The house is guarded by a vicious dog. And the story has a lot to do about making the local little league. In the course of the story Will and Sandra begin to discover their supper hero powers that help them not only in playing baseball but also in some very unexpected ways.
Brent is an alter ego for me in many ways, the guy I wasn't but could have been - not sure I would have wanted to be him, though. Like me, Brent grew up in west central Ohio, on a farm near South Charleston. He went away to college first in Indiana and then in Texas. Although there is a great deal of deviation from my actual life, there are parallels up to that point, at least... and some similarities. Like me Brent joins the Air Force and worked in military intelligence. Unlike me, a super secret government agency recruits Brent during college to enter a elite force of spies known as The Program.
How Brent connects into many of my other books is through his teenage friendship with a musician, Lee Anders Johnston. Lee first appears in One Over X. He marries Caroline Henderson, heir to Joseph Henderson's industrial empire and sister of Andrew L. Hunter, her adopted brother. Anyway, that is how Brent knows both Lee and Andy. Although Brent appears in One Over X, he is not a major character. However his role in the overall storyline of my fan sty worlds is significant.
Brent is a straddler. He is a hybrid humanoid who can exist in two worlds, one outside the veils of reality and one inside. Straddlers have dual existences and usually, early on in their lives, their connections tow both worlds is severed as each part of his or her internal nature becomes resolved and distinct.
Each part of a straddlers being is a different persona. In Brent's case, in the inside, or Inworld, he is Carlos, Lord of Bartoul. In the outside, or Outworld, he is Brent. In Fried Windows, Brent is a middle aged computer technician working for a retailer.
As the story begins he is delivering a computer system to an elderly lady named Mrs. Fields, who is not exactly who or what she seems to be. The confusion begins when Brent meets Lucy who claims to know him well and calls him Carlos, then seems disappointed that he doesn't remember her at all.
In the course of editing Fried Windows and working on a sequel it became clear to me that there is a lot of meat left on the bones of Brent's back story. And so I have decided to feather in a details of Brent's past relationship with Lucy, as Carlos of Bartoul, in the inside while also telling the story of Brent's early life as a seven and eight year old farm boy who originally went by his first name, Elliot.
For all the readers in the world, the telling of Brent's story will begin with Fried Windows, due out in a couple of months.
In other news, my second novel with Pandamoon Publishing, Becoming Thuperman, has a target release date of April 30, 2015. BT has only eh most tangential connection to the entire Brent saga. The idea came from one of my other manuscripts about Brent's first semester at college, when Brent claims to have been a cape less crusader who talks with a lisp. The only other connection with the rest of Brent's fantasy universe is the main BT character's mother who grew up with one of the subordinate characters in One Over X and The Wolfcat Chronicles, Terry Harper.
Becoming Thuperman is about a couple of eight year old kids, a boy named Will and a girl named Sandra, who are best friends spending a summer together in Normal, Illinois. It is also about a supposedly haunted house on their street where an old maid (presumed witch) and her brother live. The house is guarded by a vicious dog. And the story has a lot to do about making the local little league. In the course of the story Will and Sandra begin to discover their supper hero powers that help them not only in playing baseball but also in some very unexpected ways.
