Lost in Another Universe, Yep, Book Two of The Lost Shards by Charlie Pulsipher is out

I am so jazzed to be part of Charlie Pulsipher's blog tour for his newest book, Odsidian Threads. If you enjoy exciting and creative sci-fi/fantasy, you're gonna love his newest book. Take a look at the description below.
 

The fate of reality itself rests in the hands of two teenagers with unusual gifts and a young geneticist obsessed with dragons, all three lost in another universe. Yep, we’re totally screwed. 

Rho has awakened. Its acolytes will tear worlds apart to release their deity from its prison. Any hope of Rho's defeat lies with two people lost in a strange universe. Kaden and Aren must learn to harness all their unique gifts if they are to rival the god of darkness reborn.

They will not fight alone. A brilliant geneticist, a furry dwaro, two less than friendly elves, dragons, and a spunky red-haired computer stand with them. But if Kaden and Aren fail to reach their full potential, all of reality will be devoured until nothing remains but Rho.

You can purchase Obsidian Threads on Amazon

The Crystal Bridge (book 1) is also available, and free for the week of the launch on Kindle

Charlie Pulsipher is a were-hamster and lemur enthusiast living in Southern Utah with his lovely wife and neurotic dog. He writes sci-fi and fantasy, and sometimes both at the same time. He’s obsessed with surviving the inevitable zombie-pocalypse. It’s coming. Tell your friends.

He spends his time away from the keyboard hiking and camping in stunning Southern Utah. He also enjoys woodworking, painting, drawing, and pretending to have super powers.

He neglects his twitter account.

His velociraptor impression is worth seeing. Ask him to show you. It just may be the coolest thing about him.

Charlie's other books:

 The Crystal Bridge (Book 1 of The Lost Shards), Zombies at the Door

Here's how you can find Charlie online: 

www.charliepulsipher.com

https://www.facebook.com/charlie.pulsipher

https://twitter.com/charliepulse

For the Love of Words

Ahhh, Thanksgiving.
As I mused over my dessert, it occurred to me that there are two 'S's in dessert, but only one in desert.
Unless you happen to  leave your military unit without authorization for an indefinite period of time in which case you desert, but with only one 'S'.
Why is one who leaves a military post a deserter, but when you eat dessert, you are not a desserter?

Considering that stressed is desserts spelled backward, is one stressed when desserts are not forthcoming, or when one has consumed too many desserts?
Great! Now that I've looked at the word dessert so many times in a row, it begins to look as though it is not a real word at all.
Have you ever experienced looking at a word so many times that even though you know it is spelled correctly, it begins to look like gibberish?

Uh, yeah. I mean, nope, me neither...

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This is the most wonderful time of the year. The shopkeepers and clerks have just begun to get into the spirit of the holidays and aren't burned out yet. They offer Happy Holidays and soon Merry Christmas, and they will mean it without reservation.
They are filled with hope that this will be a profitable year, and your purchase or mine might push their business out of the red, or insure the employee will still have a job at the end of season, for full timers. The seasonal help is still jazzed about having a job and haven't yet been so traumatized by rude customers that they are red-eyed and hissing their greetings.
I try to let those who help me know I appreciate their service, and that the work they do makes it possible for me to do what I need to do.
Every once in awhile an associate, or whatever is the appropriate store term for  their employees, goes out of his or her way to assist me, and it reaffirms that good customer service isn't dead. It may be gasping for air and clutching at the sheets in pain, but there is still hope.
I think it's a two-way street to some extent. If I as a shopper am nice and considerate toward the associates, they will return the sentiment. Many do. Others... well, nobody wins them all.
In less than a month, the associates will be burning out, and will be as short tempered as the customers searching for the last ______ that is the number one item all children want this year, and all the stores ran out of weeks ago. Employees will still say Happy Holidays, or Merry Christmas, but the undertone in their voice and heart won't be happy or merry.
But now, it's the most wonderful time of the year.
Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and a Wonderful New Year!

Recently finished reading Ally Condie's Matched. I thought it was a fun romp through a perfect socialist society that shows how imperfect and distasteful the whole idea really is. The author did an outstanding job of gradually revealing how an apparently well-ordered flawless society is, in reality, deeply flawed. She added depth to the characters so I grew to know and appreciate them for who they were inside.
On a personal note, I completed the first draft of chapter 3 of Retaliation, the second book in my ALMOST HUMAN series.

Back to Normal...?

Whew, what a whirlwind week. Author singing at the St George UT Barnes and Nobel on Monday. Discussion on Getting the Most From Every Page at the Washington, UT library on Tuesday. All-day writing workshops on Friday, and getting all the author displays made, finished, and ready for the Book Expo on the 25th, it's time to get back to writing.
As promised, my Bigfoot footprint cast sat on my table. One 6'8" visitor  compared his size 18 shoe to the barefoot cast, his shoe was only an inch or two shorter.
The next two projects on the storyboard (thanks Mikey Brooks) are 36 Tzaddikim, and book two in the Almost Human series RETALIATION.
Completed a giveaway on Goodreads for ten autographed copies of my latest book, Deliciously Dark Tales. Winners hail from as far east as New York, and as far west as Utah. If you are not familiar with Goodreads.com, and you enjoy reading and seeing what others are reading, check it out. It's free, and you can find many interesting new books, genres, and authors from other reader's recommendations.
With the St George Book Festival in the rear view, life is back to normal, for me, if anyone would call a writer's life normal.