Writing year 2023: part 1
I’m writing this July 1, 2023. That makes it a good date to look back at the first six months of the writing year.
Read MoreAuthor: Duane Spurlock
Introduction
“The only important thing these days is rhythm and melody” — Rush (Mick Jones)
Big Audio Dynamite isn’t wrong, but there’s more. Particularly when you’re talking about books and writing books.
Airship Hunters
It is 1897 and the skies are haunted by mysterious airships and unfathomable secrets. Tasked with hunting down these strange vehicles of the air and determining their origin and intent, two U.S. government agents toil under unusual conditions to supply their shadowy superiors with information. But that information proves to be as elusive as the airships themselves. Ride with Agents Valiantine and Cabot across the Midwest as they encounter reports of strange lights, phantom soldiers, unreliable witnesses, and the ultimate source of their airborne prey. They are the Airship Hunters, and they cannot be waylaid from their path to uncover the greatest mystery of them all.
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A Quiet Night in the Dark in La Plata, Missouri, 1942
Lester Dent is known today among popular culture fans as the primary creator and writer of the character Doc Savage, hero of a monthly magazine published by Street & Smith from 1933 to 1949. Doc Savage — Clark Savage, Jr. — was the precursor to later popular heroes like Superman, Batman, James Bond, and Dirk Pitt. Dent’s energetic prose for the Doc Savage stories always was published under a Street & Smith house name: Kenneth Robeson. So he was surprised when his editor informed him that Kenneth Robeson was the name of an actual person. And on a night in 1942, a surprise visitor shares with him an astonishing story that leads to deadly consequences in Dent’s quiet rural home.
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The Dream Stalker
Shalimar Bang has gained fame and wealth using her remarkable mental skills as a consulting investigator. From her base on Alcatraz Island, she takes on cases too strange for mainstream authorities. When a rich client asks for her help in dealing with recurring nightmares that attempt to kill him night after night, Shalimar learns of a priceless painting thought long lost, and uncovers a conspiracy tied to a series of art thefts. During her investigation, Shalimar encounters a number of colorful characters — until the trail leads her to a deadly confrontation with the Dream Stalker!
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