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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME – AN EXCERPT

Ok, I don’t say this lightly: this knocked my socks off. I may or may not cry in movies, but this one gave me goosebumps at the end.

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I’ve just had some folks over at Goodreads ask me about my hockey-vampire novella SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME.

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I figured that the best way to tell them was to give them a little peek at the writing.

So – without further ado, here’s an excerpt from SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME – one of the opening chapters.

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Sudden Death Overtime

Tuesday night 9pm.

No one noticed quite exactly when the long black bus stole into the parking lot of the Anchor Pub. As far as anyone knew the bus just sort of drifted into the Labrador coastal village of Hope’s End like an unexpected snow flurry.

Things happen that way around here.

Slow and unexpected.

Judith Two-Bear leaned her elbows against the wood grain of the unvarnished table top. Her cigarette glowed like a lighthouse’s lonely beacon, bobbing as she nodded three beats behind the music of the static-ridden radio. She’d…

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What 100 Days At The Gym Can Do For You!

My wife found this today and put it up on her blog (dot2trot.com).  I thought it was pretty inspiring, and it’s something you can take with you anywhere in your life.

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Just received my best critical review yet

By critical review, I mean he didn’t overwhelmingly love the book. And yes, I want everyone to give me 5 stars and send me checks for $100 with every download, but there’s a part of me that wants to know where the bottom is (so to speak). In Daniel’s review, he discusses the parts of Kick that he liked and the parts he was disappointed with. And overall, I agreed with him.  He’s also agreed to read the sequel (whenever that happens).

Another thing I like about this review, as well as the reviewer personally, is that he expresses his lack of enthusiasm with indie publishing, and that he found my book to be more enjoyable than many traditionally published books. I call that a win.

Here’s the review, which I’m linking to with his permission:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/781816407

Bonus material:

I was intrigued enough by Daniel’s reviews that I followed him like a stalker to his website (http://www.thewayofslowtravel.com/).  If you enjoyed his review, maybe pop over there and see what else he has to say? (disclaimer: he didn’t ask me to plug his site, I just felt like it).

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Re-post: The Night Before Christmas

This warmed me right up 🙂

The Night Before Christmas.

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My life…is complete

There’s nothing better than this video.  Can’t smile any harder, think I cracked a tooth.

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Repost: The Mr. Mittens Trilogy

If you were sufficiently moved by chapter 7 of Trixy Chestity goes to England, you might enjoy the genrecological transformation of Russel Blake:

The Mr. Mittens Trilogy.

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Reblogged: Who Gives a Crap?

It turns out I’m not the only potential psychic in the indie publishing world! (hehe)

Reblogged from Lindy Moone:

Some of you know that I jokingly fancy myself a media psychic. That is, some strange, very specific things have happened on TV, online or on the radio not long after I thought or dreamed of them. Truth is, I’m almost 100% sure that they are coincidences — but they are freaky, nonetheless. I’m not claiming causation in either direction — just correlation.

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Marathon watching “Alaska: The Last Frontier” on Discovery

What a great show.  A big family of homesteaders in Alaska who spend their summers preparing for winter, and their winters hoping they’ve stockpiled enough food and wood to burn.  They live off the land and maintain the same equipment for 20 years. They laugh and carry on and have fun too, but they don’t have time to stage any “goofing off” shots like they do on Duck Dynasty or other “reality” shows (note: I love the guys on Duck Dynasty, but it’s a way different show).  The closest they came was when the patriarch of the family, Otto Kilcher, sawed off the top of a car to make a sled to get his hay in for the winter–so that his cattle wouldn’t starve due to an early snowstorm.  But he wasn’t above hopping on for a ride while his son, Eivin, dragged it by ATV to the pasture.

Netflix has a bunch of seasons available for streaming, and I’m watching them back to back:

Alaska: The Last Frontier

Eve Kilcher, Eivin’s wife, with one of the many salmon they will need to keep them alive through the winter.

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Authors off the Shelf — Charity anthology of short fiction, poetry and recipes

A few months ago, I got an opportunity to donate a short story to the folks at Lazy Beagle Entertainment for inclusion in an anthology of short work they were putting together.  Because I’m well-known for my charitable ways, I donated the left hemisphere of my brain to the task.  The right side was busy computing prime numbers (working on a new record). The name of my contribution is “American Glory” — a fascinating tale that’s been likened to Dickens, Hemingway, and Ray Bradbury combined, except “better.”  Just saying…
Anyway, please follow the link below to get your copy:

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(Stealth thank you to Lindy Moone and Carol Ervin…)

(This here’s a secret, stealth thank you to the sensuous Lindy Moone and sleekly sizzling Carol Ervin for helping me juice up my flaccid blurb. We went at it a long time, but we got there.)

(Hahah, I can’t stop laughing now…)

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