Cluck The Book: writing: October 2004 Archives

Out of Place, Out of Time: The Testimony of Dr Trenton Stowel

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on October 14, 2004 9:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Out of Place Out of Time (OOPOOT for short) is my first novel, and the winner of a 2003 IPPY award for Science Fiction. OOPOOT is the transcript of an interview between a secretive scientist and the very misfortunate Dr. Trenton Stowel. Stowel wasn't the most respected scientist of his day, but his theories on time travel were sound enough to gain a small following before he suddenly disappeared -- along with a perfectly spherical section of his basement laboratory.

Suddenly, Dr. Stowel returns: naked, injured, and malnourished. Where did he go? How did he survive? Did he successfully travel through time, or did he simply go mad?

OOPOOT was published in 2003 through iUniverse, and is currently for sale on amazon.com. It received a 2003 IPPY award for Science Fiction.

260 pages, trade paperback. ISBN: 0-595-30213-0.

Inspirational Haiku for a Recessed Economy

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on October 14, 2004 8:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

A concise collection of seventeen-syllable satire, Inspirational Haiku for a Recessed Economy will make you forget about that impending foreclosure. So swallow that bile and put on a smile! Inspirational Haiku is just $5.99, so you'll still be able to afford groceries and other essentials.

These haiku take you through the cyclical nature of a recessed economy: from a bad job, to no job, to attempts at self-employment, to the onset of mild insanity, and eventually to the graceful re-insertion into a viable workforce.

About Quack: Murder Most Waterfowl

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knappy

on October 14, 2004 8:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

About Quack: Murder Most Waterfowl

Trade Paperback, Fully Illustrated

Available 2009!

Quack is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning novel, Cluck: Murder Most Fowl. Armand is pulled from retirement when the Exorcist of Ducks goes missing. Still aching from his final confrontation with the Rooster King, the tired old cluck-buster travels to a muddy German town outside of the Black Forest to face his fiercest nemesis yet: a genetically mutated mallard, built by an underground group of Nazi scientists for the corrupt local government. With only a few hours of rudimentary online training and some handy-but-argumentative supernatural powers, Armand must discover the truth that lies beneath the steaming town of Schlammig Baden, and live to tell!

New Story: The Iron Sky

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knappy

on October 12, 2004 8:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

A new short story has been posted under "stories" (or you can link directly to it here. It is the second part in what I am now calling the "Dark Horizons" trilogy. The first part is "Paper Cranes", and the last part is as of yet unnamed. However, the third story will tell how the characters Alex Crane (from part I) and Rudy McNally (part II) meet, and discover the source of the terrible and unearthly storm that devastates the midwest. Expect part III in another month or so, as I'm not getting much time to write these days.