My First Fan Mail!

Everyone who's read my book so far has had nothing but good things to say. But most everyone who has read The Seventh Day so far have been friend and acquaintances. So their opinions are a little biased.

I was so excited last month I received an e-mail from a man I didn't know from Adam. He found my novel through my milblog, Graham's Journal. This is totally sweet. My first fan mail!

Out of idle curiousity I checked out your other log, "The Seventh Day," and man, I got to tell you, I was blown away. I was expecting to read just enough of the first installment to snort derisively at your efforts, and ended up getting totally wrapped up and literally couldn't put the thing down. I've been a big fan of PK Dick since High School (particularly his last 3x novels, and the whole Exegesis thing), and I was also reminded of William Gibson's "Neuromancer," and even detected a wink at Kilgore Trout I think. Anyway, whatever your inspirations I think you've transcended or incorporated them into something that is wholly original and clever, imaginative, and a damn pleasure to read.

Mark Dienstag
Brooklyn, NY

Thanks, Mark!

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Introduction

Hello, and welcome to the official website of my book, The Seventh Day, an end-times novel.

The Seventh Day is an apocalyptic techno-thriller that takes place in the near future, a world facing the rapid changes sure to come from biotech, nanotech, and artificial intelligence technologies. The back cover of the paperback says...

In the year 2030, Ransom Archer, a medical courier for The Seventh Day Corporation, finds himself miles above Earth in a space city, hiding from armed terrorists who seek his cargo, a thing of great value known only as "Beatrice." As his life flashes before his eyes, he relives the events that brought him to his current crisis.

Raised an Evangelical Christian, Ransom was taught to believe that The Rapture and Armageddon were nigh. But a tragedy that befalls his friend after a drug overdose leads him to question his belief in a loving God. His faith is challenged further by his relationship with Jesse Cohen-Moore, a "Superhumanist" agnostic college student who also believes that the end is near, but with a very different idea of the resulting eschaton.

Struggling with doubt, Ransom must contend with an internal voice which may or may not be the God in Whom he has lost trust. Soon, he will have to make a choice that will have consequences, not just for himself and the terrorists, but many more. Perhaps the entire world.

The Seventh Day is my first novel. I finished writing it last year, and had planned to try to sell it to a professional publisher or show it to a literary agent. But then something screwed up those plans. I was deployed to Iraq!

I wasn't going to allow myself to be discouraged by my situation. And I didn't have the patience to let my book sit and collect dust for a year or more. So I made the decision to self-publish my novel over the internet.

A slick 255-page paperback with a color cover is available from the good people at CafePress.com. You can order one for $17.00 plus shipping.

I've also made my book available for free, yes FREE, over the net. My book is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. For more information on CC licenses, go here.

You can download the book as a PDF file, an RTF file, or you can read the novel in this blog right here. Readers who read The Seventh Day in blog form may also leave their thoughts on this book, or a specific chapter, in the "comments" section.

Feel free to e-mail me any comments you might have. I'd love to hear any comments on my writing.

Enjoy!