Allan's book is available.

[samantha_vimes]

The Bridge, by Allan Krummenacker, is a paranormal thriller with a science fiction element. It is the first of his Para Earth novels, which deal both with psychic powers and connections between parallel Earths. Unlike most parallel Earth stories, his are based on divergence way back in time... the life forms on them are very alien

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[vilakins]

Well done, him! Did you do the cover art?

I love SF and a lot of fantasy but avoid horror; would it be OK for me to read?

[samantha_vimes]

He did his own cover art. He was an artist before I was and I was a writer before he was. Kind of funny how our focus switched.

The horror is ghosts, creature-that-doesn't-belong here, and weird stuff like a person driving a car that crashes *after* they've been dead of drowning for hours. I don't like horror because stuff about violent people killing other people seems to be the flavor of horror these days. So, it depends on why you avoid horror. There is quite a bit of death; one of the main plot issues is the psychic guy caught up in it is a suspect because the police can't make any sense of it and he seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when bodies turn up. (Because a ghost who was caught up in things has been trying to get him to help.)

[vilakins]

Hmm, not sure. I just don't like evil, whether it's occult or just general human nastiness.

I hope the book does well for him though! :-)

[samantha_vimes]

Well, I think there's a bit of poor human behavior in the back story, in how the ghost got to be dead. But the main villain, as it were, is basically a parasite/scavenger, causing death simply in order to feed itself and grow. Oh, there is like a minor character who is human and therefore has moral agency who is the bad guy in a sequel. But the main characters, the ones whose experiences we live are

[fallen_castiel]

WHOA! Awesome!! Which is the best way to buy it? I don't have an e-reader yet, but I want the way I buy it to count towards sales the most.

WOOHOO! *confetti*

It sounds really interesting!

[samantha_vimes]

Buying a signed trade paperback through him would be fine. You can email him at all an.krummenacker @ gmail. com (take out the spaces, I'm trying to not have him get spammed by webcrawlers.

It would be the list price, or maybe he can give you a slight discount. As for electronic versions, I think you can get a PDF to read right on your computer if you don't have an e-reader and that would be through Smashwords, the publishing service he used.

http://www.smashwords.com/

Or if you are planning to get a Nook or Kindle or some other ereader anyhow, just get what you want. I don't know how the counting is done.

[fallen_castiel]

Cool! I can't get the email to work though. I took the spaces out.

I'd love a signed copy, but it's OK about the discount, he worked incredibly hard on this. I have extra money next month :D I want to spend it on something cool!

[utsi]

congrats!!