Doing my part--I hope

This is such a difficult time for people, shut in and out of daily contact with other people. I seldom see anyone nearer than fifty yards as I sit here in an all but deserted RV park, waiting out the storm. But I'm trying to use my time productively, which includes not only writing and editing, but making my entire list of books available for free online reading at http://www.nathaneverett.com

My latest release is the fourth of my cyber mysteries, Stocks & Blondes.

Deb Riley is on the case again, this time with a dead woman named Georgia and a house full of computers. Georgia’s father doesn’t believe the police finding that she committed suicide. He’s sure there was foul play involved.

He had no idea how foul it was.

Hacking into the computers starts a deadly game as neighbors, friends, and even Georgia, prove not to be what they appear to be. Infiltrating the cabal throws Deb into her deepest disguise ever while trying to balance her real life with a new boyfriend, who might also be different than he appears.

Worse, it puts her in danger of ending up just like Georgia.

This story takes up immediately following Municipal Blondes. Reading them in order is not necessary, but helpful. The good news is that all four of the cyber mysteries are available, including For Money or Mayhem, For Blood or Money, Municipal Blondes, and Stocks & Blondes. All available at http://www.nathaneverett.com.

The newest installment in the adventures of Gee Evars, the man without a memory, is Wild Woods.

Gee Evars wandered into town without a memory, just in time to dive in a raging river and save the life of a toddler. He became a hero and the city champion. His greatest accomplishment was bringing together the City’s prized hickory Forest and the adjoining Wild Woods.

But now Gee is faced with a new reality. The Wild Woods holds secrets and someone needs to manage its exploration and discovery. If the woods has been used to manufacture drugs and to traffic in children, someone needs to go in and find out if anyone is still in danger.

That task falls to Gee and a small army of high school volunteers who are determined to clean their woods and make it safe and welcoming.

And when brainwashed children wander into town, who better to teach them than the man with no memory?

Both the original City Limits and the sequel, Wild Woods, are now available for free online reading at http://www.nathaneverett.com!

My most popular and award-winning novel, The Gutenberg Rubric, is also now available for free online reading!

Just months before the famous Bible that bears his name was finished, Johannes Gutenberg was sued by his partner for misappropriating funds to a private enterprise. When Gutenberg refused to share the secret project, the court awarded the entire Bible-printing operation to Johan Fust, leaving Gutenberg with nothing but his secret. Was it an alchemical formula? A new technology? A heretical treatise? Or something far more dangerous? Why would Gutenberg sacrifice everything?

Brilliant, eccentric professor Keith Drucker and rare-books librarian Madeline Zayne are reluctant heroes in a centuries-old search for Gutenberg’s other book. Crossing continents to follow clues from an encoded rubric and stolen manuscript, the couple faces injury, arcane rituals, and biblio-terrorists as they race to find the fabled treasure.

But if they find it, will they survive to tell the world?

This thriller joins the list of my books that are available for your free online reading at http://www.nathaneverett.com

Working to get as many of my books online as possible, I've also updated the presentation of The Volunteer.

Journey inside the head of a chronically homeless man--a man that in a less politically correct age we might have called a hobo. Gerald Good, known now only as G2, volunteered to take the place of a homeless man, believing he would work his way back quickly. Ten years later, twenty... thirty years, find G2 alone in his head, his memories, and his boxcar.

A story without chapters, we follow whatever G2 thinks of as his present at the moment. In delving into his non-linear life, perhaps we can discover what separates the chronically homeless with nothing from those who constantly collect and consume.

And soon, I hope to make the YA Novel, Steven George & The Dragon available as well as others that have never been published. I hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity to read books for free at http://www.nathaneverett.com and that it helps to make your dark days bright. Other books will also be released as I get them formatted.

Enjoy!

author Nathan Everett

Has it really been this long? What a year!

I’m sure you’ve received at least a dozen if not a hundred messages from corporations, banks, stores, governments, and others telling you what they are doing to protect customers and employees from COVID-19. I’m “sheltering in place” at the Tropic Star RV Resort in Pharr, TX where the grounds look rather empty. Of course, in this part of Texas, “sheltering in place” means board up the doors and windows, and head for your safe room because a hurricane is coming. Let us say they have a slightly less intense term for it down here. Instead of a leisurely drive up the Rio Grande Valley and a visit to Big Bend National Park, I look out my window at empty RV parking spots as far as the eye can see.

This is what self-isolation looks like to me.

I will be here for a month yet and then hope travel is permitted again. So, yesterday, I went out to pick up essentials at the grocery store. The line to get in was a block plus long, with everyone respectfully maintaining six feet distance by standing on the marks the store put down on the sidewalk. When a dozen people exited, a dozen were allowed in. I got my eggs, potatoes, bread, and olives. (How can I drink my quarantinis without olives? When I went to the store last week, they were out. Stockpiling olives???)

And I’ve been thinking about what I could do to ‘help out’ in a time like this, besides just staying away from people. One thing I’ve discovered through my vast research on Facebook is that people seem to be reading more. Music to an author’s ears, but people are also worried about surviving on limited income, unemployment, and stock crashes.

So, I’ve decided to offer as many of my books and stories as possible for free online reading.

I’ve been moving this direction for a while now and this week took time away from writing stories to completely revamp my websites and bring more stories online.

Please go explore my website! http://www.nathaneverett.com

There are still a couple of stories I want to get up there. I’ve been writing for forty years and not everything has been published. I’ll probably put a couple more up before the month is over.

By the end of June, I hope to have my newest novel published. It is being edited now and I’ll still have a few rewrites to do. But American Royalty 1: Coming of Age (likely still to be renamed) is getting along well.

I am also in the process of updating my Devon Layne website with all my erotica stories available free for online viewing. There are a lot more stories in that portfolio, so it is likely to take a good bit longer to get it fixed up. Everything is working though. Please visit:

Visit at http://www.devonlayne.com and verify you are really an adult!

I have new stories that I am working on. One is a contemporary adaptation of a book I read many years ago. It started with Mississippi blowing up in a nuclear reactor implosion and proceeded to the discovery that every man on earth had been sterilized by the event. Until it is discovered that one man was a mile deep in a lead mine at the time of the disaster. It’s like ‘duck and cover’ all over again.

I posted a few inquiries and a reader correctly identified the book as Pat Frank’s 1946 novel, Mr. Adam. I’m enjoying working on it, but every time I make up some new and ridiculous behavior on the part of people or the government, I read it the next day in the newspaper. It’s hard to keep up with pushing the envelope!

I have several other works on the docket, including a new Dag Hamar mystery that I have about half of a first draft of. I’ll get back to working on that as well.

Since I write whatever is in my head, I’m sure I’ll have some more exciting adventures upcoming. Stay safe and be well!