Write On, Oceanside!

I live in Oceanside, California, which is kind of weird, because my house is nowhere near the side of the ocean. It’s at least, oh, three or four miles, as the crow flies (dumb saying). We have two gates in and out of our complex, and if you go out one of them you’re quickly in the city of Vista; exit the other and you’re briefly in Carlsbad. Go figure. But I DO live in Oceanside, so I guess that makes me an OCEANSIDE AUTHOR.

Stephen Prosapio

Why does that matter? Because later this month the Oceanside Cultural Arts In any case, at this FREE event the public will have the opportunity to talk with their favorite authors, meet new, local authors, take pictures and get autographs, and purchase books directly from us. I’ll be joining colleagues Stephen Prosapio, Robert Yehling, and many others.

Robert Yehling

This year the event will be held on Saturday, July 20 from 1 to 3 pm in and around the Oceanside Civic Center Plaza and Community Rooms, at North Coast Highway and Civic Center Drive. If you’re anywhere in the area, come and join us.

SWORDS & SPECTERS: for two days—Friday, July 12^th and Saturday, July 13^th—my sword & sorcery novel, The Sons of Ornon, will be available for free Kindle download. Enjoy! Here is a quick abstract.

Ornon, the ruler of the powerful kingdom of Shadzea, fathered twenty sons. In order to find the one son worthy of inheriting the throne, nineteen of them had to die.

Though the life of the Twenty is rigid, Dulok manages to meet secretly with his mother every week. Ornon’s twentieth son has no desire to be the Survivor, the future ruler of Shadzea. As soon as they find a way, Dulok and his mother, a humble kitchen servant named Daynea, will flee the City of Kings for a simpler life.

But on a fateful night, as they make their plans, the door to Daynea’s quarters bursts open. There stands Ornon with Buz, his first son—Dulok’s hated half-brother, who has discovered Dulok’s “indiscretion.” With two soldiers restraining him, with Buz laughing cruelly, Dulok watches in horror as Ornon drives a sword into Daynea’s heart. That night, Dulok’s destiny becomes clear. He will survive the dangerous Princes’ Trials at all cost, so that he might stand on the Day of the Reckoning. Then, and only then, he will destroy Ornon and Buz, and the life of the gentle Daynea will be avenged.