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A Writer Goes Home

The book My Babylon is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the city I lived in for ten years. I miss Kalamazoo, terribly. It’s a college town, making it liberal, annoying, accepting, and diverse, all at the same time. I got a chance to spend a few hours there on Monday, and did a quick author’s tour of some of the locations I wrote about.

Of the Kalamazoo landmarks mentioned in the book, the most famous would be the caretaker’s home in Mountain Home Cemetery. It’s where the character Ezra lives and where he hosts his OTO rituals. A few urban legends surround the house. Many people I know claim to have visited it. Claim that the house can be rented, and that they were friends with the people that lived there. This came with the obligatory ghost stories complete with Ouija board contact and apparitions. I don’t know if any of that is true, but when I lived in Kzoo, it certainly looked as if someone lived there.

I’ll post some more pics if anyone’s interested. Remember, you can download a copy of My Babylon – Book One: Body, for free today (Tuesday, May 28, 2013).

Want to help an indie author? Book One of my series of novellas, My Babylon is free today on Amazon Kindle. Just downloading a FREE copy helps move it up on the Amazon rankings so others can find it.

Even better, please leave an honest review of the book on Amazon after you read it. Indie authors can’t afford to pay the established review sites to read their books. (That’s right, many “respected” journals of review expect them to pay them to do a review, how dishonest is that?)

When you help indie artists, you take away the power of the media conglomerates that control what we see and hear. You get a fresh perspective that may have otherwise been overlooked. I know my book would not appeal to a big publisher. They would never take the risk on something so different.

Today, you can do it for free.

Please reblog this so others can see.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me spread the word.

sasha-de:

Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge.

Since many have expressed an interest, the entire first chapter of Wyrd. Shooting for July on this one.

Chapter 1

Courage, it couldn’t come at a worse time.

— Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)

I looked into the eyes of the wolf. It sat some twenty-yards off from the make-shift pen they had put us in, a lattice of branches lashed together with bits of rope. I’ve always had keen eyesight, but no, no man can see a wolf’s eyes from such a distance. I only had the feeling. The weight of a connection. I’ve had this connection before, with wolves and serpents. I laughed, sitting there in the cold mud, waiting to die. My prayers had once again been answered. I was totally screwed.

Make no mistake, I am a bastard. Many men in my position have given themselves airs. I make no such vain-glorious claims. All I can say is that a presence has followed me all of my lives. I know what that presence is. It doesn’t make me great. It doesn’t make me better. In fact, it’s fucked me over more than anything else. That’s what he does.

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Mid-World Arts

Have I told you about Mid-World Arts? I’ve been running a writer’s group for over four years now. Last December, a couple of us got together with an idea. We were sick of the way traditional publishers treated writers like crap. Plus, we knew there was an audience for our stuff, but maybe not wide enough for a publisher to bother with.

We decided to self-publish, and also help each other out while we did. Mid-World Arts is not a company, it’s not a traditional publisher, we call it an “authors’ studio” where writers can come together and share resources and cross-promote each other’s books.

The great thing about it for you the reader, is that you don’t have to suffer some of the crap often found in self-publishing. You don’t have to worry about buying a book that’s got massive spelling errors and shoddy grammar, because we check and re-check each other’s books before we publish.

I am proud to tell you about my fellow Mid-World artists because I know they write great books, and they helped make my books better.

Right now, Mid-World consists of myself (James L. Wilber), Stephan Michael Loy, and Dick Thomas. Steve already has an apocalyptic thriller called Last Days and Times, and an excellent short story collection called HarmonicRes. Plus, he has two more books coming out this month. Dick is hard at work on his paranormal horror story Ghostvision, which will be available by August.

Please take a moment to check out these great authors. If you like real people and not corporations providing your media, please read and review our books. If you want to help others make their dreams come true, please reblog this post.

Thanks!

Thank You!

I believe one of my tumblr followers (I suspect I know who), just left a review of My Babylon on Amazon. Thank you, and thanks to everyone who has downloaded it, and especially those who have read it. Thank you for bringing me one step closer to realizing my dreams of writing for a living.

My Babylon – Book Three: Risen, will be available May 28th in the Kindle store. On that day, Book One: Body, will be FREE.

If you have already read Book One, please leave a review on Amazon to help jumpstart the new promo. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, please grab a free copy on the 28th. Just downloading a copy helps moving up the rankings in Amazon, making it easier for others to find.

Of course, I’m only saying this because I do believe it is a book all of my followers would like. It’s been a labor of love and religious devotion for me.

Thank you again, with great sincerity.

My Story

An obsessed magician will do anything it takes to satiate his perverse needs.

My Myth

He turns to forbidden arts to manifest his will.

My Revelation

In doing so, he will bring about the end of everything.

My Babylon

A serial novel about the paranormal and dark desires. The story of a cursed young man who has an intimate view of the end of the world as we know it. My Babylon weaves elements of urban fantasy, erotic horror, and real-world occult practices, to form a unique personal tale that thrills, terrifies, and even enlightens.

My Babylon is told in a series of novellas. Book Two: Rose, is now available. Book Three: Risen, is coming to Amazon Kindle May 28th, 2013

Our serials are priced 99 cents in-season (before all episodes have been published) and then go to $1.99 per episode after we release the collected book for $5.99. You never pay more than $6 for a complete book.

FU!

Just added this to the copyright page of all of my books.

Dear Copyright Holders,

Did I quote a line from a song or a movie that you hold the copyright to? Are you thinking about suing me? My advice, don’t. I will scream bloody murder. I will scream it from the rooftops. I will go to court. I will lose. I will appeal. I will go to court again until the stupid laws are changed. You know that I have not taken any value from your work. You know I have taken no money from your pocket. Yes, you, copyright lawyer, choose to behave like a moral human being. Your raping of our culture will stop, and it will stop with me. Believe it.

If you want to quote up to 1,000 words of this work for your own devices, you officially have my permission. If you want to quote more than that, ask me and I will probably let you do it for free.

Amazon.com: James L. Wilber: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

Amazon.com: James L. Wilber: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

Visit Amazon.com’s James L. Wilber Page and shop for all James L. Wilber books and other James L. Wilber related products (DVD, CDs, Apparel). Check out pictures, bibliography, biography and community discussions about James L. Wilber

Got Amazon to add the Buffy RPG to my list of published books. Hurray!

Do I have any followers who know Toronto well willing to help me out with setting material?

As always, thank you to all my tumblr followers for helping to make my dreams of becoming a full-time writer a reality.

Book One of My Babylon is free today on Amazon. Just downloading a free copy helps move it up and make it more visible to others. And don’t forget to give it a review if you have already read it.

My Babylon – Book Two: Rose, is out today. You can get that for only 99 cents.

Thank you again, and please reblog.