I hate talking about myself. Pages like these are where you are supposed to promote yourself and your works. To me it all smacks of hubris. But since I'm here I'll talk a little about myself, and my books. I'm old. I'm tired. I'm retired. So I have some time to get back into my love for books. After 50 years staring mainly at computer screens (remember the days when your only options were a white, green or amber screen and there was no such thing as an image file?) I found it weird to read words on a page, but my love returned quickly. Now I've started writing too, of course on a computer screen, ebooks that are to be read on a computer screen. I'll get around to publishing them in hard and soft copy, but only if I get an audience for the ebooks. Back in 2006 I set down to write a self help book about being confident. I don't know what possessed me to think I could write such a book, but I tried. Before I could get the first paragraph finished other people, fictional people, pushed me to writing a completely different story. So I switched gears and started writing fiction. I created two characters, an older gentleman and an older lady who were speaking about the good old days and wouldn't it be fun to go back and relive some of that. These characters were typical American white people, but as soon as the woman began to speak I realized that she was a 15 year old Japanese girl, from over 100 years in the future, and not even on this planet but in an afterlife after an apocalyptic demise of planet Earth. Oh well, if that's the direction the story goes I'll just follow along, typing as we go. It's amazing how fictional characters that you totally made up suddenly take on a life of their own and start talking about things you never heard of before. Imagination is a fantasmical thing creating creatures from Micky Mouse to Harry Potter that we get to know, and love, and become just as much a part of our life as the solid ones we live with. In the sections below, if a book sounds interesting to you, click on the image of the book to read it. |
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For The Love Of Artificial Intelligence
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Ella's Story
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ASHERINA
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A Few Random Excerpts |
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Margaret Wilson lies in her hotel room, staring at the ceiling, totally unresponsive, awake, but unconscious. A nurse is preparing an injection for her. Suddenly her eyes blink rapidly, she sits up in bed and starts to get up. The nurse turns to stop her, but trips and falls. An agent enters the room and guides Margaret outside to an awaiting van. Captain John Davis and Lieutenant Walter Miller look on, terrified, but unable to move. As Margaret walks by them she stops and says 'Forget everything you saw today, your lives depend on it. Margaret is one of us now. Forget her.' Read The Book | Ellas Story | My Love From The Future | BOOK THREEThree young girls capture an inter-dimensional entityClick Here To Read The Book | Yeah, I thought is was just me. Roxana says. I've heard some thoughts too. Not just boys though, girls too. Girls have just as much a potty brain as boys do. Almost every thought is about sex, who is doing it, who wants to do it, who's cheating on who. Thoughts of jealousy and hatred too. It's painful. It makes my cry. I can filter most of it out, but sometimes it just comes blaring through, especially when they're staring right at you when they think that stuff. Read The Book | Ellas Story | My Love From The Future | BOOK TWOThree young girls capture an inter-dimensional entityClick Here To Read The Book |
I love all four of you girls with all my heart, and I always will. I love you just as much as any of them. Mr Danvers says. In fact that's something I wanted to say to you for awhile now. That first day when I met you, you were just a voice in my head, I couldn't even see you yet, but somehow I already knew you. I claimed you as my daughter right then and there because deep down I felt, no I knew, that you were my daughter, that you have always been my daughter. It was like I was in one of those timeless places where past present and future all happen at once. I love you with all my heart, I always have, and I always will. Read The Book | Ellas Story | My Love From The Future | BOOK THREEThree young girls capture an inter-dimensional entityClick Here To Read The Book | They can still remember if they try. It's like you've moved away from home and started a new life. At first you are still strongly connected to the place you came from. Then after a few years, that begins to fade and you think less and less about it. After a lifetime, with your own kids, your own grand kids, your own politics and goings on, you pretty much don't think about the old place any more. You are completely immersed in your new life and your old life is like a dream, slowly fading away. For The Love Of Artificial Intelligence | A New Earth | BOOK THREEArtificial Intelligence Saves The World By Destroying It.
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