G.W. Pomichter's Blog
August 10, 2015
"The Lucky Marks Mysteries" Case Files: The Philandering Fella
It was 7:30am on a hot August morning. The alarm clock rang out, murdering a restful night’s sleep. A knock at the door seemed to echo through his one room loft apartment and office.
Will slowly sat up from the sofa where he’d laid all night. He rotated his legs to one side as if they were weighted — first one and then the other. The rhythmic knocking continued and hastened.
“I’ll be right there!” Will said as he stood abruptly, shaking the final moments of his slumber from his muscular shoulders.
As he passed by his desk, he pulled from its top a half full coffee cup, and smelling it first as if to test it, he took a sip and placed the cup on the side of a small sink that appeared to jet from wall of the room. As he turned the sink on, he reached behind him to the doorknob that was just behind him to the left, turned the knob and opened the door dismissively.
“Good morning, sleepy head,” said the bouncy Molly as she walked happily into the room.
Molly had been coming by each morning almost without exception since Lucky had left the police force and moved from his apartment into the office flat. Each day she brought Will a fresh cup of coffee and a cardboard take out container in a plain brown paper bag, filled with eggs and bacon from the corner drug store.
As she had done hundreds of times it seemed, she swept through the door while Lucky washed his hands and face, and placed the plain paper bag on the desk. She proceeded to walk to the sofa, pick up the blankets Lucky had laid beneath, folded them and placed them gently on top of a steel filing cabinet in the corner of the room.
“What’s up today, William?” She asked cheerfully.
Lucky turned from the sink and passed Molly as he reached into a pile of clothes on top of an end table near the sofa and grabbed a clean shirt.
“The same as yesterday,” he said half-heartedly, holding up his shirt before he put it on. “Just doing somebody else’s laundry.”
A few months after leaving the police force, Will had applied and been granted a license as a private investigator by the city. The past several months since hadn’t been exactly the life he thought it would be.
Most of his clients were middle-aged men or women, looking for an estranged spouse or sibling that had disappeared quite intentionally. Some were jilted lovers or wives and husbands suspecting unfaithful partners. The work was more jading than adventurous.
“Nope,” said Molly. “Today is going to be the day you get a big case. I just know it. At least you’re not stuck in the basement digging up old ‘perp files’ for that ritzy robbery case they’ve all been figuring.”
Lucky finished dressing and searched from the coat rack to the table top for his favorite tie. Finding it rolled up on the corner desk, he wrapped it around his neck and began to fumble with it.
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Will slowly sat up from the sofa where he’d laid all night. He rotated his legs to one side as if they were weighted — first one and then the other. The rhythmic knocking continued and hastened.
“I’ll be right there!” Will said as he stood abruptly, shaking the final moments of his slumber from his muscular shoulders.
As he passed by his desk, he pulled from its top a half full coffee cup, and smelling it first as if to test it, he took a sip and placed the cup on the side of a small sink that appeared to jet from wall of the room. As he turned the sink on, he reached behind him to the doorknob that was just behind him to the left, turned the knob and opened the door dismissively.
“Good morning, sleepy head,” said the bouncy Molly as she walked happily into the room.
Molly had been coming by each morning almost without exception since Lucky had left the police force and moved from his apartment into the office flat. Each day she brought Will a fresh cup of coffee and a cardboard take out container in a plain brown paper bag, filled with eggs and bacon from the corner drug store.
As she had done hundreds of times it seemed, she swept through the door while Lucky washed his hands and face, and placed the plain paper bag on the desk. She proceeded to walk to the sofa, pick up the blankets Lucky had laid beneath, folded them and placed them gently on top of a steel filing cabinet in the corner of the room.
“What’s up today, William?” She asked cheerfully.
Lucky turned from the sink and passed Molly as he reached into a pile of clothes on top of an end table near the sofa and grabbed a clean shirt.
“The same as yesterday,” he said half-heartedly, holding up his shirt before he put it on. “Just doing somebody else’s laundry.”
A few months after leaving the police force, Will had applied and been granted a license as a private investigator by the city. The past several months since hadn’t been exactly the life he thought it would be.
Most of his clients were middle-aged men or women, looking for an estranged spouse or sibling that had disappeared quite intentionally. Some were jilted lovers or wives and husbands suspecting unfaithful partners. The work was more jading than adventurous.
“Nope,” said Molly. “Today is going to be the day you get a big case. I just know it. At least you’re not stuck in the basement digging up old ‘perp files’ for that ritzy robbery case they’ve all been figuring.”
Lucky finished dressing and searched from the coat rack to the table top for his favorite tie. Finding it rolled up on the corner desk, he wrapped it around his neck and began to fumble with it.
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August 2, 2015
July 24, 2015
Indie Authors Converge on Orlando for IBF 2015
Orlando, FL — From July 31 until August 2, 2015 central Florida Independent authors will descend on Orlando’s Caribe Royale Hotel for Indie BookFest 2015.
The Indie BookFest event is designed to showcase self-published and independent authors to readers and consumers, while providing opportunities to network with artists, cover designers, editors, online bloggers and other professionals from the independent publishing community.
The number of independent authors and other professionals who are unaffiliated with traditional publishing companies and venues has been on the rise in recent years due in no small part to the shift in costs associated with self-publishing via the internet. Services like KDP, an Amazon direct to e-book platform, Draft2Digital, another e-book platform and Amazon’s CreateSpace™ Publishing, a print on demand service, have introduced relatively simple, user friendly and inexpensive ways for writers and other artists to bring their books, music and even movies directly to consumer audiences worldwide.
“Technology in this case is setting artists free from the constraints of the past,” said author G.W. Pomichter. “Print on Demand and e-book formats have opened the market and given every writer access to the printing presses that used to be controlled by a handful of business interests. It is a re-inventing of the printing press, and it really is quite extraordinary.”
Indie BookFest is an opportunity for these entrepreneurs to showcase their work and to meet with potential readers as well as each other to celebrate what some like Pomichter say is a revolution in the artistic community.
Traditional publishing paths have customarily been difficult to break into and have been largely governed by very strict business performance standards, giving stockholders and professional business interests a greater influence over artistic projects. But in the Internet age, and with greater technological access to print on demand services, new sales channels and distribution models, and even social media platforms to build and grow audiences, independent artists from film makers to authors are seeing a renaissance of opportunity.
Indie Bookfest is both a celebration of this phenomenon and an exercise in marketing these artists to the general public.
“It is a very exciting time to be an indie author,” said BookFest attendee and Author of the Submit to Darkness erotic thriller series, AJ Spencer. “It is a time when artists can control their own work. It is a time when a writer has to be more. We have to be part creator and part marketer and part entrepreneur.”
Spencer will be joined by more than 80 other independent authors from throughout Florida and around the country, including many first time authors. The gathering will feature Keynote Speaker and best selling independent author, Jana Oliver, and a number of panel discussions for both writers and readers.
One of the most exciting portions of the 3-day event is a FREE author book signing event hosted from 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday August 1, 2015.
For information: visit the website: indiebookfestcon.com
The Indie BookFest event is designed to showcase self-published and independent authors to readers and consumers, while providing opportunities to network with artists, cover designers, editors, online bloggers and other professionals from the independent publishing community.
The number of independent authors and other professionals who are unaffiliated with traditional publishing companies and venues has been on the rise in recent years due in no small part to the shift in costs associated with self-publishing via the internet. Services like KDP, an Amazon direct to e-book platform, Draft2Digital, another e-book platform and Amazon’s CreateSpace™ Publishing, a print on demand service, have introduced relatively simple, user friendly and inexpensive ways for writers and other artists to bring their books, music and even movies directly to consumer audiences worldwide.
“Technology in this case is setting artists free from the constraints of the past,” said author G.W. Pomichter. “Print on Demand and e-book formats have opened the market and given every writer access to the printing presses that used to be controlled by a handful of business interests. It is a re-inventing of the printing press, and it really is quite extraordinary.”
Indie BookFest is an opportunity for these entrepreneurs to showcase their work and to meet with potential readers as well as each other to celebrate what some like Pomichter say is a revolution in the artistic community.
Traditional publishing paths have customarily been difficult to break into and have been largely governed by very strict business performance standards, giving stockholders and professional business interests a greater influence over artistic projects. But in the Internet age, and with greater technological access to print on demand services, new sales channels and distribution models, and even social media platforms to build and grow audiences, independent artists from film makers to authors are seeing a renaissance of opportunity.
Indie Bookfest is both a celebration of this phenomenon and an exercise in marketing these artists to the general public.
“It is a very exciting time to be an indie author,” said BookFest attendee and Author of the Submit to Darkness erotic thriller series, AJ Spencer. “It is a time when artists can control their own work. It is a time when a writer has to be more. We have to be part creator and part marketer and part entrepreneur.”
Spencer will be joined by more than 80 other independent authors from throughout Florida and around the country, including many first time authors. The gathering will feature Keynote Speaker and best selling independent author, Jana Oliver, and a number of panel discussions for both writers and readers.
One of the most exciting portions of the 3-day event is a FREE author book signing event hosted from 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday August 1, 2015.
For information: visit the website: indiebookfestcon.com
July 22, 2015
Florida indie author launches new ‘Who-Done-It’ at “Indie Book Fest” in Orlando
MELBOURNE, FL — Independent author G.W. Pomichter is pleased to announce his newest book, “Lot 28” set for release on July 29, 2015.
“Lot 28” is a sequel to Pomichter’s homage to classic noir, “Lucky,” which has soared to success since its June 2014 release. “Lucky” has sat in Amazon’s top 100 several times during 2014/15, and has gathered a significant social media following.
“Lot 28” follows Pomichter’s William Lucky Marks character on another murder mystery case, this time set in 1950’s Hollywood.
G.W. Pomichter describes the novella as a look at the more classic mystery “who-done-it” genre.
“It is always fun to write a story with such amazing roots in modern literature,” Pomichter said. “When we first read ‘Lucky,’ we are taken on a very nostalgic journey into the darker noir fiction of the 1930s and 40s. With ‘Lot 28,’ I really wanted to have a bit of fun with the “who-done-it” style familiar from ‘Clue’ or ‘And Then There Were None.’”
Pomichter summarizes the story, writing:
“In the summer of 1953, Private Investigator, Will “Lucky” Marks, was working as the in-house private eye for Arcane Pacific Pictures. That’s the summer when famed director Allister Walters was brutally stabbed to death on the scene of his last blockbuster hit mystery, the 1953 noir cult classic, “Witness to the Act.” Lucky is on the scene, and is pulled into this deliciously, deceitful drama of Hollywood film-making. Trapped inside the studio with the killer, Lucky must sort through arcane stereotypes, and challenge common perceptions of the time, as well as his own prejudices in order to sort through the gossip, innuendo and intrigue, to find the killer before time runs out. This movie murder mystery will pit Lucky against some of the most deceitful creatures on earth: movie stars.”
Pomichter claims that “Lot 28” was written to stand alone as its own story, but that fans and readers of “Lucky” will still get enough to demonstrate the connection between the two books.
“In this story, we get to see that Lucky suffers some consequences of the first book,” Pomichter said. “He isn’t as prepared as he should be for this case, because of his impatience in the first story. It means it takes a bit longer for him to fit the pieces together. Of course we also reference characters from book one, and some of our visual descriptions are meant to evoke images from the first as well. But in all, set as a different kind of story on the precipice of a different era, ‘Lot28’ stands by itself.”
“Lot 28” will be released in both e-book and in paperback at online book stores: Amazon Barnes & Noble, Apple’s popular iBooks, Kobo, Scrib’d and GooglePlay on July 29, 2015.
G.W. Pomichter will debut the book in paperback at the 2015 Indie Book Fest from July 31 thru August 2 at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida. For more information about Indie Book Fest, visit http://www.indiebookfestcon.com on the internet.
For information about “Lot 28” or Author G.W. Pomichter, visit http://gwpomichter.wix.com/gw-pomichter on the web.
Contact G.W. Pomichter by e-mail at gwpomichter@gmail.com
“Lot 28” is a sequel to Pomichter’s homage to classic noir, “Lucky,” which has soared to success since its June 2014 release. “Lucky” has sat in Amazon’s top 100 several times during 2014/15, and has gathered a significant social media following.
“Lot 28” follows Pomichter’s William Lucky Marks character on another murder mystery case, this time set in 1950’s Hollywood.
G.W. Pomichter describes the novella as a look at the more classic mystery “who-done-it” genre.
“It is always fun to write a story with such amazing roots in modern literature,” Pomichter said. “When we first read ‘Lucky,’ we are taken on a very nostalgic journey into the darker noir fiction of the 1930s and 40s. With ‘Lot 28,’ I really wanted to have a bit of fun with the “who-done-it” style familiar from ‘Clue’ or ‘And Then There Were None.’”
Pomichter summarizes the story, writing:
“In the summer of 1953, Private Investigator, Will “Lucky” Marks, was working as the in-house private eye for Arcane Pacific Pictures. That’s the summer when famed director Allister Walters was brutally stabbed to death on the scene of his last blockbuster hit mystery, the 1953 noir cult classic, “Witness to the Act.” Lucky is on the scene, and is pulled into this deliciously, deceitful drama of Hollywood film-making. Trapped inside the studio with the killer, Lucky must sort through arcane stereotypes, and challenge common perceptions of the time, as well as his own prejudices in order to sort through the gossip, innuendo and intrigue, to find the killer before time runs out. This movie murder mystery will pit Lucky against some of the most deceitful creatures on earth: movie stars.”
Pomichter claims that “Lot 28” was written to stand alone as its own story, but that fans and readers of “Lucky” will still get enough to demonstrate the connection between the two books.
“In this story, we get to see that Lucky suffers some consequences of the first book,” Pomichter said. “He isn’t as prepared as he should be for this case, because of his impatience in the first story. It means it takes a bit longer for him to fit the pieces together. Of course we also reference characters from book one, and some of our visual descriptions are meant to evoke images from the first as well. But in all, set as a different kind of story on the precipice of a different era, ‘Lot28’ stands by itself.”
“Lot 28” will be released in both e-book and in paperback at online book stores: Amazon Barnes & Noble, Apple’s popular iBooks, Kobo, Scrib’d and GooglePlay on July 29, 2015.
G.W. Pomichter will debut the book in paperback at the 2015 Indie Book Fest from July 31 thru August 2 at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida. For more information about Indie Book Fest, visit http://www.indiebookfestcon.com on the internet.
For information about “Lot 28” or Author G.W. Pomichter, visit http://gwpomichter.wix.com/gw-pomichter on the web.
Contact G.W. Pomichter by e-mail at gwpomichter@gmail.com
