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The Philosopher's Ring
War triggers one environmental catastrophe too many. Morgan, oldest of nine immortal witches, awakens from a thousand year sleep. Fed up with humanity's accumulated failures, she turns the world to stone and its people into monsters. Thea shakes off her sister's curse and vows to make things right. Battling abominations, a false angel, and a ravenous werewolf through the new ancient Kingdom of Strathclyde, the youngest immortal witch leads a team of castaways towards a new dawn.
443 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 11, 2022
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About the author
Matthew Melmon
1 book2 followersI’m never sure if these should be in first person or third. I’ll use third, because it’s Art!™ One of the first professional game testers in the world, Matt sold his Electronic Arts stock before he should have, then followed a liberal arts degree from Occidental College with a stint at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design - only to end up in the IT department of a startup spreadsheet database company. Then he worked with IBM RS6000s at Apple while Apple was going out of business.
He left Apple for Santa Clara Law School on the first day Steve Jobs returned. Who knew what was coming? Nobody. Partying like it was 1999 in 1999, he started a company delivering personalized music through radio station websites. “The performance right is the future!” he said. Good stuff. Then the Dot Com bubble popped. After getting an LLM in Intellectual Property from the University of San Diego, it was back to personalized music - this time on a Windows phone. There were no iPhones yet.
There were iPhones a few years later, and a company called Pandora went crazy delivering personalized music streams to millions - without Matt. Matt was at an events discovery startup. Then at a video curation startup. Then at a startup selling solar panels. Then at a DiFi startup. The blockchain is clever. It also attracts nuclear winters.
All of which is to say the Beatles (Matt was a Monkees fan) got it right: write paperbacks.
He left Apple for Santa Clara Law School on the first day Steve Jobs returned. Who knew what was coming? Nobody. Partying like it was 1999 in 1999, he started a company delivering personalized music through radio station websites. “The performance right is the future!” he said. Good stuff. Then the Dot Com bubble popped. After getting an LLM in Intellectual Property from the University of San Diego, it was back to personalized music - this time on a Windows phone. There were no iPhones yet.
There were iPhones a few years later, and a company called Pandora went crazy delivering personalized music streams to millions - without Matt. Matt was at an events discovery startup. Then at a video curation startup. Then at a startup selling solar panels. Then at a DiFi startup. The blockchain is clever. It also attracts nuclear winters.
All of which is to say the Beatles (Matt was a Monkees fan) got it right: write paperbacks.
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June 12, 2022
Great read
There's enough ghouls, witches a great heroine and plenty of witch craft in this book. It was a wonderful read for me. I enjoyed the werewolves as well.
There's enough ghouls, witches a great heroine and plenty of witch craft in this book. It was a wonderful read for me. I enjoyed the werewolves as well.
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