Ep. 220: Popping Up

Bookbinding

I have made a bunch of pop-up books and they have grabbed my imagination. I enjoy building things and obviously pop-up books is building a story. I have learned how to make pull-tabs, v-folds, and another fold that twists the picture. I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s fun. I have no pictures of the pop-up books I have made because once I make them, I tear them apart to re-make them or make them slightly differently. By the time I realize I should’ve taken a few shots, they’re gone.

However, pop-up books, while frustrating to construct, are a new passion that I hope I can continue making, continue improving, and have something to show you in the near future. They are not something you can think about and then produce, like writing. I have to have the paper, tape, and scissors in my hands and manipulating everything in order to make it. It’s fun.

Fiction

The Fear Trilogy

I have published Fear Zero on iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Scribd. It is BooK 0 of The Fear Trilogy. This trilogy takes place in a dystopian future war with conspiracies. Book One Fear Itself is in the writing stage. I am up to 30,000 words and I plan the book to be between 50,000 and 60,000 words so I am half-way there.

I am using, for the first time, a rough outline that includes which action I want in each chapter, plus how it leads to the next chapter. I usually write with just a general outline in my head. With an outline written down, I find it easier to write, quicker to write, and satisfying to strike a chapter off the list.

See a three-minute YouTube video of me sewing Fear Zero. 

The Oregon Murder Mystery Series

Feeding Vicki’s Corpse and The City of Cocks (available on iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Scribd) are two related murder mysteries that take place in the same town with many of the same characters but spread about 20 years apart. Chronologically Feeding Vicki’s Corpse is before The City of Cocks. However, you may read them in either order. I wrote them in reverse chronological order so for me Feeding Vicki’s Corpse is a prequel.

 

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Matt McKenzie, 10, is thrown in prison for murdering his mother. He must contend with sadistic guards, violent inmates, loneliness, and fear. 

This is the prelude to The Fear Trilogy, a dystopian future war novel which follows McKenzie from war to peace and back to war through power-hungry politicians, conspiracies, and intrigue.

 

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Sol is wrongly arrested for murdering a teenager. The teenager’s father works with important people in this small Oregon town and they all want someone, Anyone!, arrested and convicted of the murder. Sol must rely on his wife and a friend who is an alcoholic poet who sees and talks to ghosts. Not a strong defense team.

The City of Cocks is a sister-novel to Feeding Vicki’s Corpse.

 

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McCorkle, a retired Boston police detective, is haunted by the death of someone he loved as he wanders around the US. In Oregon, he saves the lives of four teenagers. The chief of police asks him to help solve a cold case. In his investigations he discovers the murder is related to a rape. But the most powerful businessman in the town doesn’t want the murder solved or the rape exposed.

Feeding Vicki’s Corpse is a sister-novel to The City of Cocks.

 

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