Too bad the tour is over. But lucky for you, all my audiobook excerpts are still available for listening right here. I think the links to all the additional excerpts in the blog posts all still work too. Be sure to leave a comment on these blogs. The authors love engagement, just like I do.
Your Top 10 Links for June will start soon. I browse the internet daily. I post the best I find on my Facebook page. You can read the best of my Facebook page right here. Start enjoying!
Gary Larson strikes again
By the way, if you have a great link, image, news story, or video, send it to me here and I’ll give you a free book of your choice.
Your Top 10 Links – The First
Who hasn’t sung “99 Bottles of Beer”? (If you haven’t, let me know and I’ll give you a free book.) If you’re dying to hear it, here it is:
In this top link, you get two cool related videos for one. The first covers a change in perspective. But what could be more wonderful change than watching sunrise from space?
I love when science catches up with science fiction. Here I just wrote Paranormal Privateers in 2018 including mind control through skull implants. Then I read an article heading in the same direction with current technology!
Can anything top this in October 2019? Find out in the next section.
In one blog post, I discussed where I got my ideas for Paranormal Privateers, my third novel. I had to surpass my previous books. I added a surprise twist and I gave two hints. Here’s your first hint:
Your first hint about Paranormal Privateers
Then you got this second hint:
Excerpt from Forbidden Planet
I love these two movies, so, naturally, I included elements of them in my book.
If you haven’t read Paranormal Privateers, let me know your guesses about the plot twist. The best response gets a free ebook of your choice!
Oops! I almost forgot! I got a review for Oops! Here it is:
The First Review of Oops!
Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse by Andy Zach is a collection of short stories and as the clue is in the title, the theme is zombies. And boy do they come in a variety of different shapes and sizes.
The book starts with three stories that are a starter and not in the zombie genre. Firstly, you are introduced to a world where nothing is heard. Then we move on to finding an elusive phoenix and trying to use its DNA for breeding. Lastly, we have a story about a time-travelling wheelchair.
Then we jump straight into zombies. From zombie pickles, to zombie service dog corgis, to zombie models and even zombies in a nursing home. There is a timeline thread running through the stories where characters that create something or meet someone bring them into a later story. And all of this in a world where becoming a zombie is as easy as ordering blood online!
After each story, the author explains where he got his ideas from, and since in his bio he claims both his parents were zombies, he must be an expert on all things undead. The author has a very quick mind and some of the quips and plays on words were very clever. In some of the stories, however, I would have preferred a definite ending—one where the story doesn’t just finish and you think there is more coming. It was almost as though they were ideas taken from diary extracts with sporadic glimpses into a world of zombies.
After the zombie stories came tales from some of his other books about teenage superheroes. I think the one I enjoyed the most was of the hamster that one of the kids had experimented on and had developed some superpowers. He taught himself to read and was eventually able to communicate with others by typing on a computer. The author very cleverly integrated himself into that story by being the author in the story and the one that the hamster contacted. And of course, we had to have a story about aliens to end it off.
The editing of the book was very good, and I only caught a couple of minor errors. I enjoyed the writing style of the main author and very often you had to reread something because the clever nuances were so subtle you only got them a few lines later. The different styles of writing by the different authors was a bit offputting as you get into a tempo with one and then get thrown off your rhythm by another.
While I enjoyed the book overall, I would still put it in my average category as I wouldn’t go back and reread it. I would, however, recommend it to anyone looking for a quick read where you can turn your brain off from reality and just jump into a world of crazy.
