tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:09:16 +0000awesomeshameless promotionNew BookpromotionAlex CheradonReapers in Heelsfree bookCastle SistersprojectsGrym Brothersnew seriessaleblack Fridaystar girlCupid's DaughteradoptionfamilysampleHalloweenMorning ThoughtsPodcastRupert and Mekindle seriesoutlawed lovepregnancyshort storysupernatural suspenseurban fantasyA Quick Word From the BibleChristbooksbuilding a familychildrendeep space nineds9free booksfundraisinggrim reaperinternational adoptionjames t kirkjean luc picardnext generationstar trekstylewritingThe Musings and Works of Jason Krumbinehttp://www.jasonkrumbine.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)Blogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-2979314179021400636Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:47:00 +00002018-08-12T16:52:42.871-04:00deep space nineds9james t kirkjean luc picardnext generationsampleshameless promotionstar trek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> I have a new book coming out this Sept 5th. It's available for pre-order now:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2OvFzsh"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGVrRT2dM_g9vQlwkjBGdNkRSuKH0nZQWAZfRo83g7AL_Rt5Feze2ByOhFJsd6JXEqssMUoApLcg-QDtFPXQOvMeFAJ2v2PSS2opzUhnaix-lhtL3zNq-Xm0ianXOZCteM4IgOsKg76A/s320/defiance+cover1b.jpg" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2OvFzsh"><span style="font-size: large;">Get It On Amazon</span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>One hundred years ago they came. We reached out to them with a hand of friendship and they returned the gesture by nearly destroying us all.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"> After a single encounter with the mysterious alien race identified only as Species 4876, the United Planetary Alliance was nearly decimated. Stopping their lone vessel was almost a hollow victory in the aftermath of the haunting mystery that Species 4876 presented: Where had they come from? Why did they attack us? And most of all, what if they came back?</div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"> But they never did.</div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"> Today, the threat of Species 4876 is a distant memory, a nearly forgotten footnote in the history books.</div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"> Or is it?</div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"> On the outer rim, cut off from any backup, ignored by Fleet Admiralty and surrounded by a hostile empire and an interstellar crime syndicate, Captain Mitchell and his crew of the USS Defiance find themselves as the first, and possibly only, defense against an alien menace that the rest of the galaxy has all but forgotten about.</div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> I'll probably do a longer essay about this, but in short, thanks to my dad, I grew up on a steady diet of <i>Star Trek</i>. It was a constant in our house. Family outings were coordinated around when a new episode of Next Gen would be airing and when the rerun would air. To this day I continue to love <i>Star Trek</i>. Anytime there's a new <i>Star Trek</i> movie or show it gets bumped to the top of the list for me.<br /> <br /> This book, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2OvFzsh">Defiance</a></i>, is the sum of everything I love about <i>Star Trek</i>. If you love <i>Star Trek</i>, I have a feeling you're going to like this book. Below I have a sample chapter. And remember, you can read the whole thing Sept 5th!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name='more'></a><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2OvFzsh">DEFIANCE</a></span></div> <br /> <br /> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“What’s the damage, Mr. Warrick?” Mitchell asked, stepping around exposed conduits that were pumping out plumes of smoke.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">There was a loud clanking sound followed by a stream of alien curses and then a short, stocky figure stepped out from behind open panels at the far end of the room.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Jaxson Warrick was a short, flat faced man with a shiny bald head and an impressively thick, bushy beard. He walked with an almost imperceptible limp and made up for his lack of height with a wide barrel chest and arms so thick they threatened to burst free of his uniforms at any given moment. He had wide feet and a nose that had been broken so many times he couldn’t remember what it used to look like.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Cap’n,” he greeted Mitchell, wiping the grease from his meaty paws. In person his voice was even raspier than over the comm. There was something in the ship’s computer that automatically smoothed out the rougher patches of Warrick’s voice. It was a thick, heavy rasp that made every word out of his mouth sound like it was being weighed down by a ton of bricks. It gave the impression that speaking was a chore for him and people meeting him for the first time always expected him to speak slowly. But instead, Jaxson Warrick was one of the fastest, and most colorful, speakers on the <i>Defiance</i>.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">His collar was unzipped halfway down his chest, exposing a dark green shirt that matched the dull green Fleet badge on his chest. The sleeves were rolled up and, remarkably, were the only parts of him that weren’t filthy. He wiped the rag across his forehead at the gathering sweat and, not the first time, he wished that he had been blessed with a physiology that kept him from sweating. “Well, I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.” He tossed the rag into the open toolkit and put his hands on his hips. “Which one do you want first?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Let’s go with the good news.” Mitchell followed him out of the room into main engineering.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The ion engine pulsed a light blue in the center of engineering. Two twin cylinders, twice the width of Warrick himself, stretched out the from the ground level up to the top decks of engineering. There was a low, throttling hum from the engines that every new crewman described as a flat, uneven squeal that often gave them the sensation of being mildly seasick. However, after about a month, it would fade into the background of everyday life in engineering. When the drive was active and they were really pushing it, various crewmen had reported getting a weird achy feeling in their teeth whenever they stood too close to the engines. For Warrick, though, he didn’t even notice that. The ion drive and all its quirks and personality had faded into the background of his life. The only time he became aware of it was when it wasn’t there anymore and then, almost always, he found himself missing that achy feeling in the back of his teeth. It made for a disappointing shore leave.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The two men ducked under the catwalk, avoiding a shower of sparks from the plasma welder above them.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well, that walking carrot did a hell of a job keeping most of the fire off our cargo bays,” Warrick shouted to be heard over the loud repairs.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“So the supplies?” Mitchell said.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Not so much as a scratch.” Warrick glanced back over his shoulder. “Well, that’s not entirely true. Some idiot ensign forgot to strap a couple of cargo crates down, so they went flying while Kin spun us around like he was having a damn seizure. Nothing broke, though. The Carlock Colony should be plenty happy.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Any more good news?” He followed Warrick up a narrow staircase to the second level of engineering.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well, again, thanks to the Ruvatorian pinball of a nightmare Nax calls his ‘piloting,’ he also kept most of the damage off our hull,” Warrick said. “And what damage we did sustain is pretty evenly distributed.” He held up his hand and spread out his fingers. “Think of it like a couple of dozen paper cuts spread out over your hand.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“That would still be pretty painful.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well, yeah, but you could still use your hand,” Warrick said. “Unlike, say, if that paper had just chopped off a couple of your favorite fingers.” He folded down his middle finger. “Lose a finger and suddenly your hand is a lot harder to use. So, she’s hurting.” He patted the bulkhead affectionately. “But she’s still chugging along like an ancient purebred Taule champ that refuses to get put out to pasture. That ugly orange bastard saved us hours in repairs.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“You know,” Mitchell said. “If you keep this up, people are going to think the two of you don’t actually get along.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Yeah, well, before you get ready to hand him a medal, you should know all his fancy flying blew out the gluon resistance compressors. So if you’re wondering why your food has a funky metal aftertaste to it for the next week, you can thank him,” Warrick said, crossing the catwalk to a small workstation off to the side. “Also, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but thanks to one of those fancy spin dives of his, the gravity plating is out of alignment. Feel a little heavier?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Mitchell took a deep breath and exhaled, glancing back over his shoulder at the narrow staircase they had climbed. “Now that you mention it, I am feeling a little winded from those stairs.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Yeah, until I can spare somebody to fix it, everybody’s gonna be feeling about two or three pounds heavier.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Mitchell looked down at his stomach. “Okay, sure. I’ll go with that. So far your bad news isn’t that bad.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Warrick tapped the screen on the workstation and a detailed blueprint popped up. “That’s not the bad news. Let’s call that the inconvenient news.” He pointed at the specs on the screen. “<i>This</i> is the bad news.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Mitchell leaned forward for a better look. He recognized it as the specs for the fusion cannons and the main deflectors. “What’s wrong?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“So, remember how I told you two weeks ago that we needed to overhaul the whole neutron circuit system?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Mitchell nodded. “Yes.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well, instead of telling me to patch it together on the fly, you should have given me the two weeks I asked for to do it right,” Warrick said.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“You know, Jaxson, there’s a way to say ‘I told you so’ that doesn’t border on insubordination.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Oh yeah?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well,” Mitchell shrugged, “at least that’s what I’ve been told. I haven’t figured out myself yet.” He nodded at the screen. “What happened?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“So the science department is still going over all the data they picked up on our trip through that wormhole. Well, I can save everybody a lot of a time and just tell you that it’s worse than Gaiyama herpes.” He adjusted the screen and digital copy of the wormhole appeared. Tiny lightning bolt shaped icons extended from the walls of the wormhole. “Care to gander a guess as to what these are?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Computer’s recording them as power surges. But those numbers can’t be right. That’s three times the output of the ion drive.” He pointed with his thumb over his shoulder at the twin cylinders.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Warrick nodded. “I don’t know what you want to call them. I’m sure Hawkins or somebody will come up with something fancy. Nax kept it tight on our way through, but we still skimmed over two of these little suckers.” He tapped the lightning bolt shaped icons. “When that happened, not only did they blow out the main deflectors, but since I diverted power from the fusion cannons to the deflectors, the higgs energizers got overloaded in the process of holding everything together and now they’re shot. Basically, until we get back to the <i>Atlantic</i> the fusions cannons are essentially Vulderran hood ornaments and the front of the ship is more exposed than a Sweezakaal stripper.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“The rear deflectors?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Holding up fine,” Warrick said. “We’re not going to get anything more than maybe fifty-five percent out of them, but at least you don’t have to worry about our ass just hanging out in the open. Now, of course, our forward deflectors are a whole ‘nother matter. Navigational deflectors are still fine. But anything bigger than some space rocks and we’re going to be retrofitting the front of the ship with some new viewports.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Mitchell sighed. “Damnit. Torpedoes?”</span><br /> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“They’re all good. But if we get into a firefight where we have to actually fire back?” Warrick made a sour face. “Let’s just say you don’t want to ask what state our targeting systems are in right now because that’s just going to make you cry.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“How long is it going to take?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18px;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“For what? Our asses to get handed to us?” Warrick shrugged. “Nax’s a hell of a pilot, but a couple good shots at our hull without our deflectors and we’re toast. Maybe we’d last five minutes? Hell, I’ll give the orange bastard a little more credit and say he’ll hold everything together for ten. Past that? 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line-height: normal;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2insXan"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTpN7qVSRXGFyLaJtU7Zv804HQ52YuBBZ3FdyZxx8C_Eev_klRT5XAQEz4xUEccj9jrocGrdTduuj59h3jq0Bf8AAJwXOnEX3unEUnY_TvYIkSOBVbuoyemzcd8L9jcv0hyphenhyphenqWSzZ9srs/s400/cover+6.jpg" width="265" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman'; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>In the twin cities of Clayton and Callahan, Alex Cheradon and Devon Christian are two somewhat famous-ish private investigators. They’ve saved the twin cities a couple of times, stopped a werewolf apocalypse or two and are the best of friends, despite that short period of time when Devon went crazy and tried to kill Alex. But it’s all water under the proverbial bridge now.</i></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></i></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>Times are tough and cheating spouses and missing kids don’t always pay the bills. Of course, thanks to a mysterious, mystical gem embedded in his chest, Devon can go weeks, sometimes even months without eating. Unfortunately for Alex, though, all he has is a sharp wit and an awesome collection of hilariously ironic T-Rex t-shirts, neither of which do much to satisfy the grumbling in his stomach.</i></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></i></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>Things start to look up, though, when the citizens of Clayton City end up getting harassed by the kind of monsters that nightmares are made of, that Stephen King’s best friends with and that American Horror Story features on a weekly basis. Monster hunting may not be Alex and Devon’s specialty, but at least it’ll put food on the table.</i></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></i></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>Fortunately for them, before they have a chance to trade in their PI licenses for battle axes, a new slightly less nightmare-inducing case walks right through their front door:</i></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></i></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>Ernest Leonard Milton died the night before. Cops say it looks like natural causes. Ernest Leonard Milton’s will says otherwise. From beyond the grave he’s demanding that Alex and Devon investigate his death. But what are they looking for? Nobody knows and all the evidence points to it being an open and shut case. That is, until the bodies start piling up.&nbsp;</i></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></i></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-size: large; text-decoration: underline;"><i> </i></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><i>Now in the course of investigating a simple dead body, Alex and Devon find themselves in the crosshairs of the twin cities most dastardly and deadly. Danger lurks around every corner, and creatures of the night under every rock. 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The cheap formica crumbled under the impact, not that it made it hurt any less on me, “when I said I wanted to diversify, this…wasn’t what I…had in mind.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon didn’t respond. Maybe he didn’t hear me. To be fair, I wasn’t sure I could even hear myself over the growling noises from the monster. I couldn’t tell if they were coming from its throat or its stomach.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The monster took another swipe at me, specifically my head, with its massive claw, topped with razor sharp tips. Despite the birdies that I swore were circling my head, I managed to duck out of the way and the monster’s claws made contact with part of the cabinet that was still intact, though that didn’t last. It was shredded on impact. I wasn’t sure if that spoke to either the poor craftsmanship of the cabinets or the fact that this beast had a seriously intense right hook.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The monster roared in an irritated fashion. As much as I cared for my personal wellbeing, I got it. Nobody liked to miss, not even weird devil hell beast monsters. Everybody had to take a little pride in their work.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I pivoted on my heels and made a mad dash out of the kitchen, aiming for going through the actual doorway this time instead of the counter passthrough.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The monster roared again and I flinched at what sounded like the remaining kitchen cabinets just being shredded to splinters.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I said,” I repeated loudly, jumping into the living room, which was already trashed from the first time the monster tore through it.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“No need to repeat yourself. I heard you the first time.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I paused and turned to find my partner, Devon Christian, standing exactly where I had left him only moments ago, leaning against the kid’s bedroom door. Only now he was snacking on an apple that I was eighty-five percent certain he hadn’t had on him when we got here.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">There wasn’t so much as a scratch on him, which, of course, was actually pretty standard for him. His charcoal suit didn’t even look ruffled. The tie was still perfectly positioned. The flat, rectangular glasses he wore weren’t even askew.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“To be fair, though,” Devon continued, between apple bites, “you weren’t very specific on what you meant when you talked about diversifying our services.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“You haven’t even moved,” I said. “You haven’t even <i>moved</i>.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon frowned. “Alex, I have taken a solemn vow-“</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Oh. My. Goodness. This again? <i>Really</i>?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“A solemn vow of partial non-violence.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I don’t think that it really applies to this situation,” I said.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“It applies to every situation,” he replied. “I can’t just blindly charge in and violently assault every situation.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“You do it all the time!”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I <i>used</i> to do it all the time,” he corrected me. “Now I’m committed to making sure I find non-violent solutions to problems with higher consciousness beings.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“It’s a monster!”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“We don’t know <i>what</i> it is, Alex,” Devon replied. “All we know is that it attacked you.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Exactly!”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“That doesn’t make it a monster.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“It makes it a threat!”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Why are you shouting at me?” Devon asked. “Am I the one who’s trying to kill you right now?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well, you’re certainly not the one who’s helping!”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I just want to be certain.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Of <i>what</i>?!”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon sighed. “I feel like you’re not listening to me at all. Honestly, I’m not even sure why I bother.” He took another bite from his apple. “By the way, duck.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I exhaled loudly. “What?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Duck,” he repeated and yanked one of the pictures from the wall, throwing it at me.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">This was one of those expectations versus reality things. Which meant that, somehow, this was all my fault. Because when I imagined myself at thirty-three years old, running a private investigative agency with my best friend, what I didn’t bother to include was my best friend tossing picture frames at me while I was trying to subdue an actual monster. That was totally on me. One hundred percent. I had no problem spending entire days imagining what it would be like if Green Lantern and Black Widow teamed up and eventually had a baby. But this right here? This I couldn’t imagine. Totally my fault. Obviously. I wasn’t even going to argue about it.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The picture frame struck me in the abdomen and I doubled over. Well, maybe not one hundred percent entirely my fault. I mean, it wouldn’t be very nice of me to selfishly hog all the blame, would it? Isn’t it supposed to be better to give than to receive? I heard that somewhere.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">As I doubled over I felt something fly over me.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I twisted around and caught the monster crashing into the bookcases on the far end of the living room.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I turned back to Devon. He shrugged. “I did say to duck.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I shook my finger at him, but didn’t get the chance to say anything as the monster tackled me again.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">A grunt of pain escaped me as the monster smashed me into the dining table. Its massive claw swiped at me, aiming for my face again.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Devon!” I shouted, doing a terrible job holding back the massive claw.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Okay, okay,” he said. “Look, I have some questions here we can ask it, to better establish its motives.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Its <i>motives</i>?” I grunted. “Are you serious right now?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I don’t really think this is an appropriate time for jokes, Alex,” he replied.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The gleaming, razor sharp-tipped claws were, like, millimeters from my face. Seriously, if I inhaled too much and puffed my cheeks out, I’d be gaining three new, and in my personal opinion, wholly unnecessary, holes in my face. Granted, they hadn’t actually made contact with my face, so maybe that accounted for something. Maybe. I mean, it was my face and I was the one who was exerting all the effort into keeping it from getting a Nightmare on Elm Street-style makeover, so I don’t know what I was complaining about. Any non-contact with razor sharp claws should be good. So why was I thinking I was doing a terrible job?</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The monster on the other end of the massive claw roared and gross monster spittle splattered all over me. I want to say that some of it didn’t get into my mouth, but that would be a lie. It definitely got into my mouth and it was definitely gross.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I gagged a little.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">(Well, a lot, really.)</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">It was a seven foot tall thing that was covered in tangles of hairs, boils and things that looked like heavily made up eyeballs. The monster reminded me of my Aunt Petunia. She was kind of gross looking and always had a really bad attitude if you woke her up before noon and/or she hadn’t had her first six glasses of wine. She, too, also had really sharp nails for some reason, and they were always a little too close to my face. Either this was a really strange coincidence or my memories of my childhood were seriously compromised.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">My arms were starting to tremble and the razor sharp tips of the massive monster claw got just a little bit closer to my face. All that was missing was the stink of wine on its breath and suddenly I was thirteen years old again, suffering through an awkward and increasingly uncomfortable cha-cha dance routine with my Aunt Petunia.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Ax!” I shouted.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Ax?” Devon repeated. “What is that supposed to mean?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“It means-” I cut myself off with a loud grunt as the monster doubled down, pushing its massive claw just a little closer to my face. “<i>Ax</i>!” I managed to croak out again.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Ax?” Devon repeated again. “Ah. That’s right. We came here with an ax.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">And he wants me to think his short term memory is all hunky-dory.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I have no idea where that is,” he said. “It was your responsibility. What am I always telling you about your weapons, Alex? <i>Your</i> weapon is an extension of <i>your</i> body. <i>You</i> are the only person who can be responsible for it. I can’t be responsible for it. Your dad can’t be responsible for it. Would you ask me to keep an eye on your little toe for you?” He paused, like I was actually going to answer. “No, I didn’t think so. Let this be an important lesson for you.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I was going to kill him. I know that, technically, it wasn’t possible to kill him. But I was going to find a way to actually kill him and then I was going to do it.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The monster roared again, getting more spittle everywhere.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Assuming, of course, that I didn’t actually end up dead myself.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I winced, trying really hard to keep my mouth shut this time. But I was quickly becoming more concerned with the possibility that my Aunt Petunia may have actually reincarnated as this mindless devil monster.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">(That being said, I couldn’t actually remember if she was dead or not. I mean, it had been almost twenty years since I had last seen her. If she kept up her standard one, two, three bottles of wine a day, basic math said she had to be dead by now. Of course, basic math also, allegedly, said that I needed to keep more money in my bank account. So, I don’t know. Either I was bad at basic math or the universe was trying to tell me something.)</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">A loud crack signaled the breaking of the table Aunt Petunia had pressed me against. It collapsed underneath me and, suddenly, there was nothing holding me up anymore.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Oh boy.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The pressure from the monster sent me down to the ground. Momentum and gravity were about to bring my face and its claws closer together on a very physical level when I just simply let go of its hairy arm and quickly jumped to the side.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">There was a loud, violent <i>squish</i> noise.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I turned around to find that two of the table’s legs, the only two that hadn’t toppled over, had shoved their way through Aunt Petunia’s head, coming out the other side covered in a weird pink goop. The monster twitched once or twice, just for creepy dramatic effect, and then stopped moving completely, much like my real Aunt Petunia after she finished her third bottle of wine.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I took a couple of deep breaths, trying to get my racing pulse back down to a rhythm that wasn’t going to end with my heart exploding out of my chest.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I pointed at Devon and tried to say something, but I couldn’t get the words out due to all the wheezing.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I’d compliment you on a good job,” Devon said. “But, understandably, I feel conflicted about that. What with my vow of partial non-violence and not really establishing any kind of baseline for the creature.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I shook my head. “You have <i>one</i> job.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I’d like to think I have more than one job.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I shook my head again and held up my finger. “One job.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“And it’s called being your partner.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“It’s called: going in first.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon finished off the apple and tossed the core into the mess that was the dead monster. “I know that I’m not the best with subtext and basic human emotions, but I feel like I’m sensing a little…anger from you right now? Is that right? Anger?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Only a <i>little</i>?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Did I do something wrong?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Did you do something?” I repeated. “Really?” I shook my head. “Yes, Devon, you did <i>something wrong</i>. Raise your hand if you have a gem that’s embedded in your chest that makes you indestructible.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon didn’t do anything for a minute, and then he slowly raised his hand. “This is what I’m supposed to do, right? You said that because you wanted me to raise my hand, right? Because you’re not going to raise your hand. In fact, you cut your hand the other day on a post-it note. So, obviously, you’re not indestructible. Am I interpreting this correctly?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I dropped my face into my hands. “I hate you so much right now, Devon.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“You don’t mean that.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Right this minute,” I said, “I mean it with all my heart. I was about to get mauled by Aunt Petunia, who was going to redesign my basic facial structure, and you were just standing there, all nonchalant-like, eating an <i>apple</i>.” I sighed and put my hands on my hips.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Aunt Petunia?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I shook my head. “That’s not really the part you should be focusing on.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Didn’t I have an Aunt Petunia?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“No, that was me.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Are you sure about that? I feel like I have this vague memory of an older woman, tucking me in at night and saying,” he pitched his voice a little higher, “‘Remember, my precious little Devon, Aunt Petunia loves <i>you</i> most of all and the other little children can go rot.’”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I just stared at him. Neither of us spoke for a moment. The only sound you could hear was the steady drip, drip of the pink goo from the monster onto the floor.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“<i>What</i>?” I finally asked.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">He shook his head. “Or maybe it was something I read on a greeting card.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Where are you shopping for cards?” I asked. “Miss Hannigan’s Factory Card Outlet?” I brushed my hands through my dark hair. “Wait, where did you even get the apple?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon shrugged. “I found it lying around.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Oh, great,” I said. “Now you’re just helping yourself to food from our client’s homes.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Well, it’s not like it’s a new occurrence,” Devon replied. “I’ve been helping myself to food from our client’s homes for the last couple of months.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I stared at him. “Seriously?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Why would I joke about this?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I’m trying to figure out why you would even do it,” I said. “Am I not feeding you enough?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I thought it would be an interesting character trait,” Devon said. “I felt like there was too much focus on my mental stability issues.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“You hear voices.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I thought that pillaging snacks from our clients could help with that.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I gagged, a disgusting odor reminiscent of a sour, honey scented electrical burn filling my nostrils. I waved my hand in front of my nose in a futile effort to keep it from making its way down my nasal passages. “Okay, well, the smell’s a little unnecessary. I mean, the pink goo, the boils, the hair and the creepy eyeballs all over its body, isn’t that enough?” I stretched and felt my back crack a couple of times. I twisted my hips from side to side. There was an aching pain that was already settling, like, all over my body. When I woke up tomorrow morning, I wasn’t going to be doing much of anything, including getting out of bed. My muscles were sending very loud and clear messages about that. “I feel like that should be enough. It’s a monster. A creepy, ugly monster. Who’s going to argue that? Nobody in their right mind, that’s who. Do we really need a disgusting death smell to cap it all off? At what point do we just say enough’s enough?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“To be fair-” Devon started.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Have I mentioned how much I hate it when you say that?” I interrupted.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“-I did tell you that it smelled before. In fact, I specifically mentioned that it had an odor of a soured beehive that had been electrocuted. And you ignored me.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Yes, because that’s the problem here,” I said.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I don’t know why you’re upset-”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Which is, of course, the other problem here.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“-you did tell me to wait out here,” he finished, nodding at the kid’s room.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Because, historically speaking, you terrify little children,” I reminded him.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I don’t know about that.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“I do,” I said.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Children love me.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“No, they don’t.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“They don’t?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Why do you think they’re always screaming and running away from you?” I asked.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Isn’t that how tiny humans express love?” Devon asked. “I assumed that was normal.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Normal,” I muttered, rubbing my hand across my beard. “Wait a minute, let me get this straight, you know, just so that we’re both on the same page here: You’re worried that people focus too much on the fact that you’re crazy-”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Worried’s a bit of a stretch,” he interjected.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“-so you thought you’d start stealing food from our clients,” I continued, “and that would make you seem, what? Quirky?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Devon snapped his fingers. “Yes. Thank you. That’s the word. I’ve been trying to think of it for the last couple of months and it literally escaped me every single time. <i>Quirky</i>. I’m trying to be more quirky.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Right.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Is it working?” He stepped away from the doorway and held out his hands. “Do I seem more quirky?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">I held up a finger. “Just a quick question before I answer that.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“That seems reasonable.”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Whose idea was this: your’s or the voices in your head?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">“Oh, obviously the voices,” Devon replied. “Do I really look like the kind of guy who worries about whether or not I should be more quirky?”</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Before I had a chance to answer that, two more monsters jumped out of the kid’s bedroom.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2insXan"><span style="font-size: large;">Want to know what happens next? 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You’ve passed your test, you’ve beaten the odds, the Council of Reapers has officially certified you, and now you’re a fully licensed grim reaper! Before you head out on your first soul bounty, here are five things that are absolutely <i>essential</i> for every grim reaper:</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>The Perfect Handbag</i></b></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">You’ll want something that’s not too big, but not too small. It addition to your tools of the trade, there’s a variety of other things you’ll need to be carrying around on a daily basis. Being a grim reaper takes you to all sorts of interesting places and allows you to meet all sorts of fascinating people. Unfortunately, it can also take you to a lot of disgusting places and you can meet a lot of disgusting <i>dead</i> people. It’s&nbsp;best to have a little bit of everything on hand for every occasion, from perfume to extra lip gloss to hand sanitizer. Also, it doesn’t hurt to carry around some breath mints and an emergency tooth brush. Nobody wants to be collected by a grim reaper who hasn’t brushed their teeth in over twenty-four hours because they’ve been too busy.</span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaX_FCnvc_blOlgoW0agUpEfifJ7k7LYgrQRLFUCl7erL_rgous_mXchTH1keKTvaBSf_-y5EwFNF1hOJzslqyppwaZ2MgFgh7B-sVfOBJaOF8rXW_gnUF5uR8BV90t277mQnMxOId4yw/s1600/embedded_stylish-gym-bag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaX_FCnvc_blOlgoW0agUpEfifJ7k7LYgrQRLFUCl7erL_rgous_mXchTH1keKTvaBSf_-y5EwFNF1hOJzslqyppwaZ2MgFgh7B-sVfOBJaOF8rXW_gnUF5uR8BV90t277mQnMxOId4yw/s320/embedded_stylish-gym-bag.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxKGQXFDq684r-dg-BWQlNVI55-kRWqPx6zEgxXBiLZxlmPAu4EAZ7t_n_ZPP47njliKXfxz1vgckclWYnhOWB8Ngy-rJPaEYR1zFsuj9BmXqzveheq48yeoWGYI6cESBQry3npthc6Uo/s1600/ladies-hand-bags-for-college-rpwphyw0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxKGQXFDq684r-dg-BWQlNVI55-kRWqPx6zEgxXBiLZxlmPAu4EAZ7t_n_ZPP47njliKXfxz1vgckclWYnhOWB8Ngy-rJPaEYR1zFsuj9BmXqzveheq48yeoWGYI6cESBQry3npthc6Uo/s200/ladies-hand-bags-for-college-rpwphyw0.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> &nbsp;<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><i>A Cool Car</i></b><br /> <br /> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Some might say it’s not cool to be seen driving a dead granny to the afterlife, but that’s a problem that’s easily solved: Get a cool car. It doesn’t matter what dead soul you’ve got in that backseat, everything looks better when it’s riding in a classic. Convertibles highly recommended.</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLMdCDqWvoZFORMv3So9UvBA0ym-PQJo_8N1yp_PgvaIGy-03kmrWQpsHbAgCoXTN3MQ83pV-qiJhGhy0x_Al3WfcnOlPeHv-VBYY0FGVxcAckYjmuJGyavcdU7pzlBvu0hZiv-fbCgw/s1600/6c32d7613ff5a512e3971ec2960a4e8e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLMdCDqWvoZFORMv3So9UvBA0ym-PQJo_8N1yp_PgvaIGy-03kmrWQpsHbAgCoXTN3MQ83pV-qiJhGhy0x_Al3WfcnOlPeHv-VBYY0FGVxcAckYjmuJGyavcdU7pzlBvu0hZiv-fbCgw/s320/6c32d7613ff5a512e3971ec2960a4e8e.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBJCJvrm4Ox__fk4rexJMim047NdlhSK8ZsMggpvkp-JB4PiWVeVvzMUX2pgxTwkZGXQ05PxQCRcqNxIPcb3YzbmNtxjHSYSFgvYPbjiikGwZIFbZB7z6sxK8K19wjAqCb4A9w4zz_4Y/s1600/classic-convertible-car-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDBJCJvrm4Ox__fk4rexJMim047NdlhSK8ZsMggpvkp-JB4PiWVeVvzMUX2pgxTwkZGXQ05PxQCRcqNxIPcb3YzbmNtxjHSYSFgvYPbjiikGwZIFbZB7z6sxK8K19wjAqCb4A9w4zz_4Y/s200/classic-convertible-car-10.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>A Good Sense of Timing</i></b></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">You don’t want to show up too soon or too late. How awkward would it be if you arrived to pick up Jack’s soul and Jack’s not dead yet? Egg on <i>your</i> face. Or what if you miss grabbing that dead guy at the nursing home and he ends up haunting the place for several days before you finally get there? Newsflash: old people are easily scared to death. You’re supposed to be gathering the dead, not making more of them.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhPxicNvG31Kiocty-fYp7wUep0YmTAR_gbE5dGGhmn-tnxu7BNsRM0Bh9RhmqxOfYhbat0xQiuwa-FjQHTZTSeDa7OuFauLYRa8cado8rG4F3e_9zg7T6LRCdesw6XSetA3b5jL5zew/s1600/Free-shipping-wholesale-dropship-fashion-rivet-heart-shape-luxury-style-quartz-watch-women-dress-watches-leather.jpg_640x640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhPxicNvG31Kiocty-fYp7wUep0YmTAR_gbE5dGGhmn-tnxu7BNsRM0Bh9RhmqxOfYhbat0xQiuwa-FjQHTZTSeDa7OuFauLYRa8cado8rG4F3e_9zg7T6LRCdesw6XSetA3b5jL5zew/s200/Free-shipping-wholesale-dropship-fashion-rivet-heart-shape-luxury-style-quartz-watch-women-dress-watches-leather.jpg_640x640.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UKDuBnMy9VXh8BpWpJEZwTdOYYnXYCx7wzJPSptuj8kQOVHwXCEg7Uu9Cezt2KSJLl9MLhAMFfzI_ycEClCywD89RcFgLTAkU4W35GDgBjGynKP3n_7jLNvZClKrpZEeAHrjKpI89xI/s1600/Amazing-latest-branded-watches-style-for-ladies-2015-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UKDuBnMy9VXh8BpWpJEZwTdOYYnXYCx7wzJPSptuj8kQOVHwXCEg7Uu9Cezt2KSJLl9MLhAMFfzI_ycEClCywD89RcFgLTAkU4W35GDgBjGynKP3n_7jLNvZClKrpZEeAHrjKpI89xI/s200/Amazing-latest-branded-watches-style-for-ladies-2015-8.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>A Sense of Style</i></b></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">Don’t walk around in a hooded robe. Just <i>don’t</i>. You’re perpetuating an ancient stereotype. Plus, it’s tacky. You’re going to be the last living person these poor souls ever see, why not send them out on a high note? Of course, just because you’re trying to be stylish doesn’t mean you can’t be sensible. A sexy pair of wedges and a pair of faded skinny jeans are going to be just as effective as a little black dress and four-inch stilettos. Remember, you’re representing Death, you need to look sexy <i>and</i> sharp.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0seuKzP_c_1Ob-nMuegcXud8gHbCYENZKkjahUtvh4qspJFjubKJBygSibqQD4m_6rkVS0ruH9c6stZfJnXou_sznkZWjx3kK4LKCjeNMZ3aXImf3BBaTO5lWjaM2ILDBGlGJ2pxgB7g/s1600/shoes-to-wear-with-skinny-jeans-wedges.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0seuKzP_c_1Ob-nMuegcXud8gHbCYENZKkjahUtvh4qspJFjubKJBygSibqQD4m_6rkVS0ruH9c6stZfJnXou_sznkZWjx3kK4LKCjeNMZ3aXImf3BBaTO5lWjaM2ILDBGlGJ2pxgB7g/s320/shoes-to-wear-with-skinny-jeans-wedges.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Gloves</i></b></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">Easily the <i>most</i> important thing on this list. Seriously, you’re going to be touching more than a few dead bodies: Everyone from the old guy who passed away peacefully in his sleep, to the knucklehead who accidentally cut off his own head. Dead bodies might be icky, but it’s part of the job. Also, do you know how many diseases they carry? You’re a grim reaper, not a candidate to get reaped. Besides, no dead body is worth messing up the perfect nails. Glove it up.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieIzzqZ_9vjBa3kC-U6fufQ4aBuZsw23bGClReFcQk6kZjhgEGZ9AsijDWz8daj_W7EzdoGeQ6QFicPpBTJnunJfZNF7OeAaCWjT8UiYGeYpcWo-EG3xviv4SEap5MFa-FTFTyF8-algc/s1600/P17292111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieIzzqZ_9vjBa3kC-U6fufQ4aBuZsw23bGClReFcQk6kZjhgEGZ9AsijDWz8daj_W7EzdoGeQ6QFicPpBTJnunJfZNF7OeAaCWjT8UiYGeYpcWo-EG3xviv4SEap5MFa-FTFTyF8-algc/s200/P17292111.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTdbu_uBT6Ux-uR6Sp3r7X_faEoxK5UgBPwj9Q2TahBcUzo5uxzy7xAHw4NYxltFMWiq1uyaBYaD4oV1SMSV8a4YsmwBy1yn50oP_UxOZ2Lul8h00fqHCU6bKU0ZHR2DSI-eD5xO3H-I/s1600/Leather-gloves-women-s-long-design-fashion-rivet-fashion-ruslana-korshunova-long-gloves-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTdbu_uBT6Ux-uR6Sp3r7X_faEoxK5UgBPwj9Q2TahBcUzo5uxzy7xAHw4NYxltFMWiq1uyaBYaD4oV1SMSV8a4YsmwBy1yn50oP_UxOZ2Lul8h00fqHCU6bKU0ZHR2DSI-eD5xO3H-I/s200/Leather-gloves-women-s-long-design-fashion-rivet-fashion-ruslana-korshunova-long-gloves-.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;">Want some more tips and tricks of the trade? Be sure to read the entire <a href="http://amzn.to/2dVy23Z">Reapers in Heels</a>:</span></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2n3Vtw4"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiry1HIPT5wmDNeSFVZMDf9sdjfm6n7E5Y42j482lkEdJ632EO9qNu1YMUPc_NeHNzkWkppXqOPjvCCluwPLc9WeEKTa_3dIJ3AJs1AxAxwfpm6Fm3BwASn9zZpAQ6i23ws32f19cOoZWU/s640/volume+1+cover+b.jpg" width="425" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/10/5-essentials-for-every-grim-reaper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-2665194707669918479Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:46:00 +00002017-04-12T17:09:22.710-04:00adoptionawesomebooksbuilding a familyChristfamilyinternational adoptionpregnancyprojectspromotionstar girlwriting<div style="line-height: normal;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://bit.ly/star-girl-series" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWYQFv0YknaHcPheQpjnB9uZtVJqupalUfmQCHjtEriE7ooCNu_UdJ27mJLHb1P0buoWi_si-Tz0nnx52sKCc34-xC4-Op5DpcASB5vrns1dGBVRZdfgFTRfkAbjeP0Rpxt-0kSV-NtI/s640/IMG_0213.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">This year my wife and I celebrated our 9th(!) year of marriage.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">When we first got married back in 2007, we were determined to set aside the first few years of our marriage just for us. We had both been looking forward to marriage for so long, we wanted to enjoy it. We wanted to take the time to get to know each other as husband and wife and build that strong foundation for our marriage to thrive on.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Sometime around our third anniversary we began to entertain the idea of parenthood. I don’t think it’s TMI to say we did that classic ‘Well, we’re not exactly trying, but we’re not not trying’ thing. In addition to this cliche style of family planning, my wife and I were also discussing adoption. It was a discussion that we had for almost as long as we were trying to get pregnant.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Donna, my wife, had had a heart for adoption even before we were married. She had done a lot of research about the abandoned girls in China and felt like it was something that God was putting on her heart. She knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that no matter who she married, she and her husband would be parents to an abandoned child from China.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">For me, however, the call came later, a few years into our marriage. I wasn’t opposed to the idea of adoption, it was simply one I had never considered. In my mind, any children I would have with my wife would be biological. But over the first few years of our marriage, however, God slowly worked on my heart, opening it to father the fatherless.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">So last August, after several years of discussion and research, Donna and I pulled the trigger and started the adoption process!</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">At no point was there any question of where we were going to adopt from. It was always China. As we began to research, we learned that most of the children eligible to be adopted have some form of disability or medical problems. We spent weekends reading up on many of these conditions. But even then, there was no doubt, no hesitation. We didn’t change our minds. There may be cheaper options, easier options, but we know that this is where God has placed our children. How could we adopt from anywhere else?</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">As we dug into the early adoption process I was overwhelmed by all this information about China, orphans, and building your family. So to process some of this information, I funneled it back into my work, specifically in<a href="http://amzn.to/2d8P7rH"> superhero series titled Star Girl</a>. Orphans in superhero fiction are nothing new. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Robin, Supergirl, Impulse, I think you get the idea. Incorporating the adoption story into Star Girl’s story wasn’t necessarily an original idea, but it was something that I was now experiencing and I wanted to explore that experience in a way that was most familiar to me: through storytelling.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">At the time, my wife and I assumed that we would probably get matched with a little girl and I thought: how perfect would it be that I would have a book that was essentially about her!</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">God, however, had other plans and shortly after we turned in our adoption application, <i>very</i> shortly, we were matched with a little boy, Fu Gong:</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtDUp7z1GBSLjE0aeETSljLxufEmWJxd1DyMC2CWNHHk5kAs4ASLgwK5iGqLoICnVqTPyQcldX7waih_QpNdVaxbElGiCzQ_46lPBmtkTlVnjcGAAAtL8xd4pRFNJalxO2EaZI1hwW7Oo/s1600/Zheng+Fu+Gong1+2016-3-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtDUp7z1GBSLjE0aeETSljLxufEmWJxd1DyMC2CWNHHk5kAs4ASLgwK5iGqLoICnVqTPyQcldX7waih_QpNdVaxbElGiCzQ_46lPBmtkTlVnjcGAAAtL8xd4pRFNJalxO2EaZI1hwW7Oo/s320/Zheng+Fu+Gong1+2016-3-10.jpg" width="236" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">So, yeah, an unexpected surprise. But a welcomed surprise nonetheless. After endlessly talking about it for years, it was finally going to happen. We were going to be <i>parents</i>.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">But little Fu Gong wasn’t the only the surprise God had in store for us. Shortly after getting matched with our boy, Donna and I discovered that we were pregnant! In Oct 2016 we would meet our little girl, Charlotte Lily Krumbine. The pregnancy was not without its difficulties, however, as Doona was quickly diagnosed with <a href="http://www.helpher.org/hyperemesis-gravidarum/">hyperemesis gravidarum</a>&nbsp;and we found ourselves faced with challenges that neither one of us ever anticipated having to deal with.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">However, God wasn’t done quite yet.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Exactly ten days after discovering we were pregnant with Charlotte, received word from <a href="http://ccaifamily.org/">CCAI</a> (the adoption agency we are working with) that we had gotten matched with <i>another</i> little boy from China:</span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6Kzm2V5Kp4OD4DqZvvEaBs4i0rAnKLRrU15SsSeESyg9Tjbbl5NK6P5fr7O9MXid-cezPSB1W42MabSaJBXyJ8GlBTjg8YV2W1GMnEGIGdLgwO8KnrON9LR9vpcHYRIxxEvMg3WQq84/s1600/SunYu+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6Kzm2V5Kp4OD4DqZvvEaBs4i0rAnKLRrU15SsSeESyg9Tjbbl5NK6P5fr7O9MXid-cezPSB1W42MabSaJBXyJ8GlBTjg8YV2W1GMnEGIGdLgwO8KnrON9LR9vpcHYRIxxEvMg3WQq84/s320/SunYu+%25281%2529.jpg" width="224" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">So, here's the thing. Early on in the adoption process we decided to leave it all in God’s hands. We treated it much like you would treat getting pregnant. We did our research on the medical conditions that many of the children in China are diagnosed with and determined what we would be able to handle, and the rest we left up to God. We didn’t specify any gender. We said that we would be open to two children, which is the max you can adopt at once, and that we would take any age. But we had been advised early on that it was rare to get matched with two children and so we adjusted our exceptions accordingly. But we always knew there was a possibility of a second match.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">His name is Sun Yu. He has the same medical condition as Fu Gong and even lives in the same province. He two years old and he and Fu Gong actually share the same birth month.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Suddenly, nine years later, we were a family of five!</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">But it has not been <a href="http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/the-secret-origin-of-star-girl-pt-2.html">without challenges</a>. In addition to Donna’s pregnancy complications, we’ve run into some money issues. Turns out adoption, specifically international adoption, is <i>expensive</i>. Like, <i>really</i> expensive. When it’s all said and done, we can expect to have paid around $43,000, maybe a little more, for our two sons.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Fundraising as been a <i>beast</i>. Thanks to the generosity of friends, family, and a few devoted fans, we’ve managed to get through a huge chunk of our pre-China visit fees:</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Application fee - $250</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; First program fee - $4400&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; USCIS filing and fingerprints – $890</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dossier preparation – approx.. $450-$900.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">5. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CCCWA-WCP fee -&nbsp; $80&nbsp; for each child</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">6. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Second program fee – $3000</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">7. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CCCWA fee - $1390 per child</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">That’s $12,380 that we’ve raised so far! It’s amazing. Quite truthfully, it’s a straight up miracle considering how close we’ve been to losing our boys these last couple of months.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">But there’s still plenty of expenses to look forward to:</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Third program fee –$3100 -&nbsp; at time of LOA (Letter of Acceptance)</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CCCWA post adoption translation fee - $360 per child&nbsp; – at time of LOA</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Post adoption refundable deposit - $450 – pre-travel</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Visa to enter China – $140 plus courier fee -&nbsp; pre-travel</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">5. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; U.S Domestic and International Airfare - $1200-$1900 by coach per adult plus $200 return lap ticket for each child under 2 {full price for child over 2}- pre-travel</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">6. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In China travel and Accommodations - $3500-$4000</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">7. &nbsp; Adoption Registration &amp; Notarization - $400-$800 – in China</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">8. &nbsp; Children’s passports - $100-$150 each – in China</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">9. &nbsp; Orphanage fee- Approx $5700-5900 per child – in China or wired pre-travel</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">10. &nbsp; Food - $700-800 per couple – in China</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">11. &nbsp; Child Physical &amp; Photo - $130-$150 per child – in China</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -48px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">12. &nbsp; Child U.S. Entry Visa - $325 plus wire fee per child – in China</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">That’s another $30,600 we need to raise before our family is complete and with a newborn on the way, I don’t know what kind of fundraising we’ll be able to do for the next couple of months.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">As I mentioned before, and as some of you already know, I’m an author. I’ve written over 40 books in the 7 years or so. Nothing’s been particularly successful, but with my Star Girl series I feel as though I’ve composed something that’s about as mainstream as it can get. Superheroes are huge now, bigger than ever. Five of the twenty highest grossing movies of all time are superhero films. The CW alone airs four different superhero shows, they’re devoting over half of their’s primetime viewing to superheroes. The clothes racks at Target are filled with superheroes. Superheroes are <i>everywhere</i> now. And I think the Star Girl books meet a need that people don’t even know is there. It’s a female-led series, staring a young girl who’s adopted from China, dealing with not only life as a new adult, but life as an emerging global hero. This is a series that's equal parts super heroics and YA drama.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS0rDm6DQb5Ugh1WMIxNJZxY8pxdfweoH3nKmTkMnLEtTwnTBJNbecVzgnJkzcabMW_UEcAWZJLaDD22s4xK1SG-zOZXCfeWs8MX6GIiCRJMbyvd_Ew4lSpjCbVHKZV_Bgk9IZtUJxbXY/s1600/IMG_5471.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS0rDm6DQb5Ugh1WMIxNJZxY8pxdfweoH3nKmTkMnLEtTwnTBJNbecVzgnJkzcabMW_UEcAWZJLaDD22s4xK1SG-zOZXCfeWs8MX6GIiCRJMbyvd_Ew4lSpjCbVHKZV_Bgk9IZtUJxbXY/s320/IMG_5471.JPG" width="240" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Writing is something that I feel passionate about. I feel like it’s one of the few things I’m <i>genuinely</i> good at. I’m not particularly handy. I can't build anything. I can't not hang a picture crooked. I have zero understanding about how plumbing or electricity works. I don’t know anything about cars, I barely even remember get the oil changed every three months. And I’m not very good with math. &nbsp;</span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">But, I think I've got a pretty decent handle on this writing thing.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">I believe it’s important that we find ways to incorporate our gifts, our skill sets, into our lives. In this case, I’ve been looking for way to use my gift for writing to help my family.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">As Star Girl has her roots in not only <a href="http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/07/ripped-from-panels.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: orange;">my love of comics</span></a>, but also <a href="http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/the-secret-origin-of-star-girl-pt-2.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: orange;">this adoption process</span></a>, it seems only appropriate that I utilize her to make my little family whole. Every dollar I make from Star Girl goes directly to the adoption. Right now, there are three Star Girl books available in <a href="http://amzn.to/2chGzi6"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: orange;">print and for your Kindle</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;">:</span></a></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2chG8nX"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJBMPiqkSvN2haEisVdjdZflVllk639ERfhXmmVfjRpXx2cOFu40Lt29iTTVQvpox08rjlGYHA9aYW1_wXxYKUnLAJF7B-dvrsoCCL33X_9UIDcazLmuXCnkRkPC7iY8OnTwSl9w_2GE/s320/cover2.jpg" width="212" /></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/2bXEDP5"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbS11PsZ4_Q8GTzfLkyMN6JhVqQhF4J9UEfwr-KvkhJoNZhaK5tIT6rfhWtwmu1pTFJGvZH1vlTcEIHODyJBKmgwN735C9t5ZC0khnr_bbujO99S5mB2C7dSmaFG5MiAmkGSMLIpritc/s320/cover2+2.jpg" width="212" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2chFgzu"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJniRWX1k6gcnhCnXP0Mw6J15PnqP3oF39gYc_dJIufcpVWHzs0138VwXMXZekdozVZ6I_vcE0-skdb-Z5mD57jnJWC_5wdwv3sU5MckrHSICmEpt1FAUlwNmuuoKBeIsinIBXznaotg/s320/cover4.jpg" width="213" /></a></div> </div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Buy one of those books, or all three, and you’re not only getting a fun read, but you’re contributing to bringing a family together, you’re helping save two little boys. You might say, if you’ll pardon a little sappiness, that by purchasing these books, you’re being a superhero in your own right.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <br /></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">In addition, I’m offering an autographed set of all three paperbacks for $45. There’s a Paypal link below that’ll kick you to the order page for that.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">If you’ve already read the Star Girl books—<i>Thank You!—</i>or if superheroes aren’t your thing, please share this post with your friends on Facebook, Tumbler, Twitter, or whatever preferred method of social media you use. Perhaps you know of a friend who loves to read and loves superheroes? These books make for a great gift, in Kindle or paperback. Or maybe you’re just looking for something to distract you from life, Star Girl can help you with that, too.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">I cannot imagine how God is going to bring my little family together. The money we’ve raised so far has come from the places we least expect it, from the people who have the least to give. My wife and I are beyond grateful for every thing these people have done. We are touched and humbled by their gestures of faith. Despite this, though, the remaining funds that need to be raised seems almost insurmountable. I don’t know how we’re going to do it. But then, I don’t know how we managed to come this far. I don’t know what God has planned.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">What I do know is that I’m a pretty decent writer. What I do know is that I can take the gifts that God has blessed me with and use them to the best of my ability to bring my family together. What I can do is reach out and share my work with people.</span></div> <div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div> <div style="line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">Beyond that, the rest is in God’s hands.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">If you'd to follow along with our adventure, <a href="http://gofundme.com/krumbine">visit our GoFundMe page</a>.</span><br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /> <input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="9K48X2HA8PYEQ" /> <br /> <table> <tbody> <tr><td><input name="on0" type="hidden" value="Get Your Signed Edition of Star Girl!" />Get Your Signed Edition of Star Girl!</td></tr> <tr><td><select name="os0"> <option value="Signed Copies of Star Girl 1-3">Signed Copies of Star Girl 1-3 $45.00 USD</option> <option value="Signed Copy of Dating the Villain (Star Girl 1)">Signed Copy of Dating the Villain (Star Girl 1) $14.99 USD</option> </select> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" type="image" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" style="background-position: 1px 1px; display: none !important; opacity: 0 !important; visibility: hidden !important;" width="0" /> </form> </div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/krumbine-adoption-adventure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-2156370287512426594Fri, 02 Sep 2016 02:09:00 +00002016-09-05T12:34:41.920-04:00adoptionawesomefamilyfundraisingnew seriespromotionstar girlSo, those of you who are subscribed to my newsletter are familiar the adoption process my wife and I have been going through. We began this journey a year ago now and we were actually matched with a child very quickly Thanksgiving of 2015 and a second one shortly thereafter. I won’t go into the whole thing, but you can find the <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/krumbine">entire story, with all it’s ups and downs, here</a>. <br /> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtDUp7z1GBSLjE0aeETSljLxufEmWJxd1DyMC2CWNHHk5kAs4ASLgwK5iGqLoICnVqTPyQcldX7waih_QpNdVaxbElGiCzQ_46lPBmtkTlVnjcGAAAtL8xd4pRFNJalxO2EaZI1hwW7Oo/s1600/Zheng+Fu+Gong1+2016-3-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtDUp7z1GBSLjE0aeETSljLxufEmWJxd1DyMC2CWNHHk5kAs4ASLgwK5iGqLoICnVqTPyQcldX7waih_QpNdVaxbElGiCzQ_46lPBmtkTlVnjcGAAAtL8xd4pRFNJalxO2EaZI1hwW7Oo/s320/Zheng+Fu+Gong1+2016-3-10.jpg" width="236" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6Kzm2V5Kp4OD4DqZvvEaBs4i0rAnKLRrU15SsSeESyg9Tjbbl5NK6P5fr7O9MXid-cezPSB1W42MabSaJBXyJ8GlBTjg8YV2W1GMnEGIGdLgwO8KnrON9LR9vpcHYRIxxEvMg3WQq84/s1600/SunYu+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6Kzm2V5Kp4OD4DqZvvEaBs4i0rAnKLRrU15SsSeESyg9Tjbbl5NK6P5fr7O9MXid-cezPSB1W42MabSaJBXyJ8GlBTjg8YV2W1GMnEGIGdLgwO8KnrON9LR9vpcHYRIxxEvMg3WQq84/s320/SunYu+%25281%2529.jpg" width="224" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"> <br /></div> Anyway, as you might recall from <a href="http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/the-secret-origin-of-star-girl-pt-2.html">my last update</a>, we ran into some money problems:<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> I don’t know what’s going to happen. We have a deadline, Sept 13th, for when our dossier needs to be submitted to China. In order to submit it, though, we need a little over two thousand dollars and I just don’t know where that money is going to come from. We’re also facing the possibility of, even if we raise the two grand, if it’s been this hard to raise that, what happens when the remaining thirty grand comes due to bring our boys home?</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> I never thought, in a million years, that we would ever get <i>this close </i>only to lose them.</blockquote> <div> <br /> That was two weeks ago and, oh my, what a difference two weeks makes. Thanks to my mom’s generosity and the generosity of others, we raised a little over $3,000 since then. We’re going to just <i>barely</i> meet the deadline for the dossier. As I'm writing this we are, quite literally, scrambling to get our paperwork together.&nbsp;</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> I’m just amazed. Two weeks ago I was facing the prospect having to let these two precious little boys go and now it's starting to look like we might actually get to be a family after all.&nbsp;</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> But, while we’ve managed to meet this financial deadline, there’s still almost another $35,000 needed to bring my sons home. Sometimes it feels a little 'one step forward, two steps back.' I’m excited to be a dad in a way that I never thought I would be. It’s not something that I can easily put into words right now. However, this adoption has been a constant roller coaster of emotions. For every challenge we overcome, there’s almost immediately another to take it’s place. It’s infuriating and exciting all at once. My wife and I have to remind ourselves that this adoption is going to occur in God's time, according to His plan. It's just frustrating when my expectations don't match with God's timetable.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> As I’ve mentioned before, my Star Girl series has it’s roots not only in <a href="http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/07/ripped-from-panels.html">my love of comics</a>, but <a href="http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/the-secret-origin-of-star-girl-pt-2.html">this adoption process</a>. So it seems only appropriate that Star Girl carries some of the responsibility of making our little family whole. Every dollar I make from Star Girl is going directly to the adoption. Right now, there are three Star Girl books available in <a href="http://amzn.to/2chGzi6">print and for your Kindle:</a><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2chG8nX"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJBMPiqkSvN2haEisVdjdZflVllk639ERfhXmmVfjRpXx2cOFu40Lt29iTTVQvpox08rjlGYHA9aYW1_wXxYKUnLAJF7B-dvrsoCCL33X_9UIDcazLmuXCnkRkPC7iY8OnTwSl9w_2GE/s320/cover2.jpg" width="212" /></a>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/2bXEDP5"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbS11PsZ4_Q8GTzfLkyMN6JhVqQhF4J9UEfwr-KvkhJoNZhaK5tIT6rfhWtwmu1pTFJGvZH1vlTcEIHODyJBKmgwN735C9t5ZC0khnr_bbujO99S5mB2C7dSmaFG5MiAmkGSMLIpritc/s320/cover2+2.jpg" width="212" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2chFgzu"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJniRWX1k6gcnhCnXP0Mw6J15PnqP3oF39gYc_dJIufcpVWHzs0138VwXMXZekdozVZ6I_vcE0-skdb-Z5mD57jnJWC_5wdwv3sU5MckrHSICmEpt1FAUlwNmuuoKBeIsinIBXznaotg/s320/cover4.jpg" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> Buy one of those books, or all three, and you’re not only getting a fun read, but you’re contributing to bringing a family together, you’re helping save two little boys. You might say, if you’ll pardon a little sappiness, that by purchasing these books, you’re being a superhero in your own right.</div> <div> <br /> <br /></div> <div> In addition, I’m offering a signed set of all three paperbacks for $45. There’s a Paypal link below that’ll kick you to the order page for that.<br /> <br /> <br /> Six months ago my sister-in-law and her husband had their first child. In fact, the day my nephew was born, my wife and I discovered we were pregnant with our little girl. It's been a roller coaster all around since day one.<br /> <br /> <br /> Lately, when we meet my sister-in-law and my nephew for lunch, I feel this weird little pang in my heart. I had a hard time identifying what it was for a little while, probably because given the circumstances two weeks ago, I found it easier to just not think about it. But as much as I love this little guy, when I see him and see how amazingly adorable he is and how much his parents love him, I feel sad.<br /> <br /> <br /> There are these two little boys I call my sons who I've never met, who I know so little about, who change so rapidly every time we get new pictures they're almost unrecognizable, and I find myself missing them. I miss them even though I don't even know them. And I feel sad for every day that goes by that they don't get the same love and attention that my little nephew does. I feel sad that I'm not there to take care of them, to give them a hug, to teach them their colors and shapes, to experience the struggles of potty training them, or to even have them wake me up way too early in the morning.<br /> <br /> This October our daughter will be born and I'm so excited to meet her. She's a little miracle that my wife and I never thought was going to happen. But I know that my family won't really be complete until all my children are home.<br /> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> As always, please keep us in your prayers.<br /> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /> <input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="9K48X2HA8PYEQ" /> <br /> <table> <tbody> <tr><td><input name="on0" type="hidden" value="Get Your Signed Edition of Star Girl!" />Get Your Signed Edition of Star Girl!</td></tr> <tr><td><select name="os0"> <option value="Signed Copies of Star Girl 1-3">Signed Copies of Star Girl 1-3 $45.00 USD</option> <option value="Signed Copy of Dating the Villain (Star Girl 1)">Signed Copy of Dating the Villain (Star Girl 1) $14.99 USD</option> </select> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" type="image" /> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /> </form> </div> </div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/adoption-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-8700742814339078651Fri, 02 Sep 2016 01:18:00 +00002016-09-01T21:32:51.996-04:00adoptionchildrenfamilyNew Bookpregnancystar girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvK7DEEVUhOulun5zU7M_gFEcbT11cGodiRib-r6puw3A-XTDRyTXP7IMyveFcVuu30LFPAP-wSosDaNyXOY-zV-63uQC_3w4YzkT_kIfRjBaK27u4sFU-_NPm-NJSqC-1aN4DSg94LW8/s1600/cover4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvK7DEEVUhOulun5zU7M_gFEcbT11cGodiRib-r6puw3A-XTDRyTXP7IMyveFcVuu30LFPAP-wSosDaNyXOY-zV-63uQC_3w4YzkT_kIfRjBaK27u4sFU-_NPm-NJSqC-1aN4DSg94LW8/s320/cover4.jpg" width="213" /></a></div> <i></i><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><i>After taking Sloane Slade under her wing, Rose Gardens is faced with the seemingly impossible task of teaching the quick tempered teen how to be a hero, without accidentally turning her into the next terrifying supervillain of Century City.&nbsp;</i></i></div> <i> </i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>But superhero school comes to an abrupt halt when superhero reality rears its ugly head: the mystery of Rose’s murderous boyfriend from the future is a ticking time bomb that’s set to go off any minute, and every minute Rose spends away from cracking the mystery of how the love of her life transforms into the man who would see her dead is one minute closer to Rose meeting that unfortunate fate.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Disaster looms on the horizon of Rose’s life and when a superhero’s life turns into a disaster, the rest of the world isn’t too far behind.</i><br /> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><a href="http://amzn.to/2bNznss"><span style="font-size: large;">Available Now</span></a></i><br /> <br /> ________________________<br /> <br /> <br /></div> </i><br /> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">So, when we last spoke, I talked about my history with comic books, how great they are, how bad my mom thought they were, and how they made a lasting impression on me. This was one half of Star Girl’s origin story. The other half, which is what I’ll be sharing with you today, is rooted in the all too real world.</span>&nbsp;</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">This year my wife and I celebrated our 9th(!) year of marriage. When we first got married back in 2007, we were determined to set aside the first few years of our marriage just for us. We had both been looking forward to marriage for so long, we wanted to enjoy it. We wanted to take the time to get to know each other as husband and wife and build that strong foundation for our marriage to thrive on.</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">Sometime around our third anniversary we began to entertain the idea of parenthood and did that classic ‘Well, we’re not exactly trying, but we’re not not trying’ thing. In addition to this cliche style of family planning, my wife and I were also discussing adoption. It was a discussion that we had for almost as long as we were trying to get pregnant.</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">Donna, my wife, had had a heart for adoption even before we were married. She had done a lot of research about the abandoned girls in China and felt like it was something that God was putting on her heart. She knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that no matter who she married, she and her husband would be parents to an abandoned child from China.</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">For me, however, the call came later, a few years into our marriage. I wasn’t opposed to the idea of adoption, it was simply one I had never considered. In my mind, any children I would have with my wife would be biological. But over the first few years of our marriage, however, God slowly worked on my heart, opening it to father the fatherless.</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">So last August, after several years of discussion and research, Donna and I pulled the trigger and started the adoption process!</span>&nbsp;</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">As we dug into the early adoption process I was overwhelmed with information about China, orphans, and building your family. So to process some of this information, I funneled it back into my work, specifically Star Girl. Orphans in superhero fiction are nothing new. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Robin, Supergirl, Impulse, I think you get the idea. Incorporating the adoption story into Star Girl’s story wasn’t necessarily an original idea, but it was something that I was now experiencing and I wanted to explore that experience in a way that was most familiar to me: through storytelling.</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"></span><br /> <a name='more'></a><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">At the time, my wife and I assumed that we would probably get matched with a little girl and I thought: how perfect would it be that I would have a book that was essentially about her!</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">God, however, had other plans and shortly after we turned in our adoption application,&nbsp;<em>very</em>&nbsp;shortly, we were matched with a little boy:</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTVOinMRPT2PoqvyBZaN0fjSWSbjJXE7vU8NbFKCklgm-KKRNjrGh4UbTN3bgPjE9Wr8uKDQNiE122YMqClCC_o6Ayn0Q9udFb6OOFwe-8mlBIhphl_H6mev7nCvc-WyWAvXtsvR-SMqo/s1600/Zheng+Fu+Gong1+2016-3-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTVOinMRPT2PoqvyBZaN0fjSWSbjJXE7vU8NbFKCklgm-KKRNjrGh4UbTN3bgPjE9Wr8uKDQNiE122YMqClCC_o6Ayn0Q9udFb6OOFwe-8mlBIhphl_H6mev7nCvc-WyWAvXtsvR-SMqo/s320/Zheng+Fu+Gong1+2016-3-10.jpg" width="236" /></a></div> </div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Meet Fu Gong!</i></div> </div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">So, yeah, an unexpected surprise. But a welcomed surprise nonetheless. After endlessly talking about it for years, it was finally going to happen. We were going to be&nbsp;<em>parents</em>.</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">Looking back over the last year or so, I realize that I’ve been engaged in this prolonged conversation with myself and you, dear readers, about parenthood: The last Alex Cheradon book dealt with the relationship between a son and his absentee father. The Cupid’s Daughter books were about the relationship between a father and a daughter who was following in his footsteps. And now, in Star Girl, the relationship between two parents and their adopted daughter. So, the theme of this portion of my writing career is&nbsp;<em>parenthood</em>!</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">This adventure in building our family has been filled with hope, heartbreak, ups and downs. As some of you already know, shortly after getting matched with our little boy, Donna and I discovered that we were pregnant with a little girl! And shortly after&nbsp;<em>that</em>, we got matched with&nbsp;<em>another</em>&nbsp;little boy:</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwB8P4q1frz8o_Mgx_y9br1cjqNOIw1wPuMiPhQpJes_A2TRXRmh6HsozJxrmhR73AZt9Qz4-FidCbBEfavETkpR-2UCuBau5kNc8L6JMXdtnv2xBRQEiOQqZHnFIBHaiNcgK387LbXFs/s1600/SunYu+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwB8P4q1frz8o_Mgx_y9br1cjqNOIw1wPuMiPhQpJes_A2TRXRmh6HsozJxrmhR73AZt9Qz4-FidCbBEfavETkpR-2UCuBau5kNc8L6JMXdtnv2xBRQEiOQqZHnFIBHaiNcgK387LbXFs/s320/SunYu+%25281%2529.jpg" width="224" /></a></div> </div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><i>Our second son, Sun Yu!</i></span></div> </div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Suddenly, nine years later, we were a family of five!</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> But it has not been without challenges. Donna was quickly diagnosed with <a href="http://www.helpher.org/hyperemesis-gravidarum/">hyperemesis gravidarum</a> and we found ourselves faced with challenges that neither one of us anticipated having to deal with.</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> And then, most recently, we’ve run into some money issues and are facing the strong, sad possibility of losing our two boys.</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Donna is doing better. Our little girl is growing healthy and strong and we’re so excited to meet her. But we did start this journey with our son, Fu Gong, and it’s heartbreaking knowing that we’re now in the position of having to let him go so that another family may adopt him.</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> What kills me, what absolutely kills me, the thing that I can’t even think about anymore, is that early after getting matched we sent Fu Gong a care package:</div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yAhB-bLnExEmmaX4GRZuxktX5V13ix6E1abToSjrGOH7JzFS9gxpglw5AjnGMVXPLBdhaEfL-Y4uWZd6eQjPdIhKJ03bdqVdncNsraZQDB3pe13bBS09S-biuo877wkVDXPGf9JbMbA/s1600/Fu+Gong%2527s+care+package.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yAhB-bLnExEmmaX4GRZuxktX5V13ix6E1abToSjrGOH7JzFS9gxpglw5AjnGMVXPLBdhaEfL-Y4uWZd6eQjPdIhKJ03bdqVdncNsraZQDB3pe13bBS09S-biuo877wkVDXPGf9JbMbA/s320/Fu+Gong%2527s+care+package.jpg" width="261" /></a></div> <br /> Not shown in that picture are two things: a small little photo album containing pictures of me and Donna, so that he could get used to our faces, and a stuffed little star that had recorded our voices, introducing us to Fu Gong as his <i>Mama</i> and <i>Baba</i> (Chinese for father). Every time I think of that stuff little star, I start to cry.&nbsp;</div> <br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy28rHxgXsI8I2V5Deuq6KHbf8wb4nbgC_qHMG1cj7cIE3QvRaImoP-XfvQVptt3tD-fltjAIVM8FTFVbF9ajP8nDafx0E8J_k4UZZN7l3KT6I-OqyDTvkl4WBcSSKtODYaFaJYaRTD50/s1600/IMG_9649.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy28rHxgXsI8I2V5Deuq6KHbf8wb4nbgC_qHMG1cj7cIE3QvRaImoP-XfvQVptt3tD-fltjAIVM8FTFVbF9ajP8nDafx0E8J_k4UZZN7l3KT6I-OqyDTvkl4WBcSSKtODYaFaJYaRTD50/s1600/IMG_9649.JPG" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">So, as you read&nbsp;<a data-mce-href="http://amzn.to/2b8qcaq" href="http://amzn.to/2b8qcaq">Dating Disaster</a>, you may think to yourself, “Wow, there’s a lot of stuff going down here. Like, a real crap storm for Star Girl.” Well, now you know why. Dating Disaster was written in the midst of all the difficult stuff, the HG, the possibility of losing the boys, the heart ache of remembering that stuffed star.</span><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">I don’t know what’s going to happen. We have a deadline, Sept 13th, for when our dossier needs to be submitted to China. In order to submit it, though, we need a little over two thousand dollars and I just don’t know where that money is going to come from. We’re also facing the possibility of, even if we raise the two grand, if it’s been this hard to raise that, what happens when the remaining thirty grand comes due to bring our boys home?</span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: ProximaNova-Regular, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;">I never thought, in a million years, that we would ever get&nbsp;<em>this close</em>&nbsp;only to lose them.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="font-family: , &quot;arial&quot;;"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="font-family: , &quot;arial&quot;;">If you’re interested in learning more about our adoption story, Donna and I have&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/krumbine">the whole story up here</a>.</div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/09/the-secret-origin-of-star-girl-pt-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-8927579964085082609Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:10:00 +00002016-09-01T21:34:01.818-04:00awesomeNew Booknew seriesshameless promotionstar girl<div style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> </div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/29Jrdmm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF9XF5qqwUdxW9qlZ5PX15FspBFfGROnism_vdzxAzGtBHsngaJRQTSs2HS-M7DpkfPGaE96pTaXRakvS_tcYhvcD7c3CQMZusK9sEQH5tq5AY-EbYHMWhNjKgBdpT40Yg19hJjSwusp4/s400/cover2.jpg" width="266" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i> <i>Adopted at age 4, Rose Gardens doesn’t know much about her life before her parents brought her to America. She has vague memories of her time in the small orphanage in the Hunan Province of China. But none of these memories offer any explanation as to how she can fly and bend steel pipes with her bare hands.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Naturally, that didn’t stop Rose from becoming a superhero.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Life is as close to perfect as Rose could imagine. She has the greatest parents, the perfect boyfriend, and her career as Star Girl has been fairly impressive.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>With true love in her grasp, marriage may even be on the horizon for Rose and her boyfriend. But when a new villain tears into Century City, Rose finds her heart unexpectedly torn between the good man she knows she loves and the bad boy she finds herself irresistibly attracted to.</i></div> <br /> <div style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://amzn.to/29Jrdmm">Amazon US</a></span></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dating-Villain-Star-Girl-Book-ebook/dp/B017HZMMEC"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Amazon UK</span>&nbsp;</span></a></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> ____________________________</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Star Girl was born out of two things: one of those high concept ideas that my wife and I occasionally stumble across during our evening walks (what if a superhero and supervillain were dating each other in their civilian identities and didn’t know it?) and my love of superheroes.</div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> I&nbsp;<em>love</em>&nbsp;comic books. I started reading comics when I was about 13 years old with a DC Comics crossover event called&nbsp;<em>Zero Hour</em>. Sam’s Club had this bundle discount of the entire crossover and I devoured it over the weekend. I had no idea what was going on: W<em>hy did Superman have long hair? Wait, did Lois know that Clark was Superman? Who was Green Lantern? Was the Flash already dead? I just discovered him!</em>&nbsp;It didn’t matter, I was hooked regardless.</div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> My mom wasn’t thrilled with my interest of comic books and she did her best to stop it before it got too bad. Quick backstory: I was homeschooled all the way through high school. My parents were, obviously, extremely hands-on with my education. Homeschooling is a lifestyle that’s always kind of outside the box. Our school years would be often be constructed as unit studies, focusing on one general topic (for example, Ancient Egypt) and then funneling the essentials through that lens: English, math, history, science would all have connections to the topic of Ancient Egypt. Naturally, I hated it. I was thirteen years old. There wasn’t anything about school that I liked. This probably isn’t that much of a surprise to any of you.</div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> So, my mother had this brilliant idea of using comic books as general topic for one year, hoping that she could burn it out of my system if I could end up associating comic books with schoolwork. To be fair, it wasn’t a bad idea. However, it was a&nbsp;<em>horrible</em>failure. Digging into history and the behind-the-scenes workings of comic books only strengthened my passion and interest in them and I’ve been hooked ever since.&nbsp;</div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> I grew up reading Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman. They were and still are my favorite superheroes. I cannot express to you the levels of excitement I felt when I heard they were going to make a new Flash TV show two years ago or the sadness I felt when DC Comics decided they were going to break up Clark Kent and Lois Lane’s marriage back in 2011.</div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> Comic books have&nbsp;<em>strongly</em>&nbsp;influenced my sense of storytelling. With Star Girl I wanted to capture that same feeling I got when I read that DC Comics crossover. I wanted to thrust readers into a fully realized world of superheroes. And beyond the soap opera, YA romance, that's what Star Girl is really about. It's about superheroes and twisting those conventions and expectations on their side. I don't want to deconstruct superheroes, I want to share with you guys the same exhilaration and excitement I felt when I cracked open those first few issues of DC Comics.</div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2016/07/ripped-from-panels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-6029697309415460884Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:55:00 +00002015-04-27T12:55:00.025-04:00awesomeCupid's DaughterNew Booknew seriesshameless promotion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuj0llNuMdpj9Es0GBYZFV9vg8Zgxj4AmAOwMELGBCmxENcCQaQ9FdiaOx9-iWT5rqX-2vNaNRUC2DChPq4o-l3WugxN7nXwGynZLjNtEeklLJXvHg7XKl7xz3F4NJdXp323Y7ZfTeRV0/s1600/Issue+1+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuj0llNuMdpj9Es0GBYZFV9vg8Zgxj4AmAOwMELGBCmxENcCQaQ9FdiaOx9-iWT5rqX-2vNaNRUC2DChPq4o-l3WugxN7nXwGynZLjNtEeklLJXvHg7XKl7xz3F4NJdXp323Y7ZfTeRV0/s1600/Issue+1+Cover.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsZpoiGA4FGQNxLPjsKAM_x44rxCW1_J7VpKSY3263gCYfXQkqBbUYIS-W3DUCGyswwFfwu9qnbX_oVvkO7NSE98HboXKS2hFJq7HpEMZZAWliSniIZ1rc2OanBOw41PIQDkgXllSyFM/s1600/Issue+2+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsZpoiGA4FGQNxLPjsKAM_x44rxCW1_J7VpKSY3263gCYfXQkqBbUYIS-W3DUCGyswwFfwu9qnbX_oVvkO7NSE98HboXKS2hFJq7HpEMZZAWliSniIZ1rc2OanBOw41PIQDkgXllSyFM/s1600/Issue+2+Cover.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrfTj9FZl01UuMOUDo3H9BSNIeuNg_b-B5_B5RVC-8wZfr5378YWwOiGbYDkyfT-ufrFv96AxCGirlcbTE8ac_UuQME7ZK1jIHUHFpDxZJEHtB7TkknOxQ1rvi8DKN50xdEhbP505sOFA/s1600/Issue+3+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrfTj9FZl01UuMOUDo3H9BSNIeuNg_b-B5_B5RVC-8wZfr5378YWwOiGbYDkyfT-ufrFv96AxCGirlcbTE8ac_UuQME7ZK1jIHUHFpDxZJEHtB7TkknOxQ1rvi8DKN50xdEhbP505sOFA/s1600/Issue+3+Cover.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a></div> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Ross Richards and Sally Fields are each other’s True Love, they just don’t know it!</i></div> <i><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Emma Valentine is just your average ordinary twenty-four year old Manhattanite, living in an apartment that makes a shoebox look spacious, barely making a living working as the cutest barista at the Grind House and, oh yeah, she’s also Cupid’s Daughter.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </i><div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>That’s right. Cupid. As in the guy responsible for helping everyone find their True Love.</i></div> <i><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Which means Ross and Sally are a match made in Emma’s hands, if she could only actually get them in the same room together.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>*******</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Cupid’s Daughter is a short story style series. Each issue is approximately 10,000 words or 30 pages. The first 3 issues are available right now through Kindle Unlimited!</i></div> </i><div> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Get them now!</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Amazon US</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=8eec457ab2&amp;e=810d4eb874">Issue One - "Lonely Reader Looking for Love Story"</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=93f8f36b8d&amp;e=810d4eb874">Issue Two - "Looking for that Love Connection"</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=8174f2c77e&amp;e=810d4eb874">Issue Three - "Lonely, But Afraid to Love"</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Amazon UK</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=1c6597c828&amp;e=810d4eb874">Issue One - "Lonely Reader Looking for Love Story"</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=e9793cd121&amp;e=810d4eb874">Issue Two - "Looking for that Love Connection"</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=6e17e66984&amp;e=810d4eb874">Issue Three - "Lonely, But Afraid to Love"</a></div> <br /><br />I know what you’re thinking, “Didn’t Jason already do a Cupid’s Daughter thing three years ago?” The answer is yes, of course, I did. For whatever reason, it didn’t catch on. But the idea has continued to stick with me and, like I’ve done before, I decided to take another stab at it, from a slightly different angle.<br /></div> <div> In addition to expanding my catalogue this year, I really wanted to experiment with Kindle Unlimited. A lot of other authors have found tremendous success in the program this past year and I’m hoping to come at least a little close to what they achieved. Even though this series is specifically written for the KU in mind, you can still purchase each installment for $0.99 regardless of whether or not you’re KU subscriber.<br /><br />Despite the fact that Cupid’s Daughter was something I had done before, this particular incarnation was a really tough nut to crack. My wife and I started outlining this new series back in February. In my first attempt I tried to just continue from the previous book, albeit in a soft reboot fashion. I was basically going to dump all the setup from the original Cupid’s Daughter (Emma being a divorce lawyer, any potential love interests for Emma and Emma’s overall reluctance to join the family business) and just skip ahead to Emma being involved full time with the Cupid business, with a new potential love interest and her brother playing a larger supporting role. I did almost an entire issue with this setup before I ran into a brick wall. For whatever reason, it wasn’t clicking with me and if it wasn’t working for me, than it wasn’t going to work for you.<br /></div> <div> So I started over from scratch. More or less. I kept a lot of the names. Emma’s a little younger than she was the first time around and she’s not a lawyer anymore. Fiona is still her best friend. There is no more Luke and we have a couple of new characters to round out the supporting cast. I think this is a much better version of the story.<br /></div> <div> If you’ve never read the original Cupid’s Daughter, don’t worry about it. It’s not required reading. It’s like a first draft compared to this final, polished draft I’m releasing now.<br /><br />There will be 3 more issues of Cupid’s Daughter in late May, early June. After that, I don’t know what’s going to happen. It’ll really depend on the level of success the series has. So if you like it, make sure you tell all of your friends!</div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2015/04/cupids-daughter-new-series.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-2159958476095608317Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:49:00 +00002014-12-02T20:06:21.547-05:00awesomeReapers in Heelsshameless promotionI think a lot about endings. The tv shows we watch, the movies we see, the books we read. With each one I always find myself wondering how it's going to end, or, even more appropriately these days, if it's going to end.<br /> <br /> Comic books go on ad nauseam. For decades Superman has been fighting Lex Luther, over the same issues, too. Sure, it's a "never ending battle" but really? Some times there are tweaks, minor differences: for the longest time Clark and Lois were married. Now it's Superman and Wonder Woman who are romantically linked.<br /> <br /> <div> TV shows aren't much better. Sometimes you get a Lost or a Battlestar Galactica. And there's a little trickery there, trying to make you believe they had a plan along, that the show always had a ending. But more often than not, you get the X-Files, or The Big Bang Theory, where the premise is just run into the ground. And you're sitting there, watching the actors grow old and age right past the ages they're supposed to be playing. And you wonder why isn't this show canceled? Why aren't we trying something new? Why aren't we looking for the next big thing, rather than grinding the current big thing down until there's nothing left?<br /> <br /> And movies? We just reboot. How many more times are we going to see Superman’s origin? How many different versions of James Bond are there going to be?</div> <div> In today's market, I wonder if it isn't so much stories we're being sold, as it is commodities.<br /> <br /> And books aren't exempt from this. Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series? It got so bad that I knew exactly what to expect before I even cracked open the book.<br /> <br /> I think a lot about endings.<br /> <br /></div> <div> Of course, then there's the question of what we want vs. what we need. There are some characters who are so well defined and developed that we want to spend as much time with them as we can. We don't care if their story never ends, because they've become our friends and who wants their friends to leave? But unless our friends leave, how will we ever have the opportunity to make new friends? Most of us are creatures of habit. Many of us need to be given a kick, a push, to try something new. But if we've got something that's already scratching a particular itch, why try anything new? I have Superman, what do I need another messianic-style superhero for? I have Star Trek, what do I need Star Wars, or Battlestar Galactica or Farscape for? I have Steven King, what do I need Joe Hill for?</div> <div> I think it’s important for us to embrace endings in our stories. Nothing should go on forever. And can you really appreciate something until it’s over? In endings we have the opportunity to make a clean break and try something new.<br /> <br /> Right now it’s definitely time to call it a day for Reapers in Heels. This is the first series I’ve brought to a close. It was born out of an experiment to do something a little more mainstream. I don’t think it quite worked as well as I hoped it would have. But in the end, I think it worked out perfectly for me.<br /> <br /> I think that in order for me to be able to try new things, experiment some more, I had to bring Reapers to a proper ending. After Death, Debutantes, and Diamonds, I had no intention of writing anymore Reapers in Heels. But that book wasn’t really an ending. Sure, it ended, but it didn’t really close out the story of Avery and Brooke.<br /> <br /> So here we have it, The End of Reapers in Heels. Is it any good? I sure hope so. I mean, I think it is. Right now, at least. I’m writing this blog post only a few hours after finishing the book. In the next day or so I’ll start editing it and I’ll think it’s the biggest pile of crap ever. But then I’ll get to the end and I’ll realize that it wasn’t so bad after all. Happens every time. With every single book. Just ask my wife, she’ll tell you.<br /> <br /> But the real question is whether you, dear readers, like it? I really hope you do. I put a lot of work into these stories and I hope you guys enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.<br /> <br /> Now that I’ve closed the book on Avery and Brooke, I’m going to try a few new things in the coming months. I’ve got a couple of ideas, stuff that’ll hopefully appeal to you guys and new readers. At least one series, a proper full length book, and maybe series of books that aren’t really connected. And, hey, if nothing else, I’ve got Alex Cheradon Volume 4 coming.<br /> <br /> Thanks for reading, guys. Without any further ado, I give you the final Reapers in Heels book:<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0MPDnhmhJM7y9eWu7lUjHmIlSH2ZtbNMWk2_1zz7r3CzMyg9aRTudz5_BjTzGegcHRt9i2zQesh2VzlN35iFeSfDtw4Q6NSoQX4AEEfXbULJuG7RmD8EhCXGsppPJ9RpwoV7Rx5_sBZI/s1600/cover+kindle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0MPDnhmhJM7y9eWu7lUjHmIlSH2ZtbNMWk2_1zz7r3CzMyg9aRTudz5_BjTzGegcHRt9i2zQesh2VzlN35iFeSfDtw4Q6NSoQX4AEEfXbULJuG7RmD8EhCXGsppPJ9RpwoV7Rx5_sBZI/s1600/cover+kindle.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <br /> <i><br /></i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><i>This is the end.&nbsp;</i></i></div> <i> </i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <i> </i><i><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Stanley Morris is a loan shark. A low life. A thief. A con man. A man of questionable ethics and morality. He is also a lover. He is a fighter. He is from London, England and he is an only child.&nbsp;</i></div> </i><i><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </i></div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Up until six months ago he was Brooke Graves’ boyfriend. Most of the time.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>However, for the last six months, Stanley Morris has been in a coma and Brooke has been wracked with confusion and guilt. She didn’t know what to do with her life. She didn’t know how she felt. All she knew was that Stanley Morris was in a coma and it was her fault.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>But eventually Brooke came to terms with her decisions, with her life.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>Then three weeks ago Stanley Morris woke up from his coma. When he woke, though, he wasn’t Stanley Morris anymore. The man he is now is a monster.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>Stanley Morris was many things. But he wasn’t a monster.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>The monster is in control now and he’s on a collision course with everyone. Including the Graves’ sisters.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i>This is the end.</i></div> <div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1yKno6r">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00QHEGHUU">Kindle UK</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/12/to-love-is-to-die-last-reapers-in-heels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-4041520586581233615Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:01:00 +00002014-12-01T00:01:00.649-05:00awesomeblack Fridayoutlawed loveRupert and Mesaleshameless promotion<div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Rupert &amp; Me</b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Rupert &amp; Me is a webcomic that I used to write and draw. The first two books are collections of that comic. The third book, <a href="http://amzn.to/11IwPGm">Seeking a Few Good Minions,</a> is an original work geared towards an all-ages audience.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> WARNING:&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Reading these books while consuming beverages may result in said beverage going up and coming out your nose.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> WARNING 2:&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Also, if you don't spit up your beverage and you may laugh so hard you'll wet your pants.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> "Where did you get that idea?" Ever asked an author that? Now, for the first time, one author is brave enough to step forward and reveal the source of creative inspiration! He has a little green man that lives under his desk and gives him all his ideas. TRUE STORY! 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Her prisoner, the handcuffed hottie, Kyle Archer, just turned State’s evidence on notorious mobster Jonathon Bragan. Kate’s responsible for getting him from the courthouse to the jailhouse, but can she do it without losing her heart?</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div> 11am - 11pm EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <b><i>Only $0.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> 11pm - 11am EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <b><i>Only $2.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1AzpUOR">Get It Here!</a></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGMKf1mnGJjrAKALX0S924QBlHd_ffVfC1g8F62VR3mIphvLBi54gNT82WCMVfU7XKU8do8ZW2TozQqcXmB3pJ5mpTrrv6OKJnCfHSDodt-TXMAwxQ2yRLzUua8AtrvKbnTrX6dMg0HQ/s1600/EOTU+covere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGMKf1mnGJjrAKALX0S924QBlHd_ffVfC1g8F62VR3mIphvLBi54gNT82WCMVfU7XKU8do8ZW2TozQqcXmB3pJ5mpTrrv6OKJnCfHSDodt-TXMAwxQ2yRLzUua8AtrvKbnTrX6dMg0HQ/s1600/EOTU+covere.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Family can be rough sometimes. It can be even worse when you work together.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Brothers Matt and Nathan Roman are the crack creative team behind the comic book sensation: Explorers of the Unknown. Matthew writes the words. Nathan draws the pictures. It was the perfect combination, until Matt came back from his honeymoon to find Nathan transformed into a comic book creator diva and sleeping with half the town's female population.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Filled with crackling dialogue, memorable characters and heartfelt moments, this is a story that will leave you laughing, smiling and wishing that it didn’t end.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> 11am - 11pm EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><i>Only $0.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 11pm - 11am EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><i>Only $2.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1xEQ68v">Get It Here!</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/12/black-friday-now-cyber-monday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-8750712232776674103Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:01:00 +00002014-11-30T00:01:00.212-05:00awesomeblack FridayCastle Sisterssaleshameless promotion<div style="text-align: center;"> <b>The Castle Sisters</b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>(This is an All-Ages series)</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>Faith and Summer Castle are the ultimate crime fighting duo.&nbsp;</i></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>And they're not even old enough to drive.&nbsp;</i></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>Faith has the super smarts and Summer brings the super brawn.&nbsp;</i></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The forces of darkness are gathering and the battle between good and evil has reached a pivotal turning point.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> When their Uncle gets kidnapped by the evil Agent Dark and the mysterious organization known only as the Tancredi Group, the Castle Sisters find themselves in the middle of that very battle.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> It’s an adventure that will take the sisters from the concrete jungles of New York, to the frozen wastelands of the arctic, and to dimensions beyond our own.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The fate of the world may hang in the balance, but it’s just another day for the Castle Sisters.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div> 11am - 11pm EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <b><i>Each book $0.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> 11pm - 11am EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <b><i>Each book $1.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1FeIj3t">Get Them Here!</a></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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He has a partner, Devon Christian who's a little crazy.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Since his first day on the job, Alex has found himself at the center of some very unusual cases:&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Vampires.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Clones.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Missing daughters.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Time travel.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Crazy ex-partners who find themselves plagued with voices inside his head telling him to kill people.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Cults bent on bringing demons to Earth.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Cults bent on controlling the planet through advance scientific means.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Husbands who are cheating on their wives with alternate reality versions of their wives.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Explosions.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Lots of explosions.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -We’re really not kidding about the explosions. It’s kind of ridiculous how many there are.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Gunfights.&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Honestly, the gunfight situation is just as bad as the explosion situation.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Yes. Is is <i>that</i> kind of series.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> What Readers Are Saying:</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i></i><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><i>"Quirky and fun!"</i></i></div> <i> </i> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <i> </i> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><i>"Kept me laughing from beginning to end!"</i></i></div> <i> </i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>"Alex is one of my favorites!"</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>"Krumbine puts more fun, action, and mayhem in a short novel than you’re likely to find in longer works, and he leaves you panting for more. 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text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br />http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/11/black-fridaybut-now-saturday-alex.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-9006962750681149180Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:22:00 +00002014-11-28T09:30:31.022-05:00awesomeblack FridaypromotionReapers in Heelssaleshameless promotion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5NG1dKltotbwjMFfkfYwtCJIk0UZ2Jw0K9baONytVdQA1RpngpEJjf_GPMHmcS1-23yIGkX88T-3KDN56MtJJh0XAsEVpt9S4dvi3VsOMzG0H5sIBxAVLpid_gWAdcll3jZlYxJi4cC4/s1600/One-Stiletto-Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Reapers in Heels</b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>(This series is&nbsp;recommended for Mature Readers)</i></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> When a dead soul goes renegade you call a grim reaper. And when you’re in Century City, you call the Graves sisters.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div> <br /></div> <div> Avery and Brooke Graves are two of the best reapers in town. For them, hunting down a renegade dead soul is easy, hunting for a good man, however, is a whole ‘nother challenge.<br /> <br /> What Readers Are Saying:<br /> <i><br />"...wise cracking, butt kicking, fun mystery that is a great read!"</i><i><br /></i></div> <div> <i>"...great chemistry between the two (sisters) and I found myself laughing and smiling at their conversations throughout the entire book."</i><i><br /><br />"True characters with relatable personalities. I'm hooked on the whole series."</i><br /> <br /> 11am - 11pm EST</div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><i>Each book $0.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 11pm - 11am EST</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><i>Each book $1.99</i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1y2lYDM">Get Them Here Now!</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFQqbhSWZTxz915ZliWqQn7T7bSxQGygRzZK6epednSipN2gwVb1VI5NvQ-gRpMWpVlPYU0JrgRNcDaFnUSiVre-hcXR6o6I_1KoFMSqE8UrNUZF5F90NO3Z0DrdcjW2sCVkupzlerU8/s1600/One+Stiletto+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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If you've been waiting to get caught up on a particular series, this would be the time to do it. I'm spreading it out so that every day will be a different series (see the line up below) and I'll also have a reminder here the site the day of each sale.<br /> <br /> Like all good Black Friday deals, the best ones are early on. So, for the first twelve hours (8am to 8pm PST or 11am to 11pm EST) everything is at $0.99. For the second twelve hours the price goes up to either $1.99 or $2.99, depending on which series it is. And then, at the twenty-four mark, each series returns to it's normal pricing.<br /> <br /> <h3> Friday - <a href="http://amzn.to/1zMNUL9">Reapers in Heels</a>&nbsp;- &nbsp;$0.99 - $1.99</h3> (excludes the newest one, <a href="http://amzn.to/1ra1SBH">Love is Wasted on the Dead</a>)<br /> <br /> <h3> Saturday - <a href="http://amzn.to/1xDCbzi">Alex Cheradon</a>&nbsp;-$0.99 - $2.99/$1.99</h3> <br /> <h3> Sunday - <a href="http://amzn.to/1uP6kuJ">The Castle Sisters</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;$0.99 - $1.99</h3> <br /> <h3> Monday - Everything Else</h3> <a href="http://amzn.to/1AyiQlL">Rupert &amp; Me</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://amzn.to/1z9Ifho">Outlawed Love</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://amzn.to/153PcaS">Explorers of the Unknown</a>http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/11/black-friday-all-weekend-long.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-4684863183906512445Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:48:00 +00002014-10-27T12:48:49.385-04:00In case you missed it (and if you're subscribed to my <a href="http://eepurl.com/Cc7Gj">newsletter</a> or my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jmkwriter">Facebook page</a> I don't see how you could) Reapers in Heels Volume 3 officially launched Oct 1st with:<br /> <br /> <br /> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div align="center" class="Body"> <div align="center" class="Body"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLdReJi7x_BA_epzrPJs8awz6T2vAMLnPywUxKmXQL0SLGPVq-t12Ggm4pePFvNNROnPhVERHn0ChdVOwKEHLxrPe8hzcsuHnPGB6A_X4SwT7vKKoesLjE2jOz7JfUX63GYQsAxKpGhI/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLdReJi7x_BA_epzrPJs8awz6T2vAMLnPywUxKmXQL0SLGPVq-t12Ggm4pePFvNNROnPhVERHn0ChdVOwKEHLxrPe8hzcsuHnPGB6A_X4SwT7vKKoesLjE2jOz7JfUX63GYQsAxKpGhI/s1600/cover.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <br /> <i>When a dead soul goes renegade, you call in a grim reaper to hunt them down. But sometimes, when a dead soul goes renegade, it's not just about running away from that white light. And a grim reaper can help with that, too.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>It's been 6 months since Yvette Spencer and Dicky Ramburg upended the lives of Avery and Brooke Graves.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>It's been six months since anyone's heard from Thane Grym.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>It's been six months since the Alpha Reapers assumed control of Messor &amp; Decessus.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Time has not been kind to everyone.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>And now, at the home of Harriet Paddington, those six months are about to catch up with Avery and Brooke.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Volume 3 of Reapers in Heels starts here.</i><br /> <div> <b><u><br /></u></b></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1wvucTm">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NKRYQ82">Kindle UK</a><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> Right now I'm hard at work on the third and final installment of Volume 3. The next two books should be arriving mid-November and December. And these are, of course, the last two Reapers in Heels books <i>ever</i>.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> To get you appropriately excited, I now present the covers for the final two Reapers in Heels books.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivTO7k7gsCnItq5hfGrhyphenhyphenPU47HaL1FAWxF6hJL5sQqxmLXW-Lsq8ExJ3xfx16QziK3GJfkJmbSltKFMgda7Ed6oZwm4iJ0htYFf_n-Jw2qmAhYQXfWwuyNR2ICq6Cfne1Phn6qBInO4Vw/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivTO7k7gsCnItq5hfGrhyphenhyphenPU47HaL1FAWxF6hJL5sQqxmLXW-Lsq8ExJ3xfx16QziK3GJfkJmbSltKFMgda7Ed6oZwm4iJ0htYFf_n-Jw2qmAhYQXfWwuyNR2ICq6Cfne1Phn6qBInO4Vw/s1600/cover.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNIZcTjEJ5eDpcgztcpGc-267suCkN7sNm06EX8YqiTbF8RFkOwEylZXNq3Bxpb6D0Uoplx5KCtslcGDD7MnnUq8BmlZLTxQyIIVD9HZHcHKZ95ZYuex2lTH9Tukyz73t5tlxo0SXa5c/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNIZcTjEJ5eDpcgztcpGc-267suCkN7sNm06EX8YqiTbF8RFkOwEylZXNq3Bxpb6D0Uoplx5KCtslcGDD7MnnUq8BmlZLTxQyIIVD9HZHcHKZ95ZYuex2lTH9Tukyz73t5tlxo0SXa5c/s1600/cover.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Hope you didn't have your heart set on a happy ending for everybody....</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/10/reapers-in-heels-volume-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-661893059281201551Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:22:00 +00002014-08-15T14:22:41.790-04:00projectspromotionReapers in Heelsshameless promotionSo I wanted to wait until I had a decent amount typed up and locked in place before I officially announced what my next project was. And with almost a third-ish of the book done, I feel comfortable doing that now.<br /> <br /> After writing 8 Alex Cheradon books back-to-back, I wanted to step away from his wacky world for a little bit and take a break. I've had this idea for sci-fi series that I've been trying to get around to for the last year and a half and I thought this was going to be the perfect time to dig into it. Unfortunately, after breaking a loose outline and starting work on, the series still wasn't coming together. So it got pushed back. Again. I'm starting to feel a little bad for the characters.<br /> <br /> But. Now I had some time on my hands. I still wasn't ready to get back into Alex. Although, I am hoping to get the next volume of AC out around January-ish. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.<br /> <br /> Instead, after listening to my wife and a couple of readers, I decided to revisit <a href="http://amzn.to/1vRIRek">Reapers in Heels</a>.<br /> <br /> That's right. I'm doing a third volume of Reapers in Heels!<br /> <br /> Tell your friends! Shout it from the rooftops!<br /> <br /> Okay, maybe it's not <i>that</i> exciting. Or maybe it is. I've gotten a few emails here and there over the last year wondering if there were going to be any more RiH. Well, here you guys go.<br /> <br /> So, what are the deets about the new volume?<br /> <br /> -It's going to be 3 books.<br /> <br /> -I can't announce any titles yet because I haven't settled on a theme. But I'm probably looking towards something involving the word 'Love' or maybe something having to do with shoes again.<br /> <br /> -To prepare myself for writing these, I went back and reread the entire series (which, honestly, kind of felt like a&nbsp;narcissistic&nbsp;thing for me to do. Rereading my own work? <i>Really</i>?). It was actually something of a&nbsp;necessity&nbsp;for me, because as I was outlining Volume 3, I had a sneaking suspicion that some of my ideas felt rather familiar. And they were. Because I had already done them. So. Yeah. I definitely had to reread everything. But it's all fresh in my mind now. During the review of the first two volumes I made some corrections, tweaked a few things, nothing too major. Nothing that&nbsp;necessitates&nbsp;a reread. I realized that I don't pay attention to what I'm naming my characters and I had ended up with a lot of Steves and a couple of Lauras in one book. So I tweaked what I could, without making any major waves. Probably the biggest change was changing Alpha Reaper Steve Grant to Alan Grant. I kept Steve the Bartender the same and Steven Russell the same, when I realized that I almost never to referred to Russell beyond just <i>Russell</i>. But, I have learned my lesson and I am taking much better care of naming characters this time around.<br /> <br /> -Because of the all rereading and editing I had to do on the first two volumes of RiH, the plan, right now, is to just plow through these 3 books all at once. I'm gonna write them back-to-back, and then edit them back-to-back, and then, probably (maybe), release them all at once, too. Maybe. I don't know. This could change. We'll see. Of course, you guys will be the first to know.<br /> <br /> -And here's the part that'll make this announcement a little more bittersweet than you would like: It'll probably be the last 3 Reapers in Heels books. For reals this time. I'm writing these with the intent of bringing a conclusion to Avery and Brooke's character arcs. I'm going to do my best to answer as many questions and solve as many mysteries as I can. But there may be one or two things that slip through the characters. If nothing else, though, these 3 books will definitely serve as a "The End" for the Graves sisters.<br /> <br /> (Unless, of course, I end up selling a million copies. In which case, I'm totally up for selling out again. Or, at the very least, creating a spin off.)<br /> <br /> Okay. I think that's everything. Unless anybody has any questions? Feel free to ask. You guys are the best so you should definitely keep your eyes peeled next week because I'm pretty sure I'm going to release the first chapter sometime after Monday.<br /> <br /> Alright. I need to get back to work now.http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/08/what-im-working-on-right-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-7049804597697787745Tue, 10 Jun 2014 04:00:00 +00002014-06-10T00:00:04.525-04:00Alex CheradonawesomeNew Bookshameless promotion<div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_yQ0NH6T3foUluB5X72NEgUxXALG9v9-qCIa5N8_mykMf58722aRV1aTDfWhLkgwFhpnE5oIM25K4S3Qrfm1VZuvdcsQqygKsEiISmJs56BsRjePGQGB5vf-Ei_QEjPTT9OkhQoFWB8/s1600/The+House+Always+Wins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_yQ0NH6T3foUluB5X72NEgUxXALG9v9-qCIa5N8_mykMf58722aRV1aTDfWhLkgwFhpnE5oIM25K4S3Qrfm1VZuvdcsQqygKsEiISmJs56BsRjePGQGB5vf-Ei_QEjPTT9OkhQoFWB8/s1600/The+House+Always+Wins.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> BOOK #3.3</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1keTQmk">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Always-Wins-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00KVNXCZQ/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1402349107&amp;sr=8-11&amp;keywords=the+house+always+wins">Kindle UK</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>“A little bit of this town goes a very long way.”&nbsp;</i></div> </i><div style="text-align: center;"> ~ Hunter S. Thompson</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The Millennium Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has a problem. Since opening four months ago, nine guests have died and hundreds of employees have simply just…vanished.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Naturally, Alex Cheradon is on the case.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Now it’s six weeks later and things have gotten a little…worse.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Instead of finding out what happened to the guests that got them killed or where the missing employees have gone off to, Alex has been caught up with werewolves, vampires, and a helicopter explosion that took out several rooms on the Millennium’s upper floors.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> What simply started out as a publicity nightmare has turned into genuine disaster.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Now the hotel is empty, shut down and unlikely to ever open its doors again.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> And, of course, nobody still knows what happened to those nine guests and hundreds of employees, how to fix it, or how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Needless to say, from this point on, it’s only going to get worse.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Alex Cheradon Volume 3 concludes here.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Hopefully he survives long enough to get a fourth volume.</div> </div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/06/alex-cheradon-volume-3-concludes-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-8448847949847430749Tue, 20 May 2014 22:15:00 +00002014-05-20T18:15:53.982-04:00Alex CheradonNew Bookpromotionshameless promotionHere's the cover reveal for next Alex Cheradon book, coming June!<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkA3TqOPT-VUc0Z27hn5SkAaqIN-Cpn6nYboqQnbVX1pt8gJP2Ydddc2aY0p-0Ld_Vxc2RMT-cl5tqEvcjt3Wu_sM7YLedjp0T27EDdfiDb3-dBEVNAdw51Z6Pbr3tbjvpqqW_ueoVd_w/s1600/The+House+Always+Wins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkA3TqOPT-VUc0Z27hn5SkAaqIN-Cpn6nYboqQnbVX1pt8gJP2Ydddc2aY0p-0Ld_Vxc2RMT-cl5tqEvcjt3Wu_sM7YLedjp0T27EDdfiDb3-dBEVNAdw51Z6Pbr3tbjvpqqW_ueoVd_w/s1600/The+House+Always+Wins.jpg" height="400" width="266" /></a></div> <br /> If you haven't yet, now's the perfect time to get caught up on everything Alex Cheradon:<br /> <br /> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><u>VOLUME 1</u></i></b></span></div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJecbMbVdhwhHX_w0UMKnUmrExGfuiib5yl3lkSmAs1Zu53_31Li30rCyww9pxBkYNpPQtr1lg4jIQBdU_rO107UyduvN05ZD3hrAvI_TkFaOkxlpnOCTweJaqZZL57y1XkBMjb18fKOo/s1600/Skull+cover+3+nook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJecbMbVdhwhHX_w0UMKnUmrExGfuiib5yl3lkSmAs1Zu53_31Li30rCyww9pxBkYNpPQtr1lg4jIQBdU_rO107UyduvN05ZD3hrAvI_TkFaOkxlpnOCTweJaqZZL57y1XkBMjb18fKOo/s320/Skull+cover+3+nook.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> BOOK #1.1</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TDKPJI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=onstwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001TDKPJI">Kindle US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TDKPJI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=onstwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001TDKPJI">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fruitbasket-from-hell-jason-krumbine/1100323364?ean=2940012086679">Nook</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/fruitbasket-from-hell/id365802225?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4162">Smashwords</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Steven Raines (you know, the man who made billions making an operating system that out-Microsoft-ed Microsoft?) has hired Alex Cheradon(private investigator) to look for his missing daughter. Good news: It's a million dollar payday. Bad news: she may be a Satanist hell bent on bringing the Devil to Earth.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The dead bodies are piling up. Vampires are crawling out of the woodwork. And there's something named Pookie that's lurking around the corner.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Breathtakingly paced, the jokes and wisecracks fly fast as Alex races against the clock to save the day.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1H8d-mTHZnY_pe3b8MEPHqLS00sGOn4v64dZKiSj_vFqWnjSDEYVoK9LQ1JJg_IJzP4M1fTIIEoz4XfiQ9ZvG4lRcExt1F7sNSj9UzgQs45WBKRgntiH2DDL_qG68txgSjEka046Iv4g/s1600/A+is+for+Amnesia7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1H8d-mTHZnY_pe3b8MEPHqLS00sGOn4v64dZKiSj_vFqWnjSDEYVoK9LQ1JJg_IJzP4M1fTIIEoz4XfiQ9ZvG4lRcExt1F7sNSj9UzgQs45WBKRgntiH2DDL_qG68txgSjEka046Iv4g/s320/A+is+for+Amnesia7.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> BOOK #1.2</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U0PAOK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=onstwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001U0PAOK">Kindle&nbsp;US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amnesia-Bullet-Cheradon-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B001U0PAOK/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326242039&amp;sr=1-5">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/is-for-amnesia-b-is-for-bullet-jason-krumbine/1103573326?ean=2940012086792">Nook</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-is-for-amnesia-b-is-for-bullet/id365801478?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4163">Smashwords</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> In this action packed follow up to Fruitbasket from Hell, private investigator Alex Cheradon is faced with a nail biting case.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Reeling from the public relations nightmare that accompanied accidentally tackling a senator's daughter, Alex is approached by man with a lethal case of amnesia. He wants to hire Alex to find out who he is, and since he just happens to have a winning lotto ticket that's worth 10 million dollars, money's no object. But as Alex starts to look into the man's past he finds more questions then answers and a whole lot of people out to kill him.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The clock is officially ticking. The crazies are coming out of the woodwork. And it's down to Alex to save the day.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLy63DLCjQa1APjgJ6hUvUnfCjGXPaf0Vo8G-RI_Ergcbjrz-DyrktatAr7QfM2i-kI7EZgA_7iVTWknkUTKMCP4UJTU1Gitb_VGHgR_TRzGnlXdamgqUYMk1lJChLCZ-eLw2Ho8G77E/s1600/Little+Cover+-+final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLy63DLCjQa1APjgJ6hUvUnfCjGXPaf0Vo8G-RI_Ergcbjrz-DyrktatAr7QfM2i-kI7EZgA_7iVTWknkUTKMCP4UJTU1Gitb_VGHgR_TRzGnlXdamgqUYMk1lJChLCZ-eLw2Ho8G77E/s320/Little+Cover+-+final.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> BOOK #1.3</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UVYIDU/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=onstwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004UVYIDU">Kindle&nbsp;US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-People-Cheradon-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B004UVYIDU/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326242039&amp;sr=1-6">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/little-people-big-crimes-jason-krumbine/1100738895?ean=2940012351463">Nook</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/little-people-big-crimes/id437439437?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/55589">Smashwords</a></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> In his third book, Alex Cheradon, private investigator, wants nothing more to then lay low and ride out the repercussions from his previous time traveling mishaps. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend, Angie, has other ideas and drags him into his most bizarre case yet.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Giggles, the town’s most infamous midget, has run off with 10 million dollars. Vincent Jane, a nobody with nothing, is left holding the bill. If he doesn’t get that that 10 million back he’ll be paying for with his life.</div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Alex and Angie are caught in the middle and headed for a showdown with their toughest opponent yet: the malevolent, malicious Midget Mafia.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>Volume 1 of Alex Cheradon is also available in easy to purchase digital collection:</i></b></div> <br /> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Other-Name-Somebody-Altogether-ebook/dp/B00ES1KVT2/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380660556&amp;sr=1-6&amp;keywords=krumbine"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje163UBJuZjMzitGrPzrE4pws0xyq1fKgiUQ6Z941Zlq2K8i2_Ecb6C-E7pjHWGDBHshRyYDTLvSBW7H7RYode7nM4oJdER_DDnOq4W050_THxVx4lAKEYBP-6OFkdhhErxic8mU135eU/s320/Volume+1+Cover+a2+lower+res.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Other-Name-Somebody-Altogether-ebook/dp/B00ES1KVT2/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380660556&amp;sr=1-6&amp;keywords=krumbine">Kindle US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Name-Somebody-Altogether-ebook/dp/B00ES1KVT2/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380660556&amp;sr=1-6&amp;keywords=krumbine">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/man-by-any-other-name-is-somebody/id699317406?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-man-by-any-other-name-is-somebody-else-altogether-jason-krumbine/1116839671?ean=2940045243513">Nook</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/351148">Smashwords</a></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><u>VOLUME 2</u></i></b></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtVKHyt2Dw4RBQo4YCce1F53V79bVSbw4mcyk_CF_vGtFSmXjbdlGOJVruAhV3KV7wdmJo4bl2Oc5uJWGV70dkPc4dbKLggPwMqKR-Y5lIg1fee7FfMYDLmpJpYqhwywmJ8M3fBVwSW9U/s1600/one+time+only+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtVKHyt2Dw4RBQo4YCce1F53V79bVSbw4mcyk_CF_vGtFSmXjbdlGOJVruAhV3KV7wdmJo4bl2Oc5uJWGV70dkPc4dbKLggPwMqKR-Y5lIg1fee7FfMYDLmpJpYqhwywmJ8M3fBVwSW9U/s320/one+time+only+cover.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> BOOK #2.1</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Time-Only-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00BCA1X30/ref=sr_1_13?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1360337624&amp;sr=1-13&amp;keywords=krumbine">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Only-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00BCA1X30/ref=sr_1_13?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1360337624&amp;sr=1-13&amp;keywords=krumbine">Kindle UK</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/one-time-only-jason-krumbine/1114337958?ean=2940016364896">Nook</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/283031">Smashwords</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/one-time-only-alex-cheradon-1/id605167879?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> Alex Cheradon is a private investigator. He used to have a partner, Devon Christian, a couple years back, but Christian went insane and Alex really doesn’t work with him anymore. These days Alex mostly works alone. Though, occasionally he'll team up with his ex-girlfriend, Angie, who's a hired gun and bounty hunter.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Since his first day on the job, Alex has found himself at the center of some very unusual cases:</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Vampires.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Clones.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Missing daughters.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Time travel.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Crazy ex-partners who find themselves plagued with voices inside his head telling him to kill people.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Cults bent on bringing demons to Earth.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Cults bent on controlling the planet through advance scientific means.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Husbands who are cheating on their wives with alternate reality versions of their wives.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Explosions.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Lots of explosions.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -We’re really not kidding about the explosions. It’s kind of ridiculous how many there are.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Gunfights.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> -Honestly, the gunfight situation is just as bad as the explosion situation.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Today, however, Alex is going to face something very, very, very different. It will be something he has no point of reference for and no idea how to counter.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Today is going to be the first day of the rest of his life.</div> <div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLo56OX6eYnr6UREpnZED5Meg7T3sAebGIojXpK8MoS40rhP2jct3yMrVyPziTKoKYWPD2Zaz0tx3KpM3citrqrjTh7pmFPLUkC6wSPUCC-yxqis6O3fl8MuCrnBqn7werI5idrZHnULY/s1600/crazytown+cover1+lower+res.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLo56OX6eYnr6UREpnZED5Meg7T3sAebGIojXpK8MoS40rhP2jct3yMrVyPziTKoKYWPD2Zaz0tx3KpM3citrqrjTh7pmFPLUkC6wSPUCC-yxqis6O3fl8MuCrnBqn7werI5idrZHnULY/s320/crazytown+cover1+lower+res.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> BOOK #2.2</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CXG22JQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00CXG22JQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=onstwo-20">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CXG22JQ">Kindle UK</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/welcome-to-crazytown-jason-krumbine/1116894022?ean=2940045263412">Nook</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/welcome-to-crazytown-alex/id705813332?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/349772">Smashwords</a></div> <div> <br /></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Alex Cheradon is a private investigator who’s had a string of bad luck lately, culminating in the absolute destruction of his home and office by his insane ex-partner, Devon Christian. But things are starting to look up now that Jonathon Bragan, the most powerful mobster in Clayton City has taken Alex under his wing.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Wait…WHAT?</span></div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Only mere moments after Alex discovers his brand new office/home (complete with a kitchenette and walls), thanks to the questionable generosity of Bragan, Christian blasts back into town again.</span></div> </span><div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Only this time, he’s looking to destroy more than just Alex’s life. This time, Devon Christian’s got his sights set on destroying the whole world.</span></div> </span><br /> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div> </div> <div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odd-Man-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00FJQFN6G/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380661636&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=krumbine"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKe4pukqEIbMSIFHpIqqRbIapRq6d0CnD8HM1y-Uwy3ZeXWCwt-_Jj9bDpGBL0hbFj4avJjzFb7DXbeDdRCNLSTOgCdLjsSmbQ5IYawug_kPUP7-tF2EVZ-gV5jYT62Zq4ZcVG9-aCrUg/s320/odd+man+cover+kindle.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> BOOK #2.3<br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Odd-Man-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00FJQFN6G/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380660125&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=krumbine">Kindle US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Odd-Man-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00FJQFN6G/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380660125&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=krumbine">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/odd-man-out-jason-krumbine/1117298684?ean=2940045358507">Nook</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/odd-man-out/id735599303?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/363045">Smashwords</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> The Messr Building is located in the heart of downtown Callahan. It’s a building of architectural wonder. It’s visible from almost anywhere in the downtown area. And its home to the Darketo Sanction, a top-secret organization that’s housing the largest collection of mad scientists anywhere in the country.<o:p></o:p></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Two weeks ago, the security system in the Messr Building tried to kill every single human onsite and nobody knows why.<o:p></o:p></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> That’s why Alex Cheradon is on the case.<o:p></o:p></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> (Although, to be fair, it’s a building filled with a bunch of mad scientists. This one shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, right? Right?)</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /></div> <i><br /></i></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZKYoIPjQ4XxX40OJxoZAj5Nu3R97p6PXt8sYAF5H8qjTwqBntCq2oDE2CZskdv4dYugrHD_6xYHPfsQG7fhOOtI_m4GxJuxIdJ_2PdlUeNJN5VSqWrzAZ7m4NPQOTkQbZVEtJKPi9ZI/s1600/full+moon+cover2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZKYoIPjQ4XxX40OJxoZAj5Nu3R97p6PXt8sYAF5H8qjTwqBntCq2oDE2CZskdv4dYugrHD_6xYHPfsQG7fhOOtI_m4GxJuxIdJ_2PdlUeNJN5VSqWrzAZ7m4NPQOTkQbZVEtJKPi9ZI/s1600/full+moon+cover2.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> BOOK #2.4</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Full-Moon-Half-Wits-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00HHBUD0M/ref=la_B002BM91G4_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1389151948&amp;sr=1-5">Kindle US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HHBUD0M">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/full-moon-half-wits-jason-krumbine/1117908298?ean=2940045539548">Nook</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/full-moon-half-wits-alex-cheradon/id788455965?mt=11">iBooks</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/390949">Smashwords</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The Ybor Brothers, Clayton and Callahan, are the founders of the twin cities, Clayton and Callahan. Their legacies are shrouded in legends and mysteries. And more than one person has lost their mind, if not their lives, in pursuit of a mythical Ybor Treasure.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Alex Cheradon finds himself on the wrong end of a helping hand from Jonathon Bragan, Clayton City’s premier crime lord. All good things come with a price and Bragan’s price just may be too high.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> The only way to break free from Bragan’s generosity may be for Alex to crack the mystery of the Ybor Brothers.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> It shouldn’t be too hard, though. Just because everybody else who’s gone snooping around has ended up dead, doesn’t mean Alex will, too. Right?</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1grmmW4"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwu2Zq-KqnbSCBukQo1SD5_IFmwyQHM-LRbINrcGd_K7p6MzXxf8NLbjGYyp_jcKq9Dw9Y9jIRfWO5U8GCWtgSQk0ouIqJXI6-Zvmj66MJK2un7lTvH9649Ji0PTmw2ezRR6l0l0N_DA/s1600/One+Tomb+Cover2.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> BOOK #2.5</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1grmmW4">Kindle US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tomb-Short-Graveyard-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00I46JEWC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1391029049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+tomb+short+of+a+graveyard">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> There’s a fresh grave dug at the Fairfield Funeral Home and all it’s missing is a tombstone.&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> For months Alex Cheradon has been on the receiving end of a helping hand from Jonathon Bragan. But Bragan’s help has been nothing more than a careful manipulation of Alex. Bragan’s reaching the part of his plan where it’s time to make his true intentions known to Alex. Of course, when that happens, the price of Bragan’s help is going to come due as well.&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Devon Christian is on the edge of sanity. The voices in his head get louder every day. At some point, he’s not going to be able to ignore those voices forever. And when he stops, there’s only one person at the top of his hit list.&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> And to top it off, there’s a Probability Engine loose in Clayton City. So the odds of everything going to Hell just increased dramatically.&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> This is it.&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> The big finale.&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Everything’s coming to a head.</div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><i><u>VOLUME 3</u></i></b></div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1iEEFpz"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsHQE7smRd1TE4ibfwDoLclRIHYvzymLLIhkoSfTW63AywkMhnuIDvSBw9s7qskXdDii8G1USiVxEhGMM3QF09LsHXqmeaVawY_LQs4RxtXGhr1jQJ2Pn88-m6qnclPJggbAiRHXWCH8/s1600/Lucky+Dogs.jpg" height="400" width="266" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> BOOK #3.1</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div> <div> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=e157f56cd0&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <i></i></div> <div> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=6961392040&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle UK</a></div> <br /></div> <div> <i>“For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth”</i></div> <div style="text-align: start;"> <b></b></div> <div> ~Hunter S. Thompson</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He’s jaded local through and through. So nobody’s more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter Perkins does the only thing he can think of:</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: start;"> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: start;"> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> He gets help.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> From Alex Cheradon.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Wait a minute.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Alex Cheradon? What’s he doing in Vegas?</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> It’s a whole new town.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> It’s a whole new story.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> It’s the same old Alex.</div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: start;"> </div> <div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroA9n94CKSvSBU8QWQgzjJ8VhAiljWFfvDteacKkK5bStRk6ozKK8OB6XkSuoh9NwFRb4-I1_MIkDHiqt4M-nCSgrYDOVSG_a43umPm5a6hX8wNkgqb5crp0q8jMWQmXYgHzCb-VFCHc/s1600/Everything's+Coming+Up+Aces.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroA9n94CKSvSBU8QWQgzjJ8VhAiljWFfvDteacKkK5bStRk6ozKK8OB6XkSuoh9NwFRb4-I1_MIkDHiqt4M-nCSgrYDOVSG_a43umPm5a6hX8wNkgqb5crp0q8jMWQmXYgHzCb-VFCHc/s1600/Everything's+Coming+Up+Aces.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> BOOK #3.2</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=eeeb34ab02&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle US</a></div> <div> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=760da4d377&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle UK</a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <i>“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”</i></div> <div> ~ Will Rogers</div> <div> <i><br /></i></div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Marko the Magnificent is one of the greatest magicians Las Vegas has seen in the last fifteen years. And now, in the theater of Millennium Hotel and Casino, he’s performed his greatest trick ever:</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Marko the Magnificent has disappeared.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> And not a single, solitary person knows where he went.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> (And, yes, they checked the trap doors under the stage first.)</div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Since Alex and his crew have so much time on their hands, what with all the people that keep dying at the Millennium, naturally they've taken on this case as well. And where it leads them? Well, *that* may be Marko’s greatest trick.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/05/cover-reveal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-5457681270358221665Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:25:00 +00002014-04-28T14:31:24.989-04:00Alex CheradonNew Bookpromotionshameless promotionOkay. So, if you're not subscribed to my <a href="http://eepurl.com/Cc7Gj">newsletter</a> or if you don't follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jmkwriter">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonkrumbine">Twitter</a>, than you probably haven't heard the news:<br /> <br /> There's a new Alex Cheradon book!<br /> <br /> Volume 3 reaches it's midpoint in:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroA9n94CKSvSBU8QWQgzjJ8VhAiljWFfvDteacKkK5bStRk6ozKK8OB6XkSuoh9NwFRb4-I1_MIkDHiqt4M-nCSgrYDOVSG_a43umPm5a6hX8wNkgqb5crp0q8jMWQmXYgHzCb-VFCHc/s1600/Everything's+Coming+Up+Aces.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroA9n94CKSvSBU8QWQgzjJ8VhAiljWFfvDteacKkK5bStRk6ozKK8OB6XkSuoh9NwFRb4-I1_MIkDHiqt4M-nCSgrYDOVSG_a43umPm5a6hX8wNkgqb5crp0q8jMWQmXYgHzCb-VFCHc/s1600/Everything's+Coming+Up+Aces.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><b>“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”</b></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>~ Will Rogers</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Marko the Magnificent is one of the greatest magicians Las Vegas has seen in the last fifteen years. And now, in the theater of Millennium Hotel and Casino, he’s performed his greatest trick ever:</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Marko the Magnificent has disappeared.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>And not a single, solitary person knows where he went.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>(And, yes, they checked the trap doors under the stage first.)</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Since Alex and his crew have so much time on their hands, what with all the people that keep dying at the Millennium, naturally they've taken on this case as well. And where it leads them? Well, *that* may be Marko’s greatest trick.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=eeeb34ab02&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=760da4d377&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle UK</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> The third and final book book in Volume 3, this Las Vegas arc, if you will, should be released late May. As usual, though, the best way for you to keep track of all the new Alex Cheradon books, and anything else I write, is to sign up for my newsletter. 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Thompson</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><i>Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He’s jaded local through and through. So nobody’s more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter Perkins does the only thing he can think of:</i></i></div> <i> </i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <i> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>He gets help.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>From Alex Cheradon.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Wait a minute.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Alex Cheradon? What’s he doing in Vegas?</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>It’s a whole new town.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>It’s a whole new story.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>It’s the same old Alex.</i></div> </i><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=e157f56cd0&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle US</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://jasonkrumbine.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e186873fbe38c778bfa06160f&amp;id=6961392040&amp;e=810d4eb874">Kindle UK</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> So this is it, Alex Cheradon Volume 3! I'm so excited to finally be able to share this with you guys. This is a story that I've been itching to tell for about a year now. So, you know, no pressure for you to like it or anything.<br /> <br /> (Please like it.)<br /> <br /> Okay, well, what are you still doing reading this? Go download the book already. Seriously. I'm not even joking. There's nothing else here to see.http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/03/its-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-276051155519531576Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:09:00 +00002014-02-27T17:09:51.864-05:00Alex CheradonawesomeNew Bookpromotionshameless promotionIt's coming. Volume 3 kicks off March 2014. Get ready.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBFaA71XQ1PzJkUR3OSnKh5-MBkn4NGKcGUt-jNBuNLj240NGRQJ7v-qyEHSeNsNbMdtpU7Tnbq3XR2-S7FrESgiM7ns0Rr6jSWBXoQN6VFXKwxWq-vcIJLqvRF6waNu-ym909Ao1d6s/s1600/Lucky+Dogs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBFaA71XQ1PzJkUR3OSnKh5-MBkn4NGKcGUt-jNBuNLj240NGRQJ7v-qyEHSeNsNbMdtpU7Tnbq3XR2-S7FrESgiM7ns0Rr6jSWBXoQN6VFXKwxWq-vcIJLqvRF6waNu-ym909Ao1d6s/s1600/Lucky+Dogs.jpg" height="640" width="425" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> And if you haven't already, make sure you've <a href="http://eepurl.com/Cc7Gj">subscribed to my newsletter</a> so that you'll be the first to know when it's released!</div> <br />http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/02/alex-cheradon-volume-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-1614462909376077774Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:18:00 +00002014-01-29T16:18:14.639-05:00Alex Cheradonpromotionshameless promotionWell. Here it is. The story I've been building to since <a href="http://amzn.to/10tLltD">One Time Only</a>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1grmmW4"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwu2Zq-KqnbSCBukQo1SD5_IFmwyQHM-LRbINrcGd_K7p6MzXxf8NLbjGYyp_jcKq9Dw9Y9jIRfWO5U8GCWtgSQk0ouIqJXI6-Zvmj66MJK2un7lTvH9649Ji0PTmw2ezRR6l0l0N_DA/s1600/One+Tomb+Cover2.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/1grmmW4">Kindle US</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tomb-Short-Graveyard-Alex-Cheradon-ebook/dp/B00I46JEWC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1391029049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+tomb+short+of+a+graveyard">Kindle UK</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>There’s a fresh grave dug at the Fairfield Funeral Home and all it’s missing is a tombstone.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>For months Alex Cheradon has been on the receiving end of a helping hand from Jonathon Bragan. But Bragan’s help has been nothing more than a careful manipulation of Alex. Bragan’s reaching the part of his plan where it’s time to make his true intentions known to Alex. Of course, when that happens, the price of Bragan’s help is going to come due as well.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Devon Christian is on the edge of sanity. The voices in his head get louder every day. At some point, he’s not going to be able to ignore those voices forever. And when he stops, there’s only one person at the top of his hit list.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>And to top it off, there’s a Probability Engine loose in Clayton City. So the odds of everything going to Hell just increased dramatically.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>This is it.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>The big finale.&nbsp;</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Everything’s coming to a head.</i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Okay. If, at this point, you're still reading this post and you haven't gone over to Amazon yet, a few extra things:</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> First, it's because of you guys this book is being published now and not late February. You guys are the greatest. I asked if you wanted the book early, you said yes. So here it is. Thank you for being the best fans ever.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Second, if you like it, or any of the Alex Cheradon books, please consider leaving a review, even if it's only a sentence or two. Reviews can be vital in courting new readers and every positive review helps.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Third, please, if you have a friend or two who might like Alex, please share it with them. I love Alex Cheradon. I could probably spend the rest of my life just writing books about him and his team. I've got the <a href="http://amzn.to/1cxkDGO">omnibus of Volume 1</a> that makes it super easy to get caught up on Alex's longer adventures. Plus, more readers will inevitability lead to more Alex books. It's a win-win for everybody!</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Fourth, there's actually another reason that you're getting this book early: I'm already at work on Volume 3. There was originally going to be a longer break between Volumes 2 and 3. But I ran into some mental roadblocks on another project and I find myself mentally wandering back to Alex. Thus, a lot of the pieces for Volume 3 fell into place very quickly. So, as of this posting, I'm almost a third of the way through Alex Cheradon #6. I figured that if I was that far along, there was no real reason to hold back <a href="http://amzn.to/1grmmW4">One Tomb Short of a Graveyard</a> any longer.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Fifth, save yourself some time and energy and <a href="http://eepurl.com/Cc7Gj">subscribe to my newsletter</a>. This way you'll have Alex Cheradon new book announcements delivered right to your inbox.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Alright that's everything. What are you still doing around here? Go get reading already.</div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/01/the-big-finale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-1251059928982305828Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:53:00 +00002014-01-26T11:14:21.099-05:00Alex Cheradonpromotion<div dir="auto" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"> Hey Guys,<br /> <br /> Tomorrow I turn 31. Yep. That's right. Tomorrow is my birthday. And to celebrate, I'm throwing a sale.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fruitbasket-Hell-Alex-Cheradon-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B001TDKPJI/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1390430094&amp;sr=1-5&amp;keywords=alex+cheradon" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Fruitbasket from Hell</span></a> was the first novel I wrote. Consequently, Alex Cheradon has been with me longer than any other character. And, of course, he remains my favorite, because he's <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">totally awesome.</span><br /> <br /> So, here's what I'm doing for <span style="font-style: italic;">this weekend only, January 25-26, 2014:</span> Each <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=digital-text&amp;field-keywords=alex+cheradon" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Alex Cheradon book is only $1.31</span></a>. Amazon won't let me go as low as 31 cents and somebody told me that charging $31.00 was a bit much. I figured $1.31 was a nice middle ground.<br /> <br /> So, that's:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001TDKPJI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001TDKPJI&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=onstwo-20" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Fruitbasket from Hell</span></a><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U0PAOK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001U0PAOK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=onstwo-20" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">A is for Amnesia, B is for Bullet</span></a><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UVYIDU/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004UVYIDU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=onstwo-20" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Little People, Big Crimes</span></a><br /> <a href="http://amzn.to/10tLltD" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">One Time Only</span></a><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CXG22JQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00CXG22JQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=onstwo-20" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Welcome to Crazytown</span></a><br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJQFN6G/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00FJQFN6G&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=onstwo-20" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Odd Man Out</span></a><br /> <a href="http://amzn.to/1hzUH28" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">Full Moon, Half Wits</span></a><br /> <br /> Each one only $1.31. It's my way of sharing my birthday celebration with you guys. If you've haven't caught up yet, or there's friend or two or twenty that you think would love Alex Cheradon, this would the perfect time to get them hooked!<br /> <br /> Also, it's that time of year again, where I want to get to know my readers a little better! If you read my books and have a minute or two, would <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9Y2P2SZ" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; text-decoration: underline;">you mind filling out this survey?</span></a> Thanks!</div> http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/01/a-birthday-day-sale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6303919830597892231.post-6960074984703783233Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:42:00 +00002014-01-21T21:42:52.778-05:00Alex Cheradonawesome<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> We're coming up on the finale of the second volume of Alex Cheradon. Which has prompted me to design this:</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilX6i89IQDJo00Ij-BBRZLlYI5OkvyzWgKtZ7MwmIk8OpYO1nOqVgK0YEXQKSPvaT9HhmmSWt1ntSH8SVTrszHPolGJ_yScX2dU1u41v8of6OKDBK8X6ntyjHrBio7s8N6CCMPJ7CpIxc/s1600/One+Tomb+Cover2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilX6i89IQDJo00Ij-BBRZLlYI5OkvyzWgKtZ7MwmIk8OpYO1nOqVgK0YEXQKSPvaT9HhmmSWt1ntSH8SVTrszHPolGJ_yScX2dU1u41v8of6OKDBK8X6ntyjHrBio7s8N6CCMPJ7CpIxc/s1600/One+Tomb+Cover2.jpg" height="320" width="212" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Unfortunately, this has left me with a whole new problem. Because now the last two AC books look like this:</div> <div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV2jGvA5Xvmca9R-MndvLSYNp2-iUFPBKeDi0mmGwHwMAhdmIXhgQgSTxdWi7aihmScntK3EV3Lj4FU8hUTlSIiOg8qg7P6M0r_5dlZuDtibUWqLmfvAwEVLGyIrTzOcpij2uPpBph8m0/s1600/full+moon+cover2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV2jGvA5Xvmca9R-MndvLSYNp2-iUFPBKeDi0mmGwHwMAhdmIXhgQgSTxdWi7aihmScntK3EV3Lj4FU8hUTlSIiOg8qg7P6M0r_5dlZuDtibUWqLmfvAwEVLGyIrTzOcpij2uPpBph8m0/s1600/full+moon+cover2.jpg" height="200" width="133" />&nbsp;&nbsp;</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwu2Zq-KqnbSCBukQo1SD5_IFmwyQHM-LRbINrcGd_K7p6MzXxf8NLbjGYyp_jcKq9Dw9Y9jIRfWO5U8GCWtgSQk0ouIqJXI6-Zvmj66MJK2un7lTvH9649Ji0PTmw2ezRR6l0l0N_DA/s1600/One+Tomb+Cover2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwu2Zq-KqnbSCBukQo1SD5_IFmwyQHM-LRbINrcGd_K7p6MzXxf8NLbjGYyp_jcKq9Dw9Y9jIRfWO5U8GCWtgSQk0ouIqJXI6-Zvmj66MJK2un7lTvH9649Ji0PTmw2ezRR6l0l0N_DA/s1600/One+Tomb+Cover2.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> And, of course, they look pretty good. But books 1-3 look like this:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSWQrwo7L0kIIeBbV6MScvebMtJZ66HGUTQcftpeeDF5SRuhkcVKT4vdPEsH9Ye3q6uMFBvddqmc0ghFEFZk_y6gMYASQHzujUgwNsqDq50vgcPdoBcBf5ObkP8saagbhVqVbhFZ5imU/s1600/one+time+only+cover+B%2526N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSWQrwo7L0kIIeBbV6MScvebMtJZ66HGUTQcftpeeDF5SRuhkcVKT4vdPEsH9Ye3q6uMFBvddqmc0ghFEFZk_y6gMYASQHzujUgwNsqDq50vgcPdoBcBf5ObkP8saagbhVqVbhFZ5imU/s1600/one+time+only+cover+B%2526N.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzg3S04sdbwhxAcFijE3_oisvNRb0Vy3Tsg-hpIq7jeZ3RiECEFdfIS9XQ91SmY6U6QwargHg6RiyIrz9MDneeU4SsIUHfjdNQmcZu5EOVL_5TpUmL_yQOQXyBeDNhoadrBtGGfIdiD6I/s1600/crazytown+cover1+-+nook+lower+res.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"> So I've been working out some possible alterations to see if I can give this volume of Alex a more uniformed, or at least a more connected appearence.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiihktzx_2wU7MpPSk80PrHlMyrioL2_vPxZdjWPfsy78-KEpcU1_E2b8WVrWyCtlJobS_SgqeKovTPXUPdkQHkhyphenhyphennpX_vexgRvCuM3JL4DYOrbB1cl4Wz3zDh_tQvggHMGP1IAE4_b2vk/s1600/one+time+only+cover3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiihktzx_2wU7MpPSk80PrHlMyrioL2_vPxZdjWPfsy78-KEpcU1_E2b8WVrWyCtlJobS_SgqeKovTPXUPdkQHkhyphenhyphennpX_vexgRvCuM3JL4DYOrbB1cl4Wz3zDh_tQvggHMGP1IAE4_b2vk/s1600/one+time+only+cover3.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Y5-DH8j_MFvU-fbAuNr-LeHMxZJIPY89YY4Ln5UwEzGCoLI28Ad2fYy0Bljj1W2Kdi8q8dlVUdj5L_PgxByn6urSxh9GlmNprda8jfUTjaryW2DA06mPepLF4Fw4goOxRyIS5XgKFCw/s1600/one+time+only+cover2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> The biggest problem, of course, is <b><i>Welcome to Crazytown.</i></b> It's kind of perfect just the way it is and adding any yellow or tweaking it, kind of just ruins it. But adding white to the other books doesn't have the same kick as adding the yellow.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> I like my series to have specific looks. I like the idea that you can glance at a group of a books and immediately know that they're in the same series.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Reapers in Heels turned out perfectly:</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5NG1dKltotbwjMFfkfYwtCJIk0UZ2Jw0K9baONytVdQA1RpngpEJjf_GPMHmcS1-23yIGkX88T-3KDN56MtJJh0XAsEVpt9S4dvi3VsOMzG0H5sIBxAVLpid_gWAdcll3jZlYxJi4cC4/s1600/One-Stiletto-Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5NG1dKltotbwjMFfkfYwtCJIk0UZ2Jw0K9baONytVdQA1RpngpEJjf_GPMHmcS1-23yIGkX88T-3KDN56MtJJh0XAsEVpt9S4dvi3VsOMzG0H5sIBxAVLpid_gWAdcll3jZlYxJi4cC4/s320/One-Stiletto-Final.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYusK3Zcs3FR0MUgxVLsVylUrQHor6tZeV_qdjra5j3BXgSfOarzOatvYaF2fk5e1rJinutha1FL8sz8bBAizKYvkf7ko3nSi7NcSRTSxovxF3iiYjVoUi3YmR9Z2QD7As8xgZ9uNCgk/s1600/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Of course, there's the first volume of Alex Cheradon, which looked like this:</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJecbMbVdhwhHX_w0UMKnUmrExGfuiib5yl3lkSmAs1Zu53_31Li30rCyww9pxBkYNpPQtr1lg4jIQBdU_rO107UyduvN05ZD3hrAvI_TkFaOkxlpnOCTweJaqZZL57y1XkBMjb18fKOo/s1600/Skull+cover+3+nook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJecbMbVdhwhHX_w0UMKnUmrExGfuiib5yl3lkSmAs1Zu53_31Li30rCyww9pxBkYNpPQtr1lg4jIQBdU_rO107UyduvN05ZD3hrAvI_TkFaOkxlpnOCTweJaqZZL57y1XkBMjb18fKOo/s1600/Skull+cover+3+nook.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1H8d-mTHZnY_pe3b8MEPHqLS00sGOn4v64dZKiSj_vFqWnjSDEYVoK9LQ1JJg_IJzP4M1fTIIEoz4XfiQ9ZvG4lRcExt1F7sNSj9UzgQs45WBKRgntiH2DDL_qG68txgSjEka046Iv4g/s1600/A+is+for+Amnesia7.jpg" height="200" width="133" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLy63DLCjQa1APjgJ6hUvUnfCjGXPaf0Vo8G-RI_Ergcbjrz-DyrktatAr7QfM2i-kI7EZgA_7iVTWknkUTKMCP4UJTU1Gitb_VGHgR_TRzGnlXdamgqUYMk1lJChLCZ-eLw2Ho8G77E/s1600/Little+Cover+-+final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLy63DLCjQa1APjgJ6hUvUnfCjGXPaf0Vo8G-RI_Ergcbjrz-DyrktatAr7QfM2i-kI7EZgA_7iVTWknkUTKMCP4UJTU1Gitb_VGHgR_TRzGnlXdamgqUYMk1lJChLCZ-eLw2Ho8G77E/s1600/Little+Cover+-+final.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> And I liked the way these 3 turned out, too.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> But this new volume of Alex. I don't know. I want a specific look for Alex. I just can't figure out what it is yet.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I've been thinking a lot about what genre Alex Cheradon would be in and I've settled on something like, science fiction/fantasy. That sounds about right, if a little broad. I'd like to drill down a little more, but I don't know if there's anything more specific than that. Alex is such a hodgepodge of genre elements. A little bit of everything I like.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I've also been thinking about my elevator pitch for Alex and, boy, that is that a tough one.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> "It's a series about a private investigator who has a partner who's immortal and they investigator some supernatural cases, some science fiction cases. There's a bit of a time travel, clones and..."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> As a opposed to the elevator pitch for RiH:</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> "Bounty hunters for the dead."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I feel like I learned a lot of stuff working on RiH and I just want to apply some of that to Alex. I want shape the Alex Cheradon series into the same kind of focused, streamlined model that RiH was/is.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Feel to chime in with your thoughts about the covers.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <b>If you had to describe Alex Cheradon to your friends in one sentence, what would it be?</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br />http://www.jasonkrumbine.com/2014/01/behind-scenes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Krumbine)0