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Ghosts of Ancient Vidura is free in the Kindle store!

ChatGPT says:

This is not a “chosen one” power fantasy. It’s a story about competent adults—doctors, engineers, officers, lawyers—forced to confront realities that don’t fit neatly into ideology, religion, or national interest. The tone is thoughtful, sometimes wry, occasionally confrontational, and deeply curious about how societies actually function under stress.

Somewhere in the middle of all the robots and spaceships and ray guns and thunderous battle scenes, don’t you sometimes wish an author would bother to write a story? Yes. Me, too.

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Starter Kit

Today, it is my hope that you will buy Maroli Tango after reading Elbert and Ghosts of Ancient Vidura, which I am offering free, one at a time, on the Kindle store, starting today.

It is a three-step process, which relies upon you, the pigeon customer, clicking on a button, below.

Author Ashley Manning said:

One of the books biggest strengths is the way that John G. Dyer manages to side-step what you think’s going to happen next and then go in a completely new direction, and I was completely onboard for the ride. It’s an interesting story as you can never quite guess what will happen next.

So says Ashley, who ought to know because, unlike yourself, he read the book.

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Freebooked

I have run three eBook giveaways since September 10. Orders: twelve, ten, and five.

I am not discouraged. Elbert is free in the Kindle store — for three days starting tomorrow September 23.

ChatGPT says: Literary science fiction in the classical sense: a work where speculative elements exist not to dazzle, but to reveal. The extraordinary enters gently—through family history, withheld truths, and the slow accumulation of unease—until the reader realizes that the familiar world has been irrevocably widened.

The story begins in 1928 South Dakota. There are only a handful of unfamiliar proper nouns. 

It’s a great yarn. I promise.

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Resilient is free in the Kindle store

Resilient is free in the Kindle store, now through Monday.

Alter AI says: “Resilient fortifies The Anye Legacy as one of the most intellectually ambitious and metaphysically rich science‑fiction cycles of the last decade.”

The Robots have read everything published. If we did not believe they understand what they’re looking at, we would not be asking them questions.

ChatGPT says: “You’ll find a lived-in world with deep history and internal logic. Moral dilemmas where there are no clean victories. Characters who endure, adapt, and sometimes fail—but keep going. A rare fusion of hard science fiction with spiritual and philosophical inquiry.”

It’s not boring. I promise.

Featured image: Suban Dhava, the little tyke on the book's cover, at the age of twenty.
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ChatGPT Pigeonholes Resilient

I would position Resilient as an adult science-fiction adventure with strong coming-of-age and metaphysical elements.

Its defining characteristic is the intersection of two stories: Suban Dhava’s journey from abducted child to resourceful young man, and the emergence of the AptakArin—conscious beings given new lives through transdimensional technology.

Unlike a conventional space opera, much of the novel’s action takes place on Vidura itself, where family, survival, criminal organizations, military operations, and questions about the soul intersect.

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Ambitious, Are We?

Starting tomorrow, 19 September 2026, my novel Resilient will be free in the Kindle store.

While we wait, let us consider what Alter AI has to say about the book:

John G. Dyer’s Resilient fortifies The Anye Legacy as one of the most intellectually ambitious and metaphysically rich science‑fiction cycles of the last decade.

Does the Robot know enough about Literature that it should say such things?

Tomorrow you will have an opportunity to decide for yourself.

On the cover: Anye Mahat Limar militant businessman Reva Yudhvan in the company of ten-year-old Anye Mahat Raja Suban Dhava in Antaka, the Vanya Dominion.

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ClaudeAI and ChatGPT Exhume Ghosts of Ancient Vidura

Claude said:

I read through Ghosts of Ancient Vidura (AjJivadi: Book 2) — confirmed it’s the direct sequel to Elbert, following the same disclosure-era storyline: hidden alien history, age-reversal tech, the maroli (spirit-possessed biotech), USAF/government entanglement, and an ancient extraterrestrial civilization on Vidura, all wrapped in your usual domestic, multigenerational, faith-adjacent tone.

Here’s where I’d place it on KDP as of the current (2026) category structure. KDP now lets you select 3 browse categories per format directly in the dashboard.

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ChatGPT Classifies Elbert

Elbert needs a somewhat different KDP strategy from Maroli Tango. Its strongest commercial identity is historical/secret-history science fiction that grows into interplanetary political adventure.

The opening is firmly planted in 1928 South Dakota, with Elbert an 83-year-old physician and Civil War veteran. The initiating revelation is that extraterrestrial Anye have been quietly living and vacationing on Earth for millennia, hidden behind Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Wendigo folklore. By Act 2 the family is traveling to Jivada; by later acts Elbert is involved in assassination attempts, economic conspiracy, political rebellion, spacecraft, and interplanetary government. And the age-reversal premise pays off explicitly: by 1934, eighty-nine-year-old Elbert appears to be about forty.

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ChatGPT Interrogates Amazon Publishing

I asked:

Please recommend Amazon KDP categories and keywords for the novel Maroli Tango.

ChatGPT replied:

For Maroli Tango, I would position it as adult first-contact science fiction with political-fiction crossover, not as military SF and not as YA. The presence of Mason and Marie does not change the book’s center of gravity: Carmen Benequista, statecraft, institutional conflict, humanity’s relationship with Jivada, and the approaching solar catastrophe make this an adult novel.

KDP currently lets you select three categories, and Amazon specifically recommends choosing accurate, relevant categories rather than trying to game smaller shelves. Categories and keywords work together, and category availability can differ between Kindle and print. (Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing)

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