Hell to Pay

A man who thinks he's losing his soul, meets a man who has.

Detective Michael Bailey is a seasoned homicide detective who can't escape the deaths of twin girls that happened on his watch. Over the years, it slashed at his sanity and sobriety, and now he stands at the crossroads of his life. The murder investigation of a young woman sends him over the edge. 

George Graham is an antique store owner who has fallen for the wrong woman. When rejected and berated in public, George runs home to find a strange old man with an antique box wanting to make a deal. George buys the box and inside finds a matted scalp, a relic of untold power. 

Hell to Pay has been rereleased on Amazon today:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G7579KQ

The books prequel, The Ballad of Mercy Tyler is available at Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/118371 

Interested in reviewing either The Ballad of Mercy Tyler, Hell to Pay, or gasp . . . both?  Leave a message, I may surprise you.

Welcome to the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Sorry Douglas Adams, but it felt appropriate.

Changes are afoot. My novel, Hell to Pay is currently unavailable due to the publisher ceasing operations.  From these ashes it will arise again.  I am currently in talks about doing an audio version (either reader theater or from me) and working on a rerelease of the novel in e-book (series) form and back into paper as well.  Hang with me, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Lightning may strike twice in the town of Ashton.

For a beginning to the series, The Ballad of Mercy Tyler is available from Smashwords for free! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/118371

Norse Mythology

A new infographic from the History.com and the new show "The Vikings".


 

Our Dystopian World

Check out http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/351-the-dystopian-timeline-to-the-hunger-games-infographic what to read, what to read, or what is the world coming too.

Or if you want a good story about a born again evil god . . .
Touch the cover for the link.

Hookers and Hangers Bloghop: The Hangers

I enjoyed the exercise presented  by Falling for Fiction on their "Hookers and Header" bloghop.  This is the second hop I've completed with them and appreciate them allowing a horror writer around.  Novelists should look at their chapter beginning/ending and separate their first and last lines to see what's pushing the audience to  go deeper.

I had good comments yesterday, so today, comment again and I'll do a second drawing for an e-book.  Thank you all for the experience and follow my mundane adventures here at Father Thunder and at www.ruminationofthunder.com.

Now for the hangers:

This isn't the last line but is in the final chapter:

Chapter 61:  After nearly drowning in the supernatural, the mind needs time to process and reprocess events and make up several lies to believe in.

Chapter 1: The big black dog, his hellhound, materialized from the shadows between the houses, and followed him right down the street.

Chapter 8: Within thirty minutes he had showered, climbed into bed, and dreamed of burning men and a howl that woke him up an hour before the alarm went off.

That's it for the contest, here are some more.

Chapter 2: Then something reached deep into George’s soul and strangled it.

Chapter 3: Bailey knew the omen, and recognized the rest of the day was going to suck.

Chapter 4: George stood his ground for a moment, then fainted away, letting something take over that had wanted out all day to play.  

Chapter 7: “God, help us all.”

Chapter 9: Long blinded eyes looked lost as he gave up the ghost.

Chapter 10: Nonetheless, it sent a chill down George’s spine and the feeling that this would not be the last death to visit him.

Chapter 12: A few days until the master of the world walked among the humans once again, and his servants were awaiting him.

Chapter 15: He knew his father was dead by the bloat and mottled appearance, but the groan sunk itself deep into George’s mind as a warning of his father’s return.

Chapter 17: With bourbon, he’d be ready for anything.

Chapter 19: A beacon of hellish red light erupted from downtown and provided the trail.

Chapter 24: Bailey recovered from the light, sound, and pressure to find the rain stopped, the sky clear, and his car very dead.

Chapter 26: It looked black in the moonlight as he raised it to the sky, muttered something as old as man, and took a taste of human heart.

Interested?  Check out "Hell to Pay" from Hellfire Publishing.  It is available in e-book and paperback.  Also please leave a comment below to be entered in the drawing, and join me on my quest by becoming a minion on Father Thunder.  This is only the beginning my flock, glories wait ahead.  I will announce winners soon.

Hookers and Hangers Bloghop: The Hookers

Welcome to the Falling for Fiction "Hookers and Hangers" bloghop.

"Hell to Pay" was released from Hellfire Publishing last year and is available in e-book or paperback.

The hook:
A man who thinks he's losing his soul, meets a man who has.

Hookers (stop stocking up on antibiotics, these are the first lines from chapters):

Chapter 3: A single bolt of lightning struck somewhere near the center of town.

Chapter 4: Bailey moseyed into the office, dry, bandaged, and ready to get his ass chewed.

Chapter 7: Most of the Ashton police force was already assembled when Bailey and John entered the tactical room.

Chapter 8: About 4:00am Bailey fell asleep against a pole near the makeshift morgue.

Chapter 9: A man screamed in George’s dream, and it ended in a gurgle of blood.

Chapter 11:  Detective Bailey circled the Market Square almost twenty times that day, running between the antique store and the fire scene.

Chapter 12: George never opened the antique store the day Neeley died.

Chapter 18: The white flag flailed in the wind and burned into Detective Bailey’s uncontrolled rage.

Chapter 19: The heavens raged in a violent thunderstorm as Lars stumbled through the wet empty streets of Ashton screaming for his departed friend.

Chapter 23: George dreamed about angels coming in the night.

Chapter 24: The dwarf did the trick, Bailey felt more comfortable around Mills since the shared laugh.

Chapter 26: George’s vivid nightmares left him detached most of the day.

Just a taste of the book, there are 61 chapters.  If you like what you read, check out "Hell to Pay".  Leave some comments below and after the bloghop, I'll draw a winner for a free e-book.

Now hop my minions!!!

1.	Writing on the Wall	2.	Between the Bookends
3.	Tobi Summers - Chock Full of Words	4.	Unyielding
5.	Lisa Regan	6.	Cassie Mae
7.	Writing Off The Edge	8.	Cutest Landing
9.	Michael Abayomi	10.	Amanda Olivieri
11.	Darci Cole	12.	Jenny Morris
13.	Writing with Hope	14.	A.J. Locke
15.	Another Author	16.	Fanatic for Fiction
17.	Ink in the Book	18.	Suzi- Literary Engineer
19.	tara tyler	20.	Scattergun Scribblings
21.	used bikes in london - Second hand bikes london	22.	Queendsheena
23.	Emily R. King	24.	Mutterings from the Oubliette
25.	My Inner Fairy	26.	Scribble Babble
27.	the sands of writing	28.	Amy Sonnichsen
29.	Kim Karras	30.	And Then She Was Like Blah Blah Blah
31.	Leigh Covington	32.	J. A. Bennett - A Writer's Journey
33.	Thardrandian Thoughts	34.	Jade Hart
35.	Gina Denny	36.	Freya Morris
37.	Use Your Words...	38.	Sydney Aaliyah
39.	Whatever	40.	Tasha Seegmiller
41.	Clare Dugmore Writes	42.	C.M. Brown
43.	Ilima Todd	44.	Donna Hole
45.	The Art of Infiltration	46.	Write Here, Write Now
47.	Carrie-Anne's Magick Theatre	48.	T.L. Bodine
49.	Tara @ More Than Fiction	50.	Melissa Sugar
51.	Roxanne @ Books and Blossoms	52.	Medeia Sharif
53.	Tyson McFrost (Frost Lord)	54.	Michael Pierce
55.	T.F. Walsh	56.	Putting Pen To Paper
57.	VikLit	58.	Rantings of a Writer
59.	Stina Lindenblatt	60.	L.M. Miller
61.	EM Castellan	62.	The Intrinsic Writer
63.	Teardrops On My Book	64.	1000th.monkey
65.	Sue K.	66.	Lindz Pagel
67.	Flame Writer	68.	Beth's Blog
69.	Trisha @ WORD STUFF	70.	Cristina dos Santos
71.	Deana Barnhart	72.	Krista McLaughlin
73.	ali cross	74.	SC Write -- Writing, Publishing, and Harry Potter
75.	Entertaining Interests	76.	Martin at 'From Sand to Glass'
77.	For Science!	78.	Nancy S. Thompson
79.	Postcards From My Mind	80.	It's All in My Head
81.	Soul Destruction	82.	Theresa Paolo
83.	Lynn(e) @ The Submission Process	84.	Your Daily Dose
85.	Folio Road	86.	dreamwritepublish
87.	Word by Word	88.	Father Thunder

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Red spots are tornados, don't ask about the brown spot.

Not too much gets me worried.  Not often, but when a large tornado come barreling down the highway and they release a tornado emergency for your city, it can be a cause for alarm.  I'm a storm chaser, so I'm used to being out in the elements.  Last night, with a wedge tornado coming through town, I decided to stay home and get everyone to safety.  Luckily, the tornado was too strong for itself, took a big right turn and moved away from us.  Other parts of Wichita were not so lucky.  There was some major damage to the city, but have yet to hear of any fatalities, and here at the compound the minions and I are safe.  I guess it's healthy for a horror writer to be occasionally scared.

If you want to see my other personality, the one that chases storms . . . check out www.ruminationofthunder.com.

The Ballad of Mercy Tyler on Smashwords

Now available for free download on Smashwords. . . 

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/118371

Hell to Pay now in paper

Hell to Pay is available now through Amazon in paper.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1468034022/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_.ES5ob19D13C8

Release the Kraken!!!

Press release

http://www.prlog.org/11659812-storm-chaser-turned-author-has-hell-to-pay.html

First Interview . . .

http://hellfireherald.blogspot.com/2011/08/table-talk-tuesday_16.html?spref=fb

Hell to Pay

Bailey

Sometimes the demons we fight are man-made.   Others come from somewhere darker.

love this . . .

weather warnings and more

As my split second attention span moves into storm chasing (shameless plug: http://www.ruminationsofthunder.com/ ) I'll leave the more important things to the professionals.

http://www.zombiewarning.com/

The Saga of Biorn

I love this.  In its honor, I will talk like a viking the rest of the week.  By Odin's Beard, watch it!!!

Story
Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn't so easy.

Credits
A film by: Benjamin J. Kousholt, Daniel D. Christensen, Mads Lundgaard Christensen, Jesper A. Jensen, Jonas K. Doctor, Steffen Lyhne, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen, Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen, Jonas Georgakakis

Beginnings

"Hear me, all ye hallowed Beings, both high and low . . ."

As many of you know, I've been working to become published for a while.  On December 30th, it happened.  "Hell to Pay" will be seen in pixels for the E-reader crowd sometime in August.  So in these infant stages, brag that you personally know an author.

I will be posting new things here at http://www.fatherthunder.blogspot.com/ as they happen, at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hell-to-Pay-William-Brian-Johnson/270223159609 and at http://www.ruminationsofthunder.blogspot.com/ as I'm storm chasing and attempting to market.

2011 will be a prosperous year.  Even if the moon turns blood red, the birds fall from the sky, the fish die, and earthquakes occur.  Wow.  If we can make it through this Apocalypse/month, we'll be groovy.