Jake Bible Fiction

  • The Next Way To Publish- PAIN and Stone Cold Bastards

    Hello again!

    Today I am posting my reading of  the next two pitches from the list of ten. If you haven’t read the pitches then have a listen. If you don’t want to listen then have a read below. Either way I’M IN YOUR HEAD! Or something like that.

    Cheers!

    Direct link to audio of PAIN and Stone Cold Bastards

    PAIN-
    Day is for the Unseen. Night is for everyone else if they want to stay alive.
    But that is about to change…
    In an alien landscape, humanity is forced to live at night and only the Coffin Men travel from settlement to settlement, bringing needed supplies, information, and entertainment. Pulling their massive iron Coffins behind them –their homes, their armories, their sanctuaries- these men brave the dangers of the night and fear only the Unseen of the day. But Coffin Men are never allies. They work for themselves and protect their routes with brutal finality, many times entertaining settlements with a no-holds barred fight to the death to see which Coffin Man will keep their territory or lose it to a new challenger.
    Trained by his father, but left orphaned, Pain is known as one of the most ruthless of the Coffin Men, having raised himself from a young boy, pulling his Coffin on his own, developing the skills of a killer, trader, fighter, ambassador without help from anyone. When Pain hears whispers in his mind during his fretful daytime sleep, he realizes that the Unseen may no longer be willing to keep only to the day as they have for millennia. Something has changed. And Pain knows that if he doesn’t unite the settlements, and the Coffin Men, then humanity’s tenuous grasp on survival is over.

    Stone Cold Bastards-
    What if the Dirty Dozen were a crack team of gargoyles that must defend their Sanctuary against a raving horde of demon-possessed humans that want nothing more than the destruction of the entire human race and all that is good?
    Yeah. That.
    Stone Cold Bastards is set in a world where Hell has released every last demon and most of humanity is now a puke-spewing, blue-skinned, head-spinning mess. The last hope humanity has are a rag-tag team of gargoyles, come to life and ready for battle now that the End of Days is at hand. Do the gargoyles care that humanity is being wiped out? Not really. Do they intend to go defend those that are being brutally murdered and tortured? Not so much. Will they fight to their last carved claw to keep their Sanctuary, and everyone in it, from harm? Oh, hell yes they will!
    Will they open their Sanctuary to a wandering gargoyle and the small child it says is the last hope for all? They haven’t decided yet. They’re thinking about it over bottles of whiskey. Come back tomorrow.
    Action, violence, pulpy good fun is what Stone Cold Bastards is all about!

  • The Next Way To Publish- Natural Born Cyborgs and Chrome

    Howdy Folks!

    So on Friday I droped some pitches on ya. Nice, tasty pitches. I also read the pitches and will be dropping them into my podcast feed all week. Today’s are Natural Born Cyborgs and Chrome.

    You can listen here Natural Born Cyborgs and Chrome

    Or you can read them again below! Be sure to spread the word and feel free to ask questions or comment.

    Cheers!

    Natural Born Cyborgs-
    The techno-virus used by the Three hundreds of years ago has mutated and combined with BC (biochrome) to create a generation of natural born cyborgs- part biorganic metal, part human. Society decides these Splicers, as they are called, are too dangerous to let live and rounds them up for extermination. Those not found must hide their true natures and fight for their lives. And the lives of those yet born.
    Set in the same universe as DEAD MECH, but hundreds of years after the events in the Apex Trilogy, Natural Born Cyborgs is the first in the Splicer Wars series of novels that introduce the world to the new MechPunk style of science fiction- raw, unrelenting, brutal, and shiny.

    Chrome-
    Stone and Reginald are back. The two bioborgs (organic metal cyborgs with human consciousnesses) from the Apex Trilogy are now in the Mexican Empire and refusing to get along with anyone or play nice. Sucked into a world of drugs, violence, greed, and corruption, the partners, and former operatives for the Three, are pushed to their limits. Unfortunately for those pushing, Stone and Reginald have no limits. A high-action techno-thriller, Chrome continues the brutal, unrelentingly violent saga of two killers trained in the art of chaos and destruction.

  • The Next Way To Publish- Thoughts and Thank Yous

    So I announced THIS on Monday. Have a read if you haven’t already.

    All set? Cool.

    Before I put out the announcement I had a few authorial and writing pro friends take a look at my proposal. (Thank you authorial and writing pro friends!) Everyone had a few reservations and clarifications, but otherwise there has been overwhelming support and enthusiasm from my writing peers. Huzzah! Of course, everyone is watching this to see what happens. It will be interesting to see if it works or if it flails.

    Since announcing my Next Way To Publish I have had great feedback from my fans and readers. Not a ton of feedback, but enough to know I may be on the right path here. Thank you to everyone that has reached out with their two cents. Got two cents?  Then comment away below! Only have one cent? Not my problem, slacker. Get a freaking job!

    So this Friday I will put the list of novel pitches up. They shall be glorious! GLORIOUS, I SAY! Be sure to stay tuned so you can have a looksee at the ten choices I have come up with. Yes, there are ten. Many of the writers, and some of the readers, that have offered feedback have been worried that I am offering too much choice. And that is a good point.

    The prevailing theory is that too much choice will turn off fans. Too much choice and no one will want to make any choice at all. This could have some merit, but I come from a sales background and a restaurant background. Both of those industries are all about having MORE choices for customers. The theory there is that if you offer everything but the kitchen sink then the customer will go find the kitchen sink somewhere else.

    I don’t really agree or disagree with either theory.

    What I agree with is that I have ten novels I want to write and I cannot pick. (THE GLORIOUSNESS IS TOO MUCH FOR MY FEEBLE WRITER MIND!) The list I post on Friday is not a list of three novels I want to write and seven throwaways. I actually narrowed it down from more than those ten! Yikes, I say! I have notes on all ten of these novels, and many of them have opening sections written or sketched out. I would be happy to write any of the ten. Now, some are more involved than others. Some will take some extra homework on my part to make totally kick-ass. But that is to be expected. Regardless of which novel is picked it will be a novel I am fully invested in to write.

    Something I don’t really talk about in the post is what happens if the novel chosen is part of a series. Will the second novel be up in the next round? Easy answer: no. If the novel chosen is the first in a series then that tells me that the series will be successful on its own. I don’t need to worry about offering the second in the series in the next round of novel choosingness. I’ll add the second novel to my list of Glorious Things To Write Because Of The Gloriousness. It’s a real list. Trust me.

    So, there is that part.

    The other part is what if two novels are really close, almost splitting my fan base down the middle. You know, like the Blue and the Grey. The Hatfields and McCoys. Capulets and Montagues. Mounds and Almond Joy. My butt. (Get it? My butt is split down the… OK. Sorry.) Will fans be put off if the one they really want is thrown back onto the slush pile of novel pitches? Good, damn question! I’m hoping that won’t happen, but it could. And we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

    Because, and this is really what this post is about, the entire point of my new process (which you can read about here) is for everyone to have fun. Whether it’s the readers/fans that vote, or bystanders that get to laugh and point at my folly, or, as it will really happen, BASK IN MY GLORIOUSNESS, or just my little, ol’ self, I want this to be fun. I want everyone to at least get a kick out of this process. To enjoy reading and talking about the pitches. To enjoy voting and seeing which ones become the top three. To enjoy getting others to vote, and when the time comes, to pitch in and fund the novel voted for. To do a shot every time I link to the original post here. DRINK!

    I want us all to have a good time. I sure plan to.

    There will be more posts, random thoughts, updates, podcast posts (yes, folks, I will record the pitches and probably some of the updates and posts I write here in STEREO), and general merriness. (By merriness I mean drunkenness. But you figured that out. DRINK! Don’t argue. DRINK! I get to change the rules of the drinking game anytime I want. MY POST!)

    Because, if it does fail, and I don’t get the novel funded, then at the very, very least we all had a good time trying.

    And if you aren’t having a good time then what’s the point, right?

    Well, other than to BASK IN MY GLORIOUSNESS!

    Cheers.

    Oh, and read this.

    DRINK!

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Here we are once more, my friends. Friday. Night. Drabble. Party.

    You ready to rock some 100 words? I know you are!

    As always, feel free to join in by adding your 100 words worth of goodness in the comments below. Time to get your drabble on!

    Enjoy!

    Oh, and wait, just a heads up that starting March 30th the Party will be put on hold. Why? Oh, you’ll see. I have a big announcement to make on Monday and Fridays will be taken up for at least the month of April with other goodness. You’ll dig, I’m sure.

    Cheers!

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    They Said

    By

    Jake Bible

    Her breath came in ragged gasps as she struggled to keep moving, trying to doge the shards of broken glass that littered the floor and tortured her bare feet. She knew if she could just get out of the labyrinthine old building she would be safe. But she had been running, walking, staggering for what seemed like hours.

    “It’s not haunted, they said,” she whispered to herself, terror pushing her to the edge of madness. “It’ll be fun, they said.”

    “But they died,” a voice growled behind her.

    “Yes, they did,” she sighed, ready for the cut of the blade.

    ***

  • Nemesis! Paul E Cooley Interviews Me. Be Warned.

    My nemesis Mr. Paul E. Cooley has interviewed me about my decision to leave podcasting.

    Feel free to have a listen, but your earholes won’t be the same, I assure you.

    Cheers!

    Interviewed by my nemesis!