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"The Fool's Illusion" Has Arrived!

  Warning:  This post may contain content or links to content considered to be obscene/objectionable by some viewers. 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...

I'm Not Stephen King or Neil Gaiman

A very busy two weeks. Sorry for putting the posts on hold for so long. I had to live my alter ego in the "real" world to make ends meet. That's a freelance writer's life. Unless you're somebody already well known, like Stephen King or Neil Gaiman, you have to rely on more "practical" forms of writing such as journalism or copywriting in order to support yourself. This is especially so if you're trying to avoid a "day" job, but that's not always feasible for most of us. Because of this, I have to put the short story collection on hold as well. But not for long! I'm in the revision process of the introduction and will be doing some last proofreads on some of my stories from more than a year ago that I'm including. Like all living things, a writer grows and learns. And so if I can improve older stories that I plan to publish then I'll do it. So expect to see The Fool's Illusion out in the next week or two. Speaking abou...