Journal

You’ll undoubtedly be hearing a lot about The Warning in the coming days, weeks, and months – and not just from me. Who are they? Well here’s some basic information about them just to get you up to speed, but there is always more to learn.They are a post-grunge, hard rock band from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico consisting of three sisters who are bilingual, fluent in both Spanish and English.…

Description:At this Silicon Valley startup, murder is a feature, not a bug…A mystery/thriller set in Silicon Valley’s Japantown, To Kill a Unicorn is a crazy ride through the world of high-tech startups.SüprDüpr is the hottest startup in Silicon Valley since Theranos. But when the company’s chief scientist disappears, his friend, the hacker, Ted Hara, sets out to find him.Led by a glamorous young…

It’s Getting Creepy Out There – Review: MILE MARKER ZERO by Benny Sims

There’s a thin line of desperation between fame and infamy, where being a number turns deadly. Description: Tired of never achieving his goals, an aging blue-collar worker’s rage at the world reaches a boiling point. After a lifetime of failures, disappointments, and shattered dreams, his job has proved a fast track to nowhere. His wife left him for a younger man and his emotionally distant son…

Another Mystery Solved, One Less Day

Description: A powerful family will stop at nothing to protect its secrets… Famous astrologist Agnes Sants-Mekler, a member of one of Maine’s elite families, pleads guilty to murder. Her gifted, pre-teen son, Zar, says she’s lying and he wants Dee Rommel to prove that – in nine days. Former policewoman Dee Rommel, not yet thirty, is dealing with a permanent, life-changing injury sustained…

Book Review: Bonds and Envy – The Faie King’s Mortal Book 2

Description: I had crossed the sea and sky to find Evander.I had unraveled my body of its last, frayed edges of strength. I had torn across the vales and battled the demons of time to save him, to save our people, and here at last, we had reached the end of our bonded tapestry—the Gods in their envy had stolen him from me. And they weren’t giving him back.The Faie King, Evander, has saved Anwen…

Review of Nicole Asselin’s Latest Cozy Mystery, Concession Stand Crimes – Ball Park Mysteries Book 2

Book Description:HOTDOGS, CRACKER JACK, BEER, and MURDER. PLAY BALL! MADELINE BOUCHER is still reeling from her first few weeks of working for her family’s Independent League Baseball Team, the Abington Armadillos. She found a dead body and survived a kidnapping before finally clearing her brother of murder. She didn’t think anything could be as dramatic as that, but she was wrong.Her parents…

The Wait is Over! ERROR, the Latest Full Album by The Warning Is Here!

Recorded in 2020, the release of ERROR was delayed for two years due to the pandemic leading to a late 2021 release of the MAYDAY EP comprising six of the tracks that are included on ERROR. The new album includes the brief instrumental “INTRO 404” as well as the bonus track “BREATHE” plus six other tracks, beyond the recently released single “MONEY”, the title track and newest single, “ERROR”,…

Review: BLUE BILLY by Laura Ellen Scott

Description: Turn the Living into Corpses I am the dirt. I am the grave.I don’t meditate nor drink. I don’t write manifestos.I turn people into bodies. So begins the confession of a boogeyman that no one believes in. As he settles into the abandoned Magic River Café, Blue Billy doesn’t care that it has deteriorated into a derelict, filth-ridden shack on the banks of a rancid backwater. This is…

Review: The Greys by Becky Barnard & Dave Housley

Description: Every teenager feels like an alien. Deerdra Grey is the typical new girl in school. In fact, she’s been designed to be scientifically, perfectly typical. Her mission? Assimilate into Indiana’s Danaville High, 600 light years away from her home planet. While her parents go about the traditional alien business of gathering soil samples, examining crop circles, and inadvertently…

Book Review: Faie and Fury – The Faie King’s Mortal Book 1 by Devon Atwood

Description: Anwen is pretty sure she loves her future husband. The problem is, he’s not real.When Anwen discovers that she has been under an enchantment for months and that her betrothed, Gresham is a mysterious being obsessed with keeping her forever, she escapes to the forbidden Faiewood after a voice on the wind calls her to safety. She finds herself the captive of a green-eyed Faie king who…

Get the Backstory for Free

Some of you may have interest in this. It’s for everyone and it’s FREE. On my Medium account you’ll find the backstory for the Brent Woods character who appears in The Fried Windows series as well as The Thuperman Trilogy. He also pays a visit to The Wolfcat Chronicles which will begin publication later this year with the novel Dammerwald. And Brent is involved here and there along the way in…

Update on Ninja Bread Castles – Book 2 of Fried Windows Series

Today I received and responded to the copy edits. Many thanks to my editor, Laura Tsitlidze for her impeccable work. Next, the book will go for a final review and proofreading. The release date is April 13, 2022. The wait is almost over.

When you first realize that your company doesn’t really care about you.

This is not intended as a hit piece on a former employer, but I think it’s indicative of the corporate mindset in America. And since this happened twenty-seven years ago, the underlying condition resulting in the lack of respect has been around for a long time and likely is endemic in our culture. It came to mind today since a dear friend of mine experienced a similar thing with her employer as…

Do You Want the Backstory?

A few days ago I finished a revision of an unpublished manuscript. I have submitted it previously to my publisher but initially, I composed it as one book and it weighed in at a hefty 200K+ words, which is just not viable for a print book these days. Yet, after painstakenly condensing it and breaking it into two books, it was still passed over. It is not a critique of the work or the story so…

Finding Inspiration: A Review of Rock’s Latest Power Trio – The Warning

Remember when Heart was a novelty because they had sisters as the lead singer and the lead guitarist? Remember The Runaways featuring Joan Jet? What about The Go-Gos, The Bangles, The Ronettes, of The Supremes? You didn’t know there were that many female bands in the classic rock period 60’s, 70’s, and Early 80’s? Don’t feel alone. It was a rarity to be sure. The industry seemed determined to…

Updates on Coming Attractions

The past two years have been insane for everyone. I don’t need to tell you why. But it’s been extremely difficult for the publishing industry and especially hard on authors. You see, for most of us to succeed we need to make personal appearances to promote our books. Despite our wares being available online that is seldom the best way to attract readers. So we have had to resort to other means…

Review of ROSEWOOD BURNING: Everly Series Book 2 by Meg Bonney

Published December 15, 2021 by Pandamoon Publishing #Fantasy #Magic #Adventure Description: Madison Rosewood returns to the magical, hidden world of Everly on a mission to find her mother, unite the kingdom against her tyrannical father, and stop the execution of the Magics once and for all. Before her revolution can even begin, however, Madison quickly finds her new life in flames. As she…