New Gold City

What would Janis say? There's a simple question at the end here for folks who have read Beyond the Will of God . When I started to seriously write Beyond the Will of God back in 1993, I knew where the book was going to take the reader. I knew that there were questions I've always had about altered states of consciousness and the power of music. I had some weird adventures late at night back in the 1970s. Adventures in my mind. Adventures that needed to be turned into an intriguing story. But I didn't know how to get the story to where I knew it had to go. [I promise there is no spoiler in this brief essay]. The first scene I wrote is part of the first third of the book. It came out of nowhere for me. I woke up one New Year's Day and sat down in front of my new Mac II. I wrote one sentence:  " His vision has that vibrating feel to it, like his eyes are being massaged with electricity."   A nd then another: "In the distance, through the humidity, ribbons o...

My first novel, Beyond the Will of God, is available for purchase at Amazon's Kindle Store. If you're looking for something different to read this summer, this book is for you. It's part thriller, part mystery, part paranormal speculation, and part science fiction. There's romance and sex, of course -- just enough. But the book also deals with big questions about life and the human mind. Click here to go to the Kindle Store page for Beyond the Will of God . As always, Amazon's sample pages are available for you to read. Check it out. If you don't have a Kindle or an iPad with the Kindle, you can download an App for your computer or smartphone right here. Buy the book now to take advantage of introductory pricing. It's a pretty good deal at $2.99. And I'd truly be grateful if you let your friends know about this offer. Send them the link to this web page or to the Amazon listing. Or share this with your social network.  Happy reading! David

My new novel,  Beyond the Will of God , is intended to remind readers of, or introduce them to, the playful, exotic, and mysterious elements of loud music that I believe we've forgotten.  Beyond the Will of God  seeks to thread the needle between serious mystery and quirky cosmic thriller. It is funky, humorous, and pathetically romantic -- the way we used to be back in the day.   The book gets its title from a line in the Jimi Hendrix song, "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)," : ...And you know good and well It would be beyond the will of God And the grace of a king. In many ways, this story is a murder mystery...but it's wrapped in the magic of music...and then rolled up into cosmic questions that we used to ask ourselves all the time. What is the relationship between mind and body? What is telepathy? Why is the truth about altered states of consciousness so delicate and hard to understand? Where is the communal power of music coming from? And what about the ps...