Lou Cadle's Blog

 My audiobook for the Oil Apocalypse book, Desolated is on sale now.

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 Hello, fans! I've been writing, but not as Lou Cadle, the past two years. Seven screenplays and five books in other pen names, so definitely working. I continue to have fond memories of the good years as Lou and the connections I made with fans.

I read a terrific book this month that might be of interest to post-apocalyptic readers and writers. It is Nuclear War: A Scenario.

Ms. Jacobsen has done her research, and those of you who read my books know what a fanatic I am about that. It's all in the...

I've long had an urge to try writing screenplays, so that's this year's project.

I've adapted one of my pen name books into a limited series and wrote two original screenplays.

While the chances of making it as a screenwriter are very small, I'm completely enjoying the challenge.

I also got a new idea for a post-apocalyptic tale that doesn't feel derivative or repetitive to me. If I still feel this positive about it, I'll start on it later this year.

until 24 February, Book 4 of the Oil Apocalypse series is on sale as audiobook.

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Link here: https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/436102/parched?refId=59016

Advice to would-be writers

All of the good advice that I know has been said already, hundreds of times, and published in a number of how-to-write books. Still, I’ve recently been asked to give talks at a local writer’s group, and it’s made me think about what advice I would give in general at this point, looking back over almost 40 years of writing and 35 years of being published. I've said a lot of this before, I'm sure.

1) Only take advice from the successful. It’s not that the unsuccessful migh...

 On audible, both the Gray series and one of my Oil Apocalypse series are currently on sale. 

As both of these are published by trade publishers, not myself, I am not 100% certain how long these sales will last. For Gray, you need only to go to your favorite sales outlet.

For Desolated, you need to follow this link:

https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/436103/desolated?refId=57242

Thank you for listening, reading, and recommending my books to your friends!

My final living uncle died last night. He was irascible, a racist, we voted differently, but we got along. (which really should be a lesson for all of us--electoral politics is nonsense. People at their hearts are what matters. Turn off the TV and pay attention to the people in your life instead.) He was Catholic; I am not. I was one of only two people he liked, he told everyone, and we got to spend a lot of time together the last five years. We were both deeply anti-bullshit, and therein lay ou...

I hope if you're in Florida, you're okay and your losses from this storm were minimal. If you are elsewhere, please take the opportunity to really think through what people in places like Fort Myers are going through and will be going through for weeks to come. Then act in your own defense.

Electricity may be out for a month. Water may not be drinkable for a month. Getting bottled water is going to be a challenge. People are going to get tired of eating cold canned food on cr...

 I was weeding early one morning, pulled up a hunk of weeks, and there was a baby diamondback in my hand. It was calm--no biting, hissing, twisting--so I was calm and put it back down. ("Oops, sorry," I said, though I know it doesn't speak Human languages at all.)

Baby rattlers have a bad reputation: they don't know to conserve venom, so they may deliver every bit they have into you (not a good thing). But it was early enough or some other smack upside the head of luck left me with nothing but a ...

I'm about to dive down into my first book in a sort-of new genre. That's an "on the run" outdoor thriller. There are bad guys, but there is also nature, making the chase more difficult. (If you've read Michael Koryta's Those Who Wish Me Dead, that's an example--I've read others but am spacing out on the titles right now.)

I've spent the last month researching the genre and doing three outlines. The three books, should I write them all, are unrelated to each other except for being in the same thri...