Book I: The Pawns Assemble
Book II: A Nice Place to Visit
(The original post)
Unless someone talks me out of it in the immediate future, starting next week I will begin serializing a complete novel, Blvd. of Blood. This is a straight-up thriller, with no postmodern jibber-jabber added—an edge-of-the-seat tale of a man planning a mass shooting and the cop who seeks to stop him. I should warn you that the book involves salty language and either a little or a lot of violence—depending on the plot’s outcome.
Please tell your thriller-loving friends about this new project—I am overtly and deliberately putting this novel out there for free in an attempt to advertise my books, which I hope people will consume. It is, of course, possible (thanks, substack!) to subscribe only to Blvd. of Blood posts and nothings else (or to avoid them, if you are so inclined). The books should take about eight months to serialize, with updates every Monday.
This page will serve as an ongoing table of contents to help you, the prospective reader, navigate.
•Item! A while ago I was on the Your Favorite Bad Movie podcast discussing my love for The Atomic Brain.
•Item! Did you know I wrote the afterword for this, and only this, edition of Moby Dick?
•Item! I’ve been going around giving slideshow presentations on alternate histories (one from the Stratford Library captured by RJM3 in rough outline here), and if your local library / Rosicrucian Club / eccentric birthday party wants me to come do one for you, please let me know.
•Item! In case my ongoing art project A Garland of Quotations seems opaque or inexplicable, I would like to point to a couple of recent ones where I think I achieved what I was aiming at: here or here.
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