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DIGITAL DIVINING: Voodoo Phone Predicts Deadly Fates
It is spring break in South Florida, 2016. A homeless young woman finds a Voodoo-cursed flip phone on Ft. Lauderdale’s beach. While taking pictures of random people, she discovers the phone can predict the imminent date and time of death for some of them. Our down-and-out heroine attempts to warn the doomed victims believing the device is her ticket out of vagrancy and alcoholism. Meanwhile, an evil Voodoo priestess comes searching for her lost phone and all hell breaks loose.
Digital Divining is the first of a trilogy that follows the Voodoo flip phone as it moves up the Atlantic Coast and is found by a string of unsuspecting characters. Each temporary owner struggles with the life-changing consequences of using black magic to alter destiny.
Digital Divining is the first of a trilogy that follows the Voodoo flip phone as it moves up the Atlantic Coast and is found by a string of unsuspecting characters. Each temporary owner struggles with the life-changing consequences of using black magic to alter destiny.
386 pages, Paperback
Published July 26, 2023
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About the author
Jeff Lyon
7 books2 followersJeff Lyon writes adventurous tales laced with humor from personal escapades. His stories are based on actual events and filled with extraordinary characters encountered in fascinating locales. Names are changed to protect the far from the innocent, and facts are altered only when needed to avoid the tedium of memoirs.
After graduating from the University of North Texas, Jeff decided to go skiing for a season in Winter Park, Colorado. He stayed for four years. Jeff returned to Texas and worked as a Health Inspector for seven years and then three years as a Fire Marshal for the city of Lewisville.
Jeff moved to Florida with his girlfriend, Karen Reneau, married her, and became a professional boat captain. He spent the next four years running sailboats and power yachts up and down the Atlantic coast from Chesapeake Bay to Trinidad, South America.
Jeff survived twelve winters in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his summers managing DuSable Harbor, captaining other peoples' boats on Lake Michigan, and winters writing.
Dozens of Jeff's travelogues have been published in newspapers and magazines. Jeff's first published novel Hank is a testament to his hillbilly great-uncle. His second novel, Bliss, documents the hilarious growing pains during Lewisville's spectacular building boom. Jeff's third work was Ski Bum Chronicles. It’s a fantastic journey through the wide eyes of a Texas kid living his dream in the majestic Rocky Mountains.
Jeff returned to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He captained yachts and published his fifth novel, Sailing Escape, before moving north four years later.
Living in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jeff veered from personal-experience novels to working on a paranormal trilogy about a Voodoo cursed flip phone that predicts dire accidents and death. The first two have been published, and the third book is well underway.
Jeff currently lives with his wife Karen in Chattanooga, TN, and hopes this will be their last move.
After graduating from the University of North Texas, Jeff decided to go skiing for a season in Winter Park, Colorado. He stayed for four years. Jeff returned to Texas and worked as a Health Inspector for seven years and then three years as a Fire Marshal for the city of Lewisville.
Jeff moved to Florida with his girlfriend, Karen Reneau, married her, and became a professional boat captain. He spent the next four years running sailboats and power yachts up and down the Atlantic coast from Chesapeake Bay to Trinidad, South America.
Jeff survived twelve winters in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his summers managing DuSable Harbor, captaining other peoples' boats on Lake Michigan, and winters writing.
Dozens of Jeff's travelogues have been published in newspapers and magazines. Jeff's first published novel Hank is a testament to his hillbilly great-uncle. His second novel, Bliss, documents the hilarious growing pains during Lewisville's spectacular building boom. Jeff's third work was Ski Bum Chronicles. It’s a fantastic journey through the wide eyes of a Texas kid living his dream in the majestic Rocky Mountains.
Jeff returned to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He captained yachts and published his fifth novel, Sailing Escape, before moving north four years later.
Living in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jeff veered from personal-experience novels to working on a paranormal trilogy about a Voodoo cursed flip phone that predicts dire accidents and death. The first two have been published, and the third book is well underway.
Jeff currently lives with his wife Karen in Chattanooga, TN, and hopes this will be their last move.
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February 27, 2025
When I met Jeff and he told me about his book, I was intrigued by the concept of a voodoo phone that predicts the demise of certain individuals in the future. Though not a fan of omniscient POV or overly passive writing, I felt like in this instance both worked.
One thing that really stood out is that the author spent a great deal of time getting the details of the setting right, down to minute details that really had no significance whatsoever to the story but provided a deep sense of actually being there. I also got the impression that this author either has some sort of personal experience with overcoming addiction or has done an extensive amount of research into the topic as certain scenes were written from a place of tremendous vulnerability. Kudos to Jeff for addressing such a sensitive topic in a serious yet almost light-hearted way.
There were way too many cutesie adjectives and over-alliterated phrases for my taste, but I enjoyed the story and felt satisfied with the ending. So, if you enjoy clever, kooky, capers, on big, beautiful beaches, with wild and wacky weirdos watching hungover, haggard heroes doing downright dirty and dangerous deeds while running from mystic mambos and other mischievous misfits, then this book is for you!!
One thing that really stood out is that the author spent a great deal of time getting the details of the setting right, down to minute details that really had no significance whatsoever to the story but provided a deep sense of actually being there. I also got the impression that this author either has some sort of personal experience with overcoming addiction or has done an extensive amount of research into the topic as certain scenes were written from a place of tremendous vulnerability. Kudos to Jeff for addressing such a sensitive topic in a serious yet almost light-hearted way.
There were way too many cutesie adjectives and over-alliterated phrases for my taste, but I enjoyed the story and felt satisfied with the ending. So, if you enjoy clever, kooky, capers, on big, beautiful beaches, with wild and wacky weirdos watching hungover, haggard heroes doing downright dirty and dangerous deeds while running from mystic mambos and other mischievous misfits, then this book is for you!!
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