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Hey there everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week and not boiling in this crazy heat wave on the west coast. Yikes! Its hot! But enough of that. This is yet another post about the audio project and updates. There's not a lot to update you on. 

I didn't have much time this week, but I did have a couple windows here and there where I could continue my audio projects. I just started reading through the ghost story Late Shift at Pennies and I am about a third through Warped. And wow. Warped is interesting. I know it's one of the first things I ever published right after high school, but now reading through it ten years later, I'm not only finding it as great as I believed it was back then. It it is a bit dull compared to stuff I typically write now. When I started reading it out loud my goal strictly was to fix errors, improve flow, add minor details when needed, and deleting unneeded text.  I did not and still do not want to change the essential story, because it is the product of an entirely different mindset back then than what I would  have written today. If I were to start completely rewriting certain parts of it, I would be rewriting the whole darn thing and it would not be the same story at all. But I'm finding I am cutting a bit more out than I intended. Many are jokes or useless goofy characters that I must have thought was at the time I original wrote it, but I now find very pointless and immature. So I don't know what will become of Warped by the end. This B movie style dinosaur scifi story may end up being a short story by the end of the audio recording re-read, and I may have to re-release it as such.  But again, that is what this who audio project is about. It isn't just about audio books. The audio books is a by product of the revision process. A year after college, I decided to really head back into all my book stuff, and found it was a little bit of a mess, and I am trying to make every thing better and the best they can be. 

But right now what's being posted is Part 3 of the audio version of the Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/eJJUbwJCpQc

And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/617148592-the...

And as always, if you enjoy this, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small  patreon. The links are below.

On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And this weekend there was a short story review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.

Harris Bergeron By Kurt Vorrengut
https://hubpages.com/literature/Harri...


And with all that said, I hope you enjoy what's here. And I will be back next Sunday for another post.

Hey everyone! I have fun update for today. Mainly, the penultimate episode in the audio version of The Island is up. So I hope you really enjoy that. The links are down below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCJ-...

If you do enjoy, and want to support, please do. You can support by :

Purchasing the ebook @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

or

Making a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And that is all I have to share this week. I hope to have more stuff to share soon. Have a great week everyone!

Hello there. I hope everyone is doing okay. I hope your safe and not are not melting from the heat wave. But once again there are some fun updates this week. There are two major things.

First of all, Lonesome Town has been revised and is now part of Kindle Unlimited program. So if you have a membership you can read it for free. In case you don't know what it is about I will post the synopsis down below.

When Kaylee dumped Jake she didn't know what he would do. She didn't know he would mope around in self pity and then take off to the mythical place called Lonesome Town, where broken hearts can be mended. But as Kaylee becomes increasingly worried about her friend she goes to find him. I her journey she learns Lonesome Town is a very sinister place that preys on its customers.

Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHC789L

It's free with Kindle Unlimited and $1.00 for Purchase.

The second thing I have to share is the grand finale of the audio version of The Island is now posted. So check that out if your interested. The link will be down below.

https://youtu.be/ahkhMTxtfG4

And remember if you enjoy these audio stories, please help support. You can do so two ways.

You can purchase the ebook version for $1.00 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

or

You can head to my patreon page and make a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921


And that is what I have for this week. I hope to have more fun stuff to share soon. I hope everyone has a good week!

Hi there. It's been a busy two weeks with my day job and just general bad luck. So I apologize for not sharing anything last week. I just didn't have the time to post or a lot to share. But I do have a little something to share this week. The first two parts of the Audio Story version of Alice: Winter's Tale are now posted on youtube. So if you want to listen to a fantasy about a gunslinging Alice in a dark Wonderland then check this out.

Youtube link for Alice: Winter's Story Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE5op...
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Youtube link for Alice: Winter's Story Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13k6j...
 
If you do enjoy, and want to support, please do. You can support by :

Purchasing the ebook
@ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KRF9KWQ
or

Making a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And that is all I have to share this week. I hope to have more stuff to share soon. Have a great week everyone!

Hey everyone! It’s time for another round of updates and I actually had some fun stuff to share this week. What is it? Well it’s the fact that a new anthology is published in ebook form. It’s called Nightmares & Dragonflies. It’s a collection of the last of the old short stories alongside a couple new ones. It will be the last one for a long while. I will need to have at least eight works to have for a new anthology. And I’m a little slow at getting new stories out there to have a collection any time soon. I will post the synopsis down below.

Mya is a dreamwalker and must take one more job her husband's soul. A teenager with super powers must journey through the frozen Alaskan darkness to save his sister. A young nurse learns her boyfriend is a vampire. Texas cop Trudy Dallas has the job of hunting zombies. A scientist dares to tear apart the fabric of the universe to return home. Two journalists rush into a city as it is being attacked by giant dragonflies to get the story of the lifetime. A traveling freak show must stop the apocalypse. A girl must save her friend after he is magically pulled into a book. Its collection of short stories stretching across all genres.

This collection of eight short stories includes:
- Ordinary World
- The Tall Man
- The Emergency Patient
- Trudy Dallas & the Walking Dead
- Alice: Khoza's Tale
- June Bug Vs The Dragonflies
- The Midnight Special: To Hell & Back
- Into the West

This ebook is $3.99 or FREE on Kindle Unlimited, Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XB783LP

Beyond that, the revision of Nel & the Tower of Spirits is making some progress. I’m a third of the way through. So hopefully in a month’s time, the tale will be completely revised and the new cleaner version will be enrolled into Kindle Unlimited.

And that is all I have to say share for this week. I hope you enjoy what I have to offer and I hope you all have a great week!

Hello there everyone! I wanted to update you all about what is going on.

First off, I am slowly working my way through polishing the final draft of the dark fantasy Once Upon a Time in Boston. And I am also revising an old silly spy story Sam & Miguel’s Run and a horror book Palm’s Inn for Kindle Unlimited enrollment. And all of this will be done when it’s done. Right now, I am working on all of this book stuff when time allows. Life has been very busy lately.

But beyond that, I wanted to do something to help advertise my stuff. Last summer I did weekly free short story promotions, and over the course of those months I gave away 111 short stories total. And I thought, “Why not do that this year again?” It may help me get some reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. And also, I have to honest here. I don’t make any money with these things. I wish I made more than pocket change and could make a living off of storytelling. But there is no sign of that ever happening in the near future. So why not run a bunch of free story promos so that people can have a chance to read them? It certainly couldn’t hurt.

Last week, I ran a promotion on the dark fantasy tale, Alice: Winter’s Story. And I think I will continue the promotions for the Alice series over the next couple of weeks. This week, the free short story will be Alice: Stone’s Story. It’s about a different Alice set in the same dark Wonderland. I will post the synopsis down below.

Alice: Stone’s Story
Wonderland is broken, and every Alice who stumbles in is trapped in a nightmare world. Some Alices become fighters. Other becomes con artists scrapping by. Alice Stone is a coward. An ex card soldier for the Red Queen, who is running from her captures hoping to find somewhere safe. But when she reaches Diamond City, the last free city of Wonderland, she will have to find her courage to survive.

This story will be FREE on Kindle from May 26th to May 30th. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC

And that is what I have to share this week. I hope you enjoy this news. And I hope you all have a great week. I will be back blogging more soon.

Hello there everyone! I wanted to update you all about what is going on.

First off, I am slowly working my way through polishing the final draft of the dark fantasy Once Upon a Time in Boston. And I am also revising an old silly spy story Sam & Miguel’s Run and a horror book Palm’s Inn for Kindle Unlimited enrollment. And all of this will be done when it’s done. Right now, I am working on all of this book stuff when time allows. Life has been very busy lately.

But beyond that, I wanted to do something to help advertise my stuff. Last summer I did weekly free short story promotions, and over the course of those months I gave away 111 short stories total. And I thought, “Why not do that this year again?” It may help me get some reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. And also, I have to honest here. I don’t make any money with these things. I wish I made more than pocket change and could make a living off of storytelling. But there is no sign of that ever happening in the near future. So why not run a bunch of free story promos so that people can have a chance to read them? It certainly couldn’t hurt.

Last week, I ran a promotion on the dark fantasy tale, Alice: Winter’s Story. And I think I will continue the promotions for the Alice series over the next couple of weeks. This week, the free short story will be Alice: Stone’s Story. It’s about a different Alice set in the same dark Wonderland. I will post the synopsis down below.

Alice: Stone’s Story
Wonderland is broken, and every Alice who stumbles in is trapped in a nightmare world. Some Alices become fighters. Other becomes con artists scrapping by. Alice Stone is a coward. An ex card soldier for the Red Queen, who is running from her captures hoping to find somewhere safe. But when she reaches Diamond City, the last free city of Wonderland, she will have to find her courage to survive.

This story will be FREE on Kindle from May 26th to May 30th. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC

And that is what I have to share this week. I hope you enjoy this news. And I hope you all have a great week. I will be back blogging more soon.

Hello there again. Seems like I have finally returned to the weekly update blog schedule.
And what do I have to share this week?
I hoped to have more updates on the progress of Once Upon a Time in Boston, but I really don’t. I was very busy for the first part of this week. Then power went out on a stormy Tuesday night, and I started writing down a story in a notebook to kill time in the dark. It’s a fantastical scifi tale about a rich kid trying to run away from his crazy family on Mars and having to deal with this aliens, betrayals, and a possible war. It’s something that was real fun to write, and for much of the week when time allowed, I continued to work on that instead of Once Upon a Time in Boston. I was afraid if I didn’t stick with it and draft out some ideas, then the concept may be lost as I shift my focus back to other things. So that was my week. I am getting back on track now though. I dove back into editing Boston again last night and the editing will continue from here on out. I promise. I am scatterbrained when it comes to working on all this, and sometimes things just derail from time to time. But projects do get finished strangely enough, so it’s definitely is coming.

But it is not all disappointment, because the free story giveaways are continuing. This week is another Alice short story. This one follows an African scientist who is willing to tear apart the fabric of the space time continuum to get back home. I’ll post the complete synopsis below.

Before stumbling into Wonderland, Alice Khoza was a brilliant scientist. Now she's an outcast trying to find a way back home and to her loving husband. But after spending so long tinkering and inventing in this new world of non-sense, she thinks she has found a way home. It won't be easy though. Alice will have to steal a trident from a notorious evil clan of Hatters and use it to channel magic in the far north to rip a hole in between the worlds of Wonderland and Earth. The probability of making it back home is low, but Alice is going to give it her best go.

This is a short story will be free on Kindle from June 2nd to June 6th. Grab your copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QM5SG5M

And that this what I have for this week. I really hope to have more exciting stuff to share soon. I hope you all have a great week, and if you live in the United States, have a great memorial day!

Hello everyone. It’s been another week and there is another round of updates. So let’s get started.

So what news do I have this week? Well the very old spy story, Sam & Miguel’s Run, has some improvements. It’s been revised. The cover has been reworked. And now it has officially been shuffled on Kindle Unlimited where it can be read for FREE. You can check it out at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7VRFQ6 .


Also there’s one more month of the summer of free ebooks. This week the FREE story will be Lonesome Town. I’ll post the synopsis below.

When Kaylee dumped Jake she didn't know what he would do. She didn't know he would mope around in self-pity and then take off to the mythical place called Lonesome Town, where broken hearts can be mended. But as Kaylee becomes increasingly worried about her friend she goes to find him. In her journey she learns Lonesome Town is a very sinister place that preys on its customers.

This is will be Free on Kindle from July 28th to Aug 1st. You can grab your copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHC789L .


And that is what I have for this week. I hope you enjoy what I have to offer and hope you have a great week! Will be blogging again soon!