F. P. Dorchak

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The Uninvited—Now In Paperback!

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The Uninvited - Paperback (© F. P. Dorchak and Duvall Design)
The Uninvited – Paperback (© F. P. Dorchak and Duvall Design)

“The images invaded my thoughts when I wasn’t reading the book.”

CDurandette (The Uninvited reader)

Just in time for Hallowe’en, The Uninvited is now available as a 6 x 9 trade paperback!

Right this moment (October 26th), it’s just available through CreateSpace’s link, but keep checking for the Amazon link update. Though the page counts differ between the e-book and paperback (327 for e-book, 282 for paperback), nothing is lost. Same story, just different formatting

Karen Duvall, of Duvall Design, designed this cover. I will be interviewing her next month. Thanks for the bang-up job, Karen! My interior formatter was Pam Headrick, of A Thirsty Mind. I plan on interviewing her in no short order, too. Pam is quite patient and ever so thorough—thanks, Pam!

Recent events have forced me to reconsider my earlier timeline of releasing some other work, this year, so I no longer plan on releasing anything new in the remainder of 2013. Further releases of pending novels will now be sometime next year.

So, if you’re looking for another creepy read, please do check out the paperback version of The Uninvited! I’ve written with you in mind….

Praise for The Uninvited:

“This book was quite an unexpected pleasure. I began by following a journalist into a gruesome crime scene in Florida and in a short time I found myself thinking about this novel when I was shopping, having coffee or doing chores. The characters are interesting and well developed through the book to the very end. The development of the storyline was unanticipated so I hate to tell you too much about it here in the review, but I highly recommend this novel as a good way to spend your time.”

CDurandette (an Uninvited reader)

“I get the chills… a most impressive work.”

Rob Butts, Seth Material Facilitator/Author, The Seth Material, The Early Sessions, The Personal Sessions

“At some point in our lives we contemplate, among numerous things, the demise of past souls and the inexplicable ‘natural’ comfort (or immediate aversion) we feel with some upon first meeting. F. P. Dorchak’s The Uninvited presents the possibilities through an ominous tale that explores and may provide reason for such sensitivities, while explaining the evil borne (and perpetrated) by society’s sinister few.”

Jan C.J. Jones, CoExecutive Producer – Researcher/Writer, Forest Rose Productions, LLC

“The Uninvited is a dynamic, intense novel. F. P. Dorchak weaves his story adeptly, with skill and precision. He easily intertwines the worlds of reincarnation and quantum physics to create a powerful, suspenseful experience for the reader.”

Sydney Heflin, Ed. D. Former Research Chair, International Association for Regression Research and Therapies.

“If psychological and even physical characteristics can follow us from lifetime to lifetime, can revenge and retribution be far behind? In his chilling novel, The Uninvited, author F. P. Dorchak explores the dark side reincarnation. It’s a good read. Hard to put down.”

Dr. Robert T. James, author of Passport to Past Lives. The Evidence.

“I found I could not stop reading… I became totally fascinated by the depth of Dorchak’s exploration into the many influences beneath the hostilities performed. I was especially delighted with his reference to the modern pioneer in metaphysics and philosophy, Jane Roberts—right there beside the famous psychic Edgar Cayce. Today’s police and lawyers need this novel!”

Madelon Rose Logue, Editor/Publisher The Black Sheep

(© F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner)
(© F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner)
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My Favorite Horror Novels

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Please, Let Me Show You A Few Of My Favorite Things.... (Nosferatu Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Please, Let Me Show You A Few Of My Favorite Things…. (Nosferatu Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Since I listed my favorite horror films, I decided, why not list my favorite horror novels? I don’t consider myself any kind of “well read”; Most of my recent reading has been for my own novel research, and since I no longer write a lot of strict “horror,” I don’t read a lot of it. I will state this, however: I love [most of] Stephen King’s horror/supernatural work.

Now, having said that, there was one book of his I’d started and never finished, because I found it to be so mean-spirited I just didn’t want to read any further. That book was Full Dark, No Stars. Loved the title, but didn’t want to be subjected to what I was reading. It was too real. Too nasty. Mean. It surprised me that he’d written such a novel. It was about revenge and the nastiness that can reside inside people. As one Amazon reviewer said, it was “just gratuitous nastiness.” And that so many people loved this book is kinda unnerving. Really, people love reading about that kind of stuff? Granted, this question can be levied at horror fiction, in general, but holy shit. At least to me, reading horror (and supernatural) fiction is about a release from the real world, of entering a fantastic world of The Weird…about experiencing something that engages the fright mode in each of us—but in a comfortable way. Full Dark, No Stars, however, was like reading real accounts of Mankind’s Inhumanity To Mankind. Or getting inside the heads of these people who commit crimes, and that simply doesn’t interest me. I don’t read true crime and have no interest in getting inside any mean-minded individual’s heads. I don’t enjoy that kind of material…it’s not a release, not cathartic, and certainly not entertainment for me. Sometimes fiction can be too real, and while I applaud King’s ability to write like no other (and incite these feeling in me with his work), that doesn’t mean that I have to like everything he writes (same goes with any writer’s efforts—including mine).

So I returned the book, unfinished.

On to more fun reading!

Below is a list of those novels (no anthologies) I’ve read over the years and really enjoyed. Most I have not read again since the first read, sometimes, years and years ago, but, again, like the movies I’d written about, they stuck with me for some reason. In once case, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I’d read it four times, and still love it. There are also several books out there from King and some others, like Anne Rice and Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, I have yet to get to, so they may yet be included in future editions of this list….

And given my one extreme, with Full Dark, No Stars, I can honestly say that my other extreme, my most favorite horror read of all time (so far), was Pet Sematary. When I read it, it was the scariest horror novel I’d ever read, and everything I’ve read since, I measure against it! Nothing has come close…but again, I don’t consider myself “well read.” But, the feeling of utter creepiness was and still has stuck with me as the best all-time creepiness I’ve ever read. Dracula would tally in as the most atmospheric novel.

So, feel free to check out any of these great reads—and suggest some of your own favorites—maybe I’ve read them and simply forgotten about them, as I did with The Ring, in my favorite horror movies (I have a saying that “I’ve forgotten more than I ever knew…”)!

Now…enter my library…if you dare….

Bag of Bones

Day of the Triffids

Dracula

Ghost Story

If You Could See Me Now

Interview With A Vampire

It

Nosferatu

Pet Sematary

‘Salem’s Lot

The Haunted

The Other

The Shining

Werewolf of Ponkert

Going Indie—What I’ve Learned (So Far)—Part 7

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I Was LOST…But Am Becoming FOUND…. (Photo credit: Lost, Wikipedia)

I don’t mean to be getting ahead of myself, here, but I just have to say that ERO is getting great reviews by those who have read it. It’s not yet selling huge, because of my restricted ability to promote right now, but those who have read it are contacting myself or my wife to tell them how much they like it—okay, love it. Many are even saying it should be a movie.

How cool is that?

The very fact that readers love ERO enough to say they’d like to see it as a movie is highly complimentary, even humbling. They liked the story enough to want to re-experience it again, in another form of expression!

This book has been rejected from traditional editors multiple times, yet (so far), I’ve heard from handfuls of readers about how stunned, “wowed” and impressed they are with the story, how they never saw the ending coming. Sure, someones out there might not like it, can’t please everyone, but so far, all I’ve heard has been complimentary. And these are people from all walks of life, not just SF, action adventure, or military fiction readers. These people come to me, not the other way around. These are the very readers editors and publishers are supposed to be catering to. Small sample? Does it really matter? Any sample is representative of a greater whole.

It’s a bit weird talking about something I wrote in the third person, but it warms my heart that something I’ve written so touches those who have read it. Heck, my Dad is even promoting the novel where he lives. You just can’t beat that!

To this end, I’d like to share parts of an e-mail from an Internet radio talk show host, Paul Neal Rohrer. He’s given me permission to share this. His e-mail blew me away:

“I just finished ERO. (Body shivers!)

Man, I gotta say…you’ll probably think me nuts to say I felt so close to Cherko…this book should be a FILM!

Whew. INTENSE.

I will say that it did not start off to be the type of book I would normally read. I kept with it solely because I knew you and though I felt like I was reading the series, LOST…I kept with it saying to myself…this WILL all make sense. Repeating that thought over and over until around page 160…then I was HOOKED! I breathlessly turned each page…I had all of this morning to finish the last 65 pages. Wow. LOVED IT!

Your mind must be a terrible thing to live with! Radical, powerful and relatable.”

Wow, thanks, Paul!

So, what I’ve learned has actually been a reinforcement of what I already knew: just because a major publisher does not take your work does not mean readers won’t like it. I stuck to my guns and found a way to get my work out there. I persevered. And it is being discovered. It may take some time, but it is out there. Again, thank you, readers, for taking a chance on my work.

Okay, here are some more lessons learned:

  1. I created a checklist of items to keep straight when creating e-books and paperbacks. I’ve attached it to the bottom of this post, since it’s a couple pages.
  2. All you can do is what you can do. I’m sure I’ve said this before, and it sounds stupid, but it’s meant to keep you from going nuts with all the “shoulds” everyone throws out there. You’re one guy or gal. You can’t do everything, especially with everything else you’re doing in life besides the writing and publishing. Just do what you can, and always keeping an eye out for new opportunities.
  3. Check out a previous post I did about PR and promotion…while keeping #3, above, in mind.
  4. Apply to conferences and conventions about presenting your journey. By this I mean, if you have something to say about what you’ve learned on your Indie journey. Talk about what you’ve learned…take some ideas from your blog posts. PowerPoint them and present them at a writer’s conference, the library, or anywhere else there might be a platform for something like this. You might think, yeah, but everyone’s already doing that, and while that is true, perhaps in your area it is not so saturated…and if you know people in your writing community, and they like you, they’ll more likely than not be willing to “book” you (punny…) because they know you and are willing to help you out in your career as a writer. But, in any case, conferences are like magazines…they have to “publish” or fill slots for sessions, and there’s always an audience that hasn’t yet heard what you think has already been done before…or your spin on things and personality are decidedly different and refreshing. Don’t you count yourself out…let them tell you so…or more to the case, let them tell you YES! And when you do this, bring your books! Have them out and used as examples! Have fun with it!

Okay, here’s the checklist I’ve created. Feel free to copy and use! It’s not meant as an explanation of all I do, just as a reminder of what I need to do. When you get in to do this stuff, it all becomes (or should become) more readily apparent…but you actually have to be in there getting ready to release your book. Some of this stuff cannot be “taken back,” like assigning ISBNs.

Prepping ms for content formatter (text):

  1. Convert Word manuscript (ms) to:
    • Time New Roman.
    • Only single spaces, no double spaces.
    • Single-spaced lines, no double spaces.
    • E-book only: No more than 4 lines of spaces (returns) at the tops of any pages.
    • For paperback books, make sure all the line returns to chapter starts are the same.
    • E-book only: Add a space after all ellipses (3 and 4 dots), except w/in quotes, parens, punctuation.
    • Convert all dashes to M-dashes (or N-dashes; just be consistent).
    • Check all chapter and section numbers (1, 2, 3…) are correctly numbered.
    • Check all sub-section spaces/#/***; standardize, check spacing, and center.
  2. Spell check—again!!!
  3. Ensure italicized text are properly italicized (including appropriate punctuation within itals).
  4. E-books: can’t have text “left/right-justified-at-bottom-of-page” kinda thing for ebooks, since can’t have more than four lines “entered” down from the top of pages.
  5. Blurbs from other authors.
  6. Add “Also by F. P. Dorchak” list of books to front matter (front of the book info, before the actual story).
  7. Add family members to Notes/dedication?
  8. Add significant other/others to Notes/dedication. Think.
  9. E-books: add websites and social media links to e-books.
  10. Keep paperback clean with just “About” and website (no #8, above).

Submitting manuscript to Smashwords:

Be sure you’re ready to do this, because once you’re done stepping through their upload dialogs, you’re published.

  1. Select all e-book formats.
  2. Assign ISBN! Do so before submitting to Smashwords!
    • Impacts immediately getting into the Premium catalog.
    • Smashwords ISBNs cannot be used elsewhere.
  3. Opt out of Amazon and Nook distribution on Smashwords’ Channel Manager! Only do this to individually upload files to Amazon and Nook, since they pay royalties much quicker than the Smashwords schedule; if you don’t care about that, you can opt in to Amazon and Nook on Smashwords.
  4. Create any free Coupons through Smashwords to give away free copies.

Submitting ms to Amazon

  1. Add self as contributor.
  2. Try to add cover artist.
  3. Try to add content formatter.
  4. Select 35% royalty.
  5. Select price and set other country prices based on US price.
  6. Select Kindle Direct Publishing “Match Book” selection (readers buy a discounted verson of your Kindle book, if they buy the paperback).

Submitting ms to Nook

  1. Get cover graphic less than 2 MB.
  2. Add self as contributor.
  3. Try to add cover artist.
  4. Try to add content formatter.
  5. Nook automatically ties paperback versions to e-versions, but all titling and names, etc., have to be word-for-word, space-for-space perfectly matching. This presents a problem when using CreateSpace (CS), because CS does not like all-capital titles for their book accounts (e.g., ERO). In order to do all caps, you have to add periods between the letters (e.g., E.R.O.). This is not good, because when you release for publication, Amazon.com keeps those damned periods in the title for retail marketing! The actual title on the book remains your “ERO” title, but the displayed online title with your book, and any search engine hits only respond to the broken up title (i.e., E.R.O.), and not the actual title (i.e., ERO). So, effectively, there are two titles out there, and if people don’t know this, or don’t scroll down the Amazon search page, they won’t see the “E.R.O.” version of the book. I have contacted both CS and Nook about this. CS was nice enough to go in and link the two titles to each other, but you might have to actually contact them to get them to do this, by pointing out a loss of sales with the different titles, if people don’t know to scroll down the pages to find the related search of the other title. B&N/Nook also finally link the two formats together, but this took a long time. Be persistent and nice; some of these people you contact simply are not very smart on the whole process, and I ran into contradictory responses from the different people I contacted.

When do CreateSpace copy:

  1. Get paperback ISBN. Once ISBNs are assigned, they cannot be changed.
    • “Custom” ISBNs can have a “faux” imprint name, like “Wailing Loon.”
    • I’m not an expert on these, but in CreateSpace, the custom ISBNs are also divided into those that are oriented toward retailers and those oriented toward libraries. Make sure you select the right set.
    • Get any offered “Expanded Distribution” offerings if cheap.
  2. Titles: see #5, Submitting to Nook, above.
  3. Add faux imprint to:
    • Copyright page.
    • Spine/cover.
    • Anywhere else needed.
  4. Need any artwork on the interior of the book, the front or back matter?
  5. Add the following to the back matter (rear of the book, after the story): About the Author, website, books/anthologies/etc., again list content formatter and cover artist names and websites.
  6. Cover photo?
  7. Send e-mails/thank you cards to thank contributors, and if they helped enough to justify, free coupons for e-book or actual (signed!) paperbacks.
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Fiction and the World—Take A Good, Hard Look at Yourselves!

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Deutsch: Zentrale Heterochromie: Grüne Iris, u...
Take a Good Hard Look at Yourselves. (Photo credit: Wikipedia. Deutsch: Zentrale Heterochromie.)

I read a post by Nathan Bransford, about the world losing  its taste for complexity in fiction. It linked to a Rumpus post, by Rob Roberge. The Rumpus post talked about moral dilemmas and men and women and literature. Definitely an interesting post. Besides the moral dilemma, and several others points that also stood out, I want to begin with this point: the age-old “gender fight” that always seems to be brought up, however briefly. About how the world is still largely run by men and women and the world have it so bad. It wasn’t made much of in this article, but I have to comment, because it implies a lot.

Okay, nothing’s perfect, and men seem to largely run the world. But consider for a moment how the world might be if women did run the world.

Right now all this man v. woman talk about who’s running things implies the negative aspects of a male-dominate Weltanschauung. Fine. Now, for just a moment, consider all the negative implications associated with a female-dominated world. Go on, do it. Think about all you hate and despise about the female Weltanschauung, I’m not going to list any; I’m leaving that up to all of you out there. I’m asking this because we’re focusing on the negative aspects of male gender and ignoring the positive aspects, so turnabout is fair play. I’m not about gender bashing, as anyone who knows me can tell you, but come on, let’s face it—no one’s perfect. You know what I’m talking about, so quit dicking around and be honest. Do you really think that kind of a world would be any better?

To me, it’s not so much about the sex of the “entity” running the world, but the mindset (and consider this: most psychologists have recently declared that many who run the world can be labeled as psychopaths; they don’t break this out into genders [at least I haven’t seen it], just one thing: many-to-most leading high-ranking business leaders display psychopathic behavior). Then there’s the increasingly nascent operation of bean counters running everything. Instead of all this dickering about crappy men running around screwing up the world and how much better women would be at it, saving all our souls and morals and intellect and emotion, I suggest that maybe it’s a mindset, not a gender thing, and the incumbent entity is just an easy target. It just so happens that one set of gonads has the so-called “upper hand.” In my experience working with and for both men and women, I find each just as capable and culpable as the other. There is no Saving Gender. No Second Coming of a Gender Savior. Woman have plenty of their own inherent goods and bads, just like men do, and with the infusion of more women into the workplace—or buying books—there is already more influence of women into everyday everything. And, to be honest, I don’t see any saving grace. I see women becoming just as stressed, just as angry, just as overwhelmed as their male counterparts in every area of life: on the road, in the office, at home, and on Facebook. Sure, arguments can definitely be made that while they are in the workplace they also have to come home and run the household like they used to. Fair argument…but they’re still stressed and overwhelmed and every other descriptor that men have, whether or not you add “more” to it, because of extra home responsibilities. But, I’ve also read and heard more and more men are becoming the stay-at-home dads, these days.

But, there is more to the Rumpus post. Why is there such a decline to the reading of fiction, or to the male readership of fiction? Is there really, or is it more that there is such an incline to the female readership, that the male readership simply pales by comparison? There is much talk (at least in the writing and reading circles) about the decline of something, sometime, and this was the current target. It would be great to see some actual studied numbers on the topics, but how useful would that really be? After all, how many times have you lent or received a book from another? There’s no money exchanged, no databased stat at no point-of-sale on those books. How good are these numbers, really?

And let’s talk about quality. Formula.

I know just from own personal experience, that I have been extremely disappointed in the fiction out there. Yes, there are a few exceptions, but nearly every new book of fiction I’ve recently purchased at bookstores/Amazon has disappointed me to the point of early reading termination. Now, yes, I’ve discovered about myself that I have become a pretty picky reader, but I’m an open reader. Open to new ideas and stories. I don’t get to do much of it, for various reasons, but most of the time when I’ve branched out, I’ve not been happy with the purchase. There are many out there lamenting about the state of publishing (including myself), like Joe Ponepinto, and they present legitimate positions. Pedantic, uninspired, unimaginative, overly formulaic, et cetera.

Perhaps what’s being published now is actually more sub par than in the past? I’ve realized that at some point in the past, we’d lost the eloquence that seemed to be better expressed on a daily basis than is today. Sure, there has always been the unschooled…but once you got to “the schooled,” it seemed (to my limited way of thinking) that people just plain talked gooder in the 1700 and 1880s. Perhaps I’m wrong.

Perhaps, because of the Bean Counter Revolution (BCR), what BCRs think is salable and think is “good” really isn’t. Perhaps, in the vein of A Few Good Men, they simply can’t handle the truth, because they’re not editors and readers. I still regard most editors highly; the good ones are extremely knowledgeable and well read. I don’t fault them for the most part; they’re doing what they’re mandated in order to continue eating and reading. But you hear it time and time again…it’s all the same plot, just different clothes and names.

I do not like to unnecessarily constrain things. Like writing. Literary or genre fiction. To me, both should be telling a story, with “literary’s” form perhaps more of importance than in genre fiction. To me, in literary fiction, form is part of the story. There is a difference, and in the literary I’ve read (admittedly, not very recently), I’m not lettered enough to describe that difference, at least now, to give that discussion due diligence.  But, maybe, those who are publishing today’s literature, as stated above, just aren’t “getting” the literature they’re rejecting and end up publishing the more understandable—to them. But to the literati effete, it’s tripe.

And if we revisit the whole “male v. female” argument from above, yes, there certainly can be made an argument that the male-dominated world is so overwhelmed with facts and figures, and well, yes, a war or two. That definitely can influence one’s POV. But, again, women are also included in this. Women are out fighting this war, too. So, make of that what you will. Fact is, we seem to be in a period of heavy turmoil, where there isn’t too much time for majority of those involved in the war, the economic whatever…to have any free time to adequately devote to made-up shit. People need to live and fight and survive, and fiction just doesn’t cut that mustard; fiction—good fiction—is reflective and subtle. Imaginative, and while it can lend to helping some or much of today’s ills, it’s not an immediate player in the current Weltanschauung. When you have to feed yourself, or fight off others trying to kill your ass, your priorities kinda change. I’d noted that in the years after WWII that there seemed to be a period of comedies and musicals. People tried to reset their mindsets. I don’t see that we’re there yet, and with this thing in Syria brewing, good God, when the hell will it ever end? Do we need to blow ourselves up to reboot the Human Genome?

So, don’t be so hasty to assign the low-hanging fruit to the cause of declining readership—or anything else. There are so many factors involved. But all of these factors—all of them—are dependent on each and every one of us. We make our lives on the decisions we make. By allowing the BCRs to run the world. By choosing to watch and read what we watch and read. By picking and choosing our beliefs. Our thoughts. If we want to effect change, it all begins in our minds. There really isn’t any other way to do it. You conceive of something, then you either chose to carry it out or not.

It’s your choice.

ERO—Trade Paperback Now Available!

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ERO (2013, F. P. Dorchak, Don McCall, Lon Kirschner)
ERO (2013, F. P. Dorchak, Don McCall, Lon Kirschner)

Well, the trade paperback edition of ERO has arrived!

The 6 x 9 trade paperback edition of ERO is now available at CreateSpace, courtesy of Wailing Loon. I’m asking $14.99 for it. It hasn’t yet migrated to Amazon.com and other distributors, as of this writing, but do keep checking!

And (I must say…) the complete, full jacket is every bit as stunning as the front cover! It might be the young buck on the back flap, it might be the really cool faux organizational patch…or could it be le très cool Wailing Loon imprint image? Oh, yeah, I hope the story kicks butt, too. Yeah, the story. Anyway, I’m really not sure which is more stunning-er. You be the judge.

The nifty patch above is courtesy of two friends of mine, Don McCall, who created the patch at my request several years ago, and Lon Kirschner, of Kirschner Caroff Graphic Design & Consulting, my cover artist for ERO. I’ve been dying to use this patch and put it out into the public “eye”—ha, pardon the pun!—ever since Don created it (thanks, Don, for that kick-ass patch—there’s a free, autographed book in it for ya)! Lon had to do some “graphic artist wizardry” to use it on the book, but we also had to change some things cause: 1) NRO stole my motto, and b) had to add some extra “pop” for the cover. Oh, yeah, I do plan on going Cafe Press with it. But that will be a little while. My original motto was “Above and Beyond,” in various versions of Latin, but a fellow writer friend pointed out that NRO (the bastards) already had the phrase. Since they’ve been around a little longer, and are, well, scarier than me, I decided not to fight the issue. I changed the motto to “IN TÉNEBRIS,” which is supposed to translate into “Into the darkness.” I used a couple of Internet translators for this and they seemed to agree, so I hope it’s correct. It better be correct. If it isn’t, don’t tell me and allow me to live in my little Fantasy Land….

And then we have…the rest…of the cover:

ERO Paperback (2013, F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner)
ERO Paperback (2013, F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner)

Yeah, that’s me, 26 years ago. As a captain in the U.S. Air Force.

Where the hell does the time go, maaan?

The Air Force and I parted a long time ago, but I thought the picture germane to use for the cover, since the main character is me—I mean, the main character is in the Air Force, in the same timeframe (and, no, Conspiracy Theorists, do not read anything into that—all the weird shit is made up, period; those who deal in real Weird Shit know this, but I don’t need the added grief of some weird shit mythology building up around me as some kind of weird shit guru, cause I’m not—I’m just a writer trying to get by…writing weird shit…). And Lon was cool enough to incorporate Don’s extraordinary efforts of the ERO patch onto the cover. Thanks, again, man. Ever consider consulting?

So, there it is, my friends and kindly readers, the e-book and trade paperback editions of ERO, a story I began back in 2006, based on a weird idea, and helped along by various individuals, including my ex-agent (who I still can’t thank enough), incredible content formatter, Pam Headrick, incredible Cool Cover Dude, Lon Kirschner, and CreateSpace, Smashwords, B&N, Amazon, and all the other outlets and platforms and people out there and are mentioned in my acknowledgments page. I hope you enjoy the read and, if you do, please, talk, tweet, blog, and whatever the hell out of it. Yes, you can use these images—just, please attribute the appropriate people and/or links to their creation. Then could I also ask of you to post reviews of your read when done? Thanks. I’d greatly appreciate it.

See my website (www.fpdorchak.com) for other books.

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ERO—The Press Release

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Is All We See...Real? (Photo credit: Wikipedia, Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders, December 24, 1968)
Is All We See…Real? (Photo credit: Wikipedia, Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders, December 24, 1968)

Here is the press release for ERO (click here). I used PRLog. The PR should be visible on their main page for a little bit today.

I’m releasing the book on July 20th, tomorrow, to time it with the 44th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. Just for fun. I’m sure somehow I’ll be tagged as part of the conspiracy theory and treatises will be written about my involvement in promulgating the hoax of our lunar landings through the highest levels of government….

At least, a writer-selling-novels can only hope!

Take everything with a block of salt, readers.

Only real thing I realized after submitting I could have done better, is including a larger image of the book I attached to the PR. Dang it. Well, the PR does give an expanded view of the cover.

Can you all keep a secret? I might begin uploading files late tonight, so it might actually go live slightly early, Mountain Time, though it’ll be July 20th, Eastern Time. Shsssh. This is on a strict, need-to-know basis….

Join the confusion. Question everything. Nothing is as it seems.

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