You know, all the recent TL/DR complaints got me to thinking… as a novelist I’m really not serving the impatient, entitled, short attention span, functionally illiterate, community nearly as well as I should. So I’m going to produce TL/DR versions of all my novels. Here are the first books of each series-
Monster Hunter International – An accountant shoots monsters, then shoots more monsters, and then shoots different kinds of monsters.
Son of the Black Sword – An Indian guy who might be autistic forgets a bunch of stuff then remembers it. Also there is stabbing.
Academy of Outcasts – Like this kid wants to be a wizard or something, but there’s a shark, and the shark might be autistic.
Servants of War – This kid who is not autistic but needs glasses gets to drive a giant robot with magic. Also lots of rats eating people.
Gun Runner – A different kid drives a different giant robot, only it isn’t magic. And the space ship captain is based on Nick Searcy.
Dead Six – Its like a buddy cop show only they aren’t buddies or cops and there’s a lot of shoot outs in two different deserts.
Lost Planet Homicide – Now this one has buddies who are cops but the shoot outs are in a big cave. It’s like Space Bosch, but not Space Justified, because the character based on Nick Searcy is in a different one.
The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent – honestly, the title should be enough for you. Also there is a manatee.
Into The Storm – I don’t know. This was someone else’s universe, but I got to write about the Dirty Dozen only with mad science lightning swords.
American Paladin – Have Gun Will Travel but for the guy who shoots Aztecs from another dimension, like if the Punisher was a cowboy.
There you go. If you functional illiterates made it this far you owe me 80 cents for each of those summaries. I take Venmo.
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Ironically, my comment, the emoji only, was rated as “too short for publication” so I had to add an explanation.
You left out the Grimnoir.
There is too much Awesome in Grimnoir to be condensed into TL,DR.
I stopped reading before the end of the first sentence, can I get the BLUF for the post?
Wow, you’re expecting me to read all that?
Autistic Shark? Please tell me more!
You should read it if only for the autistic shark. Kinda steals the show, TBH.
Will the autistic shark soon be in the pantheon with Wendel?
Honestly not how I expected them to be. Not disappointed but not what my head was telling me after reading the summary. Won’t go into detail so as not to spoil it.
See there’s this shark who is a monk…
Look if you aren’t sold at a wannabe wizard, a shark monk and their friends start technically legal magic school I don’t think it’s the book for you.
Trust me, Autism Shark and questionable legality in magical education is right up my alley.
I just put together the DnD reference done by a lich costing Boss his hand and eye. Well played.
I always describe Dead Six as a frenzy thriller set in the world of Cost to Coast AM.
That seems about perfect.
Listened to Son of the Black Sword on Audible while I was on a road trip this summer. Decided to listen to Hard Magic the other, even though I have them to read, just because I’m low on podcasts right now. Imagine my pleasure when Audible popped up with two short stories in the Grimnoir universe once I’d finished HM, neither of which I’d heard of. For free! Woo hoo!
Really Short version – MHI – Monsters and gun stuff happen.
Really Short sci-fi – Cool sciency stuff happens.
80 cents per- so now there’s Math too?
My MHI TL/DR summary:
Accountant shoots lots of monsters (and gets paid for it). Accountant saves the world. Along the way, he falls in love.
Will MHI ever get the next book? Ive been waiting for so long, its by far my favorite bookseries, read and listened to them many many times.
Larry, are you sure this isn’t just advertising for those of us who can still afford to pay attention, if only barely?
“Also there is stabbing.”
… Still laughing.
That really cuts to the quick…