The Altar of Teeth Has Been Removed

Greetings,

I have pulled all my posts relating to the Altar of Teeth. Starting in August, I plan on publishing this story on Amazon, so I figured that it would be a good idea to remove the chapters from this blog. I will keep any readers apprised of the situation as the process moves along.

Thank you for all your support!

-- Jim.

Rakshasi

On Friday, August 16th, 2013, I successfully published my first novel, Rakshasi, on Amazon.com. Currently, the novel is only available on the Kindle, and on Kindle readers. I have set the price at $2.99, which I feel is appropriate for my first novel. Please check it out, and if you buy and read Rakshasi, please submit a review to Amazon, good or bad. And, more importantly, tell your friends.

http://www.amazon.com/Rakshasi-ebook/dp/B00ELL3R3G/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_JFM8

Thank you to all those who supported me during the writing of this novel, and the drafting of all the novels that didn't make it. And thank you to all those, past, present, or future, who spend their hard earned cash on my book. I hope it is worth it.

Jim.

Excerpt from Rakshasi by James F. Lydon, Jr.

Excerpt

Suddenly, Tug began barking. The sharp sound surprised everyone, and made the men jump. Tug stood and darted into the darkness before Preston could react to try to restrain him. The men grabbed their rifles or drew their revolvers and they clambered up from where they sat around the fire. The beams of their electric torches shined ahead of them as the moved away from the camp. Tug’s barking never got too far away, and they found the dog near the crater between the pool and the steps, barking at the massive temple. The men moved their flashlight beams all over the steps and the building, though they were reluctant to get closer because they still had not evaluated the stability of the crater’s edge.

“He is definitely barking at something in that building,” Sir John said. He did not hold a flashlight, but held his rifle to his shoulder and aimed it wherever the light beams touched. He looked over his shoulder at Cadwick. “Maybe it is a tiger …”

Cadwick swallowed and his light beam began to waver a little.

All the men seemed bothered, to some degree, but not overly. They were all confident in their numbers and their arms, thinking that even if it were a large predator, they would be able to drive it off or kill it. Their blood ran cold, however, when Preston made a keen observation …

“No, he’s not,” he said, lowering his flashlight so that it shown on the crater, then on Tug. The dog was angling his head down, not up. “He’s not barking at the building … he’s barking at the hole. Something’s in the hole.”

NaNoWriNo Winner!

Today, I became just one of the many winners of National Novel Writing Month. I completed a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. My total was actually 57,371 words in twenty-eight days.

The name of the novel is Rakshasi, and I will post an excerpt in a few days. Thank you to all the people who supported me this month! And thank you NaNoWriMo!

www.nanowrimo.org


SYNOPSIS:
The year is 1922. A small expedition travels through the dense tropical forests of India in search of a long lost shrine. When they arrive, they find ancient ruins haunted by a legendary horror.

Upcoming Internet Novel

Starting this weekend, I will be posting an Internet novel on this blog. I will post each chapter in order, but I will number them appropriately in the label column with a numbered acronym, so that they can be accessed and read chronologically in later months. I will try to have a chapter out at least every two weeks, but I have never been known for my punctuality.

The novel will be a pulp action/horror work. I hope you enjoy.

Welcome

Greetings and welcome. This is my blog dedicated to my fiction. I tend to write in the horror genre. I hope that you find my work sufficiently creepy. Please enjoy.