Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Slipped Masks:


Slipped Masks

ISBN: 9781719330640

Description:

I can’t call you because if he hears me talking on the phone he’ll hit me again. He scares me. I know sooner or later he’s going to kill me. I’ll text you again when I can. I love you, Casey. I’ll spend the rest of our lives proving to you how much I love you. Please come. Please save me …

With only text messages to guide him, Casey Byrne is on the hunt, racing across five states to save his ex-girlfriend, Madison.
Casey loves Madison deeply and wants desperately to save her life and rekindle their relationship.
But the closer he gets to her, the more surreal his journey becomes as the dead bodies pile up in his wake.

Clinical Lycanthropy: the delusion that a human can physically transform into a wolf.


If you were insane, would you know it?


How would you see the world if you were convinced you could transform into a wolf?


The hunter … and the hunted.


Slipped Masks is a dark neo-noir thriller about how the need for love and companionship becomes twisted into obsession, possession, jealousy, violence and murder.

A horrifying portrait of Clinical Lycanthropy.

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Themes:
Sociopathy, narcissistic abuse, personality disorder, Clinical Lycanthropy, crime, murder.

Book available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle.

A percentage from sales of this book is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

Work in progress:


My next books are Triangulation and Stinger.

Books 4 and 5 in The Breaker series.


Set in the year 2001, the story continues from Mall Maze.



Themes:


Crime, detective, hardboiled, heist, murder, narcissism, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, psychopath, sociopath, thriller, vigilante.

 

A percentage from book sales is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.


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The Breaker is an on-going series.


I’m outlining other stand-alone thriller novels.

Several coffee table books on my photography and my wife’s artwork.

A humorous book, based on the antics of our crazy pet Ragdoll cat, entitled: It’s That F****** Cat Again!



Here’s a GIF I made of our cat, settling down for another of his daily naps:

On this day in music history - Unspoken, by Jami Sieber (2008):


Unspoken

Album by Jami Sieber,
released April 22, 2008.

Track list:

Opening; Benediction; The River Between; Night Song; 6 O'Clock News; The Moon Inside; Listening; A Dialogue of Silk; Broken Open; Unspoken; Returning.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2005)
Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 / book (2019)


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 4. Episode 22.
Episode entitled: Unforgettable.
Released April 22, 1998.
Directed by Andrew J. Robinson.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Greg Elliot, Michael Perricone, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Michael Canavan, Virginia Madsen, Tarik Ergin.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4. Episode 18.
Episode entitled: In a Mirror, Darkly.
Released April 22, 2005.
Directed by James L. Conway.
Written by Michael/Mike Sussman.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Kevin Kiner, Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Vaughn Armstrong, Franc Ross, Alexandrea Ortiz, Craig Baxley Jr., Caroline Bielskis, Steve Blalock, Mark Correy, James Cromwell, Evan English, Cully Fredricksen, Peter Godoy, Glen Hambly, Noelle Hannibal, Scott Sterling Hill, Dieter Horneman, Yoshio Iizuka, Tamara Krinsky, Andrew Macbeth, James McElroy, Louis Ortiz, Paul Sklar, Pablo Soriano.


Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
By Ben Robinson, Marcus Riley, Simon Hugo.
Illustrated Handbook.
Hardcover.
Published by Hero Collector; Illustrated edition.
Published 2019.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1858755786
ISBN-13: 978-1858755786
Description:
Captain James T. Kirk's Original Starship Enterprise! Everything you want to know about this iconic starship in the FIRST full color volume ever published. Featuring details from both TV series and the first six movies.
This volume, featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A, is a detailed, illustrative account of the TV starship from the original 1966-1969 series, and the movie starship from STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979), STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982), STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984), STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986), STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (1989), and STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991). Plus, Captain Pike's Enterprise from the hit TV series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.
With isometric illustrations of all the key locations, annotated plan views, detailed technical information, Starfleet equipment, and uniforms and insignia, the chapters follow the starships through time and provide an extraordinary reference guide to these iconic Federation vessels.

Born on this day – Damien Broderick:


Damien Broderick


Writer

April 22, 1944 – April 19, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Man Returned (1965); Adrift in the Noosphere (2012); Alien StarSwarm / Human's Burden (2010); Beyond the Doors of Death (2013); Building New Worlds, 1946-1959 (2013); Centaurus (1999); Chained to the Alien (2009); City of the Tiger (2015); Climbing Mount Implausible (2010); Consciousness and Science Fiction (2021); Dark Gray (2010); Do Unto Others (2021); Earth Is but a Star (2001); Embarrass My Dog (2010); Fantastika (2014); Ferocious Minds (2005); Gaia to Galaxy (2012); Godplayers (2005); Human's Burden (2010); I'm Dying Here / aka I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? (2006); Intelligence Unbound (2014); Kingdom of the Worlds (2021); K-Machines (2006); Knowing The Unknowable: Putting Psi to Work (2015); Matilda at the Speed of Light (1988); New Worlds (2013); Not the Only Planet (1998); Other Spacetimes (2015); Outside the Gates of Science (2007); Perchance to Wake (2016); Philosophy's Future (2017); Post Mortal Syndrome (2011); Psience Fiction (2018); Quipu (2010); Reading by Starlight (1994); Restore Point (2012); Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012); Sorceror's World (1970); Starlight Interviews (2017); Strange Highways (2013); Striped Holes (1988); The Architecture of Babel (1994); The Black Grail (1986); The Book of Revelation (1999); The Dark Between the Stars (1991); The Daymakers (2014); The Dreaming (1980); The Game of Stars and Souls (2002); The Hunger Of Time (2003); The Judas Mandala (1982); The Last Mortal Generation (1999); The Lotto Effect (1992); The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013); The Qualia Engine (2010); The Ruined Queen of Harvest World (2011); The Sea's Furthest End (1993); The Spike (1998); The Time Machine Hypothesis (2019); The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc. (2015); The White Abacus (1997); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012); The Zeitgeist Machine (1977); Threshold of Eternity - The Novel (2017); Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order (2011); Transcension (2002); Transmitters (1984); Transrealist Fiction (1996); Uncle Bones (2009); Under the Moons of Venus (2021); Unleashing the Strange (2009); Valencies (1983); Valencies: A Science Fiction Novel (2013); Warriors of the Tao (2011); X, Y, Z, T: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004); Xeno Fiction (2013); Yggdrasil Station (2020); You're Not Alone (2014); Zones (1997).

Born on this day – Louise Glück:


Louise Glück


Writer

April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023

Credits:

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Books:

The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles (1885); Mock Orange (1985); Ararat (1990); The Wild Iris (1992); Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994); Meadowlands (1997); Vita Nova (1999); The Seven Ages (2001); Aboriginal Landscape (2013); Averno (2006); A Village Life (2009); Poems: 1962-2012 (2012); Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014); Firstborn (1968); American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017); Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021); The Drowned Children (1968); For Jane Meyers (1979); The Triumph of Achilles (1985); The Wild Iris (1992); The Red Poppy (1992); Nostos (1996); The Empty Glass (2001).

Born on this day – Marie-José Nat:


Marie-José Nat

Actress

April 22, 1940 – October 10, 2019