A novel approach
Here comes another no comment/no rec entry. But it's okay. Gimme the needle. I am a sap. I deserve it.
So, anyway, a few months back I mentioned how I'd uploaded four of my novels to Amazon's Kindle platform. If you have a Kindle, you can own an electronic copy of one of my sci-fi fantasy novels for less than $8 each. What else are you going to do with eight bucks these days, throw in the street? Buy one of my novels. You'll like it. And my wife and kids will be very happy to see the slightly more than three bucks I make on each sale.
Back then, I told you about the following novels:
WARREN'S WORLD
It's 1983 in New Sparta, NY, and Warren Dawson is beloved by everyone... his friends, his family, even random strangers on the street. Everybody loves Warren and wants to make him happy. The TVs only show his favorite programs, the radios only play his favorite songs, the movie theaters always have his favorite movies. And, naturally, all the women are beautiful, and all of them love Warren unreservedly and uninhibitedly...
When Warren's best friend Jimmy starts to notice just how strange the reality he and all his friends inhabit truly is, he becomes a threat to the odd, timelost Utopia that Warren has so carefully constructed around them all.
Which sets the stage for a final, epic battle between Warren Dawson and his closest friends. Utilizing powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, Jimmy and his buddies must go to war with a man who would be God, to settle the final fate of the entire human race...
and every living inhabitant of WARREN'S WORLD.
THE FEAR MASTERS
In the late 21st Century, the Global Union has mostly united mankind and brought lasting peace to the surface of the Earth... until the dead start rising from their graves to attack the living. Across the globe, panic and terror cause chaos to erupt, civilization to crumble,
and humanity itself to totter on the very brink of extinction.
Only three members of the Global Union's top secret Science Sector have any inkling of what is actually going on. Now they must undertake a perilous journey into the airless depths of outer space and beyond the borders of death itself in a last ditch attempt to save humanity from the evil alien Fear Masters that seek our utter, final destruction.
Can two tough as nails secret agents and a beautiful, brilliant super-scientist 'git 'er done'? For the answer, check out THE FEAR MASTERS, by D.A. Madigan.
TIME WATCH
When Jim, a thirty something bachelor geek with no life outside the pages of his favorite SF books, comes across a wrist watch that allows him to travel in time, he immediately sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream by traveling through time to assemble the greatest collection of
mint condition Silver Age superhero comics in human history.
But in the future, the secret agency known as Time Watch isn't pleased that one of their devices has fallen into the hands of an outsider, and they are ready, willing, able, and eager to do whatever it takes, up to and including killing Jim, to get their watch back.
As Jim flees from his pursuers across time and space, he quickly realizes that he may well be the human race's only hope for avoiding extinction at the hands of the insidious alien intelligence that is pulling Time Watch's strings from behind the scenes. They want humanity, ALL of humanity, dead... and Jim is now the only living human being who knows the truth.
Armed only with his wits, his time watch, and the aid of a beautiful female personal computer from the 22nd Century, Jim must avoid his pursuers and somehow thwart the genocidal agenda of an ancient, immortal, unearthly collective mind that seeks to bring all human
history to a most final termination.
ZAP FORCE: ROYAL BLOOD
Welcome
to Sparta City, circa 1995, where seven super-powered teenagers fight
for their lives and their freedom against covert cabals of ancient,
evil immortals who yearn to outfit them all with high tech alien mind
control slave collars - or low tech earthly bodybags, whichever works.
Yes,
here in Sparta City, it's the neurotically networked 90s as they never
really were, a time and a place when centuries old evildoers scheme,
conspire, machinate and manipulate, while teenage superheroes leap,
flip in midair, hurl lightning bolts, cast illusions, punch, kick, fly
at supersonic speeds, kick ass, take names, and generally blow stuff up
real good.
Seven stalwart students at Sparta University,
inadvertently given unique and insane ultrapowers by an exotic
on-campus psychology experiment gone horribly awry, and now avidly
sought after as super-powered slaves by every other secret super
society on the planet -
GALLANT, team leader, who at the age of
19 is both selfless and cynical, and whose super-agility and inhumanly
unerring aim make him an all but unbeatable hand to hand combatant and
absolutely deadly with anything he can throw, especially the hard
energy discs and explosive energy globes his alien tech gauntlets
generate;
TESLA GIRL, an 18 year old French Canadian hottie who
can turn heads with her high voltage beauty and whose electrically
supercharged metabolism can generate lightning bolts powerful enough to
melt a combat tank into molten slag;
STRAIGHTLACE, the 18 year
old diminutive blonde babe with the attitude of a pit bull who can fly
faster than a speeding Sidewinder and smash through solid concrete
without taking a scratch;
RAMPART, 19 year old African-American
star athlete and honor student who can leap tall buildings in a single
bound while carrying a Cadillac Seville over his shoulder;
LOBE-O,
wheelchair bound 16 year old supergenius with an advanced college
placement whose telepathic powers can trace a fleeting thoughtwave
through a million muddled mundane minds;
GLAMOUR, a husky
Innuit plain Jane psych major whose psychically projected mental
illusions seem real enough to leave lipstick marks on a frat boy's
cheek, or boot shaped bruises on a bad guy's ass;
WARPER, the 19
year old star college quarterback who can open teleportals with his
mind, when he's not charming phone numbers out of any nearby cuties
with his All American good looks;
MAINFRAME, the ageless,
bodiless former maintenance man who now only exists as a self aware
electronic impulse haunting any machine or set of circuitry he cares to
inhabit at any given time;
Together they are ZAP FORCE,
reluctant heroes fighting to protect an innocent and ignorant global
populace, or at least, their own damn selves, from enslavement or death
at the hands of the ancient evil immortals who secretly run the world:
BARON
SAMEDI, centuries old blustering boss-man of the voodoo-themed Clan
Loa, whose sheer raw strength can crumble solid concrete and whose
brutal will to dominate will not be denied by uppity interfering
newcomers like those no good Zap Force punks;
THE BARONESS,
Baron Samedi's crafty, malevolent and utterly ageless wife and
co-Monarch, whose vast mental prowess can (and does) enslave entire
populations, including, of course, her own entirely unsuspecting
husband;
THE OLD ONE, an inhumanly brilliant schemer born before
written history began, who remembers the angels, gods and devils of
ancient Sumeria and Babylonia as his contemporaries, peers, and more
often than not, siblings, and whose own Royal Clan, the Eldest, is the
most respected, hated, and feared of any in existence on Earth today.
STEPHEN
SANTERIOS of Clan Loa, psychic assassin and master of the
incomprehensibly advanced technology left behind on Earth by the long
gone alien H'nnr
Put it all together and what do you got? ZAP FORCE!!
Of all of those, THE FEAR MASTERS is so far my top seller... in the last three months, I've sold 7 copies of it to discerning and apparently satisfied customers (at least, they didn't ask Amazon for a refund). This is so far a break out month for me; from May 1 through today, I've sold 10 copies, total, of my work. In 60 days or so, I'll get $34.80 direct deposited to my bank account. I may buy my wife flowers. Or, you know, just my kids some groceries.
Anyway. To the above tally, I'm happy to say I've formatted and added the following:
ENDGAME : When
Webster Madison awakens at the far end of the universe in the super
powered fantasy body he'd always wished he had, he was thrilled...
until he learned that the price for his power would be his
participation in a deadly alien game that could cost him not only his
new avatar-form, but also his sanity, or even his life.
Now
Webster and thirty other transformed roleplaying gamers from Earth find
themselves enmeshed as living chess pieces in a contest whose rules
they cannot comprehend, and where every move can result in sudden,
horrible, grisly death, while the alien overlords responsible for their
transformations test their new champions, often to destruction.
Those
transformed human champions who survive these trials will be sent on a
mysterious mission even more hazardous than the game itself, with an
enormous reward waiting at the end for those who finally win through.
Or so they are all told... but Webster suspects that in a world where
no one is what they appear to be, nothing they have been told is the
truth, either... and if he cannot somehow determine actuality from
illusion in this dangerous labyrinth of perilous power, neither Webster
nor any of his fellow super powered pawns will make it through the
ENDGAME...
EARTHQUEST : When
Webster Madison, Hired Gun is dumped at the other end of the galaxy
from Earth by treacherous aliens, he must fight his way back home
across the hostile stars. Hijacking a ship full of slaves, he
successfully leads the human cargo in rebellion against the crew and
embarks on a career as an interstellar buccaneer and liberator of the
oppressed.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Sam Curtis is using his
newly found superpowers to reshape the world in his own twisted image.
Should Webster somehow manage to set foot once more on his native
planet, he will find himself walking into a deadly trap elaborately
planned and set by his deadliest foe...
So that's that.
I have two other novels, UNIVERSAL MAINTENANCE and WARLORD OF ERBEROS, that I'll get uploaded to the platform at some point. I also have a memoir of my time in Army Infantry Basic Training back in 1985, IN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN, that I'll probably work on getting into Kindle format in the near future, too. (UNIVERSAL MAINTENANCE can be ordered in hard copy from nearly any online bookseller, but while the PublishAmerica trade paperback edition looks gorgeous, it's way overpriced, in my opinion. So I don't recommend it. Although it's a very good book. If you're curious about it, search on UNIVERSAL MAINTENANCE by D.A. Madigan.)
I'm mostly mentioning this because one of my recent commenters was kind enough to say my novels sounded interesting. So, you can find many of them above, and if you give any of them a shot, I, my wife, and my stepdaughters all thank you.













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