Bøger af Terry Persun

After Fred Lancing retired from the Air Force, he took a peaceful job as janitor at New York City's top detective agency, Detective Ink. When one of the detectives hands Fred a case as a cruel joke, Fred's boredom with his job and his life gets the best of him. Denying all the dangers and problems he might find himself engaged in, Fred elects to see if he can solve the case. The entire collection of the Detective Ink interlocking stories can be found in one package. The PRIME FIVE authors include Jeff Ayers, Mimzi Schradi, Michael Hiebert, Susan Wingate, and Terry Persun.

A bold and raw study of the human condition. Readers will instantly see themselves and their friends and family in this bravely written novel. Because it explores love, hate, sex, and passion in a way that exposes the truth, this book is hard to put down once you've started reading. When Jack and Silvia introduce their workmates and their spouses and girlfriends at a party, they have no idea what problems will transpire. And when a mentally unstable man acts out his sexual fantasies for one woman while threatening the life of another, only one thing can happen. IPPY AWARD WINNER ("Sweet Song", 2012) For fans of Joyce Carol Oats, James Salter, Jim Harrison, and E.L. Doctorow

Noot, Zimp, and Storret, the crow, run for their lives, while attempting to have a sacred vigil for the loss of their fellow doublesight. But with ransoms on their heads, who can they trust? After the battle at Castle Weilk, the doublesight split up and hide from the humans. Once again, they are hunted down and murdered, only this time more aggressively, and with bounties on the heads of key individuals. Noot has lost touch with his long-time friend and cousin Zimp, and searches for her inside the castle walls-the most dangerous place of all. On a sacred mission of her own, Zimp along with Storret, her crow companion, decide to travel Tortuous Road back through Brendern Forest where her quest originally started. Captured by bandits, Noot and Zimp wait to be traded for King Belford's ransom when help arrives in the form of an unlikely doublesight clan. A solemn time in her life, Zimp never expects to find the one person she was almost positive was dead. His presence (and damaged condition) pushes Zimp forward more forcefully, and she becomes determined to find a place where she and other doublesight can live in peace.

A battle is emerging between the doublesight and the humans. As the two armies build their strength, the bear clan visits the doublesight's council grounds hoping to help. When their attempt is thwarted, they must decide on a new plan. Zimp and Lankor head for memory tower while being chased by the harpies, and warriors from Castle Weilk. As they travel, their romance grows into something stronger than either of them had realized. In the mean time, King Belford struggles to gain control of his armies so that he can destroy as many doublesight as possible. Memory tower has a lot more to teach the doublesight than they can even comprehend. What is inside this strange tower? Why are the gargoyle statues crumbling? What does any of it mean for the doublesight? Zimp and Lankor meet with the rest of the doublesight army only to find that there are growing disagreements between members. With internal turmoil, the doublesight still believe they have no choice than to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the rest of their kind. Through multiple points of view, MEMORY TOWER keeps the reader engaged, curious, and eventually surprised.

"Lately fantasy rarely surprises and seldom delights, but Terry Persun's novel Doublesight does both and more. Richly textural, complicated in character, and presenting a world unlike any other, this debut imbues new blood into the genre. It is a stunning fantasy for the new millennium."--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series"Persun's captivating new fantasy raises the art of shape shifting to a new level. Enter the world of Doublesight where man and animal are one. A fresh adventure awaits!"-- Janet Lee Carey, bestselling author of DragonswoodNow part of Kindle Worlds' fan fiction site. After the Doublesight Wars, dangerous and cruel shape shifters were killed off by the humans. To protect themselves, the other doublesight decided to hide their gifts and congregate into their own villages or clans, and avoid humans. Now new rumors, of violent and dangerous doublesight--gryphons, harpys, dragons--have again riled the humans. The twin granddaughters of the crow clan's sage, Zimp and Zora, are the last descendants of their powerful shapeshifting family and must help guide their clan. The reticent Zimp is relieved when her sister is chosen to take her grandmother's position instead of herself. When the clan is attacked, Zimp finds Zora murdered. Now Zimp is forced to take over her sisters responsibilities and lead the clan. The doublesight council assembles to assess the situation with the rumors and they decide to send a team to investigate. This team the council decides will be led by Zimp, and now Zimp must find a way to lead four strong and difficult men in order to help save her people. Struggling with her own shamanic visions and astute intuition, and trying to hold a stable position as leader, Zimp finds herself in the center of a changing world full of sorcery and must decide on her real place within it...

A missing person, an evil entity, and New Orleans come together in this suspense filled thriller. Is the government involved in yet another strange paranormal case? The shaman detective, Dan Johnston, and his son Jason, are asked to find Sam Bennett, who investigates paranormal activities for the government. But the government didn't call the detectives. Sam's wife, Ann, contacted them. For some reason, she doesn't want anyone else involved, which puts Dan on alert. When Dan and Jason get to New Orleans-the last place Sam was working-they find a peculiar situation already underway. Ann may not be exactly who she says she is. And an old psychic tries to protect her granddaughter from Dan and Jason, as well as Ann. Then the curator from the Voodoo Museum is murdered, the police show up, and Dan and Jason are forced to do their shaman work in the worst place possible-Jail.

The chapbooks in this collection span from 1986 through 1996. During those ten years, I wrote and published literally hundreds of poems in little magazines and university publications across the country. I regularly entered chapbook contests and actually won a few. But, just as often, a small publisher would contact me and ask for 16 or 24 or 36 poems to create a chapbook. Those were great days, and I am eternally grateful to those publishers.Since chapbooks are typically published in very small runs of anywhere from 50 to maybe 250 copies, the chapbook poems collected here are no longer available in that wonderful format.I've tried to honor those chapbooks as best I could. So, to do so, I've included the original covers (only in black and white instead of color), and as much of the internal artwork as possible (also scanned in black and white). By including these pieces, I hope that the personal touch of the chapbook comes through even to a minor extent. Where the same poem showed up in more than one chapbook, I removed the second or third appearance from this collection. So, if you happen to have one of the original chapbooks, there may be a poem missing from this collection.

After two young boys find what they believe is a dinosaur egg, the military gets involved immediately. When aliens emerge from the eggs, Neil and Mavra are struck with a moral decision whether to allow the military to analyze the aliens or to help the aliens go free. Their travels eventually take them to Area 51, where Neil and Mavra are forced to come up with a foolproof plan to help the aliens. Neil is a detective who can think independently from both sides of his brain and Mavra is a psychic with uncanny powers. The government only wants to capture, secure, and research the aliens. Neil and Mavra know this will only put the aliens in greater danger. This is a lighthearted and fun book about what might happen if aliens were found here on Earth. It brings up morale as well as safety questions throughout that each character struggles with in his or her own way.

Abstract Writings is a collection of short storieswritten by Terry Persun through the 1970s,80s, and 90s. Many of these stories have beenpublished by small, idependent magazines anduniversity publications. The stories vary in length from short, flashfiction pieces of fewer than 500 words, tolonger stories of several thousand words. Theyhave been collected here for the first time.Written in a variety of genre styles fromscience fiction and horror to mainstream andliterary, the strangest stories are often the mostimaginative, and this collection has its share ofstrange stories. Overall, the stories have been collected so thatthere is a place for people to come and enjoynew and old stories by this author of varyingstyles. - Terry Persun is a five-time award winner, an Amazon bestselling author, and a wellrespected novelist and poet. He lives in thePacific Northwest.

Time traveling robots, a walking medical experiment turned detective genius, and a kidnapped psychic combine in a story that will tear at your heart and get your adrenaline pumping.the problem...When it comes to investigating missing objects, Neil Altman stands out. After all, his parents severed the two halves of his brain when he was a child and then trained him to use each half independently. The problem is that he doesn't believe in time machines, so Dr. Eric Steffenbraun's project, stolen or not, already sounds far-fetched.the proof...Video is hard to deny, but Neil isn't sure if the beings coming through the time machine are humans with masks or illegal humanoid robots. Besides, Dr. Steffenbraun could have faked the video if he feared the project was about to be cancelled.the complication...Neil's wife, Mavra, is a well-known psychic in the area, and believes that Neil could be in danger. Knowing how she can get involved even when asked not to, he includes her in on the investigation. His plan is to keep her out of harm's way. That is until she's kidnapped.the wildcard...Miles away from Neil and the time machine, Fenny is trained to think on his own. He's a utility robot with little understanding of what's going on around him except what Dr. Smedley Klein has taught him--for now. Things are about to change for Fenny once Revision 7 is installed.

Human trafficking kingpins, a shamanic sect, and a reluctant FBI team merge to stop Dan and Jason Johnston from doing their best shamanic work. Dan and Jason Johnston are called to work with the FBI on a human trafficking assignment, targeted at Native American teens. Agent Rafsky, who doesn't know why Dan and his son were called in on the case, and is skeptical of their skills, has her own way of handling things and would rather be left alone to do her job. A, long-ago friend of Dan's, is also involved, but now appears very suspicious. The whole operation is delicate and could result in failure as well as the deaths of some of the girls. Complications escalate once Dan realizes that other Shamans are involved. As the novel pitches Dan and Jason against dangers found while in altered states of consciousness, they also have to deal with skepticism and physical roadblocks from the FBI. Everything comes to a head when the FBI uses Jason to infiltrate the trafficking operation and gets found out. That's when Dan gets physically involved himself, putting him, Jason, and his friend in danger.

International Book Award Finalist Winner - If you enjoy edgy fiction, fiction with depth and bite, read the raw but sensitive "Ten Months in Wonderland" -- Airman Kevin Grayson, a happily married, nineteen-year-old family man, is deployed to an airbase in Udorn in the fall of 1973. He is completely unprepared for two things that will change his life forever: Thailand's seamy underbelly and Jerry, his dark mentor, who will lead him into a lifestyle he could never imagine. Thrust into the seedy world of hardcore booze, drugs, and sex, Grayson must face losing everything he holds dear and risk becoming trapped down the rabbit hole forever.

Unchecked emotions made the world outside Newcity dangerous, unruly, and violent. At least, that's the official story in Newcity....Within Newcity, everyone is content. Bad feelings are not allowed. To ensure harmony, a monitoring implant alerts the police to bring out-of-control residents in for treatment. Getting better is mandatory.Keith senses something is wrong, especially when he starts having some very unusual visions. Escaping Newcity, he finds freedom and friendship -- but learns the outside world isn't a safe haven, either. As things spin wildly out of control on all sides, someone has to figure out what's behind the insidious social control in Newcity before the outsiders really do turn destructive. Keith has leadership thrust upon him with only his visions for guidance. Can he and his friends stay alive long enough to save both Newcity and the outside world? "Cathedral of Dreams is a compelling tale of a dystopian future and personal heroism."

WINNER of the Silver IPPY AWARD Sweet Song is an archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post - Civil War America. Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own -- and passing for white. Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloonkeepers, musicians, businessmen, thugs, freedom loving idealists and malevolent racists -- a vivid panorama from America's past. This tender, raw, provocative novel speaks from the heart about where we've come from and who we are.

Who's murdering abusive husbands? After a series of murders, where men are found in empty houses with their skulls crushed, Deputy Sheriff Leslie Fuller and his partner Mae Belle Walker discover the connecting thread while investigating the widows of each of the men. Leslie and Mae Belle encounter everything from disbelief to disinterest in the deaths. The suspect count only increases as they broaden their scope and penetrate deeper into the community of possible suspects seeking revenge-from nurses to social workers. As the threats get closer to home, Leslie is lured into a trap which leaves him in even more dire circumstances. With heart wrenching decisions to make, while simultaneously hunting down the murderers, Leslie and Mae Bell pull the puzzle pieces together. But the whole investigation could easily fall apart when Deputy Fuller's family gets intimately involved in the case.

Secrets from the past overtake a young man who never knew his father. Will old wrongs destroy him or will he rebuild his life? Billy Maynard, raised by his mother and grandparents, comes home from college for the summer and meets Jack, an ex-con. When Billy's mother forbids him to speak with Jack, Billy wants to know why. The answers he unravels lead from deception to deception leading back to a terrible incident at the creek bend one spring night long ago. The truth about what happened, once uncovered, still has toxic effect on everything that Billy cares about. He will lose everything unless he can find the strength to transform a malignant past into a future of reconciliation and hope.Terry Persun is the recipient of the 2012 IPPY Award for his novel SWEET SONG.

Dying of cancer, lost in a snowy forest, Jim mysteriously connects with a deer and rediscovers love and nature's grace. A lyrical and insightful meditation on mortality and spiritual life, Giver of Gifts tells the story of a schoolteacher who has lost his daughter and becomes estranged from his family and his life. Now, facing untreatable cancer, he needs to rediscover how to give of himself. Alone in the forest on a winter's day, Jim has a mysterious encounter with a deer that gives him the key to reopen his heart to his wife and son, to reconnect with his own feelings and to share his deepened appreciation of nature and life.Terry Persun is the recipient of the 2012 IPPY Award for his novel SWEET SONG

A romantic triangle stretching between the past and present. Richard is devastated by his recent divorce, and heads to the mountains for solitude and reflection. When he happens upon an old carriage factory, vivid past-life experiences of him and his ex-wife drop him into a trance for several hours. Struggling to understand the connections between past and present, putting himself in danger, and a strained relationship with his ex-wife force Richard to dig deeper into his fluctuating and unsure emotions around the reasons for his divorce. There may be only one true way for him to live his life forward with freedom and understanding, but will he find it before it's too late?

Make Money Writing explains the key elements of how to make a living while freelance writing. It covers everything from the types of pieces magazines (online and print) are looking for, how to contact editors, and how to start your business. This is something I've been doing for over fifteenyears. I've actually been freelance writing(fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) for overthirty, but had a regular job for half that time.Many of those years, I was freelancing parttime, while working as the Editor-in-Chief ofseveral commercial and business-to-businessmagazines. So, I've been on both sides of thedesk: acquisitions as an editor, and pitching asa freelancer. I know this business well.

All these poems composed in a highly imaginativestyle have exquisite poetic thought that will certainly appeal to allreaders.

Ten must track down and stop rogue scientists behind the development of criminal technology in THE HUMANZEE EXPERIMENTS, the next installment of The 'Ten' Mystery Series!The International Security for Technological Innovations, a federal agency tasked with finding unsanctioned and unethical technologies that pose a threat to global safety, hires Ten to track down the scientists behind the creation and weaponization of chimpanzee human hybrids. His friend Maria, upon learning of the human trafficking involved, sets out to help Ten put a stop to the horrible hybrid production - and save the lives of innocent victims from these vile experiments.

The next installment in award-winning author Terry Persun''s The ''Ten'' Mystery Series!THE KILLING MACHINE follows the cyber detective and scientist known as Ten. He is assigned to work on a top-secret project for the government that is abruptly and mysteriously terminated. In a tragic twist of events, Ten learns that the agency he was working for is the very same government faction that ordered his wife to be killed, and is now hunting him down as well. It comes to light that six other brilliant scientists are also in the crosshairs.On a life-or-death mission to uncover the government''s deadly motives and seek revenge for the brutal murder of his beloved wife, Ten discovers that the top-secret application that he was working on has the potential to kill millions of people. THE KILLING MACHINE is the story of Ten''s fight to stop this deadly project and exact revenge on those who destroyed his life.

Carl just wants a home--on a new planet with Missy and their future children. He hungers for new memories, where home would have a true meaning, not just something their ship downloaded. Their sapient ship Argentina transverses the galaxy on an interplanetary harvesting and reseeding mission. Carl and the crew are dropped on a beautiful but host...

New from award-winning mystery author Terry Persun!After the murder of his wife and unborn child, the only time freelance tech investigator Ten feels alive is when he cuts himself. For the last few years, he has taken freelance investigative jobs. Some of those jobs have been with the government group that betrayed him, but is now run by a friend.There''s been an escape from a woman''s prison in Muncy. Ten is partnered with Maria Tanner, a friend intent on helping him repair his broken spirit and keep his mind busy. Before they know it, they''re thrust into a dangerous world of computer hackers, sexual assaults, small-town sex scandals, and multiple prison breaks.In this twisted mystery, everyone appears guilty of one crime or another with the edges of morality blurred. When he has been so wronged in life, how can Ten choose the right thing for others?