Full ‘Fool’s’ Cover Reveal; Patreon Portal Progress

Last post I had a cover reveal for the illustration itself. In this week’s post I have what I call a full cover reveal and so a cover that includes both illustration and lettering! Again, this is a new cover for my speculative fiction short story collection, “The Fool’s Illusion”, which turned 7 years old last month! (No new internal content at this time. Sorry. Maybe on the book’s tenth birthday in 2023.) And my Patreon page is getting closer to launch! I made a schedule of Patreon benefits for the month of October!

Full Cover Reveal for ‘The Fool’s Illusion’

This book cover to a speculative fiction short story collection depicts a demonic jester holding a chainsaw.

Credit: The blogger/ Alex Vintagee

Synopsis: Here is a collection of dark fantastic events and terrifying scientific phenomena. It contains stories of deadly creatures, including vampires and other undead things, and adventures into the unknown and terrible--tales that brew to the bursting point. This book will not fail to fool you with its terrifying visions of events that could be and ones that are impossible to be yet make a reader contemplate, "What if they weren't?"

The book’s new cover will go active on Amazon (and eventually other outlets) in about a week or two, depending on how long it takes Amazon to put it up in the store and whether it will need changes or not. That’s right! This is not necessarily the final version. And so I’m giving you a chance to give your opinion of what you think of this cover. Let me know in the box below! (The comments box, that is.) For now, the new cover will be for the ebook version only but will eventually be released for the print version soon. Keep checking back here for updates.

Patron Portal Progress: Benefits

The other day, I put together an October schedule of benefits for my Patreon page’s membership “Portals” (or tiers). Beginning next week, there will be a new benefit each of the remaining weeks for the month of October. However, he there will be a delay in the book discount benefit. In order to give the discount I have go through Smashwords. I am no longer in Amazon’s Kindle Select program which is required to discount books on Amazon. I had to leave the program in order to distribute my books through Smashwords and its partner sites so I can give better discounts through that venue. So, this week I will be working to get my books uploaded to Smashwords.

Until the books are uploaded there and distributed to the platform’s partner companies, there will be plenty of other benefits at my Patreon page. Of these benefits are ad-free blog posts (so you can avoid those annoying banners and pop-ups that you get here), voting power that will enable you to vote for decisions on my projects such as books and art, a behind-the-scenes look at my book “The Boo Brothers”, and a “Fool’s Illusion” Halloween sticker! The launch date for my Patreon page is Friday October 9th. Check my Facebook page for updates.

Be here Wednesday for an Insecure Writers Support Group post! What do you think of the new book cover? Be honest. There’s still time to change it!

Until next time . . .

Book-To-Movie: ‘The Andromeda Strain’

Credit: Pixabay.com To find out how you can read this post without ads, visit my Patreon page ! It’s time for our monthly Book-To-Movie ! For those of you who are just tuning into this blog, a Book-To-Movie is when we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. Today we are reviewing another book and film relevant to today’s pandemic: Michael Crichton’s novel, “The Andromeda Strain” and its 1971 movie adaptation. Crichton is the writer of suspenseful science fiction, what would commonly be called today, science fiction thriller. “The Andromeda Strain” is exactly that. However, as good as this novel is, the suspense in the movie adaptation plays out better. The Book In “The Andromeda Strain”, published in 1969, a NASA satellite returns to Earth carrying an alien virus. It lands in a small Arizona town by the name of Piedmont where the virus infects and kills everyone except an old man and an infant. A team of four scientists go to a top secret lab in Nevad...

Book-To-Movie: ‘The Lawnmower Man’

Credit: Pixabay Warning: This review may contain spoilers. In past Book-To-Movies, we’ve reviewed several movie adaptations of books and short stories by famous science fiction and horror authors. All those films have stuck to the plot of the original work to at least some recognizable degree. But this week’s Book-To-Movie will be the first to review a film that does a poor job of staying faithful to the original plot. The film is 1992’s “The Lawnmower Man” which is based on Stephen King’s short story of the same name. Even so, the movie is a really good one. So then what’s the problem? The problem is that it’s hardly an adaptation and so more its own story simply with the title of King’s short work slapped onto it. ‘The Lawnmower Man’: The Short Story Stephen King’s “The Lawnmower Man” originally appeared in “Cavalier” magazine in 1975 and was then collected into his book of short fiction, “Night Shift” the following year. The story’s protagonist is a middle-aged husband and dad ...

4 Space Opera Books That’s Heroes Will Remind You of Han Solo

Credit: Pixabay.com No doubt that there’s been some big Star Wars news this week! Friday was the 41st anniversary of the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope , and so the birthday of the entire franchise. The day before, Solo: A Star Wars Story released in theatres. I haven’t seen this new Star Wars film yet but plan to tomorrow. But in celebration of the new movie I thought it would be neat to list four of my favourite space opera books that’s central characters share the same swashbuckling, rogue archetype as the Han Solo character does. Han Solo’s archetype, or primal character-type, combines traits of the cowboy, the pirate and the wandering adventurer. Characters who have these traits are often loners of a sort, are daring and don’t let the law stop them from doing what they feel they have to. Often the legal system that they defy is one that is set up by a corrupt establishment and, in the case of space operas, that establishment is often an empire. Even tho...

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