Hello, Sallie. Thank you for having me on your blog. I’ve been hearing about it from my writer friends for some time, but have only recently become a fan. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell your followers something about my style of writing and my latest book Sacred Alarm Clock .Native American Legends Become Works of FictionI’m in love with Native American culture. I like their legends. I like the monsters that haunt their dreams. I absolutely love the strain of mysticism that runs through tribes that have lived on this continent for the last 15,000 years. I weave those elements through everything I write. Sacred Alarm Clock is based on one of the core legends shared by Native Americans since the Europeans landed on their shores began destroying their way of life: some day the white man’s world will collapse and everything will get back to normal. That legend was the root cause of the Red Stick War, when Shawnee tribal leader Tecumseh convinced the Muskogee Creek that the Great Comet of 1811 was a sign that it was time to stop ceding their land to white settlers. The massacre at Wounded Knee started when Lakota bands put on “bullet proof” Ghost Shirts and gathered on the Pine Ridge Reservation determined to dance the white interlopers into non-existence. Two hundred men women and children shot down by U.S. troops who thought they were massing for an attack. A couple of disastrous failures didn’t discourage true believers, because everything happens in its own time. In Sacred Alarm Clock that time has finally come. Collapse of civilization begins in the near future when power grids fail across the United States. The Internet crashes, the economy collapses, and just when it looks like things couldn’t get any worse, a new strain of influenza spreads over the world. New Flu starts off with ordinary signs and symptoms but quickly, spreads to the brain. Victims go insane in a Spanish Inquisition sort of way. The twist that blends Sacred Alarm Clock with the standby tribal legend is that Native Americans are immune. Some LGBT characters are included to make the plot more interesting. It fits because gender identity and sexual preference have been part of the tribal dynamic for thousands of years. A man or woman with the other gender’s spirit is just one more part of the incomprehensible plan of the Great Mystery.This book is a departure from my last two novels, Owl Dreams and Popsicle Styx . Sacred Alarm Clock is a collection of short stories linked into a continuous narrative. It reads like a novel, but each chapter also stands alone. Ten of them have been published in other venues (magazines and anthologies).If you are interested in the mysterious side of life, you can visit me at my website / blog http://johnbiggsoklahomawriter.com , stop by my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Johnbiggsoklahomawriter or follow me on Twitter @BiggsSpirit
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Owl Dreams http://www.amazon.com/Owl-Dreams-John-T-Biggs/dp/0985127473/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Popsicle Styx http://www.amazon.com/Popsicle-Styx-John-T-Biggs/dp/1940222680/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Sacred Alarm Clock http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Alarm-Clock-John-Biggs-ebook/dp/B0157H2UTO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442236045&sr=1-1&keywords=Sacred+Alarm+Clock

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BioJohn T. BiggsAuthor, Public Speaker
John T. Biggs has sixty short stories published in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines. His longer work includes three magic realism novels—Owl Dreams, Popsicle Styx, and soon to be released, Cherokee Ice —as well as his tightly linked collection of short stories, Sacred Alarm Clock .
Award Winning AuthorGrand Prize Winner, 80th annual Writers Digest Competition, 2011Third Prize Winner, Lorian Hemingway short story contest, 2011OWFI Crème de la Crème award 2012 The Storyteller Magazine People’s Choice Award 2012Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for Popsicle Styx 2015John is a member of Oklahoma City Writers, Tulsa Night Writers, and OWFI.
John T. Biggs is also a public speaker and has addressed interested groups on the following topics:
“Creating Short Fiction and Winning Contests”“The First Two Hundred Words”“Native American Legends and Magic Realism in Contemporary Fiction”
Various subjects in Native American History.