SFReader Discussion Forums : Shameless Self Promotion http://forum.sfreader.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:28:26 +0000 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:13:09 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.03 30 forum.sfreader.com/RSS_topic_feed.asp?FID=5 <![CDATA[SFReader Discussion Forums]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png http://forum.sfreader.com/ <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Check out my new novel]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=183&PID=212&title=check-out-my-new-novel#212 Author: SFReader
Subject: Check out my new novel
Posted: Sep-16-2016 at 10:13am

Hi Mike,

Thanks for signing up and sorry for taking so long to post a welcome. 

As you've probably figured out, there's not a lot going on around the forum these days!

Nevertheless, welcome to SFReader, thanks for joining, and congratulations on Mind Writer!

Dave
]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:13:09 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=183&PID=212&title=check-out-my-new-novel#212 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Check out my new novel]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=183&PID=210&title=check-out-my-new-novel#210 Author: mikelynch
Subject: Check out my new novel
Posted: Aug-31-2016 at 3:12pm

Hey Everyone,


I just signed up on this site, so let me offer my official welcome to you all.


In a piece of good news my latest novel, Mind Writer, was recently released.

 
It's a fun story I think you'll enjoy.
 
Born with a rare genetic mutation, Eighteen-year-old Rinee Newburgh has been kept in a secret government facility all her life. Trained to enhance her skills as a Mind Writer, her unique talents give her the ability to transfer a person’s memories, personality—their soul—into a clone created for those deemed vital to society’s continued survival. When Rinee's mentor is nearly killed in an assassination attempt, she discovers the terrible truth—Mind Writers are regarded as disposable, and life outside the Facility is nothing more than a pollution-filled world on the brink of collapse. Worse yet, she also learns of his plan to kill millions of people as a means of freeing up dwindling resources needed by the government. Horrified at the thought of a modern day holocaust, Rinee escapes the Facility in a desperate attempt to warn the people of his evil intentions before it's too late.


If you're interested, you check out the book (paperback and ebook) on Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-r-Novel-Mike-Lynch-ebook/dp/B01KDAABUU/

Mike



Edited by SFReader - Sep-02-2016 at 8:55am]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:12:35 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=183&PID=210&title=check-out-my-new-novel#210 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Chum Chum Chronicles: The Unnatural Materializatio]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=181&PID=208&title=chum-chum-chronicles-the-unnatural-materializatio#208 Author: kingbtd
Subject: Chum Chum Chronicles: The Unnatural Materializatio
Posted: Aug-29-2016 at 2:00am

I'mlooking for readers for a speculative fiction book I've written, Chum Chum Chronicles: The Unnatural Materialization of Jane.  It's roughly265 pages long and is the first book in an eventual series of three. It's abouta Chum Chum, a squirrel "chrononaut" -- a time traveler -- from anancient squirrel society that once dominated the Earth, and who is part of anarmy of chrononauts sent into the future to reclaim the planet. Their mission is torelease a deadly-to-humans ancient virus cleverly hidden within their nuts, with the intent of eradicatingmankind. Chum Chum, accidentally awoken from his cryogenic state four years tooearly by a geological research team, became, while waiting for his fellowchrononauts to awaken, a standup comedian, and, while enjoying “chimp lifestyle”,feeling of doubts developed as to the nature of his mission.  The story begins in a comedy club in Denver.  Having just finished his routine and on his way home, Chum Chum’s best and only chimp friend is assassinated. Believing that the government has uncovered his and the other chrononauts’s mission to end chimpanity, Chum Chum is certain that the assassination was really a failed attempt on his own life, and he goes on the lam. While fleeing for his life, he, a Squirrel without any bonds to chimpanity, must decide whether or not he will help or hinder, after his fellow chrononauts arrive, the destruction of chimpkind.

Fortunately for us chimps, Chum Chum meets his and, perhaps, all of chimpanity’s saviour:  Jane.  Their relationship evolves into platonic love as their chronicles unfold in an array of machinations. Which chimps can Chum Chum and Jane trust and the fight between chimps and Squirrels for control over the new world—one in which quantum space travel and teleportation has been realized through the hybridization of chimp and squirrel technologies—become the stuff forcing readers’ eyes to burn through pages.

If you like Phillip K. Dick, Douglas Adams orTerry Pratchett, you might be entertained.

 

If you take up the offer and like, hate or love the book, it would be nice to hear your thoughts. Give a critique on everythingfrom content to character development, plot and grammar.  If you think the book is worth reading, please recommend the book on FB or whatever social media outlets are out there. (You can also just download the book and read it without any obligations.)

Download here:  http://birddogbooks.com/bdb//chum-chum-chronicles-unnatural-materialization-jane - http://birddogbooks.com/bdb/content/chum-chum-chronicles-unnatural-materialization-jane
 
Cheers from Germany,
 
Keith Lyons
 
A little bit about me:
 
In 1978, at the age of eleven, Keith Lyons played drums in a punk band that performed at parties and clubs throughout the Chicagoland area.  In 1981, his band, Negative Element, released an album on Version Sound Records and did a small Midwestern tour.  At age sixteen, he helped start the record label Landmind Records, which would go on to release almost a dozen Chicagoland bands.  He then studied philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay (USA) during a time (1987 - 1992) when a number of Phenomenologists—former students of Erich Fromm, Max Wertheimer, Aron Gurwitsch, Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Hans Jonas at the New School of Social Research—filled the still then existent Philosophy Department. While living and studying in Wisconsin, he began bicycling.  In the summer of 1990 he got on his bike in Green Bay and rode to Anchorage, Alaska.  After he returned from the fish processing plants in Egegik, Alaska, he obtained his Bachelorette in Philosophy (and did a number of bike rides throughout the USA) and then moved to Germany where he studied at the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg. Following a four year stint there, and having ridden his bike across Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Iceland, Canada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and the coast of California and western Mexico three times—and not having acquired a Doctorate in Freiburg, but having acquired a child—he moved back to the States with his wife and daughter and ran skateboard supply shops, built skateboard parks and managed a skateboard team.  He then sold the businesses and took a job teaching English and Ethics at the Dalian University of Finance and Economics, Dalian China.  He stayed there for two years, with his German wife and daughter along for the ride, before then returning to Germany where he has been, ever since, reading and writing—but now with two more acquired children in the mix.
His band, Negative Element is mentioned in the Chicago punk rock music documentary, Your Weren’t There; in George Hurchalla’s book, Going Underground, and in Dave Grohl’s music documentary, Sonic Highways (as well as in a number of other books and documentaries).  And he’ll be featured in the forthcoming documentary: GREEN BLAH The History of Green Bay Punk Rock-Documentary. As for awards, he did get a chunk of granite after competing in the Swim and Run Race in the Louise quarry in Bischheim, Germany.
He currently has a book, Mereology: The Origins of Garlic Cures and the Art of Telling a Tale of Ragout, available on Bird Dog Books (birddogbooks.com) or any book retailer. The text is a theoretical work, in narrative memoir format, in the fields of Phenomenology and Mereology. (If you're interested in this book, I can send you a Kindle or Pdf version for free.  Just E-mail me.)
]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2016 02:00:53 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=181&PID=208&title=chum-chum-chronicles-the-unnatural-materializatio#208 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Keystone Chronicles anthology]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=180&PID=207&title=keystone-chronicles-anthology#207 Author: julirew
Subject: Keystone Chronicles anthology
Posted: Aug-20-2016 at 4:04pm

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Keystone Chronicles," 19 fresh science fiction and fantasy stories exploring the theme of keystone events.

What is a keystone? It's the central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together, something on which other things depend for support, the heart or core of something, the crux. In storytelling, it is the pivotal message or character who makes it all happen.

The international group of contributors to "Keystone Chronicles" make this a unique and varied collection that is sure to please fans of speculative fiction. Stories by Marilyn K. Martin, Sierra July, Brandon Crilly, Maureen Bowden, Edward Palumbo, Judith Field, Zerrin Otgur, Desmond Warzel, Gustavo Bondoni, A. P. Sessler, John Marr, Bear Kosik, John M. Campbell, Sam Muller, Sharon Diane King, Bascomb James, Larry Lefkowitz, Art Lasky, and Damian Sheridan. And, as usual, the humor section, "Grins and Gurgles" take a light-hearted view of the topic.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IM9H49K

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/651198


Edited by SFReader - Aug-29-2016 at 6:57am]]> Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:04:55 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=180&PID=207&title=keystone-chronicles-anthology#207 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Hyperpowers anthology]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=167&PID=196&title=hyperpowers-anthology#196 Author: ghostposts
Subject: Hyperpowers anthology
Posted: Jul-06-2016 at 9:17am

good luck. sounds  like a good series.
]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2016 09:17:31 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=167&PID=196&title=hyperpowers-anthology#196 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Hyperpowers anthology]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=167&PID=192&title=hyperpowers-anthology#192 Author: julirew
Subject: Hyperpowers anthology
Posted: May-16-2016 at 2:59pm

Third Flatiron has released its Summer 2016 anthology, "Hyperpowers," guest-edited by Bascomb James. This collection of 16 short stories treats popular military fiction and space opera themes,
with some humor thrown in for good measure.

http://www.thirdflatiron.com/liveSite/s/hypere-cover250.jpg

Now available on http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EBBVCZK - Amazon and http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/630060 - Smashwords.

]]> Mon, 16 May 2016 14:59:27 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=167&PID=192&title=hyperpowers-anthology#192 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : The Red Rider - on sale for $0.99]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=162&PID=187&title=the-red-rider-on-sale-for-099#187 Author: glutton
Subject: The Red Rider - on sale for $0.99
Posted: Feb-06-2016 at 4:40pm

Discounted from its normal price of $3.99 from 2/6 to 2/14 - grown up Red Riding Hood kicking werewolf (and assorted other) butt!

http://s16.postimg.org/eod37866t/Red_Rider.jpg

Action-packed fantasy adventure loosely inspired by the Red Riding Hood legend, featuring one tough female warrior.

After killing the werewolf that took her grandmother's life, a young girl is outcast from her village over the perceived taint from contact with the lycanthrope. A decade later she is the famous Red Rider, slayer of hundreds of werewolves. When she learns of a new breed of more intelligent lupines, her skills are put to the ultimate test, and even the help of other warriors such as overweight knight Herbert and cage fighting champion Evie may not be enough to overcome the rising threat.

Amazon US -  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JBTNXUA/?tag=bilthestaarts-20 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JBTNXUA/?tag=bilthestaarts-20

Amazon UK -  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JBTNXUA/?tag=bilthestaarts-20 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JBTNXUA/?tag=bilthestaarts-20

Smashwords -  http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/423800 - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/423800
]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:40:29 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=162&PID=187&title=the-red-rider-on-sale-for-099#187 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Dragon Creed]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=160&PID=185&title=dragon-creed#185 Author: ghostposts
Subject: Dragon Creed
Posted: Dec-26-2015 at 7:11am

it's out at smashwords!

Fedup of the rich few controlling the lives of everyone else, Farquartedecides enough

is enough. With plans to open a casino, assisted bydwarves and drow, he believes

things will positively change for thepoor as well as the magical beings that are forced to

live onreservations. But with ruthless officials determined to stop him, thecasino is the

furthest thing from Farquarte's mind...


Fiction» Fantasy » Contemporary      

Publishedby Recondite Publications

Words:64,920

Language:American English


ISBN:9781310609022

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/568418 -


  ghostpostsboo@yahoo.com

the first chapter may be read at my website at www.dragonthing.com. go to the left column.




Edited by ghostposts - Dec-26-2015 at 7:22am]]> Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:11:31 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=160&PID=185&title=dragon-creed#185 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : Third Flatiron's Best of 2015]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=159&PID=184&title=third-flatirons-best-of-2015#184 Author: julirew
Subject: Third Flatiron's Best of 2015
Posted: Dec-02-2015 at 11:30am

A great stocking stuffer for the SFReader in your family.

http://www.thirdflatiron.com/liveSite/s/best2015.nov1.100.jpg - Best_of_2015

Third Flatiron Anthologies has just released a new collection of 13 short SF, Fantasy, and Horror stories, its best of 2015. The ebook is available for Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017GGWGCK.


]]> Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:30:42 +0000 http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=159&PID=184&title=third-flatirons-best-of-2015#184 <![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion : The Gate of Sorrows]]> http://forum.sfreader.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=155&PID=180&title=the-gate-of-sorrows#180 Author: SFReader
Subject: The Gate of Sorrows
Posted: Nov-20-2015 at 5:59am

Meet monsters from other worlds and ordinary horrors that surpass even supernatural threats in the upcoming THE GATE OF SORROWS, by the celebrated contemporary author Miyuki Miyabe! Miyabe's eight novel, and her fifth from VIZ Media's Haikasoru literary imprint, will be available in both print & digital editions this coming summer 2016!

In this dark fantasy sequel to THE BOOK OF HEROES, a series of murders shocks Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, but retired police detective Shigenori is instead obsessed with a gargoyle that seems to move. College freshman Kotaro launches a web-based investigation of the killer, and comes to find that answers may lie within an abandoned building in the center of Japan's busiest neighborhood and beyond the gate of sorrows!

The announcement is attached for all the details! Please let me know if you have any questions, or would like to check out any of Haikasoru's other Miyuki Miyabe titles in the meantime - thanks!

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San Francisco CA 94103
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