Other Authors
Check out these books by my friends (and enemies?). I’ve had the pleasure of beta reading, editing, or doing layout for these projects.
The Unluckiest Man in the World
M.C. Blackson
An unlikely memoir of proximity, paranoia, and the long shadow of catastrophe.
The Unluckiest Man in the World is the razor-sharp, darkly comic chronicle of a man whose entire life has been a long-distance relationship with disaster.
From the Oklahoma City bombing to Hurricane Katrina, from Columbine to Sandy Hook, from 9/11 (but not 9/11) to the Virginia Tech massacre, the Deepwater Horizon spill, the Las Vegas shooting, and more, the narrator of this unforgettable memoir is always just nearby. Never quite in danger, but never quite safe from the ripple effects. He’s not cursed, exactly. But it does start to feel personal after a while.
Each chapter is a first-person account of narrowly missing some of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ most horrifying or tragic events. Told with sardonic wit and an increasingly rattled voice, the book weaves together a life story shaped less by what happened to him and more by what happened near him. Car accidents. Club fires. School shootings. Dust storms. Stampedes. Riots. Plane crashes. Chemical spills. Earthquakes. You name it, he was probably in the city, walking distance, or scheduled to arrive the next day.
Magnovi: Secrets and Songbirds
Jay H. Cults
Tenebrous, a melancholic Death Elf, has his long, uneventful life upended by a decree of the crowned Emperor of the brand new Empire of Xanzar, for the three main organizations- The mysterious Trimoon College, the famous Heroes Guild and the ever-present Church of the Nine- to seek out the fabled legend known as the Library of Secrets. Being the Apprentice of the Trimoon College Necromancer Lodrath, the young mage, along with every other Apprentice of each of the Nine Disciplines are set out on this Imperial Quest. His luck is tested when at the celebration of the Imperial coronation he is paired with a Light Elf supremacist, a hedonistic, characteristically-unheroic heroine of the Heroes Guild, along with her happy Orc companion, a Paladin-turned-Inquisitor who is losing his Faith in the Nine with an ever-watchful priestess and a mysterious “Songbird” minstrel with their lackluster apprentice. Declared “Team Nero” this sad band of eight misfits set out to find a legend spoken of in mere whispers by a new Emperor whose sanity is already being questioned; his decree is already seen as a fool’s errand.
Junction City Stories
The Mistrials of Judge Brian Austin, Dr. Margot Wilson's Friendly Guide to Fascism, and Other Tales
John Ambrose-Hemmingway
THE REGIME CARES ABOUT YOU.
Do not panic. Do not run. Do not resist.
Your compliance has been noted and deeply appreciated.
Your thoughts are now property of the Department of Behavioral Adjustments.
That said, a Belial has been located in sector Forty-Seven.
She is unauthorized, emotionally unpredictable, and very bad for morale.
She may be attempting to reach the rebel zones or worse—ask questions.
We apologize for any civil unrest, infrastructure collapse, or existential dread this may cause. Please resume your regularly scheduled nutrient consumption and ignore the sound of recon drones.
This is not a story of hope.
It’s a case study in how badly things can go when a young woman thinks she has free will.
In the ruins of the American dream, one woman runs toward freedom while everything else goes up in flames.
Read this book. Or don’t. The Regime doesn’t care. They’re already watching.
Good Enough!
College of the Sequoias Students
A collection – anthology, if you will – of poetry, short stories, long stories, art, “art”, and other creative endeavors from the College of the Sequoias students in Visalia, CA.
