Holy mackrel!

Yea, you read the title properly. Holy mackrel!
This image shows activity on A Christmas Tale, The Lost History of Michael McDonald's activity as of late. At this moment oin time, as an author, I am sought out as much as some of the big names in the industry. It may only last a day, but I'll take it. Should see some good sales out of this.

Ego trip

05/20/2016                             Return to Scribbleworks Publications

Well, as of today we have been offering this title for free on Smashwords for almost a month now. Pick up a lot of downloads and one review thus far. It was positive and I'm glad. The ego needs to be stroked once and a while to make all the work of writing to be worth while. Starting today, this title is now being offered for free on Amazon. I went on facebook to tell everyone I know about it.

The ego is a funny thing. Everyone needs it once and a while to bolster their presence on this planet. Artists need it to push themselves to deliver more performances or better ones. Now that I have a very positive review under my belt I want more. Before today I told myself I would be happy with one. (Me chuckling.) Yea right.

Cover art for the Lost History of Michael McDonald

04/19/2016                             Return to Scribbleworks Publications

I'm glad to report that we have some nice free sales going on right now. Free and sales shouldn't be in the same sentence but in this market anything that someone goes and acquires off the site is considered a sale, free or not.

I'm happy to report that the cover art is finally attached to the Smashwords site which will trickle down to iTunes, Barnes & Nobel, and the many other sites all around the world. The only one that's different is Amazon. That site is offering the same book but the cover is different, something I thought I would try.

This cover art is very simplistic. I have found that the trade is moving in this direction so I tried this one out to see if I get any press from it. Let me know what you think of it.

Also, I've been noticing a trend with people buying books and not leaving any feedback. Please, please, leave some kind of comment. Good or bad all of it is important.

Thank you.

We are live

04/14/2016                             Return to Scribbleworks Publications



A Christmas Tale, The Lost History of Michael McDonald is now available on Amazon and Smashwords. iTunes and other retailers of book will come online with this title later. As of this release, there was a problem with the cover art on Smashwords. Don't fret... its will be fixed soon.

At the moment, the title is free on Smashwords. I decided that I will keep it that way to "Get it out there"for two weeks. So now's the time to scoop it up and tell all your friends!

Introduction of the next book in the A Christmas Tale series

04/05/2016                             Return to Scribbleworks Publications



Welcome,

I've been preparing the first book of my many recent manuscripts to hit the internet book shelves. You should expect to see the first one to land on Amazon around the end of next week or the beginning of the next, before April 22, 2016 anyway. I'm working on the cover art and the book jacket write up. I may do a final read through although I'm pretty certain that I can't edit it anymore. (After you read it to many times it's hard to find the little smallest of things that need to be fixed.)

The title to look for is A Christmas Tale, the Lost History of Michael McDonald. I know I wrote a title similar to this, A Christmas Tale, and I'm not going to lie, it is a continuation of that same story, only forty years later. The whole story reads like a love story woven into the past of a man named Michael McDonald and woman named Denise McConnally. Those that read the first story already know the lost history of Michael. Its rather short and is available already on Amazon and all the other sites that sell digital books.

This new work of fiction explores how what happened to him when he was five affected his whole life. When Michael receives the Christmas gift, a simple box filled with sand, it becomes his turn to have his whole life turned upside down to discover love and the a past he can only remember as a repeating nightmare where a monster chases him in an attempt to devour him.

Just as the first book this one takes place in its entirety over the seven days before Christmas where his Christmas truth unfolds a little at a time over the seven days promised to him.

Denise McConnally is a woman who has been alone for to many years after a bad divorce. Michael is the best friend who helped her through all the bad years and it's her turn to help understand and discover a past she almost forgot about that includes him.

Denise had a grandfather that received the magic trick disguised as the Sandman the year following Michael's amazing journey. She had no idea until the magic came to her. She never knew she and Michael were connected as far back as children. In her discovery, she learned that this same magic trick changed her grandfather's life. He passed away as part of his Christmas truth. Her bitterness over his loss holds her back.

Michael is the lynch pin in this years Christmas truth. So many are affected by what he learns and he and Denise become closer than ever before because of it. It will make your heart sing after reading this loving tale.

Where I've been.

03/24/2016                             Return to Scribbleworks Publications



My God. It's been a very long time since I posted something new. Yea! Welcome back to me. So you must be wondering what I've been up to? Well, some of this and some of that. You know writing and editing. I guess the secret has to come out at some point. I've been trying to come across as this big shot at Scribbleworks Publications but really I'm just little ole Patrick Meservier trying to promote my books.

You know, this is a difficult business as a writer and publisher all in one. You're either just screaming out your works to be noticed or you're holed up trying to get some privacy to write. So let's ask the question again, What have I been up to since October 2014?

Writing and writing. On top of that writing some more. That doesn't count the fact that I hold two jobs or that in February of this year, a pickup truck crashed into my house... Yes, you heard me correctly, my house. What a mess, oh not the house so much but the insurance company. I could write a blog about how terrible it is to work with insurance companies. And if I get started I will get off track for about three years in my crazy rant that's been building up inside me.

So, what have I been writing? Well, it goes something like this. I'm a bit of a write-aholic. I don't go to meetings to manage it or anything like that but it follows the same line like as drinking or drug use, or heck lets have some fun here, sex addiction. Wouldn't that be a fun thing to have a problem with? When you fall off the wagon, one dives in head first with no ambition to crawl back out. So I dove into my big box of ideas and went nuts. I made my mind go crazy with ideas, story lines, sub plots, and DIALOGUE! Oh yea, the single item that can bring a fine character from mediocre un-freak-en believable.

Yea, I've hit bottom. Not that I'm out of ideas, just that I'm tired. My focus has been so great that I almost blocked out a good part of my daily life. I think the house accident brought me back though. Maybe there should be some organized meeting for this kind of problem, or med's I could take? Just kidding. Who wouldn't want to be this creative once and a while. Now I can stand back and polish what I built with my two brain cells and admire it for a while. So what did I write?

Well... I finished this major manuscript that is enormous, over 225,000 words worth, that's right... A quarter of a million words. Its the third installment of "Joan Darcy & the 27 Observer, The Stone of Arrconne." Then I started a story I wrote in my head many years ago called the the invisible car race. It's about a race that crosses the country with new car designs, technologically. It's about engineers and all the fun stuff that could go into a car race. Its exciting, fast paced, and on each race car is a laser weapon. That was so much fun to lay down on paper, that at the end I couldn't stop writing it. My mind felt like a fire hose and my fingers couldn't put it down fast enough. My computer keyboard burned. Sorry... Forgive the pun.

After that I revisited my story called a Christmas Tale. I put it on this blog every holiday because of my Christmas spirit of wanting to share it. It is a short story that has an emotional quality to it that makes it great. It takes place at Christmas. However it isn't very marketable. There are not a lot of companies that want to publish holiday stories. Since I was off the wagon so to speak, I assembled a new story where the central part of the story is that same short story I wrote so many years ago, but now its a love story. Holy Anna... I thought it was good before, it jumps off the page now. However this is not a short story anymore. This is a full length novel. Because of the way the story is told, it repeats itself from year to year with different charters and on that thought I thought of the next segment in this story. I was going to only leave notes for another day but I couldn't let it go and I wrote another full length novel. This one even longer and just as fantastic.

Wow... Here I go again. I was just supposed to leave something short here to let our reader know that I didn't die, and BAM! Maybe I do need meds.