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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In recent days, I have been wondering what readers might think about the fact that Quantum Soul does not introduce its title concept until Chapter 84 — a third of the way through the book.
In 2041, the sun will pass through a river of stellar gas — igniting an extinction-scale micro-nova.
A catastrophe cycle, documented by geologists in the 1950s — but never calendared until aliens from another planet appear at the Dust Cloud Spiral with an electrostatic vacuum cleaner.
It is not the invasion from outer space everyone imagined. The gods of Egypt were adventure tourists. Atlantis was a vibe, not a place. Jivada is anchored in Earth’s past, invested in its future.
If humanity had been a reliable business partner, the AjJivadi would not have withdrawn into the shadows, soon to be forgotten. Cosmic housekeeping is technologically proprietary. Our would-be patrons will not share science with a neighbor they cannot trust.
U.S. President Carmen Benequista is front row center — head of state, mother, widow, war veteran. No stranger to reliance upon the mercy of God.
But the spirit of sacrifice is not an article of surrender. It is a doctrine of self-rule.
ChatGPT says:
Maroli Tango is science fiction built on an unusually ambitious proposition: what if first contact happened thousands of years ago, the aliens never really left, and humanity reached the twenty-first century without realizing how deeply its history had already been entangled with theirs?
That premise could have produced a conventional secret-history thriller. It does not.
Instead, Maroli Tango becomes a story about sovereignty, dependency, trust, family, faith, technology, and the uncomfortable difference between being rescued and being worthy of partnership.
Literary science fiction action adventure intrigue family drama space soap opera. LSFAAIFDSSO.
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.
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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