Gordy has a problem. His girlfriend, Poppy Nicole, wants to meet him in REALITY (TM). That’s the premise of the comic sci-fi novel, Rate Me Red. It’s the year 2043 and Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, reality television and Ebay have all merged into the VidNet. Everyone and anyone can have a VidNet show, but it’s the people who . . .
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Cul de Sac Blues is a continuing series about life in a suburban cul-de-sac. Follow the ups and downs of day-to-day life and meet the various characters who inhabit this peculiar piece of the suburban landscape. . . .
Gordy has a problem. His girlfriend, Poppy Nicole, wants to meet him in REALITY (TM). That’s the premise of the comic sci-fi novel, Rate Me Red. It’s the year 2043 and Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, reality television and Ebay have all merged into the VidNet. Everyone and anyone can have a VidNet show, but it’s the people who . . .
44 BC: Julius Caesar survives assassination attempt. 410 AD: Romans repel King Alaric I. 1010 AD: Albinus Gordian is elected Emperor and begins a new age of environmentalism in the Roman Empire. Global Warming is happening, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try to stop it. Spanish anchorman turned international reporter Joe Body is setting out . . .
Joe works the night shift at a government train corporation in New York. Jason monitors surveillance cameras in the San Francisco Bay Area for the Department of Homeland Security. The thing connecting them? The subject of Joe’s adoration and Jason’s surveillance: a college student whose casual purchase of a book from craigslist becomes the catalyst for an insane adventure across . . .
Follow the day-to-day world of the recently (semi) retired Grim Reaper, now residing in Manhattan. An offbeat and twisted serial that takes place both on Earth as well as the Afterlife. . . .
The Prodigals follows the lives of four troubled young men in Manchester – Brian, Howard, Declan and the novel’s anti-hero, Travis McGuiggan. It’s a book about friendship, religion, drinking, cruelty and love. It’s also a book about leaving home and returning. . . .
A serial about a busser, Nicholas Jeff, dealing with the stupidity and foolishness of Shelly Sholes Restaurant. . . .
The comings and goings in a rapidly gentrifying tenement building in lower Manhattan. . . .
I have well over 100 published short stories to my credit and you can also toss in appearances in fifteen major anthologies around the world (including a number of “Best Of . . . ” volumes). I love the short story format and coming back to it this summer after spending the four years previous working on my “Ilium” novel cycle was exciting and . . .
The misadventures of a sleazy, formerly rich protagonist trying to regain the wealthy status he once had. . . .
Suzie is a waitress at an Atlanta country club, whose members harass and abuse her. She’s got skateboarding, graffiti-spraying roommates, a dishonest mechanic boyfriend, an intense hatred for bad drivers, and a superhero complex. She hates her job, reviles her bosses, is starting to think less of her roommates, and even suspects her boyfriend. And then things get worse when . . .
This is a comic novel about graduating from college into a recession. It’s meant to appeal to fans of Catch-22. I’m now a professional journalist and published non-fiction author, but I wrote this novel during a period of underemployment following college graduation. I managed to get it in the door with two publishers, but both gave me the same . . .
My favourite story in this collection "Printed Matter" has a distinctive format: it takes the form of a series of letters from a recluse to the editor of his favourite mail order book company – and with each letter it becomes more and more apparent that at least one of them is very, very, scarily sick! You really wonder [more . . .]
As I write this, I’m currently at Chapter 3 of this completed web novel, but it has been fairly humorous so far.
I suppose part of what I have been enjoying is that it does resonate with me on a personal level. Unfortunately not the campaigning for tree frogs because I [more . . .]