David Mark Brown

With the world embroiled in the Great War, power-hungry forces threaten to tear apart the state of Texas in a secret plot to rule the resource that will fuel the future. In The Austin Job, James Starr, a bronc rider turned politician, stumbles into a high stakes game of power and lies that he must master before it masters him. Exploding with double-fisted, cheek-puckering action, including the world's first parkour stunt horse, The Austin Job dares you to cinch your saddle to a bolt of Lone Star lightning and hold on for dear life. In this second season of his Lost DMB Files serial, Author David Mark Brown invites the reader into a world illuminated by human torches and moonlight towers, an underground Austin inhabited by machine and monster alike, where what you don't know can get you killed--or just really, really messed up. The Austin Job happens simultaneously with Fistful of Reefer (Season Two of the Lost DMB Files) and thus can be read first or second in the series.

Welcome to publishing in the era of the information dealer. Just as the arms dealers and profiteers of the past stirred up murder and chaos for the purpose of profit, so too the information dealers pander to the lowest common denominator for the purpose of profit. Their weapons of choice are link-bait, fake news, click farms, fake reviews, and spammy content.The golden era of the information dealer has been ushered in via the sudden rise of big data and large information brokers such as Facebook, AT&T, Google, and Amazon. This matters to storytellers because Amazon now makes the rules for how readers discover and consume story (as a commodity ). This could end up being a VERY BAD THING if we storytellers don't rise up as Pirate Authors to defend the trustworthiness of our industry and the security of our livelihoods.

The truth will set you free. Some conspiracies remain theories. Others become obsessions. Exhumed 100 years after their penning, the Lost DMB Files will reinterpret the way you perceive the world...and possibly the way it perceives you.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.Ranging from pulp western to campy horror, these lost files harken back to an age of dime store novels and over-the-top worlds full of anti-heroes, complex villains, nightmarish monsters, conspiracy theories, shootouts and explosions."Sergio Leone would have killed to film Fistful of Reefer. Harry Turtledove would admire the way history has been skewed. Others will love the notion of the Lost DMB Files. The estimable Mr. Brown has really latched onto something here." Mike Resnick (The Godfather of Weird Western)

The Hiberverse has been incubating a hidden evil, and the post-human Hibernarii have been inadvertently feeding it. Obsessed with the quest for immortality, the advanced human race known as Hibernarii have become plagued by a subversive strain of ancestral human clones that threaten to unravel their fractured empire and decadent lifestyle.In a desperate attempt to restore balance, the Hibernarii create an enslaved race of assassins. Equipped with fission reactor hearts, inexhaustible killing capabilities, and a supposedly foolproof kill switch, the Templar are unleashed. After 300 years of constant slaughter, Templar Ranger 878 emerges as the epitome of the program--ruthless yet creative. But 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.

Your rocketship is your gateway to adventure. Your ray gun, your wits, and your trusty sidekick are all you need. Upon every planet, asteroid, and space station a new treasure awaits, a new monster lurks, and a new mission calls. You're a spacer now, and the galaxy is your home.