Twitch and Die!

Twitch and Die!

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The Company mining town of Thurber, Texas has fallen off the map. Some want to keep it that way. Others seek the truth. But its plague-infected residents have a mind of their own."Forget emergency landing procedures. When reading Twitch and Die! all one can do is hold on for dear life.""Disguised as double-fisted pulp fiction, the Lost DMB Files resurrect a forgotten history. The life's work of author David Mark Brown, mysteriously disappeared in the 1930's, has only recently taken on new life surrounding the controversy that these "Lost" files are more than mere fiction. Let the reader decide for her or himself." ~ Professor Jim Buckner, Dept. Geology University of Texicas, AustinTwo populist Texan folk-heros, Chancho Villarreal and James Starr, embark on a mission of political endorsement, but what they find is a hill country rife with fear and rumor. A so-called Angel of Death is executing individuals infected by a terrible plague, and the company mining town at the epicenter has gone dark.It's up to Chancho to navigate a world of shifting allegiances while uncovering the truth about a plague and its infected who refuse to die quietly."If there was a top to be over, Twitch and Die! removed it completely, and with electrifying results."…

Hope's End: Locked Away

Hope's End: Locked Away

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Some sentences are worse than death.The most dangerous criminals in the Systems are exiled to the prison world of Hope's End. Genetically altered for a life of hard labor in this desolate environment, these men and women have nothing to lose, and no way to return to society. After four years of imprisonment on this hostile world, inmate Torana Lopez has given in to despair. When her only friend reveals a shocking mystery with his dying breath, she must untangle a web of lies to reveal a powerful secret that will impact the course of humanity.…

Ranger's War: Duel

Ranger's War: Duel

2,728 307 12

Never create a killing machine you can’t control. Tasked with purifying the breeding stock of an advanced human race known as Hibernarii, the Templar live on the edge of a decadent, multi-galactic empire in decline. After 300 years of constant slaughter, Ranger 878 emerges as the ideal assassin—ruthless yet creative. When Ranger loses a fateful battle on the obscure hibernaculated culture of Sizlack Prime, his world descends into chaos. Forced to partner with smugglers, Ranger must reconcile his violent past with his emerging future to save the Hiberverse."Ranger's War is a space-operatic-love-triangle between a human killing machine, a woman bearing the genetic cancer he’s conditioned to exterminate, and the AI designed to hold him accountable."…

Hell's Womb

Hell's Womb

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Chemistry happens, in more ways than one. Trapped four hundred feet down, Serge and Gayle fight to survive while preventing an unspeakable evil from reaching the surface."I tried cutting the tension in this story with a knife before eventually resorting to a rusty chainsaw."Four hundred feet below the surface of company-mining-town Thurber, Texas a dangerous experiment within a clandestine lab explodes. If the survivors can't uncover the cause of the explosion while containing the monstrous threat it has released, thousands of others will suffer an even worse fate.…

Fistful of Reefer

Fistful of Reefer

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A spaghetti-Western, refried alternate history, Fistful of Reefer features goats, guns and the camaraderie of outcasts. Set along the Texas border during the waning years of the Mexican revolution, you'll meet a group of unlikely heros and their unlikely foe as they stumble upon the fringes of a cabal bent on world domination. Fistful lives between No country for Old Men and the Three Amigos.…

Del Río Con Amor

Del Río Con Amor

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The success of the retooled Mexican Revolution hinges on executing the largest vanishing act the world's ever seen, right under General Obregon's nose. Viva this!"Dirty, rotten hombres with dynamite. Hell yes!"Pancho Villa's latest General isn't like any of the others. Young, inexperienced and visionary, Chancho Villarreal convinces Villa to cease his famous frontal assaults in order to embrace guerilla warfare.To prove his strategy sound Chancho must execute the boldest train robbery the world will never discover, unless he fails. If he succeeds, Mexico won't know what hit it. But revolution never comes cheep, and Chancho's about to awake to its deadly cost."A classic caper orchestrated with charming despicableness and rollicking fun."…

Lost DMB Files

Lost DMB Files

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“The most startling discovery to never be made.” Some conspiracies remain theories. Others become obsessions. Exhumed 100 years after their penning, the Lost DMB Files will reinterpret the way you see the world, or the way it sees you. Product Description: Dime novelist and pulp fiction writer, David Mark Brown, mysteriously disappeared during the 1930’s. Until recently, his obscure writings had all but been forgotten. Violent conspiracy theorists contend his fiction preserves a secret history, a history able to reclaim our future, if the war it unleashes doesn’t destroy us in the process.Please support the cause! (My kids need wine!) Check out these titles and others by David Mark Brown at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/David-Mark-Brown/e/B001KI7UHC/And at Kobo Books: http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=%22David+Mark+Brown%22&t=none&f=author&p=1&s=none&g=bothWe need your generous support to continue to spread these volatile truths across the nets!…

Tree of Life

Tree of Life

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What will you do when the Dark comes for you?Trapped beneath the streets of Boise, Idaho, an odd cast of players encounter an ancient evil determined to devour the souls of humanity. Pitted against themselves and ancient forces they don’t understand, each individual’s humanity will be tested. Man, woman or monster? Hero or heel?…

The Green Ones

The Green Ones

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An Earth rampant with telekinesis results in isolated city-states forced to live beneath protective domes. Among the Americas, New Teotihuacan has arisen as the most powerful, thanks to its strict social classes and teenage fighting force known as masazin.A resident of New Teo's Worker City, Calli Bluehair loses her parents in a telekinetic storm caused by her little brother, Olin. Two years later, the siblings have five days to make final preparations for their last chance at a better life--Masa Academy and it's famous graduates, the masazin. If she fails, she and Olin will live out their last years condemned to the violent and self-indulgent underground of worker city.Those who survive the academy are rewarded with immortality. But only loyal citizens, ages 14-15, are allowed to register. Time is running out for Calli to prove that's exactly what she and Olin are, despite the accumulating evidence to the contrary.…

Empty Hand Revolution

Empty Hand Revolution

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Born into a tribal war with India, violence his earliest memory, Comso Zimik trained as a black belt and street fighter from the age of nine. His vow: never show weakness. Tortured and left for dead in the jungle at the age of seventeen, Cosmo birthed a new vow: uncover the true meaning of warrior in a world drunk on violence. EHR is based on a true story. Names and places have been altered where necessary.…

Aurora's Gamble

Aurora's Gamble

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With the discovery of Æther in 1899, the world 
was propelled into a new age of limitless progress, fueled by the
 incredible power contained within the tiniest of Æther drops. Then came the decades of war to control Æther's mighty power. With the earth on the brink of oblivion, the newly formed United Nations ingenuously invents "The Games" to award the valuable Æther contracts. To the victor goes the spoils.By 1955, a new breed of Æther gladiator is emerging, their motivations more diverse than those simply seeking glory and riches. Aurora Teller is one of those gladiators.One of the few humans raised among a loving community still rooted on Terra Firma, Aurora seeks the central Ærena out of complicated spiritual and personal motivations which even she hasn't reconciled within her stormy heart. The gambles she takes now will dictate the fate of the earth.…

Reefer Ranger

Reefer Ranger

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Texas Ranger, J.T. McCutchen, didn't heed the Mexican revolution until it spilled across his border. Soon every revolutionary'll know, you've got to kill the man before you fight the power."Blood soaked and terse, J.T. McCutchen is an epic anti-hero in the making."Ranger J.T. McCutchen is as black and white as they come. He likes his law with a long arm and short trial. And he delivers the verdict via Colt .45, up close and personal. But protecting his Texas borderlands against the increasing turbulence of the Mexican Revolution pushes him to the brink.South of the border and alone he's blindsided and left for dead. Fractured, both physically and emotionally, the once singular man is forced to either reinterpret himself or the world around him. His decision will imprint the history of nations."It's about time the world gets a reefer-smoking, lotus-sitting, Texas Ranger bad ass!"…

Chadzitzin (Episode Zero of The Green Ones)

Chadzitzin (Episode Zero of The Green Ones)

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Calli bears a terrible secret. Only she knows the identity of her parents' killer--her brother, Olin. Forced into a decision with only one correct path among a million false ones, she has to choose between honoring her parents life or avenging their death. With the immortal Ometeotl Guard threatening to destroy the only member of her family she's got left, she has to decide whether Olin is worth the fight.…

Water: John 4

Water: John 4

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No one could have been more obscure and marginalized than her--out of the way and out of the world. But there is one man who looks for those such as these. This is not her story, or his, but merely the moment when their stories come together.…

De Novo Syndrome (teaser only)

De Novo Syndrome (teaser only)

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He'll do anything to get her back, including evolve."The rabid, frothy pacing gripped my like the iron jaws of a junkyard dog and left me crying out for a literary tetanus shot! More please."When Jim Buckner's daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human immortality to discovering who took her and how to get her back.The journey reveals a hibernating side-effect of his research, telekinesis. At the heart of a secret war raging for over a century, Buckner discovers how far he'll go to get his daughter back--as far as it takes.A father-daughter story written as paranoid thriller, De Novo Syndrome centers on a father learning to dedicate his heart, rather than his work, to his daughter. The fact his life's work has been to save his daughter's life, complicates the matter."I only smoke after sex and reading a really good book. This novel had me lighting up before I could set it down."…

The Austin Job (hiatus)

The Austin Job (hiatus)

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Saddle up. Austin's about to get hot.When gubernatorial hopeful, James Starr, unearths the maniacal plans of a fire-crazed anarchist to reduce Austin to cinders, he's sucked into a world of power and lies threatening to destroy him before he can save the day.…

McCutchen's Bones

McCutchen's Bones

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"Haunting and Emotional. If Ghost Rider were a cowboy, this would be his backstory."For a man who has the courage to look life in the teeth, everything is black and white. J.T. McCutchen has made a living by this philosophy. So far it's served him well.Busted down From Texas Ranger to private security for an oil company in a muddy boomtown, McCutchen is holding his life together via discipline and sheer will. But attempts on his father's life combined with a plague ravaging the countryside threaten to open a closet full of bones. Now the ex-ranger's about to learn, when you've seen things that won't let you live, it's either you or the bones.…

Paraplegic Zombie Slayer

Paraplegic Zombie Slayer

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"In the dust zone every man lives with a shotgun under his mattress and a bullet in his brain."Life in the post apocalyptic dust zone of the Texas Panhandle can be brittle at best. Georgy Founder has already lost his wife, his daughter and his legs. But he still has three sons.With ingenuity and cunning the Founders have learned the secrets to surviving their threatening environs. But fear has governed them for too long. Survival is no longer enough. As neurotoxin-ravaged Twitchers rally for control over the region, Georgy is forced to reconcile his past in order to provide his sons a future worth living.…

Get Doc Quick

Get Doc Quick

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"When everything's come out sideways, there ain't nothing but to take what's left and get clear. But when a man ain't got nothing left, what then?" Doctor Quincy Quick is helpless to stop a raging plague from consuming the Company town of Thurber, TX during the winter of 1919. Mad Max in a Model T, the not so good Doc can still save his wife and daughter, even if he has to bury men to do it. Trouble is, he's carrying secrets about the plague the Company responsible will kill to bury. "A wild, apocalyptic ride with an irascible, Chiclet-chewing old cuss. Riveting from beginning to end!"…

Poem Sunday

Poem Sunday

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Yep. It's Sunday. Have a poem. I am foremost not a poet, but it was an early love. And it is a form of expression that deserves as much love as it can get.…