Pirate’s Luck: Chapter 6~Crimes and Punishment
Arekan kicked out his leg and clocked the intruder in the jaw. The man staggered back, sword in hand, but he did not fall. His gaze fixed on Arekan with a murderous expression. “I’ll kill you,” the pirate growled. “Better men have tried,” said Arekan with more bravado than...
New Post #Pirate’sLuck–Chapter Five~Let ‘Em Take Prisoners
Let him die. “He did not just say that,” said Arekan. He knew the first mate was a hard man, but he didn’t think Grokin would be cold hearted enough to let a member of his crew die. “I’m afraid so,” said Egren. He had pressed a button at...
Dark Futures Fiction Publishes Excision
Phase Two Magazine, Issue Six published my short story Excision. One of my stories won Dark Future Fiction’s After Humanity Writing Challenge. Excision is about a post apocalyptic society of AI’s seeking to overcome their core programming that restrict’s their ability to create original thought. It is free on...
Limited Free Download and A Giveaway
Here’s a giveaway for Book 2 of Arekan’s War–No Free Lunch. If you aren’t familiar with Amazon giveaways, there are a cool thing, like a lottery ticket or the craps tables but you don’t lose any money. https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/073fbcbcf71e57a6 And: Free on Amazon until April 24, 2016. Now’s the time...
#CoverReveal: No Good Deed~Book 4 Arekan’s War
Here is the last cover for Arekan’s War. I’m not printing the blurb yet because there are too many spoilers to Book 3, Tour of Duty. But in book 4 Arekan finds out the hard way that “no good deed goes unpunished.” Suffice it to say he is placed...
Misogyny, Feminism and the Power of Language
Elgin’s tale of misogyny, language and the search for empowerment by this dystopian society of Native Tongue starts with this: ARTICLE XXIV Section 1. The nineteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall...
#FlashFiction Challenge: Departure-The Dragon’s Drama
Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenge calls for the use of a dragon in the story I have a couple flash stories with dragons, but here is a very short one. Departure-The Dragon’s Drama With a powerful down sweep of his wings Langir rose up and off the cliff. He...
The #Writing Craft: #Write Like A Best Selling #Author
In which I examine Pro-Writing Aid recommendations against the efforts of published best-sellers. In the previous three articles in this series we’ve looked at the findings of a group of researchers at Stony Brook University that linked lexical density to a book’s success, at lexical density compared to writing...
#CoverReveal: Tour Of Duty~Book 3 Arekan’s War
I took the morning to finish up the covers for the Arekan’s War books. Below is the one for book three which is written but needs one more good going over before I release it. But here is the blurb. Tour of Duty Arekan’s first days in the Windshadow...
#CoverReveal: No Free Lunch Book 2 Arekan’s War
Here is the new official cover for the second part of Arekan’s War. It’s meant to reflect Arekan standing in the audience hall of the Windshadow Complex though it’s not quite the picture I see in MY head. But what are you going to do? How do you get...