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Book 7 is now available for pre-order on bookapy and pretty much everywhere else. It's available to read on May 11th.
In the seventh installment of the Omniscient: John the Genius series, titled Mad Beast, the stakes have shifted from global energy to the global stage as the "Cook Wave" threatens to paralyze the financial world. Set against the backdrop of May 1991, fourteen-year-old mega-billionaire Dr John Cook finds himself at the center of a media firestorm after a ground breaking auction, and the release of a treatment and cure for HIV/AIDS.
With protesters and reporters swarming his Tulsa headquarters, John executes a tactical retreat. Hidden away in a place that feels like home, he is a neighbor to the Mad Beast he has sworn to cripple and destroy to protect the rest of the world. The USSR is a crumbling edifice but John knows exactly how to shatter it and pick up the pieces to secure the future.
War and Rainbows covers April 1990 to May 1991. John continues his battle with the oil industry, and works to start spreading the SynFuel technology around the world. He knows that the world is about to be thrown into an unexpected conflict. As always, timing is everything, especially if you want rainbows of peace instead of the flames of war.
It finally arrived, book 5 of John the genius is up. It's a miracle, that original novella for part 4 of John the genius that's posted here is only around 25k words. I've taken it and transformed it into books of 80-95k words. Not just 1, but 7! The original deadlines ends at the SynFuel announcement on January 1st 1900. The immediate sequel, Revolution, covers the immediate aftermath until April 1990. Its immediate sequel War, runs from April to May of 1991.
I'm not sharing the titles of the rest yet, i want to keep the suspense building. What had been just a few paragraphs became entire plotted out events and chapters.
Expect War to get released at the end of March, but for now, book 5 revolution is up and available at bookapy. (Other places too, but bookapy gives me the most in royalties.)
In the process of going back through this series, I've hugely expanded it. The short novella length stories are now full blown novels, but the fourth book, which originally spanned 4 years, has now become 7 novels all on its own. Book 4 is back up on BookApy.com, and book 5 will be joining it soon as well.
You should soon see AWACS disappear from SOL as I'm going to give Amazon Kindle Unlimited a try. I've edited that book again as well, tightening it up nicely.
John the Genius books 4-10 should be rolling out on bookapy for the next few months. My back has been killing me, so I've just been sitting in the only comfortable chair in the house with the laptop on my lap, writing away. 2-4k words a day for a couple months. Once I get to where I'm happy with the rewrites so far, I promise to switch back to Open Hand, Sam's adventure book 2 and get it finished. It should be a fun one.
John the Genius Book 3 Public Eye has been updated! The same effort to hunt down those missed typos from the 'professional edit' generated more text. it nearly doubled in size again as I dug into the real world mechanics of the Colorado Chess Championship, the Euro Motors event correcting a plot defect there and then doing the same for Heartland and TWP media. The original book was 23k words, the first update and expansion was 49k, the hopefully final was 93k.
If you bought the book on BookApy/zbookstore then I encourage you to download it again. If you haven't yet, then please do so. It remains at the novella price of $2.99.
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