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Noir Tuesday – Death Wave, Part 2

Here is the second and final part of the free preview of Death Wave. Follow the link to download the rest instantly to your Kindle or other mobile device for only $2.99!

The story so far: During the Great Depression, mobster Jerry Goldman approaches his former best friend Forty Dollar to offer him a job. Goldman wants Forty to build him something “like a radio, but different.” Working with Forty on the job are Albert Einstein and a mysterious someone named Lisa.

CHAPTER 4

The next morning, I went to the address Jerry gave me. It was a storefront with boarded-up windows. Looked deserted, but the door was unlocked. When I entered, Jerry and Rebecca were already there, talking in low voices. Standing side-by-side the way they were, the difference in their ages was apparent. Rebecca was young, not yet twenty, while Jerry had just turned thirty-one. Anyone who didn’t know their history might wonder how they’d gotten together, what she saw in him. Pretty young girl with a prosperous older man, they might assume she was just using him for his money. It was more than that. It wasn’t love, but it was more than just money.

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Noir Tuesday: Death Wave, Part 1

(ETA: It’s live now. Click the pic on the right sidebar or go here) So I’ve been hinting for a while about super-cool secret projects in the works. This is the first one. Death Wave, a noir thriller, is going to be available on the Kindle any second now. It’s a novel of 30′s mobsters, adultery, betrayal, and murder. Oh, and a death ray. It’s short, so it’ll be priced at a low, low $2.99. And best of all, you don’t need a Kindle to read it! It’s in mobi format, which means you should also be able to read it on other mobile devices, such as the Palm, as well as your PC.

I’ll have a link up on the right hand side as soon as I can, and also in next week’s post when I preview a little more. One thing to keep in mind as you read these opening chapters: the book doesn’t stay this light. It gets darker. A lot darker.

Chapter 1

The day I baked Hyman Mankiewicz was the day I let Jerry in on the truth.

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A Holiday Message

Click to embiggen and see you next week.

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Bring On the Bad Guys

So this week, I’ve got some recommendations for some entertainment featuring supervillains.

As part of an on-line contest run by Alethea Kontis, I won a copy of a book by Barry Lyga titled Archvillain. It’s written for younger readers, so I figured my 10-year-old …

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Happy Halloween

There’s nothing new here, because I’ve been working like a dog on a special audio presentation over at They Stole Frazier’s Brain. But since the file the file is actually hosted here at Hero Go Home, here’s the link and the player.

Crybaby Bridge

This one features the voice of naamah, who has helped me …

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Supers in Media – No Ordinary Family

For anyone who worried that the cancellation of Heroes might leave TV superhero fans without a show, no worries for now. ABC’s No Ordinary Family is filling the gap.

Thing is, I’m of two minds about the show. On the one hand, it feels obvious. The central idea of funny family drama featuring superheroes is …

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Superfilms!

Over at They Stole Frazier’s Brain, today starts a series of reviews of all Superman’s theatrical film appearances on Movie Monday, starting with the series of classic Paramount cartoons from the 40′s.

So every Monday, head over to fraziersbrain for your fix of super-films, …

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Superhero Stories

One thing I want to do here is not just feature my own fiction. If you’re reading Hero Go Home, then I figure you should be interested in other good writing along the same lines. So in that vein, let me suggest Masked, an anthology edited by Lou Anders. I haven’t read it yet, …

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Again?

Sick folks at work necessitated my working overtime and thus missing today’s update. I can’t keep going on hiatus like this, or I’ll end up with a hiatal hernia…

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