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A friend of mine from high school has breast cancer. Her daughter has set up a Gofundme to help with expenses. Please help if you can, and share far and wide. Thank you.

The Economancer – Chapter 2

I get off the train at 59^th and Lexington and head up the stairs, stopping just long enough to give a young homeless girl a dollar bill infused with luck.

By noon, she’ll have enough money for a room with a hot shower, some new clothes, a real meal, and a bus ticket back to Georgia. And yes, that’s what she’ll use it for. I scribbled a little suggestion on the bill to make sure. Her eyes will never notice it, but her unconscious mind will. I usually don’t like to do stuff like that, but if I didn’t, she’d still be in the City next Wednesday, at which point she’ll be hit by the M60 bus. How do I know?

Because that’s what I do. Economancy. Money magic.

The Economancer – Chapter 1

Hey all. I know I haven’t had a lot of material for you over the past few months. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing at all. One thing I’ve been writing is a piece of serial fiction for a private newsletter that I call The Economancer. Now, thanks to the generous permission of that newsletter, I’ll be able to share The Economancer with all of you in weekly serial format – my own little penny dreadful. Hope you enjoy.

You probably don’t think of New York City as a place for magic.

Or maybe you do. You’ve been primed by tv and movies where if anything weird happens, it happens in the Big Apple – Dr. Strange, Men In Black, The Avengers, Ghostbusters – everything from aliens to ghosts to giant lizards.

(Though I have to ask: who starts a whole business just to “bust” ghosts? Sure, some ghosts are trouble, but most are just minding their own business. I mean, you’ve been here all this time, and I bet you never even noticed Phil in elevator shaft A1! Are you gonna bust ghosts just for being ghosts? That’s vitalist!)

But I’m not talking about magic in movies or TV. I’m talking about the real stuff.

Fourth of July Travelogue

Hey, all. I know I’ve been gone for a long while. Like the rest of y’all, I’ve been mostly sheltering in place to avoid Covid-19. Like many of you, I thought that working from home would give me more time to write, but as someone wise said, it’s not about working from home, it’s about living at work. The job takes up as much mental energy as it ever did, and it hangs over my head in my off-hours in a way that it generally didn’t before.

That said, I am still writing, if not as much as I hoped or thought I would, and you’ll see some of it here soon. In the meantime, enjoy this tale of my first escape from the City – and my apartment – since March.

Quarantine Charity

Hey all.

These are dark times. Some of the darkest I’ve ever seen. Heck, my grandmothers are in their nineties, and while they’ve certainly seen dark days before (WWII, anyone?), they’ve never seen anything quite like this.

I, personally, am doing okay. Frankly, I consider myself to be literally one of the luckiest people on the planet. My family and friends are almost all healthy (well, at least in terms of Coronavirus). The few people I know personally who have contracted COVID-19 were young (well, early middle-aged like myself) and healthy and as such have recovered. Both my wife and I have jobs that are in no immediate danger of being shut down by the pandemic, and both of us are able to work safely from home.

All of which means it’s my responsibility to help out in any way I can. If you would also like to help out, I have a few suggestions for you:

Dreams of the Boardwalk Still Available for Free Download!

Hey all! We are halfway through the giveaway for Dreams of the Boardwalk! Thursday is your last day to download this novella of urban fantasy and romance absolutely free.

After all, in these dark, isolated times, what better way to escape than to read about that long hot summer where love was young and true and perfect…

Literally perfect…

So perfect that you maybe start to wonder if there isn’t something going on here…

Want to find out just what the heck is going on here? Download the book!

If you like the story, please leave a review, and remember that the whole library of my work is always free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

Stay healthy!

Download Dreams of the Boardwalk For Free!

Hey All!

The shelter-in-place continues, and I have one more book to share for your entertainment: Dreams of the Boardwalk. This one is a story of hot summers, bright beaches, better worlds, and the dreams of the city. Maybe the best thing I have to offer for these troubled times, and it’s free to download now through Thursday, April 2.

Careful, though. This one is rated R.

And don’t forget, once you’re done with Dreams of the Boardwalk, ALL of my stories are available for free reading on Kindle Unlimited!

Take care and keep healthy everybody!

The Truth of Rock and Roll Is Available for Free Download!

Hey all!

Well, St. Patrick’s Day has passed, but even more of us than before are now trapped inside to avoid the Coronavirus.

So you all can have something to do until we can all go out again, my novella The Truth of Rock and Roll is now available for free download on Amazon. And remember, my entire library is always available for free reading on Kindle Unlimited.

Stay healthy! Or get well soon. Whichever applies to you.

Clan Brennan Free Giveaway for St. Patrick’s Day

So how’s this for a St. Patrick’s Day, I ask you? No parades. The bars are still open for now but highly inadvisable. Even mass is affected in a bunch of little ways to avoid sending those older parishioners off to their reward before their time.

But we all do our best, don’t we? My wife and my sister and I had our own little celebration with corned beef and cabbage and potatoes and a viewing of The Boondock Saints.

In the same spirit, you might consider making it part of your celebration to read the story of an Irish family who continue St. Patrick’s tradition of driving out the dark things.

So in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, The Clan Brennan Family Album is available for free Kindle download now through Thursday 3/19.

And hey, if you still need something to read after that, my entire library is always available for free reading on Kindle Unlimited.

PS – If you like Clan Brennan, please leave a review!

I Answer Questions From My Fans #1

At last count, Hometown was up to 57 reviews, and most of them were very positive (52% 5 star and 25% 4 star bay-beee!). Unfortunately, I haven’t received the boost in readership that I expected when I hit fifty reviews. Apparently, while something does in fact happen at twenty reviews, the additional boost at fifty is a hopeful indie writers’ urban legend.

As I read through these reviews, though, I’ve seen a number with questions or issues that I’d like to address. And no, that’s not my way of saying I’m going to go through and curse out my 1- and 2-star reviewers. That’s just self-destructive and pointless. There’s some genuinely interesting stuff here.