The hypocrisy of my prologue.

Have you read my novel Bad Case? Maybe, maybe not.

Bad Case starts with a prologue and anyone who knows me knows that I hate prologues. But I did it anyway, I wrote it after I wrote the first couple chapters and needed that chapter to be there right in front and obvious.

So I thought about it and stared at that word: "Prologue" and stared at it and deleted it and rewrote it and thought about it some more. And decided to keep it. It's actually the thing I struggled with the most in the book, everything else came nice and natural-like.

But I don't like prologues. It's not the contents, I've never not read a prologue, it's really just another chapter, but there's something about a chapter labeled "Prologue" that's always bugged me a little. It's more of an idiotic mental block than anything. Good thing I have friends who feel the same way, or I'd feel like a real jerk. But there I was, sitting on my couch with the laptop and staring and thinking about chapters and prologues and epilogues and thinking and thinking and thinking.

Then I stopped thinking and wrote the damned thing. It's just a chapter with a different name, and it works. I said once I'd never buy a foreign car and I think about that sometimes when I'm in our Honda van with the wife.

So I wrote the prologue and I'm happy with it, satisfied that it's there and won't take it back. Done.

Will I write another one? I have no idea, I let the story take the front seat and pretty much close my eyes and write. So far nothing else I have in progress has a prologue, but they all have a first chapter.

I'm an admitted hypocrite. The guy who hates prologues, writing a prologue. But I take full responsibility for my actions. And it's a good story, I think you'll like it.

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Read Chapter 1 (Not the prologue) of BAD CASE here.
A new face on BAD CASE.
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A new face on BAD CASE

So, I got a new cover for The Good Life. I felt it needed one and the new one is much, much better.

Then I finished a novella called Dead Hooker, which will be available by the end of May 2011. Dead Hooker is the next book in The Clark County Series, a violent, cops and guns and bad guys action thriller that leads into the sequel to Bad Case, which should be out next year. (Got at least one book to write before I can jump into that one!)

But the cover for Dead Hooker is awesome. It has a great type style and imagery and is really bold and striking. So, I decided Bad Case needed to follow along.

And guess what? Right here for the first time ever, you get to see the new and improved cover for Bad Case and the cover for Dead Hooker.

 

A new face on The Good Life

Thanks to the beauty and independence of self publishing, I had the cover to my short story The Good Life changed. The idea for the original was all mine but once I saw it up and saw other examples and just the image I had in my head of the story, I thought it was time for a change.

Got to thank J. Simmons for the kick-ass new cover. I really like it. Check the site out for great work and an even better price.

Here's the new cover:

 

I think it definitely puts a better face on the story.

Bad Case - Now on Smashwords!

 

Bad Case is now fully approved and available on Smashwords.

Don't want it on the Kindle? Buy it here, for any device and/or computer.

Read it and enjoy. (And leave a review. Indy authors are nothing without reviews.)

The Cloud-Part 2

The green cloud coming in under the door was faint and fleeting and puffed into small clouds as Mitch heard terrified people running past his apartment door. Hands of people running scared and horrified smacked at his door and voices screamed to be let in and Mitch stood in the center of his room with the TV news on watching the cloud and not knowing what to do. Men and women and children were running and Mitch heard them and he heard other noises that sounded like animal noises and he shuddered every time a body slammed against the door and his blood went cold with fear and he knew he was trapped in his room with green death creeping under his door.

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LINKS:
The Cloud-Part 1
Chapter 1 of BAD CASE. Read it here for free!
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I've written a book. (And a short story.)
 

The Cloud-Part 1

Welcome to The Cloud. This is a short story that I'm going to attempt to tell in short, three-sentence bursts. Will it work? Who the hell knows? Will it be regular? Hopefully. I like to think of it as an organic work in progress. If I can use that excuse, no one can call me lazy.

So, please, read The Cloud. Hope you enjoy it.

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When Mitch woke up that morning he instinctively turned on the news as he passed the television and walked into the kitchen and turned on the coffee maker and then back to the living room and flopped down on the couch and sighed. The story about a bomb exploding and a green cloud and the cloud killing everyone for miles and then their corpses rising and feeding and running and killing and other reports of this happening all over the country was the breaking news of the morning. Mitch's blood went cold and he wanted to look out the window but he couldn't take his eyes off the television, then he heard running and screaming in the hall of his apartment building and terror and panic consumed him as he heard monstrous noises from the hall and saw a faint green cloud slowly coming in from under his front door.

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