While busily writing and editing new books, more of my backlist is coming online as well. This week, it’s a little of both.
I post my books in free serial format on both my own websites and
at StoriesOnline. I’ve always suggested that people can get an eBook in either
ePUB or MOBI format by sending $5 to me at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/aroslav
and listing the title of the book they’d like. But everyone needs to get their
cut of sales and I can no longer advertise that link at SOL. Now I need to post
my eBooks on their book sales site, https://bookapy.com/.
Just what I needed—another book sales site to monitor and maintain.
But it’s not half bad. In fact, I’d like to see the site grow so big that I don’t need to use Amazon anymore. It doesn’t hurt to dream.
As you can see in the picture above, I have three new Devon
Layne releases at the top of the page today. I’ve posted my entire (so far)
Props Master series for sale. The Props Master Prequel: Behind the Ivory
Veil and The Props Master 1: Ritual Reality are from my backlist. In
fact, these books were originally drafted forty plus years ago! Back then, I
was struggling to show that I could really write. I even got an agent
interested in Behind the Ivory Veil. Sadly, she died before she got the
finished manuscript. After I’d written another thirty books, I went back to
those original two and started cleaning them up and rewriting to tighten the storyline
and proofread.
(One of the agent’s comments back in 1981 was “For Pete’s
sake, get someone to proofread this!)
Tastes and standards change over time. What I considered typical
urban fantasy material back in the 1980s is now too racy for our standard
ultra-conservative society. There is sex in the story! Gasp! It must be
pornography! If anything, I toned down the initial manuscript and released
it as erotica under my pseudonym, Devon Layne.
This week, I’ve released the third book in the series, The Props Master 2: A Touch of Magic. The original draft was written back around the turn of the 80s, but it was completely rewritten with only the main characters and theme of the story remaining the same.
1974
Minneapolis. A Goddess.
The Great Paris.Serepte Allen is eighteen and has moved to attend college in Minneapolis where she studies flute. The move is not a simple one, for the five witches of the inner circle have moved with her. Wayne Hamel, the Props Master and Vagabond Priest leads the circle in its mission to protect and nurture Serepte.
Haunted by her compulsion to heal, Serepte seeks refuge in her flute music, releasing the pain she receives from others to a new world where it can live as a free and beautiful thing. It has been prophesied that only when she exercises her gift out of love instead of compulsion will she be able to free her father from his prison Behind the Ivory Veil.
Complicating matters, a traveling magician comes to town to perform at the Showbox where Wayne is the lighting tech. His encounter with Serepte is life-changing. It’s as if they had known each other a thousand years.
A demon-possessed villain, trapped at the same time as Serepte’s father, arrives in Minneapolis, hungering for power. Wayne has exorcized a demon before. Can he do it again before the demon feasts on the young couple?
It’s a fun and romantic story with enough mysticism and magic to
keep you guessing about what’s real and what is an illusion.
Join me for the fun!
In case you’ve been hanging around me for a lot of years, Serepte’s father is none other than J. Wesley Allen, author of the almost-infamous Book of Wesley.
Being an Inconcise Compendium
of Irrational Thought
in the Fields of Science, Language,
Philosophy, Music, and Theology
Which
Borders on Truth—
MCMLXXXI
For several years, The Book of Wesley was the core of our “Poets and Philosophers” meetings back in the 80s, where a bunch of us sat around with cigars and cognac and thought deep thoughts. I plan to re-release that ancient tome on my own website in the near future. You have to read it backwards on the blogspot blog version.
There are the new bits and pieces. Enjoy!
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