"The Fool's Illusion" Has Arrived!

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The Fool's Illusion is finally here! It is in digital format, and so you can get it on Kindle for free until 11:59 tonight (Pacific Standard Time) only! That is that it will be available for free until one minute before the witching hour (midnight) tonight, after that it turns back into a rott'in money-costing jack-o-lantern. (Okay, so money's not all that rotten, but we can all use free stuff, right?) So get your free e-copy of The Fool's Illusion now!

Speaking about rott'in jack-o-lanterns, I just saw the debut episode of Fox's Sleepy Hollow last night. (I taped it on good ol' fashioned video tape because your busy author doesn't have time to watch it in real time.) I was paradoxically impressed. Kind of like I was with Abrams' Star Trek, which in fact one of the writers for his Star Trek, Roberto Orci, is a contributing creator of this series. I'll try to have a full review of it for you between this evening and next Saturday. But right now, I encourage you to download your free e-copy of Fool's Illusion before time runs out. And, please, leave me any comments you have about the book in the box below: if it sucks, then tell me why you think it sucks; if it's a drag, then tell me why you think it's a drag; if it's super, then tell me why you think it's super. Any comments are greatly appreciated.

Print version coming soon.

Until next time . . .

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