Tag: Scifi
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Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
I’m at a hot dog eating contest and I’m shoving weiners down my throat as fast as possible (take all the cheap shots you want; that’s the reason I wrote that line). Everyone’s cheering, sweat’s pouring down my neck, and I swear that I just felt my face bubble up with three new pimples. These same…
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Thank You Recent Echo Purchaser!!!
I wake up and LO! I see that someone bought a copy of Echo Volume 1 yesterday! Whoever that was…Thank You! Just FYI, I’m currently re-editing Echo 1 for it’s paperback release. Soon I’ll have a version that’s not so damn clunky as the one out there right now. Nonetheless, Big Thank You to whoever…
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Palamades Publishing: Get your fix of poetry, ghosts, and soon…giant robots. That’s right: Giant robots motha duckas!
I’m in a coffee shop, talking myself through some story events, and I say the politically incorrect thing AGAIN! (This time it was something about limiting the number of gender pronouns to under a million.) And guess what: motha duckin’ Social Justice Warriors heard me a few yards away. I tip my table up just in time—hundreds…
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Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
We are the ragged few, the last band of resistors against Grammar Nazi Prime, and whaddaya know, in this ad GNP is none other than…Palpatine. We are forced to kneel before him, hands behind our backs, as he presses us with his Dark Side skills to get us to pick up red pens and start…
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Echo: The Weekly Update
Word Count, Vol.4: 126,133 Thanks to All Who Bought Echo! And BIG THANKS to Melissa, Barbara, Ian, Lorna, [anonymous], Lisa, Meg, Matt, Bobby, F.T., Alice Smith, Leslie Coop, Richard, Shauna, Sydney, Pam, Jessica, Angela, Kiesa, Ross, Keith, Alice and Daina for posting AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!! Ashley too for the 5 star on Nook! I’d…
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Palamades Publishing: Get your fix of poetry, ghosts, and soon…giant robots. That’s right: Giant robots motha duckas!
“Did she see us?” I’m crouched behind a counter in a darkened laboratory, trying to regulate my strained breathing. The question is meant for Bitefighter, my faithful 10 lb. terrier. He lifts his mustachioed face towards mine, and gives a me a grave, “Rowf!” Before I can say anything more, the lab door slams open. The…
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Echo 1 is coming in paperback and other tidbits
Echo 1 is coming in paperback!!! Palamedes publishing will be in charge of the physical stuff. Big changes in Kent Wayne’s routine, so let me give you an impromptu update. First off, Palamedes needs me to give Echo 1 a once-over before they send it to their editor. Editor’s gonna take a look at it and…
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Echo’s First Appearance in a Magazine!!!
I remember being told months ago in an interview that Echo would be given a little ad space in a hard copy magazine…and it’s happened! Check it out here: Echo’s first appearance in Scaffolding Magazine Thank You So Much Ellie Maloney!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
CATS!!! Hordes of the little motha duckas are chasing me and Bitefighter, my loyal 10 lb. terrier (he fights with bites, for those of you who were wondering) through the streets of San Francisco. We’re engaged in a frantic version of man-dog parkour, trying to escape legions of howling felines. Suddenly, a blocking force of…
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Echo: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
As I walk down a dimly lit street, a torrent of rain patters off the brim of my fedora. I lean against the cracked facade of a brownstone, cup my hand around a smoke, and light up. From a few yards away, I hear: “Can I get one a’ those?” I look up and see…
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