Saturday, July 4, 2015

(Recommended Hotness) Arcane Solutions (Discord Jones Urban Fantasy Series Book 1) by Gayla Drummond


On New Year's Eve 2000, the stroke of midnight returned magic, both light and dark, to the world. Discordia Jones missed it. Struck down at that same instant like a cut-rate Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty mash up, she awakened three years later to a far stranger life, and saddled with psychic abilities. Working as a private investigator for Arcane Solutions only brings on more strangeness. At least there aren't talking mice...

FULL - LENGTH RIFFTASTIC REVIEWS (as if my opinion mattered...)



POINT OF TERROR

THEY CALL ME MACHO WOMAN



BASKET CASE


THE BABY



TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD




YELLOWBRICKROAD


ROBOT NINJA


THE PIT (1981)



RETURN OF THE BLIND DEAD


THE GHOST GALLEON



THE DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE



V/H/S and V/H/S 2



PIECES



NIGHT OF THE SEAGULLS



CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS



BLOOD MANIA



THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE



ABSENTIA



GARGOYLES



SATAN'S SLAVE



DEVIL DOG: HOUND OF HELL



MESSIAH OF EVIL



AMERICAN MARY



STAR CRYSTAL



Raw Force



Neon Maniacs



Recommended Double Features
YELLOWBRICK ROAD and ABSENTIA

Bad gaming, worse editing - THE BINDER OF SHAME

The RPG.net Rants
Uncensored, Unforgettable and Uncorrected

Click here to download the Ebook version of THE RPG.NET RANTS


2002 was the year I first started to post stories for the amusement of others. (Aside from that shameful X-FILES fan fiction of course.) I began with these gaming anecdotes that I shared on the forums of RPG.net, a relatively safe haven for me at the time. They were strange little tales told in a kind of screenplay format that I used when I sketched out story dialogue.


The first one was pretty simple but as they went on they became more and more grandiose but they were raw and fun little bits of humor. I never bothered to proofread the things or set up any real kind of coherence or internal continuity- although snippets of these tales do show up in PRICE BEAKS AND HEARTACHES.

I'm posting them to the blog so I can add them to version of THE BINDER OF SHAME I keep here. I will do the first two today and then set up one a week until they're all there.

I've moved on a lot since I first created them but many of the folks that first came to know me through them are still reading my work now and they still keep finding new readers all the time.

If you have no idea what I am talking about prepare to be amazed, amused and offended.

And be warned these stories appear exactly as I did when I posted them on the forums. I haven't tried to edit them for fear of diluting their raw power.

Also I'm pretty damn lazy...

RPG.NET rant #3 A Night At The Inn, A Day At The Racists
RPG.NET rant #4 The God Trip
RPG.NET rant #5 Achy Breaky Mythos
RPG.NET rant #6 Monty Python Mishaps In The Deepest Pit Of Homebrew Hell

TALES FROM THE ODDSIDE - my storries of uneasy laughter and ridiculous nightmares

Enter a world of uneasy laughter and ridiculous nightmares

THE GODS AND MONARCHS TRILOGY - my novels horror, obsession, redemption and betrayal


Volume One
IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS HEART
a tale of horror and obsession
To all outward appearances John Sig is just an old man living a quietly in an empty old house. His one pleasure is when he heads down to the local diner and visits with his favorite waitress Angie. When Angie disappears, John sets out to find her. For an ordinary old man that might seem like a foolish idea but John Sig isn’t human, he’s a monster living in the shadow of a nightmare thirty -five years old.















Epilogue



Volume Two


“What if you could do anything you wanted?”
Sixteen year-old Tristam Bloom is having the worst year of his life. He’s on probation, he’s the laughingstock of the school and his girlfriend wants nothing to do with him. To top it all off he now has to eat lunch with the nerdy kids he spent all of last year tormenting.
“What if no one could stop you?”
But Tristam has a secret; a doorway has opened in his mind allowing him access to unimaginable secrets and impossible worlds. Every night the power grows stronger and soon he finds that he can devour ghosts and turn his adversaries own minds against them.
“What would you do? What wouldn’t you do?”
With a power like his Tristam finds that revenge comes easily but he doesn’t realize that now that just as he’s glimpsed the shadowy world existing alongside our own, the denizens of that world have seen him. Tristam finds himself trapped in the wake of a nightmare that has been waiting thirty-five years for an opportunity to rise.



Prologue
BOOK ONE
A Soul In Tension
Chapter One
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Two
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Three
     part one
     part two
     part three

First Interlude

Chapter Four
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Five
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Six
     part one
     part two
     part three

Second Interlude

Chapter Seven
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Eight
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Nine
     part one
     part two
     part three


Third Interlude

Chapter Ten
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Eleven 
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Twelve
     part one
     part two
     part three

Fourth Interlude

Chapter Thirteen
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Fourteen
    part one
    part two
    part three

Chapter Fifteen
     part one
     part two
     part three
BOOK TWO
The Son And The Heir

Chapter Sixteen
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Seventeen

    part one
    part two
    part three

Chapter Eighteen

     part one
     part two
     part three

Fifth Interlude


Chapter Nineteen

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Twenty

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Twenty-one

     part one
     part two
     part three

Sixth Interlude


Chapter Twenty-two

    part one
    part two
    part three

Chapter Twenty-Three

    part one
    part two
    part three

Chapter Twenty-Four

    part one
    part two
    part three

Seventh Interlude


Chapter Twenty-Five

    part one
    part two
    part three

Chapter Twenty-Six

    part one
    part two
    part three


BOOK THREE
Full Of Broken Thoughts
Chapter Twenty-Seven
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Twenty-Eight

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Twenty-Nine

     part one
     part two
     part three

Eighth Interlude


Chapter Thirty

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Thirty-One

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Thirty-Two

     part one
     part two
     part three

Ninth Interlude


Chapter Thirty-Three

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Thirty-Four

     part one
     part two
     part three


BOOK FOUR
Load Up On Guns And Bring Your Friends
Chapter Thirty-Five
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Thirty- Six

     part one
     part two
     part three

Tenth Interlude


Chapter Thirty-Seven

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Thirty-Eight

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Thirty-Nine

     part one
     part two
     part three

Eleventh Interlude


Chapter Forty

     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-One
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Two
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Three
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Four
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Five
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Six
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Seven
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Eight
     part one
     part two
     part three

Chapter Forty-Nine
     part one
     part two
     part three 

Chapter Fifty
    part one
    part two
    part three

Epilogue
    part one
    part two
    part three



Volume Three
IN THE SHADOW OF HIS NEMESIS
a tale of horror and betrayal


"In the end love makes monsters of us all."

Isobel Talbot's life was a monotony, even her heartbreaks were predictable; but a chance encounter leaves her running for her life from the most terrible and impossible things.
And worse yet, she's fallen in love.



BOOK ONE: EXILES FROM THE ORDINARY WORLD




BOOK TWO: THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT




BOOK THREE: OCCUPIED TERRITORY




BOOK FOUR: THE FACE OF SANCTUARY




BOOK FIVE: GODS AND MONARCHS