Canister X – A.P. Fuchs: Zombie, Paranormal Romance and Superhero Novelist, Blogger, Artist, Publisher

Dry Ice Dreams, the first book/issue of the bookazine series, Bumper Sticker Shine, by A.P. Fuchs is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Paperback:

Amazon.com

Amazon.ca

Amazon.co.uk

Barnesandnoble.com

Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle

Fictionwise.com

Drivethruhorror.com

Mobipocket

Synopsis:

Mined from independent publisher and writer A.P. Fuchs’s archives comes a collection of horror fiction, essays on independent publishing, poetry, self-publishing questions, a new 21-page comic written just for this book, and more.

Not only will you be entertained, but if you’ve ever considered independent publishing but didn’t know what to make of it or how to go about it, Dry Ice Dreams contains insights from the man who made a career out of it.

A must-have book for anyone who wanted to get a glimpse into the world of a do-it-yourselfer but wasn’t sure where to look.

Also by A.P. Fuchs: Blood of the Dead: A Zombie Novel

The last Coscom Entertainment release: Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers

For our full list of books, please see: www.coscomentertainment.com

Why not give those you love a super Christmas this year and grab a book or two from Coscom Entertainment’s superhero catalog?

Get a jump on that Christmas rush by following the links below.

Thanks from all of us elves at Coscom Entertainment for your support this past year.

Merry Christmas and God bless.

Ps. Our complete catalog can be found at www.coscomentertainment.com

Superhero Books:

Paperbacks:

Axiom-man by A.P. Fuchs
First Night Out (The Axiom-man Saga, Episode No. 0) by A.P. Fuchs
Doorway of Darkness (The Axiom-man Saga, Book 2) by A.P. Fuchs
The Dead Land (The Axiom-man Saga, Episode No. 1) by A.P. Fuchs
The Wraith (The Wraith Series, Book 1) by Frank Dirscherl
Valley of Evil (The Wraith Series, Book 2) by Frank Dirscherl
Cult of the Damned (The Wraith Series, Book 3) by Frank Dirscherl

eBooks (Kindle):

Axiom-man by A.P. Fuchs
First Night Out (The Axiom-man Saga, Episode No. 0) by A.P. Fuchs
Doorway of Darkness (The Axiom-man Saga, Book 2) by A.P. Fuchs
The Dead Land (The Axiom-man Saga, Episode No. 1) by A.P. Fuchs
The Wraith (The Wraith Series, Book 1) by Frank Dirscherl
Valley of Evil (The Wraith Series, Book 2) by Frank Dirscherl
Cult of the Damned (The Wraith Series, Book 3) by Frank Dirscherl

I’m signing off till Monday, so have a good weekend, everybody.

Tune in Monday for more entertaining whatchya-ma-call-its on www.axiom-man.com

With that, I leave you with this:

Goodnight.

To celebrate Bumper Sticker Shine No. 2 going to press (I just uploaded the cover), I’m going to reveal the title:

The Macro Mechanic’s Manifesto

Synopsis and cover preview will show up here in due time. I’ll let you mull the title over to see if you can figure out what it means.

Oh, and No. 3 also got its title today, but I’ll tell you what it is further down the line.

The Macro Mechanic’s Manifesto is scheduled to come out Dec. 15, hot on the heels of bookazine No. 1, Dry Ice Dreams.

Enjoy your Saturday.

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5 out of 5

He was thought dead. The laughter was supposed to have ended.

But evil never dies.

The Joker is back!

His mission? Why, give Gotham a wedgy again!

But this Gotham is different than the one the Joker left behind. It’s a new Gotham with a new Batman.

Plenty of surprises abound in this thrilling chapter in the Batman Beyond universe.

This movie is brilliant, pure and simple.

I’ve seen both the regular and the uncut versions of this film and it’s the uncut version that’s being reviewed here (the regular is virtually the same and has only a few altered scenes).

The uncut version doesn’t hold back and isn’t sensitive to the viewer’s eyes. This one’s much more violent than the regular version. In the original release, certain events were only implied. In this one, they are shown. (If anything, I was surprised at how graphic this cartoon was compared to the Batman Beyond and Batman: TAS episodes.)

Ah, yes, the joys of direct-to-DVD releases.

The Batman in Batman Beyond, Terry McGinnis, is real. You care about him, you relate to him. You want to be him even when the tension mounts between him and his mentor, Bruce Wayne.

The Joker’s nasty in this and once more Mark Hamill, with that creepy laugh of his, reminds us why he was born to play the Joker. The dialogue, the jokes—utterly fantastic!

The story is stellar, with multiple plots going on at once. It also answers the questions you have about the fate of the characters from Batman: TAS, which had a series finale that fell flat. (It was just another episode, really.)

The first time I saw this film I couldn’t believe what happened to one of the Bat regulars. It still blows me away every time I see it.

Wow.

Language warning: Blasphemy

Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the States. Today, it’s Black Friday there, with all kinds of sales going on, madness in the streets, people climbing over people for the latest deals, checkouts ringing, phones buzzing, credit cards racking up dollars and everything else that says go-go-go, sell-sell-sell.

Amazing.

And, no, I’m not talking about the shopping craziness that’s currently overtaking my southern neighbor. I’m talking about the means this is happening.

For most of us, going to the store and checking out the latest laptops, Blackberrys, plasma TVs, Xboxes, DVDs and more is business as usual. To see people pulling their cellphone out of their pocket every two minutes to check for new texts is a regular sight.

Have you ever stopped to consider what’s wrong with this picture?

Maybe, maybe not. Folks who read this blog have access to a computer. They probably even work on one for most of the day as well. But have you ever stopped to consider what’s wrong with that?

Let’s take a look at what we’re doing. No, wait. Let’s first boil down technology to its bare physical elements: metals and plastics.

Okay, now let’s take a look at what we’re doing: we’re using different shaped pieces of metal and plastic to live our lives.

Am I the only one who finds this strange?

Let’s pull way back and take a look at history as a whole. When humanity was first placed on this earth, we had nothing but the natural world around us: trees, rocks, water, sun, air . . . the basics. And it lasted this way for a long, long time. We had technology, sure, but all it was was us taking that which was easily accessible (i.e. trees), changing its shape, and making simple things like wooden houses or, when bound together, catapults. Just a mere reshaping of that which was already pre-existent. Nothing more.

In the past 100-150 years, we’ve grown exponentially on the technology front–cars, weapons, television, satellites, computers, cellphones, digital cameras, and on and on.

Somewhere somehow someone figured out that by combining bits of metal and chunks of plastic you could make a machine that could do some basic math, a machine that one day would rule the world and would be the very means I’m writing this blog.

Somewhere somehow someone figured out that combining bits of metal and plastic you could make something to send into outerspace that would relay invisible signals to these machines that rule the world.

Somewhere somehow someone figured out you could bring these same principles closer to home and create a network of metal towers that were able to transfer speech invisibly through the air and send out that same speech to a specific little handheld unit made from metal and plastic that would bring that speech to your ears.

Somewhere somehow someone . . .

. . . is asking you stop and think about how weird it is that, down to its essence, we live in a world where chunks of metal and plastic are able to perform functions for us, entertain us, and make life easier for us.

This is something to be thankful for. Many countries aren’t surfing the Web every day. Millions of people aren’t standing around checking their cellphones every two minutes to talk to someone virtually instead of the person standing right in front of them. There are people out there who have no idea that, put together the right way, chunks of metal and plastic derived from the very earth they call home are taking over lives everywhere, sometimes in a good way, sometimes bad.

I’m thankful I have access to these things and am even ashamed to admit there are days when I take it for granted and, on those days, take what is a privilege and turn it into an expectation.

In the end, these amazing technological things shouldn’t even be able to do what they do.

After all, they’re just chunks of metal and plastic.

Yet somehow it all works.

Wow.

I was going to write about something else today, something to go in line with the Thanksgiving Americans are celebrating this weekend (don’t they know it’s in October? ), but instead came across this interview on my morning stop at Atheist Central.

I found it interesting.

Ray Comfort was recently interviewed at The Friendly Atheist about his distribution of Charles Darwin’s book, On Origin of Species, to university students on Nov. 18. To date, some 175,000 copies have been given away. It was also revealed in the interview that a third printing of a more million copies is taking place.

You can read the interview here.

As well, you are more than welcome to comment here at this site. My request, however, is for no language and for things to remain civil. Thanks.

A couple of years ago I got on this huge review-writing kick and banged out close to 40 of them in a relatively short time. Then between a couple jobs, changing Coscom Entertainment’s direction and a few of my own projects, the time needed to write even just a 300-word review was gone.

Nowadays, that time is back and so I’ve been getting into the reviewing gig again, reviewing things–right now, movies and TV shows–that I really enjoy.

I’m starting off on Amazon.com in terms of posting, then after awhile on that plan on selling them to outlets that run the type of reviews I’m writing.

So far, so fun.

As a sidenote: this blog is also syndicated on Amazon.com and can be viewed there.

As a fulltime writer and publisher, my work life doesn’t start at 9 and end at 5 like most. If anything, my day starts around 10 in the morning and ends around midnight, six days a week.

Of course, I’m not sitting in front of a computer for 14 hours every day. I’d go into severe burnout if I did (i.e. I pulled a 17-hour shift the other day and paid for it bigtime the next). But my work day has no off switch. I get the bulk of what I need to do done before 5pm, have supper, spend time with my family, then usually work from 8-10pm again. However, during those hours away from the computer, I’m still working inside my head, thinking about the various projects I’m involved in, how I’m going to solve certain problems in, say, a book’s design or layout, or what color text I’m going to use on the cover. If I’m in the middle of a personal writing project, my mind’s going a mile a minute, thinking about the next scene or three, perhaps even getting new ideas for other stories.

Which brings me to today. I’m excited. Today, if all goes to plan, I’ll be wrapping up two projects. And, for me, “wrapping up” doesn’t just mean I’m done writing or getting a book ready for press, it’s means that that project is done-done, gone to press and left alone till release time.

Up until today, I’ve been caught in an internal whirlwind, one of a constantly-busy head and fluttering emotions thanks to the excitement for each of these projects.

Once I lay these puppies to bed, that tornado of thought and feeling does a final zip through my body and then–POOF–gone . . . until we get close to release day.

I’m excited for the rush of wrapping these things up, the final slurry of emotions and thought, the big OOMPF at the end of a job well done, and the amazing sense of accomplishment at seeing yet another couple projects through to their completion. There’s nothing like sitting back, crossing your arms and knowing something is done, complete and finito.

I love it. Can’t wait.

Gotta get to it.