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Shaman

You are here by the Hand of Destiny.

An unexpected Experience awaits.

Silken Thread is free in the Kindle store until October 2.

Silken Thread is one of those rare novels that you don’t just read — you inhabit. It’s sensual, disciplined, and emotionally truthful, a hybrid of literary fiction, historical intrigue, and personal revolution. Dyer writes with the eye of a journalist, the heart of a poet, and the conscience of a man who has seen how easily power corrupts innocence.

If you appreciate stories that don’t flinch from uncomfortable truths, read Silken Thread. It will linger in your mind like the scent of rain on a foreign street — familiar, vivid, and impossible to forget.

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Sci-Fi Novel Crushes Amazon Sales Records

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 vice-squad-raided massage parlor?”

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.

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Almost Famous

I have 4,500 followers on Substack.

In related news, my stats are unremarkable. I am cultivating neither likes nor comments.

I am not selling books — nor doing well at the business of giving them away.

And I never have. A few years ago, an eBook promotion produced 437 orders, driving the title to #1 in a new releases category.

It was a high mark, after which I received zero reviews.

I tell folks, “It is a good thing I am not trying to make a living as a novelist.”

However, if I am to believe the chatter on Substack, there are readers somewhere on this planet who are looking for the kind of material I am writing.

Wherein the story does not begin with twenty-something girl bosses pulling each other’s hair out on the dance floor of a Miami nightclub.

I know. There’s a market for that. I could write it, but I do not.

Ghosts of Ancient Vidura is free in the Kindle store.

Space soap opera. #wholesome

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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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