The life of a New York advertising executive, Llewellyn Smith, is turned inside out when he is forced to experience a Native American vision quest. Accused of murder after the experience, he confronts the damage done to family and friends by his former self.
Human trafficking kingpins, a shamanic sect, and a reluctant FBI team merge to stop Dan and Jason Johnston from doing their best shamanic work. Dan and Jason Johnston are called to work with the FBI on a human trafficking assignment, targeted at Native American teens. Agent Rafsky, who doesn't know why Dan and his son were called in on the case, and is skeptical of their skills, has her own way of handling things and would rather be left alone to do her job. A, long-ago friend of Dan's, is also involved, but now appears very suspicious. The whole operation is delicate and could result in failure as well as the deaths of some of the girls. Complications escalate once Dan realizes that other Shamans are involved. As the novel pitches Dan and Jason against dangers found while in altered states of consciousness, they also have to deal with skepticism and physical roadblocks from the FBI. Everything comes to a head when the FBI uses Jason to infiltrate the trafficking operation and gets found out. That's when Dan gets physically involved himself, putting him, Jason, and his friend in danger.
A bold and raw study of the human condition. Readers will instantly see themselves and their friends and family in this bravely written novel. Because it explores love, hate, sex, and passion in a way that exposes the truth, this book is hard to put down once you've started reading. When Jack and Silvia introduce their workmates and their spouses and girlfriends at a party, they have no idea what problems will transpire. And when a mentally unstable man acts out his sexual fantasies for one woman while threatening the life of another, only one thing can happen. IPPY AWARD WINNER ("Sweet Song", 2012) For fans of Joyce Carol Oats, James Salter, Jim Harrison, and E.L. Doctorow
Abstract Writings is a collection of short storieswritten by Terry Persun through the 1970s,80s, and 90s. Many of these stories have beenpublished by small, idependent magazines anduniversity publications. The stories vary in length from short, flashfiction pieces of fewer than 500 words, tolonger stories of several thousand words. Theyhave been collected here for the first time.Written in a variety of genre styles fromscience fiction and horror to mainstream andliterary, the strangest stories are often the mostimaginative, and this collection has its share ofstrange stories. Overall, the stories have been collected so thatthere is a place for people to come and enjoynew and old stories by this author of varyingstyles. - Terry Persun is a five-time award winner, an Amazon bestselling author, and a wellrespected novelist and poet. He lives in thePacific Northwest.
The chapbooks in this collection span from 1986 through 1996. During those ten years, I wrote and published literally hundreds of poems in little magazines and university publications across the country. I regularly entered chapbook contests and actually won a few. But, just as often, a small publisher would contact me and ask for 16 or 24 or 36 poems to create a chapbook. Those were great days, and I am eternally grateful to those publishers.Since chapbooks are typically published in very small runs of anywhere from 50 to maybe 250 copies, the chapbook poems collected here are no longer available in that wonderful format.I've tried to honor those chapbooks as best I could. So, to do so, I've included the original covers (only in black and white instead of color), and as much of the internal artwork as possible (also scanned in black and white). By including these pieces, I hope that the personal touch of the chapbook comes through even to a minor extent. Where the same poem showed up in more than one chapbook, I removed the second or third appearance from this collection. So, if you happen to have one of the original chapbooks, there may be a poem missing from this collection.
Make Money Writing explains the key elements of how to make a living while freelance writing. It covers everything from the types of pieces magazines (online and print) are looking for, how to contact editors, and how to start your business. This is something I've been doing for over fifteenyears. I've actually been freelance writing(fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) for overthirty, but had a regular job for half that time.Many of those years, I was freelancing parttime, while working as the Editor-in-Chief ofseveral commercial and business-to-businessmagazines. So, I've been on both sides of thedesk: acquisitions as an editor, and pitching asa freelancer. I know this business well.
Carl just wants a home--on a new planet with Missy and their future children. He hungers for new memories, where home would have a true meaning, not just something their ship downloaded. Their sapient ship Argentina transverses the galaxy on an interplanetary harvesting and reseeding mission. Carl and the crew are dropped on a beautiful but hostile planet. If they fail to colonize, Argentina will harvest them, too. Trouble starts when something on the planet alters the emotions of crew members and hypnotically pulls them toward the very source that threatens their mission--and their lives. With the threat of death hanging over them, a more daunting concern arises. Are they meant to survive the mission at all?
A missing person, an evil entity, and New Orleans come together in this suspense filled thriller. Is the government involved in yet another strange paranormal case? The shaman detective, Dan Johnston, and his son Jason, are asked to find Sam Bennett, who investigates paranormal activities for the government. But the government didn't call the detectives. Sam's wife, Ann, contacted them. For some reason, she doesn't want anyone else involved, which puts Dan on alert. When Dan and Jason get to New Orleans-the last place Sam was working-they find a peculiar situation already underway. Ann may not be exactly who she says she is. And an old psychic tries to protect her granddaughter from Dan and Jason, as well as Ann. Then the curator from the Voodoo Museum is murdered, the police show up, and Dan and Jason are forced to do their shaman work in the worst place possible-Jail.
After Fred Lancing retired from the Air Force, he took a peaceful job as janitor at New York City's top detective agency, Detective Ink. When one of the detectives hands Fred a case as a cruel joke, Fred's boredom with his job and his life gets the best of him. Denying all the dangers and problems he might find himself engaged in, Fred elects to see if he can solve the case. The entire collection of the Detective Ink interlocking stories can be found in one package. The PRIME FIVE authors include Jeff Ayers, Mimzi Schradi, Michael Hiebert, Susan Wingate, and Terry Persun.
A colony of scientists, a megalomaniac, an alien race...which will prevail? Brandon and Palmer, soldier and pilot, pitch their skills against a high-profile negotiator bent on taking over an entire planet, which could change the lives of every colonist on it. And why would one man want to do such a thing? To gain control of a secret alien race discovered on C47. It's not about scientific discovery, and it's not about saving an alien race, it's about power and control. If Garth Killjoy, President of Section 204 of the Intergalactic Peace Force, gets his way he'll have the entire Earth Central government under his control, and he knows it. That means all bets are off when it comes to honesty or fairness when working with the colonists. That's why he sent a fake negotiator pummeling toward C47 in a cruiser filled with explosives. Before the ship gets blown out of the sky, Captain Palmer Luce ejects and is rescued by a second cruiser. She believes her friend may have gone down with the ship. But Lieutenant Brandon Lockhardt barely escapes with his life...and he's not happy. He can't wait to talk with Palmer to see why she left him behind. And she's heartbroken that he may be dead. HEAR NO EVIL mixes space opera with science fiction mystery to deliver a fun-filled and dynamic story that will get your mind thinking and your heart pumping. Let Brandon and Palmer warm your hearts...a new team has been born.Terry Persun is an IPPY AWARD WINNING author. This book is for fans of Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, and Arthur C. Clarke novels.
"Lately fantasy rarely surprises and seldom delights, but Terry Persun's novel Doublesight does both and more. Richly textural, complicated in character, and presenting a world unlike any other, this debut imbues new blood into the genre. It is a stunning fantasy for the new millennium."--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series"Persun's captivating new fantasy raises the art of shape shifting to a new level. Enter the world of Doublesight where man and animal are one. A fresh adventure awaits "-- Janet Lee Carey, bestselling author of DragonswoodNow part of Kindle Worlds' fan fiction site. After the Doublesight Wars, dangerous and cruel shape shifters were killed off by the humans. To protect themselves, the other doublesight decided to hide their gifts and congregate into their own villages or clans, and avoid humans. Now new rumors, of violent and dangerous doublesight--gryphons, harpys, dragons--have again riled the humans. The twin granddaughters of the crow clan's sage, Zimp and Zora, are the last descendants of their powerful shapeshifting family and must help guide their clan. The reticent Zimp is relieved when her sister is chosen to take her grandmother's position instead of herself. When the clan is attacked, Zimp finds Zora murdered. Now Zimp is forced to take over her sisters responsibilities and lead the clan. The doublesight council assembles to assess the situation with the rumors and they decide to send a team to investigate. This team the council decides will be led by Zimp, and now Zimp must find a way to lead four strong and difficult men in order to help save her people. Struggling with her own shamanic visions and astute intuition, and trying to hold a stable position as leader, Zimp finds herself in the center of a changing world full of sorcery and must decide on her real place within it...
Noot, Zimp, and Storret, the crow, run for their lives, while attempting to have a sacred vigil for the loss of their fellow doublesight. But with ransoms on their heads, who can they trust? After the battle at Castle Weilk, the doublesight split up and hide from the humans. Once again, they are hunted down and murdered, only this time more aggressively, and with bounties on the heads of key individuals. Noot has lost touch with his long-time friend and cousin Zimp, and searches for her inside the castle walls-the most dangerous place of all. On a sacred mission of her own, Zimp along with Storret, her crow companion, decide to travel Tortuous Road back through Brendern Forest where her quest originally started. Captured by bandits, Noot and Zimp wait to be traded for King Belford's ransom when help arrives in the form of an unlikely doublesight clan. A solemn time in her life, Zimp never expects to find the one person she was almost positive was dead. His presence (and damaged condition) pushes Zimp forward more forcefully, and she becomes determined to find a place where she and other doublesight can live in peace.
Unchecked emotions made the world outside Newcity dangerous, unruly, and violent. At least, that's the official story in Newcity....Within Newcity, everyone is content. Bad feelings are not allowed. To ensure harmony, a monitoring implant alerts the police to bring out-of-control residents in for treatment. Getting better is mandatory.Keith senses something is wrong, especially when he starts having some very unusual visions. Escaping Newcity, he finds freedom and friendship -- but learns the outside world isn't a safe haven, either. As things spin wildly out of control on all sides, someone has to figure out what's behind the insidious social control in Newcity before the outsiders really do turn destructive. Keith has leadership thrust upon him with only his visions for guidance. Can he and his friends stay alive long enough to save both Newcity and the outside world? "Cathedral of Dreams is a compelling tale of a dystopian future and personal heroism."
WINNER of the Silver IPPY AWARD Sweet Song is an archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post - Civil War America. Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own -- and passing for white. Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloonkeepers, musicians, businessmen, thugs, freedom loving idealists and malevolent racists -- a vivid panorama from America's past. This tender, raw, provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we've come from and who we are.
Time traveling robots, a walking medical experiment turned detective genius, and a kidnapped psychic combine in a story that will tear at your heart and get your adrenaline pumping.the problem...When it comes to investigating missing objects, Neil Altman stands out. After all, his parents severed the two halves of his brain when he was a child and then trained him to use each half independently. The problem is that he doesn't believe in time machines, so Dr. Eric Steffenbraun's project, stolen or not, already sounds far-fetched.the proof...Video is hard to deny, but Neil isn't sure if the beings coming through the time machine are humans with masks or illegal humanoid robots. Besides, Dr. Steffenbraun could have faked the video if he feared the project was about to be cancelled.the complication...Neil's wife, Mavra, is a well-known psychic in the area, and believes that Neil could be in danger. Knowing how she can get involved even when asked not to, he includes her in on the investigation. His plan is to keep her out of harm's way. That is until she's kidnapped.the wildcard...Miles away from Neil and the time machine, Fenny is trained to think on his own. He's a utility robot with little understanding of what's going on around him except what Dr. Smedley Klein has taught him--for now. Things are about to change for Fenny once Revision 7 is installed.
