Glennville books from Dell Sweet book 9: Zero Zero
Another new Glennville book, except this was actually written 40 years ago. It is the first novel I wrote. It is the novel that inspired me to re-write it when it seemed I had lost it permanently years ago. Because of The Way Back Machine I was able to find it, download it and eventually re-publish it. After I found it a printed version I had given to my brother after a TOR submission I backed out of re-surfaced a well. To me that means it meant to be found and published.
So, this is the very first book I wrote, set in the fictional town of Glennville. I hope you enjoy it, Dell Sweet…
Zero Zero
Far below the small city of Glennville New York, Richard Pierce sat working before an elaborate computer terminal. Two more days tops, he thought, and then maybe I’ll get out of this dump. #Armaggedon #Apocalyptic #Horror
I
decided to write about what I have written. It might surprise you to
know what I have written and published, and what I have written that
remains unpublished at this time and may always remain unpublished…
Outrunners:
I would love to start out by saying I am done with the first Earth’s
Survivors Outrunners book, but I am not. It has about 50 pages to go,
maybe. I say maybe because I have cut the story down twice and it has
still ballooned, right now about 111,000 words. With 50 pages left
to proof, and the ending as yet unwritten, only suggested with a few
hundred words, I am unsure where it may end up. I do know that it
will finish up some time tomorrow, I will do a read through, and then
it will go to the editor when she is ready for it. I would say some
time toward the end of the month it should be ready. I will give it
away for a weekend and then it will settle into its place. That will
determine whether there will ever be another Outrunners book. But, I
am sure there will be though. It is a really good story.
The
story-line (No spoiler here) will take us back to March and the
beginnings of the whole thing. We will not be back with our familiar
friends, Mike, Candace, Patty, Ronnie, Bob and the rest of the eight
though. Instead we will be somewhere else with other characters. By
the end of the book we will have come up to current series time, IE:
to the same place that Earth’s Survivors Book Three ends, and a
little past that. So that when Earth’s Survivors Book Four comes out
this fall the Outrunner team will be in place and known by you,
whether you read both book series or not. That is because you could
get by with the description and brief introduction of some of the
characters from the Outrunners book at the end of Earth’s Survivors
Book Three. You could pick enough up through the balance of book four
to get an idea of who they are.
So,
the upthrust is, you do not have to buy one to understand the other.
There are other books planned where they will bleed together. There
are two that I can think of where they will be in the same time line
exactly. But, with very few exceptions the characters are their own.
The exceptions are Mike, Candace, Ronnie, Patty, Bob, Janet, Lilly,
Annie and Tim, Tom and occasionally a few other minor characters from
the Earth’s Survivors main series showing up in the Outrunners books.
This is because the Outrunners work for the Nation. They are part of
the Nation. They protect the nation, and so there will be some back
and forth. Of course Donita will be in both series as she plans to
kill the nation and bring them into her own armies, and she will be
in constant conflict with Bear and the other Outrunners.
The
main focus of the Outrunners series will be the battle with the dead,
the other living factions, and keeping the Nation resupplied. These
are meant to be fast paced action based stories. There are six more
Outrunners Books written at this time.
As you can imagine, Bear, Cammy, Beth, Billy, Pearl* and Donita will be in the main Earth’s Survivors series as well. I believe I explained that well. At least I hope I did not confuse you. *As yet you have not met Pearl. She is from the UK and is introduced in the first Outrunners book near the end. I can’t say much more about the circumstances, except Pearl is a permanent character in the Outrunners series.
America The Dead: America The Dead is the third leg of the Earth’s Survivors series. It is written. Six books worth of it. America The Dead was available for a very short time, but was never actually sold. This is a series that occupies the same time line as Earth’s Survivors, and they do eventually meet one another, but a very long way into the series for both series of book. There is approximately a half million words written for this series. Her it is on KOBO, America The Dead.
Earth’s Survivors: Book four will be out in the fall of this year. Book four, and the books that follow, will concentrate more heavily on the community and the lives of the people as they rebuild their world. Yes, there will be dead, wars, action, but the main overall focus will be on the people and their lives in the valley and where ever else they may find themselves.
Eve:
Eve is a small two book series that really focuses on the struggles
of a small party as they try to stay alive in the changed world. They
are in the same circumstance as Earth’s Survivors, except some ten
years in the future when we come to know them. These two books are
intense people books. They never cross lines with the Nation unless
there is some point in the future that I have not yet written.
Yeshua:
One of the
things time alone will do for you is cause you to examine your self.
Your motivations. What you truly believe in. I did that. I found
there was a great deal of myself that was not worth keeping. I found
that I had fairly strong beliefs. I also found that I don’t believe
everything I am told. So, I sat out to be able to understand enough
Greek, Latin, and Chaldea to be able to read the actual biblical
translations and decide for myself what they said. Easy. That
is sarcasm, Sheldon.
Ten years later I had a
book. My own translation of the bible. It took a very long time to
write. It deals only with the New testament and nothing else. I do
not know if I will ever publish it. I do know that before I do three
ministers I know will read it. I do not want to be mistaken when it
comes to God.
Short Stories: Dozens and Dozens of them. I will publish them in volumes. There are currently 24 books of writing that has to be transcribed. That is not counting Lyrics, Poetry, etc. Borderline Collection
Space Travel: I have a series of short stories that lead to a space novel. It’s there, someday I’ll finish it. Begun! Rocket – Base One
Dreamer’s Worlds: Three more books in the Dreamer’s Worlds series are written. I currently have no plans to publish them. Book One
Glennville: There are three more Glennville novels finished. The one presently published give glimpses of the city: The Great Go-Cart Race and The End Of Summer. The last two are short stories. The next book is Fig Street.
The
Editor: Yes. There is an editor now. She is very good. She
has the right to put her name in the books as she edits, I don’t know
that she will do that though. You may never hear about her again
except as you read you should find no mistakes in the books. I had
hoped for this solution a few months back, waited, but it did not
happen. It actually has happened now. She is working on Earth’s
Survivors One right now and will go down the line, including new
books as I finish them. I will not bug her, hurry her, I will just be
grateful for her.
And,
the last word on writing: I will attempt to answer the why
of the writing, or at least the most often asked question.
“Why, if you have written all of these novels, don’t you simply publish all of them?”
A
few reasons. The first direct answer, is that all of them are
written, but they are written in longhand. In composition notebooks.
At the time it worked for me. But the problem now is to get them from
that long hand and into a word processor format that can be
published.
I
have tried a few ways of doing this. I thought the easiest would be
Speech to Text. (You can’t hear me but I am laughing). (I am laughing
hard). Let’s say that if the speech to text software improves at some
point in the near future I will try it again, but thus far my
experience has been poor to say the least. (I think you can find more
on that in one of my blogs)
Second, more involved answer: They are complete novels. Start to finish, but, as I re-write them into the word processor, I jump right back into that story and the story grows. It is a creative process. There is not much I can do to speed it up. I can sit down and write a fresh story in about two weeks start to finish. I mean a 75k to 100k novel. It may not be perfect, but it will be complete, in need only of editing and regular re-writes. Reading my own crappy handwriting, and then typing the story in with revisions, however, takes me about a month. I sometimes think it would be better to just write a whole new book. IE: That is exactly what I did for the first Outrunners Book. There was no Outrunners book that explained the characters origins. I wanted one. So, I sat down with the first Outrunners Mission book to write it, instead I wrote the new story that introduces the characters. I was pretty happy with it, but you can see how the time gets spent.
The
third thing is, what to write? Should I write only Earth’s Survivors
books because there are fans and the books pay the bills? ‘Yes, I
tell myself, do that.’ but then there are other books that
speak to me. So, I am trying to fairly split these books up. Most
authors offer one or two books a year, I have given three Earth’s
Survivors books this year, and you will have the Outrunners book,
which is also an Earth’s Survivors book, and you will get one more
Earth’s Survivors book before the year is out, so, five. And, as long
as there is a demand from you for those books I will write them. In
fact, if there were no demand I would write them. That is how I wrote
the first twenty.
There
were two guys who gathered to listen to my stories about the end of
the world. Two guys. That was it. Before them there was only me. I
had to like it, get into it, to write it. In a creative writing class
I took, there were about six people that showed up on a regular basis
to class. We read each other stories, short stories only, and
encouraged each other to write.
My
point is, I think some people who read books, think writers sit down
and write for them. And, in a sense we obviously do. If you didn’t
like what we write we would be back working our old jobs, mine would
be a carpenter, singer/song writer, in a minute. But, we don’t really
do that at all. Our first fan is us. I have to like what I write or
it will not come to me. I think a blog I wrote a week or so ago gets
into the creative process and how it works for me. It really comes to
a miracle. I have no real way of knowing how the process works. I
only know it does work. And I know the first fan is me. Then maybe a
few people I trust, and it goes outward from there. And then, once
the process has come to fruition, I try to write for you, try to
write what I believe you want to read, but it comes out as it comes
out.
So,
that is the longer explanation. Because, when I sit down to write,
what comes to me comes. Like sitting down with the first Outrunners
book and then writing a whole new novel. Just stick with me though,
I will write it all out, and I will listen.
Other
Things: IE, A little humor
Rain and New York: The rain in New York this year has been ridiculous. It seems that the only time it isn’t raining is when the humidity is 98% and the temp is 89 to 99 and it’s getting ready to rain, and you can’t move without melting. Arrgg. Oh, and when it’s drizzling, which I believe is rain, but I was warned is not called rain, but drizzle, therefore may not actually be rain. Hmm. And…
Six billion cable channels: I have noticed that although I have six billion cable channels there is nothing at all to watch. Unless I like cooking shows, selling shows, reality shows, basketball, baseball, football, Girlfriend/Wives shows, guys with 70’s hairdos selling music from the, surprise, 70’s. Um sitcoms from the 60’s 70’s or 80’s, oh and 90’s too. Um, tractor pulling, Bear hunting, NASCAR racing, witch hunting, alligator wrestling, speedboat racing, and some stuff that I pause and go What the Hell is that, as I’m going by. Doctor Phil, Price is Right, Jerry Springer, Katie, Holy God, the list just goes on and on.
So,
I said to myself, why can’t I find something out of all of that to
watch? But the answer is clear, IDHTC Envy. IDHTC Envy is a very real
thing. It is propagated by the cable network of course, because it
pays them to do it. IDHTC Envy, (I don’t Have That Channel Envy) is
a rough deal. Here’s how it gets me.
I know I don’t get HBO, CINEMAX, ENCORE and a sixty-two thousand other channels. Okay. Great. I don’t get them. I’ll just go look at the ones I do get. But, on the way to the channels I do get, I happen by the channels I don’t get, and I see all the really great stuff they have that I don’t get. Never mind I get all the Showtime channels. Sundance. IFC, Free Movies on Demand, NETFLIX, The Movie Channel and the LMN movie channel-More about that channel. I mean, how many movies can there be about a guy who screws over a woman, and she ends up paying him back? Tracking him down and bringing him to justice. I mean, do all men do these things? Apparently dozens and dozens of them do, because that is all that LMN shows. Oh, and I get the second LMN channel that shows all the other movies like that the first channel doesn’t have time to show, because, alas, there are only twenty-four hours in a day, thank you, God.
Where
was I? Oh, so, I do get good channels (Excluding that channel and
channels I like to think of as the wacko channels. I’ll just shut up
about those channels, but we all know they are there). But, I get
good channels too. However, every time I go by HBO or Cinemax I tell
myself… DON’T LOOK! DON’T LOOK! And I try not to look, but I
have to know what channel I’m on as I pass, right? And I see it… It
doesn’t matter what, only that it’s something better than what I get
on the channels I can watch.
So then I get depressed and dive right in. Torture myself going through all the channels I don’t get. I click on them anyway. “Click to buy !,” the screen says. I chicken out. I have better uses for my $7.95 I tell myself. But, I have looked. Now I can not go back to the same old, same old.
Oh,
I will go and watch my sub-standard movie on the channel I get, but
all the time my heart is lusting after the movie I saw the
description of on the other channel I don’t get. Why, I ask myself?
Why Why Why!
So,
I decided in the end, I have plenty to watch, I am simply suffering
from IDHTC. I take an aspirin and watch Grapes of Wrath for the
fifteenth time. I can really feel for the Joad’s, I’m suffering too.
If Henry Fonda only knew.
That’s
my week here, except the rain, which never seems to stop. I am pretty
sure it will though about the time the snow starts flying…
Have a good week…
ADS
Apocalypse
The sun is down all the way here. I went back upstairs. Nothing on the horizon. That time of evening when the sun is down and the moon has yet to rise. Very dark. Can’t see anything in any direction. Thought they must be all sleeping in the barn, but I heard some movements out near where I… Never mind what I did there, I’ll get to that soon enough, I guess. I only heard it once, but I know damn well it’s one of them… Some of them… https://books.apple.com/us/book/apocalypse/id963866999 #Apocalyptic #Horror #Zombie
OR
Glennville #4 Alabama
Alabama: She drew a breath another and suddenly the noise and smells of the world rushed back in completely. The screams became louder. Horns blared. The ground trembled under her feet as if restless. #Apocalypse #EndTimes https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1565456831
Glennville #1: Fig Street: Under the city of Glennville a series of caves cut from the limestone by the Black River attract visitors: Something lives in the cold, dark caves. Something some have refused to believe… #Horror https://books.apple.com/us/book/fig-street/id1532766082
Glennville book series on Kobo by Dell Sweet and W G Sweet
Fig Street W. G. Sweet Book1
Under the city of Glennville a series of caves cut from the limestone by the Black River attract visitors, children, some have entered and never come out; maybe lost, maybe part of Glennville’s secrets… #Horror #Crime #WGSweet https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fig-street
The End of Summer Book 2: The summer of 1969 was winding down. The warm air held a smell 13 year old Bobby Weston couldn’t quite identify but nevertheless acquainted with going back to school. An end of summer smell, he decided. #summer #DellSweet https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-end-of-summer-2
The Great Go-Cart Race Book 3: The summer of 1969 in Glennville New York had settled in full tilt. The July morning was cool and peaceful, but the afternoon promised nothing but sticky heat. #Summer #DellSweet https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-great-go-cart-race
Alabama W. G. Sweet Book 4:
Just after Joel began to lower the rifle the Suburban’s headlights suddenly flicked on and the rear tires spun on the slick pavement smoking and screaming as they clawed for purchase… #Apocalypse #EndTimes https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/alabama-18
Genesis Earth: Armagedddon by W. G. Sweet Glennville #5
Joe: WHAT? His mind cried out in alarm as his eyes watched the shining flat arc sweep towards him.
Genesis Earth: Gods & Devils by W. G. Sweet Glennville #6
Genesis Earth: Gods and Devils is the second book in a trilogy of books that document the plight of the peoples of the Earth as she faces a mighty battle of super powers. #Apocalyptic
A Bad Day For Billy #8: Billy sat up and scratched his head. It was late, he’d slept pretty well. He had awakened once when he heard an ambulance down the road, or cops, or whatever it had been. #Glennville #Crime https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-bad-day-for-billy
