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I am informed by dpInk, publisher of my book THE SHADOW ZONE, that the digital version will soon be available for purchase from Amazon.com.

http://www.eliteword.com

A visit to my web site will reveal an active link to Amazon or you may reach out to dpInk – my publisher where interested readers may purchase a copy of THE SHADOW ZONE in print version for deepest pocket discounts. While my Atlantis book is already available digitally, my newest THE SHADOW ZONE will soon be available for Kindle too – both titles are available on AMAZON as well.

BUT if you contact me directly and buy a print copy from me personally, I’ll be happy to ship your purchases free of charge and endorsed with an autograph to you or to a person of your choice.

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Politics as Usual

Like it or not the political season is upon us.  It’s a bit of madness that, like an over long visit by an unwanted relative, is here and will remain with us until well beyond the point where its welcome has worn out.

Accusations will flourish like garden weeds as each candidate seeks the place of power in a limited arena.  Some of the mud will stick, not because its true or because prosecution will fix the process, but because we like the way it looks on a public face.  The truth will suffer and civilization will go on.   But at what cost?

THE SHADOW ZONE explores the cost – and the civilization – and the players in a deadly game of political one-upmanship.  The arena is a familiar world, but some of the combatants are not quite what they seem.

Check it out at http://www.eliteword.com

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SHADOW and LIGHT

The book begins with the onset of a mysterious shadow and proceeds with attempts to explore its meaning and potential threat. It also attempts to explore the darkness found in the human heart and possible ways to correct it. There’s also a third element, which is beyond human agency.

How much of fiction and fantasy these days is consumed with the endless search for some sort of third-party resolution to our problems and social issues? Our institutions seem to have failed us and our society sometimes seems on the verge of some horrendous shift in purpose, while most of us are vaguely aware that anything at all is happening. It has been said that literature is merely a mirror of society. If so, then we are indeed in the grasp of a dark creeping shadow.

Will we find a solution in ourselves or will we be overtaken by a nightmarish destiny of our own making? In the real world there is no magnificent hero on a gallant steed riding to the rescue. There is only the creeping shadow … and no one knows what lies beyond or within it.

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MEMORIAL DAY 2015

The upcoming national holiday is a time to pause and remember those who gave their lives in service to our nation and communities – military, police, firefighters and others. It is a time to appreciate the ultimate personal sacrifice paid by so many.

Unfortunately the purpose of the day has been diluted and obfuscated by a fanatic militarism which has infected our country and is leading us to ruin. Our Memorial Day is dedicated to individuals who have left us with their personal legacy, NOT to brandishing the machinery of global war. Yet reprisal and revenge has supplanted respect for our honored dead. It has no place on the quiet ground where many now rest in peace.

Those of us who survived military service and its schemes appreciate more greatly the gift of personal investment that others have bequeathed by their sacrifice. It should be remembered that those who have died gave up all they had and all they hoped to have. They gave everything.

They should be remembered.

WHEN THE FANS SPEAK

Writing of any sort can be immensely satisfying.  When words are well received its nice to know you’ve provided a little illumination in your corner of the world.  When words are not received its hard to know whether one has missed the mark or is just missing.

Has my new novel THE SHADOW ZONE provided a useful entertaining story?   Many of those who’ve bought the book have told me it does.  Some even say they can’t put it down until the last page has been read.

What do you think?  Let’s read what YOU have to say on the matter.

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Bookstore closings

During a recent tour of Orlando, the town of Mickey Mouse and grid locked highways, I learned that several bookstores had recently closed. The motive for my search would be obvious to writers, but to those who simply want to peruse the stacks the news that bookstores are becoming hard to find may be a revelation. I googled the topic and this is what I came up with. (source: Open Education database)
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Stats on the State of Bookstores in America Today

– 12% drop in number of stores since 1997
– bookstore sales/retail sales dropping steadily
– eBooks have $3.2 billion of market
– Amazon has 22.6% of market
– more than 1,000 bookstores closed between 2000 & 2007
Independent bookstores dropped from 2,400 to 1,900 from 2002 – 2011
-megaChains are suffering too
– northern cities read more than others
– The average book buyer is 45 to 64, white, has a high income, is married, lives in the west, and is a college graduate.
– bookstore revenues expected to fall over 1%, closings exceed 2%
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While bookstores seem to be faring better than other retail establishments, the closings of which are announced on an almost daily basis, the question remains as to where this will end?

eBooks seem to be the viable alternative? What happens to book signings when the cheaper alternative is digital? How do you sign one for a fan?

Amazon seems to be the big growth medium, but how can a title gain maximum exposure on the internet’s biggest retailer?

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REAL SCIENCE FICTION

During a recent book signing a friend of mine, who is an attorney, stopped at my table.  He was curious about my new book THE SHADOW ZONE and wanted to know what it’s about.   I told him it’s a story about the search for justice in a corrupt society.

“Now that’s really Science Fiction,” he said.

A Hypothetical Discussion

When I first began the book, it was my intention to use it as a form of hypothetical discussion of corruption in society.   A few drafts later (not so few, actually) I decided to have fun with it instead.   My son-in-law asked me the question Joker used in the Batman movie, “why so serious”?   He was right of course, so I change my direction to something easier to swallow and more fun to read.  But I didn’t drop the whole idea.  Couldn’t really. Read it and you’ll see a political jab or two.   Check it out on my web site; http://www.eliteword.com.

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EXPLORING A DISASTER

On the morning of August 9th, 1945 the investment of twenty-five billion dollars in 2008 equivalent currency resulted in an atomic flash in the sky above the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Eighty thousand people ceased living in less time than a single tick of the clock. In the weeks that followed, an additional one hundred fifty thousand died as a result of collateral damage and exposure. But that wasn’t the end of the story…

Since that time, the governments of the world have applied themselves to the development of biological and chemical weaponry. These technologies cost less to create, but carry with them the potential of greater human suffering than the atomics that preceeded them. The ultimate goal of these technologies is to kill the target without damaging the property.

My new book THE SHADOW ZONE explores the outcome of the hypothetical deployment of such weapons and the impact they might have on society, including the most innocent among us – our children.

What would it take to halt the construction, storage and use of such weapons? When millions of dollars are involved, would any industrial leader or any cog in the wheels of modern bureaucracy lift their little finger to end it? What would happen if someone else entered the controversy?

What if…
– that person had the capability to actually cause a change?
– she was a member of the innocent group that suffered most?
– she escaped the toxic mists of a biological disaster to enforce her own form of justice?
– if she came out of…

THE SHADOW ZONE