Quote of the day: Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. — Matt Groening, “Life in Hell”
Angel of Mercy by Lisa Olsen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’m not usually a fan of first person POV books, but this one drew me right in from the start. The author set up an interesting world of fallen angels and demons mixed in with urban city living in Seattle. I liked the nifty set of powers that Mercy got from being touched by and angel. I just hope the next one comes out soon!
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The Touch by Lisa Olsen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Loved the book… kept me guessing from the beginning, and even when I thought I had it figured out the ending was a surprise. I also liked the interaction between the quirky main character Lexi and the detective, and their slowly developing relationship. Definitely recommend it!
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My wife Lisa’s book “Angel of Mercy” is now available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords as an ebook, and as soon as the final proof is approved it will be available on Amazon in paperback. Angel of Mercy is about a girl whose life is saved by a fallen angel, and is accidentally imbued with some of his power and getting her involved in the world of angels, fallen angels and demons. It’s the first in a series, she’s in the planning stages for book 2 now.
She’s also getting ready to publish her second book, “The Touch”, It will hopefully be available in the next week or so as an ebook. It involves ghosts, murder, kidnapping, and the main character is a girl with psychometry, the ability to see the history of objects by touching them. A better description of her books can be found at her Website.
In addition to editing/proofreading and handling the technical side of the publishing, I also designed the covers for both books:
 Angel of Mercy |
 The Touch |
I really like the simplicity of the second one, the first one is alright (the eye makes sense if you read it).
The books can be found for sale here:
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Smashwords
Just an addendum to my previous post on my pretty new Thunderbolt. I’ve had it for a couple weeks now, and have to say that I have absolutely no buyer’s remorse. As I’d said my biggest issue was the battery, and that was the #1 reported issue that I’d read about prior to jumping in. It turns out to have been a non-issue… after the first couple days (with some admittedly heavy usage) it seems to have stabilized. It normally comes off the charger around 7AM and goes back on at 10PM when I go to bed. On average I’d say I still have maybe 30-40% battery remaining at the end of that period, and I’ve only had maybe 2 instances where it was close to dying at the end of the day.
Still loving the giant high-res screen, been playing around with various themes (currently sporting a nice dark one), and movies look great on it. Movies look great on it, I have 7 on it right now, and though the files are large and I have hundreds of MP3′s on it, there is still about 18 gig available for me to find some other ways to fill.
Final note, though I haven’t tested it, I managed to find a pre-release version of the Skype video chat that will use my front-facing camera. Since the only people I really know that use the video Skype on their computers that I have to talk to live in my own house I haven’t had a chance to test it out, but now I know I CAN if I want!
