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Samuel Goldwyn thought that no one should write their autobiography until after they were dead. Kajol rather famously said that only self-obsessed people write autobiographies. Mia Farrow said that the only thing she enjoyed writing was her autobiography. JM Coetzee said that all writing is autobiographical. Some unknown writer said that writing an autobiography was akin to using quotes in an essay.
I'm not really sure what they meant by that.
But what about me?
Well, I was born in Chicago. I spent my childhood in rural Illinois, running in the endless cornfields. Just before I made it into puberty, my mother moved my sister and I to Minneapolis. I spent my formative angsty teen years in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Did you know there's more than 10,000 lakes in Minnesota? Yeah, they've only actually named 10,000 them. There are still lakes out there. Unnamed lakes. Who knows what lurks in them...
From there I joined the Army. I was a driver of an M1-A1 tank. Yeah, it was cool. I ran over trees!! Shortly after leaving the service, I met a nice young woman and we moved to Texas. We've been together ever since. We have two boys with hair like sunshine, eyes that match the sky, and love nothing more than adventure. I've worked in comic book shops, big box retail stores, major telecoms, boutique advertising companies, and as a freelance copy writer.
Oh, and I'm allergic to cats, dogs, birds, molds, grasses, and just about 87% of the planet.
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One of those just recently happened. I was interviewed for the Author of the Day on Manybooks.net!
Being a writer is a lonely job. I used to think it meant that as a writer you spent so much of your time observing and considering human behavior that you rarely spent time to just enjoy the moment and be present.
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Blog postHere it is- the first chapter of A Blood Moon Swindle!
Quinn jumped up in the air and landed in time with the heavy bass line of AC/DC’s Back in Black. Behind him, floating along in the air, was his Circle of Cerddoriaeth. Quinn had filled the aquamarine magical circle with as much music as he could find and connected it to his emotions. That way it would play the music that matched his mood.
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Blog postHey.
So, there’s this pandemic thing going on right now. You’ve probably noticed.
Anyway. I can’t help with the medical stuff. I don’t have money to donate to charities or causes that will help those in need.
But I can do something. I’ve written a bunch of stories and sell them on Amazon. I’ve made them all free for the next few days. From March 22nd to March 24th, to be exact.
If you have an Amazon Kindle, you can download them all for free.
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Blog postPretty kick ass! Gideon is a ton of fun. She’s kick ass (and not a man with boobs).
I felt the mystery element to it was a bit contrived to be able to deliver the twist.
The scifi setting seemed…superfluous? You could replace all of that with kingdoms/castles and some horses. No, I’m serious. There’s nothing about the sci-fi setting that impacts this story. You could put this in a fantasy realm, where each kingdom was exactly the ones in the book.
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Blog postOkay. So. Things I liked! IT’s clearly heavily influenced by Dune. That’s great stuff. Classic sci-fi/fantasy noble caste system. Based loosely on an idealized greek/roman medieval feudalism kinda thing. There’s an emperor. An oppressive church. All the fun space opera stuff. It’s set as a massive flashback of Space Hitler telling his origin story. What
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Blog postThanks for making your selection for the next Jack Story novel A Long Hard Time.
Want to know what it’s about? Jack Story is a private detective in a city full of heroes but sometimes the bad guys need help.
Seven years ago The Maw, a minor player on the black cape side of the game, went to prison. The cops found a body in the trunk of his car. Since the arrest happened when the Maw wasn’t on the job, he went to jail.
But now The Maw is out.
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You’ve got the super smart handsome protagonist being raised in poverty/obscurity. Then they discover that everything they knew about the world was totally wrong; the rich people are super rich and don’t care about the poor people. And the rich people are rich because they exploit the poor people with lies
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Blog postOkay. So. Game of Thrones.
It’s finally over. 6 amazing seasons and 2 really good ones.
I can understand that a lot of people found the ending to be…less than satisfying. I think it would be really easy to feel short changed by the sudden ending for some of the characters.
Why? Because Game of Thrones is still an epic fantasy and there are certain tropes that you have to abide by. And one of those is that the Dark Lord is defeated at the3 years ago Read more -
Blog postIt’s a fun good book but… it loses something that the first one had. I dunno what it is, but there’s something missing from this one that the first one had in spades.
Also, there’s a thing that this book brings up that was not in the first one. The idea that the gender of the body was different than the gender of the person. Specifically, one character remarks that he has a woman’s body and that other officers mock them about it. Another character makes a remark that it’s not3 years ago Read more -
Blog postOkay, so this goes back to my first year in college at Texas State University in San Marcos. I’d started with a degree plan of Business Administration with a vague idea of “going into business or something.”
Yeah, it was not the brightest idea I’ve ever had.
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Titles By W.H. Lock
In any other story, he'd be the bad guy.
Quinn is a talented sorcerer and a better con artist. But even the best get caught. On his first day out of prison, Quinn has one thing on his mind: steak dinner. Rare with blue cheese sprinkles and probably those fried onion bits on top.
What he didn't have in mind, was a member of his parole board asking him for a favor during his first good meal in years. Steal a skull from a powerful LA necromancer. A skull that might grant the owner the power to destroy the world.
Quinn assembles a team of supernatural criminals that should be able to steal the skull before lunch. Except the angelic crime boss forces Quinn to swear a magical oath to not steal the skull. And the necromancer ropes Quinn into a scheme to rob a bank.
Somehow Quinn has to help the necromancer rob a bank. Steal the skull without the necromancer noticing and not break his oath to the Angel of Los Angeles. And he has to do it while trying to find out who in the group is out to betray him. All of it leaves Quinn with just one question on his mind: why would the parole board want a skull capable of destroying the world?
Suddenly, prison doesn’t seem so bad.
Private Detective Jack Story.
A former superhero wants Jack to find her husband. A husband that is a former supervillain and disappeared chasing a Faberge egg rumored to have mystical powers.
But as Jack investigates, he uncovers the Egg’s long sinister history and the trail of bodies left in its wake. A history of sudden shifts in fortune followed by brutal deaths going back to the original owner, Nicholas II the Last Czar of Russia. Even a professional cynic like Jack has to admit that perhaps those powers aren’t just an urban legend.
After the husband turns up dead in a cheap motel, Jack finds himself in a race against time to stop the killer from getting The Czar’s Egg, an artifact that can grant anything the owner desires, even ultimate power.
The Czar’s Egg is the first book in a Private Detective series set in a world of superheroes. If you like hard boiled detectives, dames, and superheroes who try to get away with murder, you’ll love the world of Jack Story.
He wanted to become a legend.
Box set: 600+ pages of spell-sizzling, magical-mob extorting, wild-witch spellcasting, dragon-gangster action.
Quinn is a talented sorcerer and a better conman. His dream is to become the most famous conman the world has ever seen. When he’s offered a job to steal a skull from a necromancer’s prized collection, he’s well on the way. He puts together a crack team of wizards, vampires, and werewolves. But when the team is betrayed by two of their own, things get out of control. The skull was one part of a set of magical artifacts needed to bring about the end of the world.
Discovering that two of his crew have turned to the dark side and plan to bring about a destructive ancient Aztec prophecy, the embattled trickster devises his own scheme to stay one step ahead in a decidedly dangerous game. But when he makes a single misplay, Quinn gets exactly what he wanted: he’s famous… and locked into a seriously dodgy deal with the Devil himself. The Devil wants Quinn to save the world, not end it.
Can the sorcery-wielding scoundrel save the world and escape a devilish contract without going to Hell?
The Quinn Chronicle contains the three books in the fast-paced spellbinding Quinn Chronicles urban fantasy series. If you like street-smart heroes, wickedly twisted plots, and a heavy helping of fire and brimstone, then you’ll love W.H. Lock’s hilarious heist.
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In a city full of superheroes there is only one man trying to balance the scales of justice.
Private Detective Jack Story.
If you like hardboiled detectives, dames, and superheroes who try to get away with murder, you’ll love the world of Jack Story.
Jack is a private detective who would rather sit in his office and enjoy his bourbon than go looking for trouble. But trouble comes looking for him just about every day in the form of someone trying to find justice. The heroes and the villains of the world aren't what they appear to be on television.
They're vain, petty, and jealous gods who aren't afraid to murder to get what they want. The corrupt politicians and incompetent police turn a blind eye because of the money the heroes bring in to the city.
When ones who are left behind go looking for justice, they end up knocking on Jack's door.
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Jack Story is a Private Detective in a city of heroes.
Major Victory, the world's first super hero is being Blackmailed. The Major’s granddaughter is an unwitting star of a sex tape. If the Major doesn’t pay up, the world gets to see the video. The Major wants Jack to make the blackmail stop. Preferably with lots of pain being inflicted on the blackmailer.
Jack takes the job.
As Jack digs into the case things turn deadly. An explosion kills a young superhero. The granddaughter insists the bomb was really meant for her and not her best friend. That same friend shows up in Jack’s office hours after the explosion, claiming she was the target all along. She demands that Jack find out who’s responsible before disappearing into the night.
Can Jack find who is behind the blackmail and the bombing before others die? Racing against time, Jack discovers something disturbing- what if Major Victory is behind it all? The sex tape. The blackmail. The bombing. The murder. All of it.
What if the world's first superhero was trying to murder his own granddaughter?
Sometimes being a detective in a city full of superheroes can be Hell.
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Private Detective Jack Story has two problems.
The first: he’s a private detective in a city of super heroes. The second: one of those heroes wants to hire him.
Sheldon Kane is a wealthy real estate developer and former super hero. It seems Sheldon is worried someone from his hero days is out to kill his young wife. He wants Jack to follow her around for a few days and prove that it’s just an old man’s paranoia.
It’s easy money. Until she walks into a building that explodes.
The police say it’s a suicide. Jack isn’t so sure. When Kane dismisses Jack from the case with a thank you and a hefty check Jack is sure of one thing: it was murder.
Was she killed by someone from Kane’s past? Did Jack screw up and it’s his fault she’s dead? Or was it her husband the whole time?
When other people connected to the case start turning up dead, Jack can’t miss a step in chasing a killer down.
Fans of the Jack Story series and readers who love a slow-burn mystery with an explosive end will love The Null Factor.
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When the son of a long retired supervillain comes to Jack for help, Jack takes the case. The kid is being blackmailed over an affair with the wife of one of the world's most powerful superheroes. But when the kid turns up dead and Jack has been framed for the murder by the cops, things have gotten out of control.
Can Jack find the real killer in time to clear his name?
The Ivory Ring is the third book in a Private Detective series set in a world of superheroes. If you like hard boiled detectives, dames, and superheroes who try to get away with murder, you’ll love the world of Jack Story.
When the world’s most powerful superhero comes to Jack with a case, Jack has no choice but to accept it. The hero’s adopted ward has gone missing, and it’s Jack’s job to bring him back. Things get complicated when the arch-villain and her talking gorillas show up, bodies are stacking up, and the ward just might be dead.
If Jack survives the gorillas and finding the killer, can he survive telling his client?
The Trouble in Tights is the second book in a Private Detective series set in a world of superheroes. If you like hard boiled detectives, dames, and superheroes who try to get away with murder, you’ll love the world of Jack Story.
Get started with the action in the second book of a new series about the detective Jack Story in The Trouble in Tights today.
It's the end of the world and it's all Quinn's fault.
Quinn is a talented conman and sorcerer, but even the best get caught. On his first day out of prison, Quinn was offered a job he should have refused. Quinn’s parole officer wanted him to steal a skull from a necromancer in Los Angeles.
It all went to downhill from there.
Quinn put together a team of the best criminals he knew. Together they stole the skull without getting caught. Only to be betrayed by one of the team and the parole officer. The pair was secretly working for the archangel Uriel in a plot to end the world.
Quinn and his team tried to stop the trio from getting the last artifact they needed to destroy the world, only to fail at the last moment because of Quinn’s antics.
Now Quinn is on the run from the FBI and his former team and he has made a literal deal with a devil.
If Quinn doesn’t save the world he’ll suffer an eternity of torment at the hands of Mamon, the Demon Prince of Greed. If he saves the world, all the debts he piled up will come due.
And those are the sort of debts that take an IOU.
Can Quinn save the world and escape certain death?
If you love Urban Fantasy stories with vampires, dragons, and loads of magic you’ll love the Quinn Chronicle.
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Quinn thought he had it all.
He pulled the perfect heist. He found the perfect girl. He had the perfect best friend. Everything was...Perfect.
Except it wasn't.
That perfect girl snuck off with that perfect best friend. That perfect best friend set Quinn up to take the fall. And that perfect heist kick-started the apocalypse.
Now the FBI wants Quinn to fix it.
The nefarious pair need one last piece to end the world. A Dagger. A dagger so sharp it can cut the skin of the world open and let the unnamed horrors from outside the universe back in.
Can Quinn steal the dagger before his Ex's can use it to destroy the world?
And if he does save the world, does that count as getting back at his Ex's?
Download this exciting second book in the urban fantasy heist series now!