{"id":118,"date":"2021-10-13T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.digitalammo.org\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:36:37","slug":"books-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Books Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

High Ground<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is my oldest surviving book. It was a political thriller written in 1995. I started work on it in Okotoks, AB and finished it in Terrace, BC. After it was rejected by a few publishers, I gave up and let it rot for a few decades until I found it on a computer. It had been written in Microsoft Works and was inaccessible until my son, Jonathan Ross, rescued it from digital hell. Since it was written at a time when cell phones weren’t much of a thing, updating it for a modern setting (in 2018 approximately) was a bit dicey. Still, this book\u2014about a neo-Nazi \/ evangelical extremist alliance\u2014proved regrettably prescient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hell Queen<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hell Queen <\/em>started life as part of an older book of interconnected stories published as Chaembyr Musick<\/em>. Hell Queen<\/em> was originally titled The Goddess <\/em>and passed through a few phases before becoming Hell Queen<\/em>. The concept of Hell Queen was based on the Persephone legend. Persephone aka Kore (Cora) lived half the year in Hell and the rest on Earth. So I imagined Cora in several earthly incarnations with no memory of her other self, yet always awakening to the truth of her divine nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Softly Launching<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This was my first published collection of short stories. It contains one of my best efforts: Love With Subtitles<\/em>. It was also my first book to be printed. Holding it in that bookstore was an indescribably delicious feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Splatter of Fact<\/span><\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To date, this has been my most popular book with readers. It’s based on fairly dodgy metaphysics and it’s kinda fun, but it’s also really stupid. I wrote it pretty fast and the result felt good. The story was more entertaining than anything I’d written before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost in the Amazon<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a book that was written because of the title. Why? Simple. I wrote a long short story in Grade Four with this title. My teacher loved it. Read the entire thing aloud to our class. She even got me tested to determine if I was “gifted”. (I wasn’t.) Nevertheless, that teacher’s encouragement set me on a course that changed my life. This book\u2014a collection of short stories\u2014was written to honour her memory. (Thank you, Miss Pargelen.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kitsch & Moonshine<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The title of this book came from a text exchange with my friend, Dyane Irvine. I envisioned star-crossed lovers: a shady art appraiser and a wild hillbilly girl. Writing this one was pure fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dead4U<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After retiring from gainful employment at the zipper factory, this became my first project. It’s written somewhat closer to a pulp-style story with lots of graphic violence and gratuitous sex. In other words, it’s a fun read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harlot’s Honeymoon<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to write a classic romance with bickering lovers and lots of plot turns. Instead, I ended up writing this. It’s a romcom with the occasional bang and whimper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terror Takes Two<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The premise was simple. Two bored thrill-seekers decide to tell scary stories around a campfire. Problem: they need someone to judge their story contest. So they kidnap an older man and younger woman from the campsite next to them. Fun and frolicking ensue . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful Strangers<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Convoluted tale of scientists, spies, mind-control and total weirdness. Not your traditional page-turner. Imagine falling down a rabbit hole\u2014if the hole was in the rabbit’s head but the rabbit didn’t know it was dead so it kept talking. Yeah. See what I mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heroes Need Not Apply<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Decided to try my hand at urban fantasy and this is what happened. Happy accident or total crap? Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half Empty<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wrote this one sometime between 1997-2002 back in Terrace, BC. Didn’t take that long to write\u2014just can’t remember when the actual writing occurred. RE the title: I’m sick of people claiming to belong to the “half-full” or “half-empty” camp. I say someone drank from my glass when I wasn’t looking. There you go. Another critical social issue resolved without even trying. And I REALLY wasn’t trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High Ground This is my oldest surviving book. It was a political thriller written in 1995. I started work on it in Okotoks, AB and finished it in Terrace, BC. After it was rejected by a few publishers, I gave up and let it rot for a few decades until I found it on a… Continue reading Books Gone Wild<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podpeoplepress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}