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“The Great Death” Series

A story of an intricate apocalyptic event where most of the the life on Earth is wiped out, but with a difference. This one focuses on the people during the apocalypse, and how it affects them afterwards.

Now available as for purchase (complete).
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Both Book 1: "Love and Family" and Book 2: "Grappling with Survival" are available.

1)  Love and Family During the Great Death (Finished)
  A man and his daughter drive into a massive meteor shower that disrupts their lives, but it's only the beginning. It's the beginning of the end, or is it? An Apocalyptic tale that focuses on individuals trying to maintain love, hope and family amongst death and dying. Hopefully it's not overly negative, with a lot of humor and positive emotions, but there is a lot of death in it.

2)  Grappling with Survival (In Progress)
  A Post-Apocalyptic world unlike any other. Instead of banding together or fighting each other, instead the survivors find a world with few resources, little trust and no desire to intermingle. Fears of disease prevent survivors from reaching out for help. How does society survive if the survivors won’t participate?

 Though dealing with drastic situations, this book isn't as 'bleak' as the original. Reading the original book will help, but isn't necessary, so if you couldn't take Book 1 you'll be OK resuming the story with this one.

“The Catalyst” Series

   A young man, just 17 years old, suddenly finds women mysteriously attracted to him when he visits New Orleans for Spring Break with his family. He acts as a catalyst, activating strange abilities in them that he doesn't understand. He’s not ready for the responsibilities of adulthood, yet he’s called upon to lead a string of followers. Where, he has no idea.

   There are no superheros or world saving in this book, it’s character and not action based, more an examination of people’s reactions and what is involved in building a movement from the ground up.

  I've pulled the “Catalyst” series down so I can finally revise it. I'm planning to rerelease the entire story, finishing with releasing the final volume, but there are a lot of changes (not in the overall plot, but in how well the story is explained and in how the series is broken up into discreet segments--i.e. there will be several more shorter books in the series).

  I'll keep everyone up to date on it as the plans progress.

Although they aren't ready yet, here is the new layout of the books in the Catalyst series. Each will be released several months after the other. The first will be posted weekly (to give me a chance to make changes on the others), but the others will be posted twice a week after that (hopefully!).

1)  An Unknown Attraction - New Title! (Awaiting Revision)

  A young man, just 17 years old, suddenly finds women mysteriously attracted to him when he visits New Orleans for spring break with his family. He acts as a catalyst to activate strange abilities in them that he doesn't understand.

  There are no superheroes or world saving, it's character and not action based, more an examination of people's reactions and what is involved in building a movement from the ground up.

2)  Trying To Be Normal (Awaiting Revision)

  Alex, having returned from New Orleans with a whole new life, tries to become just a normal young man as he returns to school. Can he simply blend in for the next 2 months despite having several women following him around? And will his abilities really be invisible to everyone around him?

  This book is now shorter than it was (20 vs 47 chapters) after having been split up into two separate books.

3)  Normalcy Is Harder Than It Looks (Awaiting Revision)

  Having wrestled with trying to preserve a ‘normal’ last few months of high school, Alex faces an even harder time, as not only does he have to explain to those he loves what his life has become, but he faces several people who seem to hate him as much as his followers adore him. What’s a confused teenage atheist religious figure to do?

  This book contains NO summary details about what happened earlier in the series!

4)  Racing The Clock (Awaiting Revision)

  Alex finds himself with a mission to find as many new followers as he can during the limited time he has left, as he comes to grip with the knowledge that his abilities will likely kill him. Before that happens, he hits the road with his sister and an ex-cop serving as a bodyguard. Along the way, they learn much more about him, about his followers, and about leading a mission when one doesn't know the way. He needs to connect with enough followers to build a whole new branch on the evolutionary tree, but he only has a limited amount of time to do it, and he has to stay below the radar as he does it.

  This was also split in half, going from 47 chapters to only 24. Reading the previous books in the series are NOT necessary, although they'd certainly help in understanding the story's context.

5)  Touring Under Pressure (Awaiting Revision)

  Leaving the familiar and somewhat supportive environments of Carbondale and New Orleans after having been exposed, Alex takes his mission on the road. But along with the blur of life on a concert tour are, there’s dark trends as well: Alex is known nationally now, the media is hungry for news about him, and there are still multiple people eager to hurt him.

  As Alex, Cate and Gail travel the country, they gradually learn more about his abilities, and what drives people to either love or hate him.

6)  Building a Legacy (Being Written)

  Even with time running out, Alex faces life with a new confidence, even as events and those around him change abruptly. Alex feels relieved of the need to ‘save his people’, but he still feel responsible for them, and wants to leave them a strong legacy. But just what will that legacy be?

  Follow along as he adjusts to new challenges as he struggles to continue, in this, the last book of the “Catalyst” Series.

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