Here's a pre-order link to buy The Armageddon Two-Step, which is a very funny novel about truth and realty and a Catch-22 for our times: https://www.redbatbooks.com/store/p57/armageddon-with-gifts.html
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tThe latest addition-- a handmade version of a Telecaster built by Daniel Strack in Chicago. The gorgeous one in the middle. Very light. The body is ash and the neck is walnut. Today it got new strings courtesy of Shawn at Vintage Music in downtown Aiken SC.
It's nearly release time (Dec. 3) for my new novel, The Armageddon Two-Step, a comedy about reality and truth built for the Age of Trump, Available from Redbat Books. Likely the photo speaks for itself--Suzie Lucifer chillin' like a villain. Might be time for her to cut back on the cat treats.
Meanwhile, I hope I can interest people in buying my new novel, The Armageddon Two-Step, which is a literary comedy about truth and reality built for the Age of Trump. A Catch-22 for our times. Available from Redbat Books. --Michael Loyd Gray Well, this photo of Yoda Lucifer certainly came out a bit odd--but cool!
New novel out Dec. 3 -- The Armageddon Two-Step from Redbat Books Here's a look at a custom-built Telecaster, in its development phase, by Daniel Strack in Chicago. The finished product is on its way to me.
P.S. I have a new novel for sale on Dec. 3--The Armageddon Two-Step from Redbat Books. So, now that it's what passes for fall in sweaty South Carolina, Suzie Lucifer can spend more time surveying her Golden Realm outside from the vantage point of the back porch. She is especially fascinated by the squirrels and doves. And the pine cones that litter the huge backyard. Susie will pick one up and walk around with it in her mouth. Easier to catch than a mouse, for example. To the right is a street--Gin Street. I tell people I live at the corner of Gin and Tonic.
And by the way, I have a novel to sell. It's an absurdist comedy called The Armageddon Two-Step. It will be released Dec. 3 by Redbat Books. Where's the cat? Suzie Lucifer nearly disappears into the chair's pattern. It made me think of one of those picture puzzles. Suzie loves her chair and it's her vantage point to look out into the backyard and keep track of birds and squirrels. You can see bird seed just beyond the window, on the patio. Sometimes at night, with all the lights out, she sits there in her chair, a silent vigil underway. Maybe she sees raccoons, late at night, and they remind her of when we lived in Michigan and raccoons would come to the window to look her over.
My new novel, The Armageddon Two-Step, will be released on Dec. 3 by Redbat Books. So, just a thought on perception. I know that a few folks think this photo above is posed, but it's not. I have a friend who is a professional photographer and she did some shots for my first novel, Well Deserved. We were using alleys in Champaign, Illinois, for example, as potential locations. But the best shot -- to me -- was when we took a break in a cafe and she took the shot above as I was answering one of her questions -- caught, quite literally, in ponderous mid-thought. But not posed or attempted pretension! Still, it does look that way. Oh, well...
Above -- a custom built version of the famous Fender Telecaster, built by Daniel Strack in Chicago. It is complete now and ships to me this week. I'm excited. Dan built it from ash and walnut and it is expected to be very light--perhaps just six pounds. He chambered it to reduce weight. It's been eight weeks since it was commissioned and soon it will arrive and join the family of guitars -- and two cats!
New guitar in the house! To the right of one of my Telecasters, a new indulgence. I was at Vintage Music in downtown Aiken SC when I picked it up and felt how light it was and so I bought it. It's a Loar hollow body electric and sometimes you know that something feels right and you have to take it home. I suspect it was a reward of sorts to myself because I have been waiting several months for a handmade Telecaster that is being built by designer Daniel Strack in Chicago. The Strack Telecaster is supposed to be finished this week, I think, and ought to ship soon. Can't wait! It will be very light and feature a C profile neck reduced a little to make it a slim C profile. A good fit for my hands. If you enjoyed that look into my world of guitars, then also consider buying my novel The Armageddon Two-Step, which will be released on Dec. 3 by Redbat Books. The Armageddon Two-Step is a novel about reality and truth built for the Age of Trump; a comedic farce tinted with magical realism about a young man named Shelby Albert Goddard who saves the world and then must live with the consequences. --Michael Loyd Gray Blog and website: michaelloydgray.weebly.com |
AuthorMichael Loyd Gray is an author and a friend to cats, as well as a lifelong fan of the Rolling Stones, Chicago Bears, and Fender guitars. Archives
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