About Simon Says by Victoria Danann

ON SALE DEC. 13-18.

He thought she was gone forever, but what if…?

New York Times bestselling author, Victoria Danann, introduces a new Black Swan series with this enchanting novella that will make you want to pack your bags and move to the world of Black Swan.

“Heart-warming, witty, quirky, a little racy and completely engaging!” – Amazon Reader

Rosie Storm is about to get the chance to head up a new Black Swan unit, D.I.T. The Department of Interdimensional Trespass.

Twenty years ago Sir Simon was a vampire hunter. He took three month’s bereavement leave to go wild camping in the far north of Scotland following the death of his team leader. He expected solitude and fresh air to clear his mind and heart. He did not expect to fall in love. While wild camping on the stark landscape of the Orkney Islands, she disappeared into the standing stones. She faded into nothingness, a look of panic frozen on her face. As she reached out and silently called his name, he lunged to grab her an instant too late.

Her memory has haunted him every hour since.

Simon channeled his sorrow and loneliness into work until he eventually rose to the most powerful position ever held by an ex Black Swan knight. With tireless dedication, he built a congregation of talented misfits, watching and waiting for the one who could find Sorcha.

Find out why Black Swan has won best paranormal romance series the past four years in a row!

This Romance book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

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About The Game Players of Meridien: Chronicles of the Second Empire by Robert I. Katz

Douglas Oliver loves to play games.

He’s good at games, but the game he likes best is the greatest game of all, the game of life, where success is measured first by survival and second by rising to the top.

The world of Illyria was settled three thousand years ago by the First Interstellar Empire of Mankind, with the goal of breeding the toughest soldiers in the galaxy, men and women who would glory in competition, never give up and endlessly strive to dominate their environment; but the First Empire went down in flames and Illyria was isolated for two thousand years, until a new Empire rose from the ashes of the old and spread among the stars.

Douglas Oliver is a respected member of Argent, the foremost Guild in the nation of Meridien. The Guilds offer their members financial backing and military assistance but no Guild member is immune to challenge. Douglas Oliver doesn’t mind being challenged. Challenge goes along with success. Douglas Oliver accepts this. He enjoys it. Sometimes, he even loves it, until a challenge arrives from an unknown agent and suddenly, the Game is no longer just a game. It’s an all-out war where the stakes are survival, not just for Douglas Oliver, but for the nation of Meridien and the entire world of Illyria.

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I have a degree in English from Columbia and an MD from Northwestern. Most of my career was spent in academic medicine at Stony Brook, where I was Professor and Vice-Chairman for Administration, Department of Anesthesiology.

I have been writing fiction for many years. My first novel, Edward Maret: A Novel of the Future, was published in 2001 and received excellent reviews from Science Fiction Chronicle, InfinityPlus and many others. My second novel was Surgical Risk, the first in the Kurtz and Barent mystery series. It was published in 2002 and received excellent reviews from Mystery Review Magazine, Mystery Scene Magazine and many others.

To date, I have five published novels available on Amazon for kindle purchase, two science fiction and three mysteries. The Game Players of Meridien is the first in what is projected to be a seven book series, The Chronicles of the Second Interstellar Empire of Mankind. The second, which will be released approximately one month after the first, is entitled The City of Ashes and the third is The Empire of Dust. The fourth book in the Kurtz and Barent series, The Chairmen, will be published in March, 2018.

About Not a Whisper

When a retreat becomes a nightmare…

When Cherie Marshall catches her fiancé and best friend in a compromising position, she cancels her upcoming wedding and jumps at the chance to escape to quiet Klondike, Pennsylvania to care for her elderly aunt. She thought her biggest issue would be adapting to life in the middle of a National Forest, so very different from her upbringing in the deserts of Arizona.

But that was before she met State Trooper Fire Marshall Jamison “Jazz” Maddox at the scene of a mysterious fire. As they both become acquainted with the close-knit Klondike residents, things get complicated as Cherie and Jazz find themselves in the middle of a local crime wave where arson, kidnapping, embezzlement and a decades-old murder are just the tip of the iceberg.

[Book one in the Klondike Mystery series]

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Donna B. McNicol is a retired IT professional who started writing fiction after retirement. Her preferred genre is small town mysteries with a dash of romance but she has also tackled children’s stories, fantasy and small town romance. In addition, her short stories have been included in several anthologies.

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I think I was destined to be a writer – in the 4th grade I took my toy typewriter and painstakingly typed out the neighborhood news, one copy at a time, and sold it to the neighbors for ten cents each. But as often happens, life intervenes and writing took a back seat to spending 30+ years in the IT industry.

A late in life lover of adventure, I learned to ride a motorcycle at age 55, traveled the US solo on my Harley-Davidson at age 58 (42 states and 27k miles), sold my home and everything I owned to become a full-time RVer. I eventually met my current husband, also widowed, a full-time RVer and Harley rider. Fate!

We traveled the US for several years before putting it all in storage and moved to Cuenca, Ecuador for two years. What at adventure! Now we are back in the US and split our time between our home in Tennessee and traveling in our 41′ fifth wheel toy hauler trailer.

About After Bohemia by Abbey Pen Baker

At a time when women’s voices were seldom heard there lived “two lively women sleuths!” — Publisher’s Weekly. Find out who killed Irene Adler. While Myrl and Faye are sent following a bloody trail of betrayal trying to stop a revolution, Holmes and Watson are faced with an adversary as remarkable as the dead woman herself. Discover why readers from 15 10 105 are falling in love with Myrl and Faye. Who knew Holmes had a daughter?

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I am only editing my great aunt’s books. Faye was an untrained writer with a trained ear for speech and a keen eye for detail. It is a shame her titles are all out of print. Her cases with Myrl Adler Norton spanned time and continents, and I am honored to reprint their stories. My friend, Rebecca Morean, writes literary novels and short stories (R. A. Morean) as well as romance (Rebecca Morean) and lives with too may dogs now that her four children have grown and left her with empty boxes. She teaches writing and composition and has been featured on radio, television, blog spots, and loves that Laurie R. King loves Myrl and Faye!

About Return to Rainbow Rock

Little does Marcie know that she will soon meet Mr. Right.

When Marcie was in her teens, Rainbow Rock, Arizona was home. Though she spent holidays and a couple of weeks each summer in southern California with her mother, she lived most of the year with her dad and new step-family. Then she graduated high school, went to college in California, and never looked back. A decade later, broken by a failed relationship, Marcie is coming home to heal. Little does she know that she will soon meet Mr. Right, or that loving him will present her with even more need for healing.

Ryan Fields never realized his ex-wife’s fascination with online role-playing would lead him to leave a successful legal career in Sacramento to go to work with the Navajo Nation, nor that he would have to drive long distances to visit his children on alternate weekends. He certainly doesn’t feel ready to trust again, even when the whirlwind called Marcie enters his life and turns everything upside down. Little does he know…

The bumps in the course of true love will alter both their lives.

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Susan Aylworth loves “travel, great, music, and good raspberry jam” and claims addiction to “words in almost all polite forms.” Her first book, started when she was nine, “was a rip-off of Black Beauty. I wrote eight whole pages!” For her fifth grade career day, she stated her ambition to become “a rich and famous author.” Years later, she is pleased to have achieved the ‘author’ part of that goal.

She enjoys researching backgrounds and careers for her novels. “It’s one way to live many lives all at once.” Servant to two spoiled cats, she lives in northern California with her writer husband, Roger. She wishes the kids would visit more often.

Susan loves hearing from readers. Reach her at susan.aylworth.author@gmail.com, post on her wall at: www.facebook.com/Susan.Aylworth.Author or follow her @SusanAylworth. “If you enjoy my books, please tell everyone you know: friends, relatives, neighbors, the person who delivers your mail, people you meet in line in the grocery store, everyone!” Give her a shout if you’d like your name to appear in an upcoming book, but beware: You may become the bad guy.

About Winter’s Fury

IN A WORLD RULED BY MEN, ONE WOMAN WILL RISE

She was their greatest warrior, the daughter of the king, but her uncle stole the throne and sent her away to marry the drunken son of their worst enemy. Now she must pick up her sword to restore her family’s honour and return to the home she loves.

Despite her reputation as a warrior in Brekka, without her father to protect her, Jael Furyck was merely a pawn, a woman to be married off so that her uncle could forge an alliance to fulfil his own desperate ambitions.

Eadmund Skalleson has been lost, tortured by the death of his first wife, but his father has lost patience with him. He needs heirs for his kingdom. He wants his son restored to the fierce warrior he once was. And when his young daughter has a dream about Jael, the woman who will save him, he makes an alliance that he may live to regret.

Jael and Eadmund will fight against their forced union, but the dreamers know that this marriage is meant to be. It must happen for the sake of Osterland. For without them, without Jael and her mysterious sword, without Eadmund by her side, none of the kingdoms will survive the darkness that is coming to claim them all.

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Upon discovering that her chances for inventing a time machine were rather slim, 8-year-old A.E. Rayne decided to pursue a career as a writer instead. She completed a Bachelor of Communication Studies, majoring in television, then trained as a graphic designer, while dabbling in poetry, and continually plotting her first novel.

A.E. Rayne survives on a happy diet of historical and fantasy fiction and particularly loves a good Viking tale. Her favourite authors are Bernard Cornwell, Giles Kristian, Robert Low, C.J. Sansom, and Patrick O’Brian. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and three children.

Winter’s Fury is the first book in a epic viking inspired fantasy series.

About Empyrean

In this conclusion to The Brin Archives, Maliche Rocker must risk everything including his family’s reputation and even his life, to uncover the truth about the Skae. For over three hundred years the Brin have believed the Skae to be their benefactors, and the race that rescued them from extinction. But recent revelations by a group of young Kolbri, the offspring of Brin and Kolandi mating, tell a disturbingly different story.

Three Kolbri, including Maliche’s son Jontar, must use their unique abilities to telepathically connect with technology, and discover the truth about the Skae once and for all by undertaking a perilous journey through thousands of years in space and time, unravelling the history hidden from them by Skae. During this expedition, Jontar and his two companions must encounter the Gorvin, hated enemy of the Skae and supposed instigators of the current interstellar war.

What turned the Skae and Gorvin into mortal enemies? What is the true cause of the war responsible for the destruction of hundreds of worlds over thousands of years? Will Maliche and his small group find the truth and avert disaster both at home and across the galaxy? Can his wife, Ryma, hold the Brin government together long enough for Maliche to succeed? Only time will tell.

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I worked for thirty-five years as a middle school science teacher, but am now semi-retired, working part-time as an educator/performer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I have been married for thirty-eight years to the love of my life. Together, we raised two incredible sons, and now have three incredible grandchildren to spoil rotten.
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lived in Arlington, Virginia before moving to Denver where I attended High School and eventually college at Colorado State University, graduating with a degree in Zoology and a teacher certification. My wife and I currently live near Denver in the small town of Parker.
My science fiction series, The Brin Archives is an epic adventure encompassing an entire galaxy on the verge of destruction. This trilogy, to my amazement and delight, has won critical acclaim and numerous awards. Who would have ever guessed this old, retired science teacher would become a successfully published author? I hope you enjoy my stories.

About Leaving Earth Vol. 1

When Grum Hewson leaves academia to head up the world’s first dedicated antimatter production site, he is totally unprepared for what the business world is going to throw at him.

From an incompetent boss to an ethically-challenged board of directors, Grum must negotiate his way through the treacherous waters of industry and commerce before this haphazardly lethal company does something that everyone is going to regret.

On the way he tries to get antimatter power generation on a sound commercial footing, help the Space Division with setting up a lunar base, orbital platforms, and a Moon-Mars shuttle.

Oh, he gets married and has a son. He does that, too. And that’s never easy.

The Leaving Earth series is a new addition following that style of high-tech, science-heavy, sci-fi which incorporates a dose of sardonic humour.

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Kaal has been a writer in one form or another since his teens (and even before). While fiction writing has always been his first love, he discovered during his career in IT (from junior unix systems administrator through to senior project and infrastructure manager roles) a knack for parsing technical, complex subjects into readily accessible material — a skill that sensible companies have found valuable, as you might imagine.

The work-life balance is an enduring problem for everyone and Kaal found himself suffering from powerpoint poisoning and ganttstipation — which is never fun.

In order to relieve these symptoms, Kaal began to spend less time on IT work and more time gaining additional skills to bolster his personal knowledge base and increase his ability to create books which share that knowledge, in a (hopefully) enjoyable fashion.

The vastness of Kaal’s knowledge is matched only by the size of his ego and propensity to speak about himself in the third-person.

Although his books touch on some complex and technical areas, no prior knowledge is generally needed and you won’t be asked to wade through a massive sea of text to get at the bits you need to know.

Each bite-sized chunk of braining delivered in his books is intended to deliver just what you need to know about a particular subject to get the job done — no more, no less.

You are personally invited to join those readers who have already enjoyed Kaal’s books, and if you do find yourself among that happy number, always feel free to join up to the mailing list at the back of the books to get ahead of the queue when new books are released.

It is probably entirely redundant to say that Kaal is greatly thankful to any and all of his readership, but it is true nevertheless.

Thank you.

About Witch at Heart

If you like J.K. Rowling or secretly want to be Harry Dresden, Jinx Hamilton may be the witch for you. She’s new to magic, with one option: learn fast. The series begins with a sweet “cozy” note in the first novel Witch at Heart, but evolves into a full-blown paranormal urban fantasy. From shapeshifting werecats and ancient Fae to baseball playing ghosts and paramilitary fairy troops, the Jinx Hamilton books have it all.

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Juliette Harper is the pen name used by the writing team of Patricia Pauletti and Rana K. Williamson. As a writer, Juliette’s goal is to create strong female characters facing interesting, challenging, painful, and at times comical situations. Juliette’s breakout series, the paranormal/urban Jinx Hamilton mystery/adventures now runs to 10 books with number 11 coming out soon!

About Love, Lies and More Lies – Books 1-4, by Debby Conrad

LOVE, LIES AND MORE LIES series: Books 1-4 are included in this boxed set. Four different relationships with lots of love, lies, steam, passion, betrayal, murder, blackmail and more lies. Did I mention more lies?

Book 1 – LOVE, LIES AND HIGH HEELS – It never hurts to be rich, but money can’t buy love. Luke Galloway, a lying scoundrel, and Rusty Paris, a spoiled little rich girl, are thrown together and manipulated by her father who pretends to be dying in this romantic comedy. Who would have guessed a lie could bring two people together?

Book 2 – LOVE, LIES AND COMPROMISE – She broke his heart years ago and now Kennedy Quinn Parker is back in his life again. Jake Hastings has no idea what she is up to but he knows it has nothing to do with her wanting to be a companion to his dying father. So what the hell does she want? Whatever it is could land her butt in jail.

Book 3 – LOVE, LIES AND ALIBIS – Sawyer McVey is not interested in working for the arrogant, rude and snotty little princess Eden Cavanaugh. Even if it is the only gig available and he’s been offered twice his normal fee. Because he knows if he touches her, he’ll fall for her all over again. And that would be bad. But that doesn’t stop him from accepting her offer. Soon after Eden hires Sawyer, he’s being questioned for murder and she gives him an alibi. Even though she wasn’t with him the entire night in question. But, hey, what’s one tiny lie?

Book 4 – LOVE, LIES AND DIRTY DEALS – A hot guy who is also an ex-con? Not what Claire Holland signed up for. But for some reason she can’t keep her eyes or her hands off him. Maybe Jordan Quinn is just the distraction she needs to get over her ex-boyfriend.

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DEBBY CONRAD has been spinning tales since junior high school when she would force her younger sister and a few close friends to listen to her fantasies and dreams. Back then she had no idea her silly tales would end up in print, or that her later dream of becoming a novelist would come true.

Debby lives with her husband in NW Pennsylvania, has two grown daughters, five grandchildren, a Chihuahua who likes to go outdoors every 30 minutes, and a miniature Dachshund who does not like being ignored while she writes.

As an award-winning author, with 26 published romance novels to her credit, it is a mystery as to what Debby will work on next. Even she doesn’t know. She recently completed Love, Lies and Bow Ties, the 8th and final book in the Love, Lies and More Lies series. Other series include the Overbearing Billionaires, Chance at Love and the Orchard Falls series.

About Ethereum: Complete Guide to Understanding Ethereum, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, ICOs, and Decentralized Apps. Includes guides on buying Ether, Cryptocurrencies and Investing in ICOs by Mark Gates

The market size of Ethereum is now over 30 billion dollars and growing rapidly.

Ethereum is still an emerging technology however it’s rapid growth and adoption can’t be ignored and it could soon become the dominant cyptocurrency surpassing bitcoin.

Microsoft, IBM and other major companies are building applications and infrastructure for the Ethereum network.

Ethereum has created not just a new currency but an entirely new way to build and run computer programs.

Ethereum is also changing the way industries handle contracts with the creation of smart contracts on the Ethereum network.

This revolution is computing is just get started with Ethereum currently less than 2 years old.

Understanding Ethereum now could equip you with the knowledge ahead of a major technological revolution in these early stages of development.

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Mark Gates is an author with best selling books on Amazon covering blockchain and cryptocurrency technology. Whether you’re launching a website, marketing an existing business, trading cryptocurrencies, learning programming or looking for real world skills to land you a dream job. Mark writes his books with easy to understand language and practical exercises designed to get you to your goal.

Even if you have no previous experience, Mark’s books will take you from beginner to tech-master in no time.

About Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain: How to Guide: Investing, Trading, Mining

Blockchain technology will fundamentally change our lives in the next ten years, especially Bitcoin and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. Today cryptocurrency market capitalization is around $250B with Bitcoin price more than $15000.

Due to CB Insight research Google, Citibank and Goldman Sachs are one of the most active corporate blockchain investors.

In this book you will learn how to use this great opportunity to make money with Bitcoin and other blockchain projects.

You will learn all the basics to start INVESTING, TRADING or MINING Bitcoin, Ethereum and list of prospective cryptocurrencies.

Only proven recommendations from an author who is an expert in Bitcoin mining business in China and who now became a co-founder of one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange platform.

You will find the answer to most important questions for starting making money with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies:

How cryptocurrency works?

How to start make money with Bitcoin?

Should I invest money in Bitcoin today?

What investments will be the most profitable?

Cryptocurrency trading tips!

How to start mining Bitcoin or Ethereum?

And much more!

You can read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device

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Chang Lee is a professional blockchain coder, he was a pioneer in Bitcoin mining business in China and now he is a co-founder of one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange platform. He aspires to work for the biggest United States investment funds as a cryptocurrency counselor. Also, he loves teaching others about the future of cryptocurrency.

About The Lost and Found Journal of a Miner 49er, Vol. 1 by Jack Dublin

In The Lost and Found Journal of a Miner 49er (Vol. 1), Jack Dublin guides us through a world of fantasy and folklore stretching from the shores of Australia to the Island of California. Along the way, we encounter all manner of mythical creatures, from the self-consumed phoenix and red-haired giants, to a talking coyote and the dreaded Canyon Sphinx. We peer into the exploits of powerful rulers and infamous outlaws, who—though their names be lost to history—are no less important to the fabric of civilization than Abraham Lincoln and Jesse James. At the end of our journey, we have come face to face with a history far different from what we learned in school, but with a deepened faith in God, our imaginations ablaze for the next adventure.

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Jack Dublin was born in Massachusetts; attended Kindergarten in West Germany; graduated high school Virginia; and earned his baccalaureate degree from the University of Arizona. Growing up, Jack had little interest in history—much less the 49er Gold Rush—until his love of travel and exploration intersected a contentious debate on the lost history of mankind. Mr. Dublin lives in parts unknown—under pseudonym—with his beloved bride, their four darling children, and a bearded dragon.

About Tree of Lives by Elizabeth Garden

Based on actual events, Tree of Lives follows Ruth, an unconventional commercial artist, and her murderous great uncle Raymond. He is a ghost with a tragic secret who desperately wants to make amends. She is the only one willing to help, but first she needs to overcome a lifetime of heartbreaking turns.

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“Life is like a garden. For a good harvest, we must water abundantly, thin carefully, nourish the soil and watch for uninvited pests.”

So says author Elizabeth Garden, 63, who spent her Wonder Years in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. A frustrated horse enthusiast, she channeled her appreciation of their magnificence into painting and design. Despite struggling as a single mother, she built a successful career as an award-winning art director. She enjoys studying human and spiritual potential.
Tree of Lives is her first book.

About Christmas in Reunion Gap, by Mary Campisi

Christmas is coming to Reunion Gap in this charming holiday novelette.

Nicki Gallagher doesn’t believe in Christmas, small towns, or relationships that aren’t about
business. She’s a city girl with big dreams that include prestige and money—and lots of both.
But when a forced sabbatical from her job lands her in Reunion Gap during the Christmas
holidays, will she open her eyes and her heart to what she’s been missing?
Jameson Price left city life behind to regain his focus on what really mattered in life—family
and relationships. Now he’s back in Reunion Gap where the pace is slower and life is less
complicated. Just the way he likes it.

Until Jameson meets Nicki Gallagher.

Will she make his life impossible, or will he find a way to show her how rich the simple life
can be?

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Mary Campisi writes emotion-packed books about second chances. Whether contemporary romances, women’s fiction, or Regency historicals, her books all center on belief in the beauty of that second chance. Her small town romances center around family life, friendship, and forgiveness as they explore the issues of today’s contemporary women.

Mary should have known she’d become a writer when at age thirteen she began changing the ending to all the books she read. It took several years and a number of jobs, including registered nurse, receptionist in a swanky hair salon, accounts payable clerk, and practice manager in an OB/GYN office, for her to rediscover writing. Enter a mouse-less computer, a floppy disk, and a dream large enough to fill a zip drive. The rest of the story lives on in every book she writes.

When she’s not working on her craft or following the lives of five adult children, Mary’s digging in the dirt with her flowers and herbs, cooking, reading, walking her rescue lab mix, Cooper, or, on the perfect day, riding off into the sunset with her very own hero/husband on his Harley Ultra Limited.

Mary has published with Kensington, Carina Press, and The Wild Rose Press and she is currently working on the next book in her very popular Truth in Lies series, the A Family Affair books. This family saga is filled with heartache, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption in a small town setting.

About Cranky Bear Wakes Up

Inspired by works as ancient as Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, and as new as The Wachowski’s The Matrix, this story-sketchbook by the Brothers StJean tracks the misadventures of a bleary eyed and hungry Bear, following his winter hibernation. Initially selfish and indifferent to the troubles of the forest creatures around him, such as Fish, Robin, and Bee, he gradually learns that we are all part of one great, interconnected ecosystem. But, in the process, he has to shed his crankiness, and WAKE UP!

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I’m a college professor in Attleboro, MA. My other books are “Clotho’s Loom (21012,) “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition (2006) and
Pagan Dreiser: Songs from American Mythology (2001).

Rather than try to describe who I am through a series of historical events or by listing my accomplishments while concealing my failures, I thought I would name several writers/books that I can honestly say have changed my life in a material way. I have also included a few remarkable films. These influences may not always be done justice to in my own writing, but they are definitely owed a substantial debt. In no particular order:

-Stan Lee, author of hundreds of Marvel Comics. Some have called him heavy-handed or naive, but to me, from an age even before I learned to read, really, Stan’s plots, characters, and dialogue epitomize soul. Considering the increasingly cynical environment in which his work appeared, it’s truly inspiring to see the spirit of the Romancer carried on with unwavering trust that young people still get it.

-Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos. This book showed me the interconnectedness of all things, and buckled my world-view at a period of my life when I defined myself against others. This caused me infinite trouble, but I would not trade away the experience for any amount of inner or outer peace.

-Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden and various political lecture-essays. Could anyone actually read these works and not walk away dissatisfied with the status quo, even as regards one’s own heart?

-Stephen Crane, the too-briefly-with-us author of more great fiction than many who lived three times longer. Those who have oversimplified naturalism, the most stark version of literary realism, have had to willfully ignore his works to do it.

-Oliver Stone, director of JFK. This film was for me what The Matrix was for the next generation: a dramatic reinterpretation of Plato. Valid or not, his presentation raises the spirit of inquiry to such a height that one must question every “reality” from then on.

-Stephen Speilberg, director of the quintessential monster movie Jaws, showed us that there is no outworn plot, archetype, or device, creative writing teachers be damned. By every professional standard, this film should be an obscure failure, and yet it’s one of the best and most well-known ever made in any genre.

-James Cameron. The Terminator proves, in its retelling of the Oedipus myth, that a solid premise can overcome any budget deficit: time, money, materials, personnel.