Bus Of Fools

by Mark Lind-Hanson

In Bus of Fools, Guru Abbryggdd, the co-creator of the OtherNet, attempts to regain his family's lost estate and place in the House of Lords. Joined by the pretender to the throne of England, the "terrorist" Bonny Black Prince, they attempt to recapture their respective places in history and society. Along the way Guru meets a number of American tourists, in Paris on a week-long bus tour, at the intersection of belief and incredulity.
They include: Andrew Dempster, Marin County bookseller and his poet wife Fern, out for international recognition; Inez McGillicuddy, elderly painter haunted by memories of an old friend; Hugh Baggs and his wife Ramona, quintessential "ugly American" swimming far out of his element; Tunny Bachlund, SoCal resident released from a painful job and out to see the world; and Dale Holloway, hedonistic yuppie with an appetite for kicks...
Bus of Fools is the first solo (published) novel by Mark Lind-Hanson, and a sequel to Third Eye Patch. A separate sequel by co-author Kevin Donohue is in the works.

286 pages, ebook

First published August 18, 2013

About the author

I am a guitarist and composer as well as a writer. My sequel (separate from my coauthor Kevin Donohue's DeathCo, Mongoose Moon, & Waiting For Shiva) to Third Eye Patch is Bus Of Fools (Pub 8-18-13) Bus is intended to be general fiction, light humor & romance, while keeping a few characters from Patch.
The others (all written solo) are As I Was Telling You While Sleeping, a collection of short stories, a few of which make up a basis for Bus of Fools, Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way (a psycho-dramatic tragedy), and the Julian Plectrum series. set in medieval England:
If I Should Live So Long, Many Worlds Since I Left Home, and Oh What Will You Give Me; Fistfight at Judas Gulch is a Western humor fantasy which takes place in the California Gold Rush of 1850. Flight of the Oberon, is a "science fiction fairy tale,"
By the Waters of Oblivion, is set in ancient India at the time of Gautama Buddha, and concerns a young prince, exiled by his father for marrying a noncaste, but nonetheless due to inherit the kingdom someday. His wife is actually a reincarnated apsara, a musical deva with supernatural powers... And there are plenty of troubles yet ahead.
The latest one From A Starlit Shore is scifi, set on the planet of a faraway star, where people have no sense of any 'divine creation" and are free of the usual human trappings of 'embarrassment or sexual shame." On Ztam, Games are held each year which keep the population happy and well-sexed... it's a different place than you may imagine!
Finally, Pigpen's Black Forest Blues is a short story by my friend Kevin Donohue and myself which we came up over the holidays(21-22) in which the historic rock band's original "leader," mistaken for Jerry Garcia, is kidnapped by German Red terrorists during their 1972 tour of Europe. Will he even make it to Munich?
Historical fantasy, you might say...
All of these can be purchased at Smashwords.com in all ebook formats.
Samples (20%) are free! (As well as the entire Pigpen story)...