I am pleased to announce that my latest novel, Carl Prescott and the Riddle of Satan’s Cube will be launched in Kindle and paperback versions on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Please check out the cover and back cover story below. I am also providing a link to the Amazon page in case you want a sneak peek. I sincerely hope you will find it as action-packed and riveting as I did.
Carl Prescott has been spirited away to Limbo, an emptiness of lost souls where the gods bicker and fight, but will not admit their failure. Even in this terrible place, our hero encounters oddly familiar spirits. When Aida and Sylvia come to help, Satan, the true Lord of Limbo, expels them to seal his ultimate triumph over God.
Carl Prescott and Aida Whitehall arrive in yet another universe with even more similarities to their own. This universe is almost dead, so they better hurry. The Sun will explode in days, and if they cannot stop Satan before then, the Cycle of the Universes will end, and Limbo will be our only future. Fortunately, Lord Zed arrives in time to help.
Satan’s Cube is a nonstop action adventure spanning all of creation from the beginning of time through its end, and beyond. Once again, the future will be determined by Carl Prescott’s actions. He must resolve the Riddle of Satan’s Cube, or existence will end, and we will all be eternally enslaved by the Evil One.
This story offers a unique look into the origins of existence itself. Of course, it is a fantasy, but I hope you read and enjoy it. All the best!
Carl Prescott and the Vengeful Gods will be published on February 11, 2020. To celebrate the launch of book three, the first two books will be on sale starting tomorrow, February 3rd. If you’re interested in a compelling fantasy with a strong sense of magic and wonder, this is your chance to try out something new and different. As a story written for the young adult fantasy genre, these tales are suitable for all but the youngest readers.
The stories are about four teens who have hidden talents that have begun to blossom. Those abilities put them in serious danger from others with similar yet opposite motivation. The pace of action and adventure accelerates from the beginning through the final chapters, with the outcome always in doubt.
As in #INDIE author, I hope you will check them out. Free previews are available on Amazon.com for all of my books. If you choose to read one or more of them, first thank you, and I would really appreciate your honest review. Of course, you can always reach out to me personally with any questions or comments. As well, you can follow me on my website and on Twitter to discover what else I am up to. With a price below $1.00, books one and two are really good deals. Happy reading!
I
deeply thank my host for this opportunity to discuss the crisis millions of
American patients in pain are facing—suffering because their prescription
opioids are being denied to them. In previous posts on my tour, I told readers
about our Valiant Veterans being denied their usual prescription narcotics for
their war-injury pain; about patients with all kinds of severe, lifelong
conditions being tapered to too-low-opioid-doses making them ineffective for
analgesia; and about the suicides of patients suddenly cold-turkeyed off their
years’-long effective opioids. It’s caused by the virulent actions of
government bureaucrats at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
the Veterans Administration (VA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA).
This
healthcare outrage is so severe that it’s spread from those once
long-effectively treated with prescription opioids for their chronic pain to
every conceivable painful condition—lifelong, somewhat-prolonged, and even
acute. You can now go to your local ER with a severe injury or painful
acute illness and be denied crucial, medically indicated morphine relief. Forget
about narcotic pain relief after surgery! Those government “OxyMORONS”
intimidated your surgeon. After your root canal, forget about opioid pain
relief! Those government Cold Turkeys “warned” your dentist. In
hospice or end-of-life care? Forget about your opioid analgesic! Got
cancer? Forget about your rightful opioid! Teenager in Sickle Cell
Crisis? Forget about your essential morphine infusion! My book reports
in-depth on these tortures affecting even children whose pediatricians are
being “cautioned” by non-medical government functionaries. Now
they’ve targeted your pets.
Besides
the feds, even local municipalities have been suing every legitimate,
scientifically based pharmaceutical manufacturer that has the temerity to
develop and market the opiates morphine and codeine and their analog opioids
(chemical spin-offs). To date, more than 1,200 suits have been filed against
Johnson & Johnson (Tylenol and Duragesic) and Purdue Pharma (OxyContin). It
robs these companies of funds essential for Research and Development of new and
better drugs, causing the inflation of prices for yours and my prescription
medications. This untreated pain causing epidemics of death from health
deterioration and suicides is being totally ignored by the CDC, the agency that
exists “to prevent epidemics.” Paradoxically, the CDC published
a clueless “guideline” for opioid-prescribing physicians that was
supposed to be a mere “recommendation,” but which morphed into fiat.
When
I learned of the terrible cost in human suffering and suicides the CDC, the VA,
the DOJ, and its DEA continue to inflict on some 50 million Americans, I became
distressed, tearful, angry, and determined to do something about this. As
both a registered nurse and a long-published medical-science and prescription-pharmaceuticals
writer, I felt it my duty to thoroughly research this catastrophe, to bring the
diverse facts together in a book, to expose our government agencies’ actions.
The result is American
AGONY: The Opioid War Against Patients in Pain, published by Fresh Ink Group. Many
related issues, plus patients’ and physicians’ personal stories, are quoted
throughout this 24-chapter book. It includes legal, legislative, and voting
solutions; 237 references; and a roster of heroines, heroes, and paincare
advocates whose voices are getting louder and louder, soon to reach critical
mass.
Thank
you to my host. I’m very much heartened by this invitation to share this vital
national medical emergency.
About the Author: Dr. Helen Borel wrote poetry and
played piano as a child growing up in two orphanages. She became a registered
nurse, then earned her master’s in creative writing. After 18 years as a
medical, psychiatric, and pharmaceutical copywriter, she published books,
literary criticism, satire, and fiction. She became a doctor in
psychoanalytical studies with her own website, PsychDocNYC.com. Always
outspoken for the underdog, her intense research is the basis for her
passionate expose of government wrongs and the legal rights pain victims must
assert. Find her at PsychDocNYC.com and on Twitter: @BorelMedWriter or
@PsychDocConnect.
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Book three in the Carl Prescott series arrives in just two weeks! At the end of book 2, Carl Prescott and the Demon Queen, our hero learned that even though it is not possible, the priest and priestess who had joined Sylvia in the group hug, did form a new universe. As book 3 begins, Carl learns that several of his friends and professors have been sucked through a wormhole and are now in the other universe. Carl Prescott volunteers to venture there as well in order to save them. Sylvia chooses to join him on his new quest. Here is the description from the back cover:
When Carl Prescott stopped Sylvia, the Demon Queen,
from destroying our universe, he sincerely believed his life could get back to normal
again. Yet the duties of the Invisible Hand never end. Somehow, the priest and
priestess who helped Sylvia did form another universe, and many of Carl’s
friends were sucked through a wormhole and are now stranded there.
In order to rescue their friends, Carl and Sylvia
must venture through the wormhole to enter the false universe. Their journey is
fraught with danger as the God King and God Queen are not alone. Even though
Carl carried Sylvia, Gabriel, and Constance out of the gravity wave, somehow they
are in the false universe too. Another riddle that must be resolved before they
can escape back to the real world.
The action and danger become more intense as Carl
endures one outrageous challenge after another. To make matters worse, the
existence of the false universe contradicts physics, and has already begun to come
apart. Hopefully, Carl and his friends will not fizzle out of existence along with
it.
This is how I would explain the plot:
Vengeful Gods takes a first peek into the
possibility of another universe. Many friends of our hero have passed through a
wormhole and become prisoners of the gods who created the false universe. Since
they were not truly God, their creation has an expiration date that approaches
quickly. The task becomes more complicated as Carl learns the truth of the
false universe. In order to fulfill his obligation to Emmanuel, he must find a
way to bring everything that slipped through the wormhole back home. Otherwise,
anything remaining will cease to exist, including him and his friends. To make
things worse, the gods of the false universe do not foresee their coming
extinction, and will do anything to stop and destroy their only chance for
survival.
Carl will face his worst fears, but Aida, Grace,
Barbie, Burt, and Sylvia will be there to help and provide some much needed
perspective. Even though Carl Prescott has crossed the Rope Bridge and accepted
the truth of physical reality, now he has to learn what that truth means for
him and existence itself.
As with all the books in the series, Vengeful Gods is action packed and full of surprises, many of which are unpleasant. Old and new friends, including the Rope Bridge, will be there to help. But even when his journey ends, it begins again.
This series is all about discovering the true nature of our existence and connection with the Most High. At this point, I believe book 4 will be the last in the series. Keep an eye out for Carl Prescott and the Riddle of Satan’s Cube.
I am
Robert G. Williscroft. I am presenting you with an updated version of my
bestselling, semi-autobiographical Cold War Novel. Operation Ivy Bells
is my first-person account of how a team of saturation divers locked out of the
nuclear submarine USS Halibut to fearlessly risk death on the bottom of
the Sea of Okhotsk while tapping Soviet underwater communication cables and
retrieving spent missile parts from the seafloor. The intel they gathered
tipped the scales to win the Cold War. This story is based on real events—I led
a team like that depicted in this book.
Is Mac McDowell my alter ego? Yes, some would say, but in all
honesty I would have to decline the honor. I was a competent and capable submarine
and diving officer, but Mac is smarter, more capable, and better than I was. I
would welcome your visiting my website so
you can get to know me better, and then compare the real me with Mac. Let me
know what you think.
A warm thank you to my host for sharing this blog.
Recognition
for Operation Ivy Bells
This is
what Ed Offley, author of Scorpion Down, The Burning Shore & Turning
the Tide, had to say about Operation Ivy Bells when he read it:
A great story…the author has done the
essential, crafting a narrative that yanked me out of my seat like the big
squid! I was grabbed!!! This is what they call a break-out book…
Excerpt
from Operation Ivy Bells
“Fer Chrissake,” Whitey yelled in his high-pitched
helium speech. “Give us a vent! I’m gonna choke to death.” He glowered at
Jimmy, whom he suspected of being the culprit.
“Roger that.” Chief Struthers was back on duty.
Our gas mix at 150 feet normally would be just under five percent
oxygen. Do the math; it works out to the same amount of oxygen as twenty-one
percent on the surface. I know it sounds screwy, but that’s how it works.
Anyway, we were on an enriched oxygen mix to facilitate flushing helium from
our systems. Chief Struthers opened two valves, one to add gas to the chamber
and one to vent gas from the chamber. His job was to make sure the pressure
remained the same, and to ensure that our breathing mix percentages didn’t change
either.
The process was pretty noisy and was supposed to take
about ten minutes. Whitey lay down on the deck by the inlet pipe, breathed
deeply and smiled with a sigh of relief.
“That’s more like it,” he squeaked.
At this depth we had removed our mikes and ear plugs since, with a bit
of effort, we could understand each other without the descrambling that was
necessary at a thousand feet.
Bill was standing in the middle of the sleeping area, elbows on the two
upper racks supporting himself. The surveillance camera was aimed at the back
of his head, but Struthers wasn’t worried since we were about to sit down to
watch a movie. Jimmy was sitting on the deck leaning against the bulkhead
across from me to my right, and as I said, Harry was brushing his teeth in the
outer lock; Whitey was on the deck enjoying the fresh air.
Five minutes passed. That was when I began to notice something funny. I
don’t mean ha-ha funny, either. The oxygen gauge which had been hovering near
twenty percent ever since we reached 150 feet (oxygen enriched – remember),
looked like it was near zero. Which explains why I didn’t react immediately. I
was about to pass out for lack of oxygen.
I got up and crossed over to the gauge and peered at it intensely. Sure
‘nough, it read near zero. I stumbled back to my territory, alarms going off in
my befuddled brain. Then it hit me. The other guys were unconscious. Struthers
couldn’t see us because Bill was wedged between the bunks, and his head still
blocked the camera. I tried to reach the emergency alarm button, but it seemed
to recede away as I reached for it.
The last thing I remember is yelling “Petty Officer Blackwell!”
Blackwell was Harry’s last name. “This is an order! Hit the emergency alarm!”
I barely heard the raucous Claxton as I slipped into oblivion.
Dr. Williscroft is a retired submarine officer,
deep-sea and saturation diver, scientist, author of numerous books and hundreds
of articles, and a lifelong adventurer. He spent 22 months underwater, a year
in the equatorial Pacific, three years in the Arctic ice pack, and a year at
the Geographic South Pole. He holds degrees in Marine Physics and Meteorology,
and a doctorate for developing a system to protect SCUBA divers in contaminated
water. A prolific author of both non-fiction and fiction, he lives in
Centennial, Colorado, with his family.
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Sounds like quite a life you’ve lived, Robert. Thanks for your service and keep on writing.
I have changed the layout of this website to focus more on my blog, which of course you can tell as this is now the home page. You will also note the menu item for “The Books”, which will take you to the new bibliography of my stories to date. I plan to start posting all of my reviews of other author’s books. We writers have to stick together and help the public know about the wonderful tales we are crafting every day.
I would also like to announce that my twentieth book will be published on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 in both Kindle e-book and paperback formats. Here is the title and link to its page: Carl Prescott and the Demon Queen. This is the second book in my young adult fantasy series about a group of friends with incredible talents who venture to the Bertrand Aloysius Thorndike Educational Institution to learn how to use and control their abilities. Here is the Amazon link where you can preview it as well. And what good would a new book spiel be without the cover?
Hi, it’s me, Carl Prescott to give you some more information about my next adventure in Carl Prescott and the Demon Queen. The story begins a few weeks after that little incident with the Beast in The Sleeping One. I went on vacation with my family and then returned to the Bertrand Aloysius Thorndike Academic Institution. While I was away, a castle was discovered buried underneath the school. Of course, since the Azores wasn’t discovered until the 1400s, that made no sense at all.
In the first book, Professor Thorndike told me about a satanic cult that ruled much of Eastern Europe long ago until the Romans wiped them out. It turns out that same cult wants to return and take over the world. The queen of that cult is the demon Sylvia. Our past history turns out to be very complicated.
I will learn a lot about existence and spirituality in this tale. Sylvia wants me to help her, but I am not interested in enslaving the world. Geez, I am only fourteen, and yet I know that is not a good idea. Join me as I make a deal with the Devil, stand on the Crossroads of Existence with the Grim Reaper, and venture to the precedent universe with God. Oh, about Sylvia, it turns out that she and I were married in many previous lifetimes. Weird, right? I guess it makes sense that she wants me on her side again.
Even though this story is wide-ranging and filled with crazy occurrences and action, at the end it is about love. Even a demon hellbent on destroying the universe needs to be understood and loved. I hope you check it out. Hi out there, my #RRBC friends!
Let me introduce you to Sylvia, a daughter of Lucifer, the antagonist, and unlikely former love interest of the hero in my new book, Carl Prescott and the Demon Queen. I must admit this story changed with each new page and chapter written. It would have been easier to make her the bad guy as was the Beast in book one, Carl Prescott and The Sleeping One. As the story evolved, her personality became more complex. Perhaps she became too complicated, but those complications are critical to this and the the next two books in the series.
Demon Queen is a playground for my imagination. I am both a deeply faithful man and also a lover of hard science, especially cosmology and astrophysics. With my own complexity, I tried to blend both. The story dives into the origins of our universe and offers a unique view of life, death, God, and our own futures.
If you can handle the craziness, Demon Queen is fast-paced, action-packed, and exciting up to the very end. Carl Prescott and his friends (Aida, Grace, Barbie, and Burt), will learn the truth about life and death. They will come to understand the origin and end of our universe. They will cross the Rope Bridge that leads to none-of-the-above. If love can overcome fear and distrust, perhaps our universe will survive.
Carl Prescott and the Demon Queen will be available beginning May 28, 2019. Between now and then, I intend to tell you more about this story, including offering tidbits of the tale along the way. In the coming weeks, the first book in the series, The Sleeping One, will also be on sale to drive interest further. I will keep you informed, and I hope you take the opportunity to read my latest story. While you consider the options, please also consider joining the fabulous #RaveReviewsBookClub. There you will learn about a group of author friends who support each other every day. All the best.
My latest novel will be published in e-book and paperback on January 15, 2019. Carl Prescott and The Sleeping One is my first young adult fantasy and part one of a new series to follow the adventures of Carl and his friends. As with all of my stories, it focuses on the traits I value most: family, friendship, love, and faith.
Carl and his friends, Grace Mulligan and Burt Jackson venture far from home to attend the Bertrand Aloysius Thorndike Academic Institution, located in the Azores Islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Thorndike is one of two schools on Earth that cater to the unusual talents of their students.
It is a tale of four students who discover their talents are far beyond anything they could have imagined. It is also a story of new love and enduring friendship.
The Sleeping One is also a book about good and evil. The second school believes that the talents should be used to enslave the world rather than help humanity. Headmaster Greenleaf and Professor Thorndike VIII recognize Carl’s growing talents and realize the fourteen year-old may stop their plans. Soon, the battle is joined and the future of Earth is in the hands of Carl Sandberg Prescott.
Follow this link to the book page on Amazon. If you decide to read the story, please let me know what you thought. Join the Adventure! #RRBC
The last book in the series, 2125: Home of the Brave, will launch in less than two weeks, July 24 to be precise. This book closes the story on our hero, Jack Kennedy. The theme for the final book: The madness must end. He and his family have been trying to evade the cannibals who have taken over our country for four long years, since the evening of July 3, 2121, when he and Tom Wainwright wandered into the nearby Ottumwa Free City.
In book one, 2121: Twilight’s Last Gleaming, they are forced to leave the only home they’ve ever known. As they discover how widespread the cannibal epidemic has become, they eventually arrive near the ruins of San Diego, California. But their successful escape is short-lived, when they discover the cannibal city of Los Muertos, built on the ruins of Los Angeles.
So dawns the new year and the next adventure, 2122: The Perilous Fight. In book one, cannibalism was about keeping the masses of people fed and controlled. This time, it is personal. One member of Oren Marshall’s family has made an epiphany. All of the problems the cannibals have faced are due to one person: Jack Kennedy. Henry Marshall was mayor in Ottumwa when Jack and Tom stopped by for dinner. He was HHS Director for Kansas City when the caravan from the co-op passed through. Henry is convinced that only Jack’s death can keep the cannibal dream alive.
After somehow surviving the maniac, events return to normal for the co-op farmers who have now resettled the Central Valley of California. The Orenite cannibals have been forced to flee their stronghold and head north. Peace has come at last, or has it? 2123: Dawn’s Early Light is a tale of personal vendetta, and the retaking of the United States by the cannibals. It also introduces the Olympians and their sentient robots. We discover that Oren Marshall was not the originator of the cannibal craziness. He is following the lead of his extended family. The robots will discover the horrors of the Clarksville slaughterhouse, and the massive human cattle-lot known as The Atlanta Society. It will end with the assassination of the sitting president, a cannibal as well.
Life turns normal as 2125: Home of the Brave begins. Not for long though. The collapse of the United States and Caliphate invasion has forced the remaining cannibals to the San Francisco Bay Area. Instead of one million, there are now ten million cannibals. They also have an army, nuclear weapons, and a plan to take over the world. In this fast-paced action thriller, old enemies become friends, the Olympians face extinction, and Jack Kennedy goes to war. The madness will end, but not before Jack faces the butcher more than once.
All e-books are on special during July. As a proud #INDIE #RRBC author, I hope you check them out.
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