I wanted to time the latest tome in time for Christmas. Now available on Amazon:
If you want zombies, or dystopia, or a board game between divine adversaries, this isn't it. This is you and me, finding ourselves a the seemingly lone survivors in a world gone dead, with the terror, opportunities, loneliness, and reaching out that would accompany that horrific event.
Well... maybe not quite just you and me. There is Romance, Battle, a Villain, a Hero, a Love Interest, a Plucky Young Survivor, a couple Curmudgeons, and other various personalities that we come to love. Or not.
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And just for my people here in this wonderful place, an excerpt from the last section, "The Author's Final Note":
"The book started out with the intent of being a political discussion. My thought was having just two old guys survive, one conservative and one liberal, and their dialogue would serve as my proxy political essays. But as Stephen King notes in
On Writing, a story has its own life, and it’s up to the writer to uncover it. Besides, as I write this in late 2016, most are pretty well fed up with politics for the moment. I just didn’t expect the story to morph into a poor man’s version of Mr. King’s
The Stand. But that’s what was there, waiting to be uncovered."
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"Speaking of
The Stand: Yes, there are similarities. Most of humanity gets wiped out by a virus. The survivors band together. But as stated, the initial idea of an apocalypse was to bring the two old guys together. And supernatural things don’t enter into my story. I had no intention of trying to emulate Mr. King’s fine book in any way."
As with my prior release, our own
cat in a bag previewed this one and declared it satisfactory.
If you're interested, search for the author's name on Amazon. And thank you, Gracious Host, Marsha, and mods for allowing this section.
