I’m shopping at Whole Foods when some crystal-encrusted New Ager with a weird-ass ring on every finger gives me the tsk tsk. I lift an eyebrow in a wordless question. “Your aura,” she explains to me, “is totally unstructured and spotted with black. You need a cleansing.” I look to my left and to my right, incredulous that the people around me aren’t dying in hilarity. I shrug and open my eReader to Echo. Magic flash. Strains of metal rip through the air—menemeneMEH, menemeneMEH—and tiny goblin-men assault the New Ager’s shopping cart, scarfing down granola and patchouli. One of them swings from her crystal necklace like tarzan and jams a miniature arm up her nose. She runs off screaming in horror.
Metal against crystals? Metal wins every time. Get Echo Vol. 1 on Kindle here: Vol. 1 on Kindle. Vol. 2 on Kindle here: Vol.2 on Kindle.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
This begs the question, WTH are you doing at Whole Foods?! Funny. Despite my disparaging remark yesterday on my blog about the genre in general, I like your writing because you have a great sense of humour about it. And, the hero always wins in funny ways.
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Haha Thanks! And Whole Foods, like spirituality, has great substance. But Whole Foods, again like spirituality, is populated by Annoying People!
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I actually laughed out loud at this line. Nice. “One of them swings from her crystal necklace like tarzan and jams a miniature arm up her nose.”
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😀
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I found saying to any folk who wish to impose beliefs on me “Thank you but I am a convert to Roman Catholicism. I wish you well,” confuses them into silence or (if they’ve read ‘Da Da Vinci Code’) backing off nervously
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Hahaha! The backing off nervously seems like quite the enjoyable side-effect!
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There’s nothing like tapping into the all pervading Celestial Sense of Humour
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Sometimes, though, it stings pretty freakin’ bad, haha!
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What do you expect when you walk into a Whole Foods? 🙂
I got your book Echo Vol. 1. Looking forward to reading it!
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Thank You So Much!!! It’s pretty dark! Hope that’s not a problem! 🙂
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Oh, no I like dark. The novel I’m getting ready to submit to agents is dark as…
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