Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Life Is A Highway!

 

Howdy.

 

It’s amazing to me how time passes, and things change. In the past four years since I published Lido Shuffle – A Justice Security Novel have been jam-packed full of…life.

 

Life sneaks up on you. Christi and I have dealt with buying a slightly larger house, losing three beloved pets, watching grandchildren grow up, and a myriad of other things. In June of 2023, I retired from the community college that I was working for, and got sucked back into radio after being gone for 23 years!

 

It was fun. A good friend of mine talked me into going back into it, and, once he told me of the vision he had for it, gave us something to work hard to build. We took a station that hadn’t been listened to very much for years and built it into a small market powerhouse. We were live, we were local, and we had help from two other great guys that shared our dream.

 

However, the owners sold the station, and the new owners decided to go with another musical format, along with automation and artificial intelligence.

 

So, as of this past May, I’m once again a former radio announcer.

 

But, back to my writing! During the last four years, I’ve written a bit here and there on four (really five) upcoming stories. Now that I’ve found some down time from life, the creative juices had begun flowing again in earnest!

 

Here are the titles that are upcoming:

1.      Bandala – A Justice Security Short Story

2.      Werewolves Of London – A Tale Of Sardis County

3.      Parnell’s Folly

4.      Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show – The Last Tale Of Sardis County

5.      Escape – A Justice Security Novel

 

And there they are.

Bandala deals with a young Guatemalan couple that needs Justice Security’s help in dealing with a Hispanic gang.

Werewolves Of London brings two things: what happens to half-angel Madeline when Nicholas Turner brings the family to Sardis County, and climactic changes with the werewolves that reside in the Sardis County town of London.

Parnell’s Folly is the story of a decidedly violent haunted house, and a small town’s efforts to deal with it.

Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show – The Final Tale Of Sardis County brings a visitor to Sardis County carrying a desire for revenge against certain residents of the county, along with the people of Justice Security. With this book, you have to remember that the Devil can wear many disguises…even that of a minister of the Word!

And, finally, Escape – A Justice Security Novel introduces triplets with unusual skills that have been hired to find out everything they can about the manufacture and distribution of drugs by a certain cartel, and to deliver the results to the new Mexican president, so that General Esteban Fernandez can be disavowed and stripped of his military commission. They team up with Justice Security to assist their mission, and ask the question, “Do you like piña coladas?”

 

I’m also going to continue writing blog posts as often as I can…simply so that you can…

 

Keep reading!

 

T. M. Bilderback (But you can call me Michael)

3 comments:

  1. Or, in other words, life comes at you fast.
    I still remember the Nationwide commercial with MC Hammer.

    Losing pets is always sad. Sorry for your loss.

    Does the "Werewolves of London" title come from your radio days?

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  2. Thank you for your kind words! Yes, almost all of my stories have their inspiration from classic songs. If you read through my list of stories, they read like the playlist from a classic hits radio station! There ARE exceptions, like "Empty Eyes", "The Devil's In The Details", and the upcoming "Parnell's Folly". And if you read a story that is inspired by a classic hit, some readers have told me that it's fun to track down what inspired my choice, because I always give it away! LOLOL! Inspiration comes to different authors through different means - this is mine!

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  3. I sometimes do chapter titles that are parodies of song titles.

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