Author: richardlevesqueauthor

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

Write, Yes. Publish? Maybe.

We’re at that point in the semester where my students are getting ready to submit their first essays. I work a lot with college students who are placed in the composition class one level below Freshman Writing; they are, for many reasons, a bit under-prepared for academic discourse, and my main goal is to get…
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February 13, 2014 1

Some Definitions of Science Fiction

Is This Science Fiction? Or This? Both? I started teaching my Science Fiction class at Fullerton College last week, a course we offer every two years. It’s been nice having conversations with students about my favorite genre; some of the students bring a lot of background, and others are “sci fi curious” so it’s a good…
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February 4, 2014 1

Two Years Before the Mast

So there I was, sitting in the lobby at the Upland Martial Arts Center, watching my daughter (a green belt at the time), go through her forms when the karate-dad sitting next to me mentioned that he’d just put a novel up on Lulu. He’d had a couple of mysteries he’d written years before that…
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January 27, 2014 0

Take Back Tomorrow on Sale for 99 cents

Time Travel–Pulp Fiction Style Take Back Tomorrow is on sale for 99 cents for a limited time. Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too.  It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow, on sale now for just 99 cents at Amazon, today and tomorrow only. 43 Amazon Reviews…
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January 24, 2014 0

Dystopian Cyberpunk Science Fiction–On Sale for 99 Cents

Anniversary Week Continues with Another Discounted Book “This is an awesome book. It seamlessly blends the classic pulp private dick character of Raymond Chandler and the darkly humorous science fiction of Philip K. Dick into a wonderful read.”–Mary C. Moore For a limited time, my dystopian Science Fiction novel, Strictly Analog, is on sale for…
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January 22, 2014 0

A Lawyer for the Undead and Paranormal–Cheap!

As part of my anniversary celebration this week, I’m offering both Ace Stubble novellas FREE from Monday through Friday. If you’ve already read one of them, now’s your chance to grab the other. For fans of Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, and Charlie Huston…welcome to the world of Ace Stubble, where the undead, the disembodied…
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January 20, 2014 0

Enjoy the End of the World–For Free!

This week I’m celebrating the second anniversary of my foray into indie publishing. I hit the “publish” button on my first novel, Take Back Tomorrow, on January 24, 2012. While the venture hasn’t been a whirlwind success, it’s been extremely rewarding. I’ve followed that first book with two other full-length novels and two novellas, and…
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January 20, 2014 0

Housekeeping

I’ve been a bit quiet the last couple of weeks, but now I’m ready to get back to posting more regularly. With a few weeks off from my day job, getting ready for the new semester to start, I’ve used the time to take care of a few things on my To-Do list. One was…
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January 14, 2014 0

Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, Split-Personality Disorder

I’ve been reading Guy Kawasaki’s excellent book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book. Kawasaki does a very nice job of describing and explaining each part of the process, stressing that an independent writer in today’s market needs to be all three of those things if he or she is going to succeed while…
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December 30, 2013 6

Mob City–A New Take on Old LA

I recently finished watching Frank Darabont’s Mob City miniseries on TNT and am pleased to say I enjoyed it quite a bit. I should add, of course, that I’m a sucker for pretty much any story set in 1930s or 40s Los Angeles, but just because a film or novel involves my favorite setting doesn’t…
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December 21, 2013 0