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From the Bookshelf: Dancing Barefoot

Jun18
Published on: June 18, 2013
Categories: Books, Geek
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Dancing_BarefootThe stories:

Houses in Motion

Ready Or Not Here I Come.

Inferno.

We Close Our Eyes.

The Saga of SpongeBob VegasPants.

 

 

For those of you who only know Wil from his Film/Tv work (Stand by me, Star Trek, Big Bang, eureka, etc) you have no idea what you are missing.

Wil just like his character in Stand-by-me, grew up to be a writer, and what a writer.

Anyone who has read his blog knows the feelings he can put into his posts and stories, how he can make you feel like you were there.

Dancing Barefoot is his first book, although technically that would have been Just a Geek, but dancing barefoot burst out of Just a Geek like a Xenomorph bursting from a marine, to make sure it lived first.

Its a small collection of five stories, funny, sentimental, emotional, and interesting for different times in Wil’s life. It even comes with a dash of William F*****G Shatner.


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I’m an Poet Dottie… A Rebel.

Jun07
Published on: June 7, 2013
Categories: My Books
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Dear Constant Reader.

Over the years several pieces of my poetry have been reprinted across the Internet on a multitude of sites. In the majority of these cases the poster has credited me in some way, and in a couple of instances credited Edgar Allan Poe which I took as a massive compliment. Unfortunately not everyone on the Internet follows a decent moral code, and I have found pieces of my work posted with different people credited as the author. There was even an online book containing several pieces of my work (Since taken down and apologies received)

I have therefore decided that since my humble works seem to be slightly popular, and so I can occasionally put my occupation down as ?Freelance Poet? I would gather a selection of my work and publish it in a small book, this very book in fact.

The following poems cover a small selection of my work from the age of 12 to the current time. I hope you find at least some enjoyable, since this book was compiled for YOU and I want YOU to be happy.

info

Kindle: ([UK] [US] )
Smashwords (eBook)

info here

Kindle: ([UK][US])
Barnes and Noble (eBook)
iTunes (UK,US)
Kobo (eBook)
Smashwords (eBook)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I’m an Author Dottie… An Update.

Dec03
Published on: December 3, 2012
Categories: My Books
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best seller 33My little story made it to #33 in the Horror ebook charts. and #700 in the global list of ALL ebooks.

I’d like to thank all you who grabbed a copy during the “Free promotional” period which helped push it up the charts.

It may have made it higher in the charts, I just happened to spot it at #33.


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I’m an Author Dottie… A Rebel.

Nov28
Published on: November 28, 2012
Categories: My Books
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After years of saying I was going to write a book or two, but never actually finishing anything. I finally got around to finishing a short story and getting it published on Amazon (eBook version only ATM)

And to thank You Constant Reader for all your support over the years, I have made it Free to download for a limited time (Amazon said I could only do it free for so long every 90 days)

So Here are the main links to the UK and American Amazons. For those of you in other countries, Just log onto your native Amazon and search for “Night Watch” by “Wayne Owens”

 
Enjoy

And Merry early Christmas Present.

LINKS:

http://amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ADMWT9U  [UK]
http://amzn.com/B00ADMWT9U  [US] Via

 


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From The Bookshelf: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened ( A Mostly True Memoir)

May17
Published on: May 17, 2012
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Anyone who is not reading The Bloggess’s Blog really needs to start. Jenny is a wonderful writer, and her insane posts are the highlight of the week. Basically Go read her BLOG!!

No Wait. come back. Let me tell you about her book first, then go read her blog. Because once you start reading you will become a fan. Then as a fan you will want to read her book to find out what made Jenny into TheBloggess.

And believe me, If you read her book without laughing out loud then you are dead inside, or a zombie. Don’t be a dead inside zombie. Read this book.

Read about the time she defended her dead buried dog from furious vultures with a machete. Thats she had the machete because be serious vultures may be big but theres no way they could hold and use a machete???

Just read the book, I could make up all sorts of amazing and wonderful things you will read about in the book, but none would be as wonderful as the true stuff thats in there.

So Go now, read her blog while you wait for your copy of her book to arrive.. go.. run.. run like the zombies are after you, or Chupacabra..

I will give this book a 10/10


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From The Bookshelf: Whitechapel: The Final Stand Of Sherlock Holmes

May11
Published on: May 11, 2012
Categories: Book Reviews
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BEST SHERLOCK BOOK EVER…

Sherlock V’s Jack the Ripper. In the grittiest, bloodiest Holmes book thats ever been written.

I must admit when I started reading this book I was not expecting the descriptive gruesomeness of the crimes, or the violence. And I will never look at Lestrade in the same way again. Yet somehow this more macabre version of these characters are more realistic than Doyle’s originals. I can see the police of Jack the Rippers day smashing open a few skulls in the investigation and not bothering with the niceties of red tape.

And you feel more for the characters, because of their flaws, and issues. And the ending??? I bet more than a few people have been reduced to tears in the last few pages of the story.

P.S. There is a “Gentleman’s Edition” of this book which I believe has more of the less savory bits edited out. But I would suggest you read the uncut copy, There is nothing that bad in there, and it adds realism to the story

 

I will give this book a 9/10


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Vaginal Fantasy Hangout

Mar29
Published on: March 29, 2012
Categories: Books, Events, Goodreads
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  “Once a month four ladies discuss a Vaginal Fantasy book in a G+ Hangout. Interpret at will.”

Thats the premise of this group off their website, and basically thats what it is. Two months back Felicia Day, Bonnie Burton, Veronica Belmont and Kiala Kazebee* teamed up to do a G+ Hangout where they discussed “Vaginal Fantasy”**, I watched the first one simply because I follow some of those ladies on the Twitters and find them very entertaining. Well individually they may be entertaining, combine them into a group, add a helping of alcohol and you get something where the combined awesomeness outweighs the total of the individual parts.

The hangout was so popular that they created a goodreads group, their own website and set it up to be a monthly hangout. Now since I am male and don’t read those lovey-dovey ladies books I did not read the first group book, but simply watched the second hangout for the comedy and fun of the event. I did feel bad, like I was failing, I had joined the book club so I should read the books, or at least try to start them. So when the book for the third hangout was posted I figured “What the hell!” its only one small book, I can give over a short time to reading it, and if I tell no one then my manliness will be safe.

The book was “Slave to Sensation” by Nalini Singh. OK the title was not the best, and the cover art!!! Lets just say “thank the gods for eBooks and leave it at that” The book itself, well the plot was a bit thin, the “Bad guy” was easily identifiable from the start, and there was a lot of just “blurring over” points, or questions. But Guys thats not the point of these books apparently, no! they are a quick read, One maybe two nights and you finish the book, so its fast pulp fiction and the main part is the “romance”.

Buy GUYS I have to let you into a secret the GALS have been keeping to themselves, the romance? well it involves SEX, lots of sex. In fact you could call it soft porn***, OK its not images or photographs, but its descriptive scenes. So just a different kind, maybe men traditionally prefer the visual stimulation and women may like the written where it plays out in their mind. So any guy who is told by a woman that porn is wrong, or she does not like it, I suggest that man have a peak at that womans book collection.

Hell, Guys, if your parter reads “chick romance books” Have a read yourself the next time they are out and you are alone with their books. Trust me, its worth the experience. And defiantly watch the Hangouts, they are one of the best shows on the interwebz at the minute.

And if you catch me reading any of these VF style books, I can assure you its for “Research Purposes” I’m just checking them out “……for a friend

Vaginal Fantasy Details.

Website: http://vaginalfantasy.com/

GoodReads Group: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/62938.Vaginal_Fantasy_Hangout

Videos: You can find these on Felicia’s youtube channel

  • * Four women who belong to that supposedly mythical group “Geek Girls”
  • ** This term probably does not mean what you think it does
  • *** Yes I know its not really porn, but if you think of it as the stories in “Those” kinds of magazines then it is very similar ;o).

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From The Bookshelf: Heat Wave

May02
Published on: May 2, 2011
Categories: Book Reviews, TV Shows
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What a brilliant piece of MetaFiction this is:

For those of you who have been kept locked in a box for the last few years, or believe Television is the work of Satan’s minions and as such avoid the evil gogglebox for more spiritual activities, I guess I should start with a quick recap of what Castle is.

Castle is a TV show about Richard Castle, a best-selling author who decides to tag along with a NYPD team as they investigate cases, since he is using Detective Kate Beckett as his inspiration in a new series of books.

Since in the TV show Castle (Played by Nathan Fillion) is writing a book inspired by Beckett, the book gets mentioned a lot in the first season, even to the point of showing the proposed Cover, and its launch/release. You even see the characters reading the book in some episodes, as well as discussing a certain sex scene that’s a bit raunchy.  There is nothing special in this, since a lot of TV shows make mention of Books, Films, Etc. that are apparently going on in the background. And there are a lot of shows that will do spin off books.  What the producers of Castle have done, and done brilliantly is to release a bit of metafiction.  They actually released the book that was supposedly written in the show. The covers the same, the plot,s the one mentioned in the show, the sex scene on page number 105 is there, and even better the Thanks page, bio, writers name, everything is written as if the character Richard Castle wrote the book. He thanks his daughter & mother, the guys from NYPD the works. All in all this is a brilliant bit of meta-fiction,

But what about the book itself?

It’s actually a good book, its very similar to an episode of castle, only its about a newspaper reporter who is travelling around with the NYPD gang solving a crime. The style is like the show, comedy mixed with action, mixed with chemistry. The only real difference is the book is darker, more violent, and more explicit (but not in a bad way) Hell there is no way you could get away with the female lead being totally naked and using an iron to melt half the face off an armed assailant intent on raping her, but in a book? alls fair.

This book is an enjoyable read even if you are one of the people who have never watched an episode of Castle. And I would recommend it as a read to anyone, you will enjoy it. In fact I will give it a 7/10 as a generic book.

But if you watch the TV show, and can appreciate the work gone into linking the book with the show, then I give it a 9/10.


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From The Bookshelf: Blacklands

Mar18
Published on: March 18, 2011
Categories: Book Reviews
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‘Dear Mr Avery,
I am looking for WP. Can you help me?
Sincerely,
SL, 111 Barnstaple Road, Shipcott, Somerset.’

He was only twelve, he reasoned; he couldn’t be expected to get stuff like writing to serial killers right first time.

 

Belinda Bauer

Blacklands is the début novel by Belinda Bauer, and as first books go you cant do better then having it become an International Bestseller, and winning the The Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

But what about the story itself? (more…)


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From the Bookshelf of a Geek: Shatnerquake

Sep10
Published on: September 10, 2010
Categories: Book Reviews, RockTheLAN
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Originally Posted at http://rockthelan.com

shatnerquake

Title: Shatnerquake

Author: Jeff Burk

Published: 2009

Pages: 100

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