Ep. 218: Fear Zero for Sale

My project for this coming few weeks is learning how to make a pop-up book. To that end I scurried off to YouTube to check out two video series: Pop-up Channel with Duncan Birmingham and Matthew Reinhart . Birmingham has an extensive tutorial collection and Reinhart is one inventive pop-up artist (paper engineer). Between the two of them they taught me how to make two folds that I practiced often. More, I hope, to come.

Importantly, I finished Fear Zero (iBooks link), the prolog to  The Fear Trilogy. It is an action-oriented prelude to a dystopian future on an unnamed planet that must deal with government corruption, aliens aiming to take jobs for ‘real’ people, and war. It is not only finished but Up For Sale at Apple iBooks, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. 

Besides as an e-book, Fear Zero will be available as a real book, too. I sewed it up (Soon, I hope, there will be a video on YouTube of the process). Contact me if you’d like a real version of Fear Zero. It is about 120 pages.
The main character – Matt McKenzie – is thrown in prison for murdering his mother. He is ten years old. He must survive sadistic guards, violent prisoners and loneliness. He meets and befriends, he thinks, two other inmates: Monster and Ferrell. Upon release from prison - it can only keep them until they are 16 years old – he must survive in the world, but because he is an ex-con, he cannot find a decent, ‘normal’ job or a place to live.

Secondly, I sewed up Giapan, my Don Quixote-inspired episodic novel of a nun, two guards, and a Japanese artist traveling across Spain in 1600. Again, hopefully, there will be a video up on YouTube of me sewing all 16 signatures of Giapan while doing my laundry.

This was finished the Same Day I discover that Salman Rushdie’s new novel is his Don Quixote-inspired, Quichotte. Either Great Minds and all that or coincidence. Fortunately, he has taken the meta-fiction aspect (the characters know they are being written about) while I have taken the action bits, more or less. In other words, my Giapan makes a great companion piece to Rushdie’s Quichotte! Great! 

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City of Cocks ~ a poetic murder

A murder mystery. An ordinary husband is arrested for the murder a teenage son of a local businessman. He soon discovers there are forces in the small town that want him convicted. Only his wife and a friend, a drunken poet who sees ghosts, can  prove his innocence.

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Fear Zero

A ten-year-old boy is thrown in prison for murdering his mother; a crime he insists he didn’t do. In prison he must survive sadistic guards, violent prisoners, and loneliness. He makes two friends in prison. One is violent and the other is severely withdrawn to the point he can only write what he wants to say.

The prolog to The Fear Trilogy (Coming Soon!)

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