New Book: Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies

Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies

I had a week vacation over the holidays so I finished Round 3 of editing my Zombie book. Yes. Another zombie book.

Update: I am on Round 5 of editing and very close to publication, but editing takes time with a full time job, so it might be released by June 2012.

This paranormal book is less about Zombies than it is about relationships between friends and lovers in a post apocalyptic world. Okay, if you want to be specific:

A rescue plan becomes a bid for survival as sixteen-year-old Julie Rayzor struggles with her love for a missing soldier, her concern for her California-girl BFF and her commitment to her adopted family of soldiers. A secret she keeps hidden deep in her heart threatens to tear her apart, destroy her friends and bring about destruction of her home, but she soon discovers that if she can keep her secret safe and complete the most dangerous task of her life all of humanity might be saved.

You will find the book in the Thriller category. It's not an overly gory horror story or a classic romance novel. It's not paranormal - well, on second thought it might be a little paranormal.

It will be available on createspace in paperback and as an ebook on Amazon soon. I hope you enjoy it and look for a Detective Bob Schwimer Mystery soon due to popular demand. Sully and Sullyland will have to wait!

Step Aside Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie deserves the spotlight.

Dennis Ritchie helped the world of technology far more than Steve Jobs ever wanted to.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/dennis-ritchie-the-other-man-inside-your-iphone-who-created-unix/articleshow/10395985.cms

Eat Pray Love

Breaking this out into it's own post: I watched Eat, Pray, Love, the movie. Good movie. Probably a better novel. I'll admit I'm a little jaded. Hard to sympathize with someone who's only real problem they ever had in life was marrying the wrong person. Her husband loved her and she left him. The movie didn't tell you that in the real world the publisher got the writer a $100K advance on the novel so she could afford to travel the world for a year. Somewhat disappointing in that respect. It's not exactly the JK Rowling, "single unwed mother who wrote the novel in a coffee shop to save on the heating bill," kind of problem. I'm sure people with no needs or wants, and minor irritations for problems found inspiration in the idea of traveling for a year to "find yourself". Even more jaded: I feel bad for all those guys who truly love their spouse that might end up in divorce because the guy can't afford to send the wife on a year long soul searching journey. Sorry guys. Heart-felt books and movies about eating, (Julie and Julia), praying (religion), and love (romance novels), sell really well.

Amazon is scaring publishers and agents.

This is important enough to post on its own...

 

Amazon is scaring publishers & agents: nyti.ms/n2Qau9

"Only necessary ppl in publishing are the writer & reader."

The Killer's Co-op, now on Sony plus a new book coming out

Check this out! The Killer's Co-op - A Robert Schwimer Mystery, is now on Sony ebooks website. If you use a Sony Reader you can now download the book thanks to www.Smashwords.com
Just click here.
http://tinyurl.com/KillersCoopSony

In other related news...


I am entering my "editing mode" to finalize my new Julie Rayzor - Romance, Adventure, Zombies book. That's just the working title. Any suggestions?

also, the cover posted below is just a working version from before I changed her name from "Razor"to "Rayzor".

I'll have draft copies for family members very soon. I hope you all enjoy it. It will be around 200 to 220 pages, (55 to 65,000 words long).


I already have a cover done too, and decided last night that enough people like paperbacks, and not enough have ebook readers, that I'll run it through createspace.com and Amazon again for those who want a printed copy.

I hope you enjoyed the Robert Schwimer Mystery and I hope you like this new book that will be out very soon!

The working cover... (Copyright 2011, Richard Howes)

Can I post a picture?

Can I post a picture? Maybe... Let's see...

Yes. I guess I can! Found this on my drive from two or three years ago. Pictured: Author Richard Howes riding horses... Kinda goes along with the horse-riding detective in "The Killer's Co-op" mystery novel... eh?

All ebook formats supported

I've been hearing about smashwords and I intended to go there to look around in the last few weeks, but I was busy getting my book ready for the kindle and paperback. I finally did it... It was easy as pie to upload and they assigned an ISBN number for free. My book, The Killer's Co-op, is now in ALL eReader and eBook device formats, for a limited time set at only $0.99

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85161

kindle ebook:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%22killers+co-op%22&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3A%22killers+co-op%22&ajr=0

and in paperback too for people like myself that don't prefer the electronic book formats!
https://www.createspace.com/3615588

Here's a list of the formats currently supported. I think it's all of them!

Format	Full Book
Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser)	View
Online Reading (JavaScript, experimental, buggy)	View
Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps)	Download
Epub (Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others)	Download
PDF (good for reading on PC, or for home printing)	Download
RTF (readable on most word processors)	Download
LRF (Use only for older model Sony Readers that don't support .epub)	Download
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices)	Download
Plain Text (download) (flexible, but lacks much formatting)	Download
Plain Text (view) (viewable as web page)	View

If you are wondering what The Killer's Co-op is about... Bob is a horse riding and horse training detective...
A murder staged as a railroad accident soon leads Acting Sheriff Robert Schwimer to the cold-case shotgun death of a sociopath teenager and a series of murders, and kidnappings. With the current sheriff’s corruption scandal; a State Coroner fighting the County Medical Examiner. Bob is racing across the Massachusetts South Shore to neutralize the killers before they neutralize him.

Good reading!

Richard Howes