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Get book 1 of 7 today Demons aren't real. Are they? When two boys get stuck in a small town, all they expected was being bored. What they got was the fight of their lives. When everyone imagines every story is make believe, how can two kids find the help they need to save the world? Find out in your copy of ANY DAY NOW, book one in the brand new Cardinal Series. Click to get yours now.

Welcome to the quarantine. I’m in AR today, and we are not ordered to shelter in place or stay home.  Yet. The states around us are though, so I think it might be a matter of time. I’m watching the world go nuts. And if you’ve read BATTLEFIELD Z and thought to yourself, “There’s no way a zombie plague” would spread that fast, just look at human behavior in this. A Z pandemic would wipe us out in about six weeks. You can grab BZ COMPLETE ( books 1 – 9) today if you missed it. I’m so proud of our hospitals and the hundreds of ways I see people trying to connect, trying to fight, just trying. I love the human spirit. For me, work from home is normal, but I’ve been turned into a teacher and daycare for the 8 year old. Since this would have been spring break, we’re doing spring break stuff. But his momma works at a hospital, so she’s essential personnel. My days are full of biking, hiking, cooking, cleaning, cajoling and one of the best basketball games ever invented HORSEDOG. (It’s like H

Guys, I know you were worried the  #stimuluspackage  wouldn't do anything for the 1%. Rest assured, your  #congress  will address this by including on page 203 of the 808 page document, a tax break for wealthy real estate investors, where capital gains in the stock market can be offset by paper write offs in real estate. It means people who own a lot of property and are considered millionaires and billionaires don't have to pay Federal  #taxes  on the money they earn, so long as they can show a loss and write it off. This is good news for the  #wealthy . Great news for Jared Kushner, his dad, and other real estate owners who shall go unnamed. Regular taxpayers will get $1200 (at a cost of $10,000 to them) to put back into the economy. Yes, your $1200 cash now will cost you $7800 in the long run. (short term gain to boost spending which impacts stock prices now, not when you start pulling from your 401k, (the one that lost it's value last week). Lesson:

I'm a big "by your bootstraps" kind of guy. I believe the harder you work, the more luck you have. And my publishing company has multiple streams of income, so my revenue isn't impacted as much by variations in the public appetite. (when one goes down, I can work to bring another up) And I don't consider myself a "socialist." Except I like paved roads, and libraries, and public schools. That's all "tax dollars" going into the public good. What I don't really like is tax dollars going to corporations to enhance executive pay, to shore up their automation to impact workers and more. We live in a world where corporate entities have been given tax dollars for decades. It's par for the course. We don't call it socialism when we share money with big business, despite the multiple examples of tax funded golden parachutes. Now we need tax dollars to go to the people. And suddenly, all of you wh

PLANT A VICTORY GARDEN

1984 A Brief History of Time A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius a long way gone A Series of Unfortunate Events State of Emergency

Marketing that works? I put a question mark after it because it’s always a question, right? What works now and will keep working so I can just focus on WTDT. (Writing the Damn Thing) Because based on a couple of years doing this, nothing sells your last book like the next one. Seems like you read that somewhere before? Yeah, there’s a reason it’s repeated over and over. Because that is the one marketing thing any writer can do, and should do that will help you grow your business. I know we like to say there’s no ONE path up the mountain, but for 99% of us, the best way to get up the mountain is to write more than one book. Lots of books with lots of opportunities to find readers. Plus, the more you write, the better you get.   I think that’s a good path too. Let me tell you about a path I took. This Corona thing has me a little stressed out. I’m not really a data junkie, but I do study charts and graphs and know how to read data.   Which helps me in t

CHAPTER ONE Before. I stopped watching the news because I read somewhere that successful people focused on things they could control. It’s hard to control the news. It’s designed for shock value, and in a game of ratings, most news reporting started to rely on shock value. I feel I may have missed out on a lot. Sometimes, I’d watch gas prices shoot up and wonder what happened to affect the price. Then I’d click into a station and hear that the President was making remarks about the Middle East, which would make oil prices rise, and speculators would rush in to change the price of a barrel. Then gas stations which were owned by conglomerates working in the Middle East would raise the price of gas. It made a lot of investment guys rich and took money away from most of the working people I knew at the time. Twenty bucks a week more for gas didn’t hurt someone who made six figures a year, but a single mom would suffer from the loss. I thought about that as I

ICE BASE NAZIS The hotel pub at the bottom of the world was the last place he expected to find himself, yet here he was, dirty glass of warm beer in hand. Warner Yeager was feeling sorry for himself.   He slouched against the cigarette burn scarred bar and scowled at the dark yellow concoction that passed for beer.   It wasn't the fine German construction he had grown used to during his time in the Bavarian forest, but it was local and it was cheap and no one looked at him twice for ordering it. Yeager was in the practice of going unnoticed. It had been several months since his adventure in Germany, the discovery that landed him in the news, though not quite for the reasons he had hoped.   As a treasure hunter, his wish was to be as famous as Mel Fisher, who discovered the Atoca on the floor of the ocean just past the Florida Keys.   Yeager wanted to find lost art looted by the Nazi's. Instead, he stumbled across a hidden armory of nuclear bombs and earned the

CHAPTER TWO “Sons of whores and dogs!” the King cursed when told the news. Batrick nodded as Holt’s scowl of anger seemed to grow deeper. “You’ll have your spies hung and quartered?” the King asked and turned toward his Queen as she sat a throne beside him. He didn’t expect Holt to draw and quarter anyone, even though he said it. The siege engines would see to all of their destruction soon enough. The Queen took his hand and held it in her own. “Is there still a way?” The King turned to Holt. “You know what she asks.” The General nodded. “A small force, perhaps. A sully through the front gate as a distraction as they ride away.” “Two distractions?” Batrick added. “If one group is spied fleeing, they will give chase, but two can serve and they will think it a warning to neighboring kingdoms.” The King nodded at the wisdom of the suggestion. “Can your magic create a third distraction?” “Your majesty?” Batrick tilted his head in confusion.

THRONE AWAY Battle. The catapults were the key to victory in any siege. Everyone knew that. So when the Armies of the southern kingdom reached the edge of the field surrounding the castle and they were without catapults, the occupants of the city breathed a collective sigh of relief. They held out hope that there was indeed enough grain in the towers to at least make bread to keep the citizens trapped within the thick granite walls from starving. The army manning the walls had plenty of arrows and fletching to shoot across the open fields when the southern army decided to march. They had stones to drop on top of their armored heads, and oil in cast iron kettles ready to drizzle and burn on top of any who made it past the rain of arrows to the cover of the wall. To even make the wall they must navigate a series of trenches filled with axe sharpened stakes and covered with feces to poison the blood of anyone who so much as scraped the sharp edges. The Gen