J. Alan Erwine

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J. Alan Erwine

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Born
in Akron, The United States
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Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Simmons, Kafka, Camus

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November 2007

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J Alan Erwine is a science fiction writer and editor with more than 40 short stories sold to date. In addition, he has three short story collections currently available. He has written three novels, The Opium of the People, Red Moon Rising, and his third novel, A Problem in Translation will be released on March 1st, 2012.

As an editor, J has edited more than a dozen books for such publishers as ProMart Publishing, Sam's Dot Publishing, and Nomadic Delirium Press. He also does freelance editing in his free time...ha ha...

He is also the co-designer of the Ephemeris Science Fiction Role Playing Game.
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Average rating: 4.03 · 73 ratings · 20 reviews · 109 distinct works
Seedlings on the Solar Wind...

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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The Opium of the People

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Ecotastrophe II

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Future Syndicate

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Red Moon Rising

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A new RPG

Thanksgiving has come and gone. Since my wife had to work that day, I spent the day working at home, and what did I do? Well, of course I started work on a brand new RPG. This one, I think, is going to be quite a bit different than the previous four I've created. I took inspiration for this one from a Tik-Tok dragon puppeteer. We had originally talked about doing a card game, and we still might, b

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J. added a status update: It's been quite a while since I've been here. Take a look at http://www.jalanerwine.com I've released lots of books since I was last here.
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J. My new novel, Red Moon Rising is now available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and as an e-book at Smashwords.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/book...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982897588
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...


message 8: by Simon

Simon Thanks for seeking me out, J.


message 7: by J.

J. Please feel free to read the first chapter of my new novel, Red Moon Rising. You can read it at http://www.jalanerwine.com/rmrch1.htm.

The book was released February 1st by Sam's Dot Publishing.


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Jeremy Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.com/signe...


Jeremy Hi J!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)


message 3: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:13PM)

Jeremy Thanks so much for sharing! I've never read Hyperion, so I'll definitely check it out.

Happytimes,
Jeremy :)


message 2: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:07PM)

Jeremy Howdy!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)


message 1: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:57PM)

Jeremy Hi J! Thanks for the friendship! If you end up checking out any of my work, I'd love to hear what you think.

And here’s wishing you a fantastic day full of first-rate fates, fascinating flavors, and famous fire-eating ferret faeries.

-Jeremy :)


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