Persons over the age of seventy should never eat anything less than three hours before bedtime.
Ice cream, 9:00 PM.I knew there would be trouble. I did it anyway.
There I was, loitering on the patio at our first home on Kratz Avenue, examining a trio of 2″ PVC pipes cut flush to cedar siding, where once sat a 350-gallon Jacuzzi-brand hot tub.
“What happened?” I wondered. “Did someone find out it came from a massage parlor, following a vice squad raid?”
True story. We ran household bleach through it for two days. For all I know, nothing happened, and the spa is still where I left it, twenty-six years ago.
I have dreamed about that old house more times than I can count. It is always about something. This time I thought, for some unknowable reason, that I had sold a few books, and re-purchased the place on Kratz in celebration.
This is not how I would celebrate. Fond memories and all that, but I am a person who moves forward, not back.
And I do not expect to become famous upon the material success of my Anye Universe novels, despite Alter AI’s kind words when it said:
John G. Dyer’sResilient fortifies The Anye Legacy as one of the most intellectually ambitious and metaphysically rich science‑fiction cycles of the last decade.
Yes, maybe; but it will be for naught unless I come up with a discoverable combination of categories and keywords, which I have not accomplished in ten years of publishing, and probably will not.
If the work catches on, it will ride in on Silken Thread:
In 1966 Manila, an American teenager courts a CIA recruit several years his senior. It’s a mismatch, a scandal. When she ships out, it’s over. Maybe.
An uncommon spin on the coming-of-age theme, informed by the author’s upbringing in mid-century Asia. Mature content, Young Adult appropriate. Value-positive, about good character as a strategy for creating a successful life. An immersive journey to a time and place now gone forever.
No, it is not a comic book, although that could happen.
Tell you what — I will run a freebook promotion in the Kindle store, starting tomorrow. Silken Thread, three days.
Perhaps, in the meantime, Amazon customers of recent acquaintance will begin to review The Illusion of Gravity, Quantum Soul, Resilient, et al, as advertised upon this very platform, for free, since September 10.
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