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OwenTyme

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I'm Owen Tyme and I'm a novelist.

I prefer to write action-filled science fantasy, though I sometimes write fantasy or science fiction, when the inspiration takes me there. I love grounding what I write in science, even when writing about dragons, witches and wizards.

Though I currently call Liberal, Kansas home, I was born in the California Bay Area. I've come to enjoy the mild climate of Kansas. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store! https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/OwenTyme

I've got six novels that need reviews and this is your chance to help! Read at least one of my books for free, then write a review on one or more of the following sites: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AOwen+Tyme&s=relevancerank&text=Owen+Tyme&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45452178.Owen_Tyme
https://fable.co/author/owen-tyme

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

Ashen Blades centers on the life of a half-demon girl with a serious bone to pick with demon-kind, because they murdered her parents. Read her story as she protects the human race, just like a shepherd defending their flock from a pack of ravening wolves.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/104283

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

When a snake demon in an expensive, tailored suit takes an irreverent stab at American Presidential politics, the Hunter takes a literal a stab at him, to save the nation!

However, with both parties back a demon, does it matter which one wins?
Careful, or we might get a Demon for President!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/1573797

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

Uncle Sam said, “I want you!”
Uncle Sam wanted men for the Vietnam War.
We rarely get the things we ask for.
Uncle Sam got a small half-demon witch girl with a talent for demon extermination.
In exchange, she got a chance to follow the trail of an old enemy.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1543413

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

"Sugar and spice and everything nice?" Perhaps the standard, off-the-shelf girl may be made from such things, but this half-demon girl?

She isn't sweet, she isn't nice and you really shouldn't call her spicy, because she's got a magic hat full of weapons, a bad attitude and a mischievous sense of humor.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1516062

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

The Wizard's Scion centers on the life of a great wizard's son as he grows from a teen with barely any control over his magic to a powerful wizard that's master of arcane secrets all his own. Follow his adventures as he grows to maturity, both in magic and in life experience.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/96886

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

Levi mourns the recent loss of his parents, but old enemies of his father refuse to give him the time to grieve.

A deposed price with a time machine seeks the throne of a vast, star-spanning empire, scouring history for allies to strike at Levi's father in the past, when he's vulnerable.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1559436

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Free Ebooks for honest reviews!

Use the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

Born of human heart and mind,
The Gods thought man blind:
Science stole man’s heart,
Forcing Gods to depart.
A refuge built, a new home made,
Which man did invade!
The Four Horsemen rise,
For man’s action wasn’t wise!
The Gods may be forgotten,
But a war has man begotten!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1477897

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Free Ebook in exchange for honest reviews!

Pick up your free copy of Troll Song with the code 'P6YFQ' at the Smashwords store!

Troll Song is the story of a teenage troll that touches the mind of a dwarf, coming to realize her family is evil. Follow her journey from darkness to light as her sister continually chases her, for the sake of revenge!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1462617

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Facebook actually tried to censor one of my books! Can you believe that? Has this happened to anyone else?

In my case, it seems to come down to their software being unable to tell the difference between political satire and pushing a fake political candidate.

Their software made the decision! So dumb!

Here's my promo page for the book in question, if you're curious: https://owentyme.us/books/ashen-blades/demon-for-president.html

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The cover of Demon for President!, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. (Foreground) Two blond-haired, blue-eyed, tall and slender brothers of German descent, shaking hands, facing the viewer for what could almost be a photo-op. Their clothing is clean. The one on the right is in a gray suit and red tie, matching his Republican affiliation. He wears a "Snake Pride" pin on his lapel and round-framed, brass Windsor glasses. He smiles somewhat evilly. The one on the left wears a black suit and blue tie, matching his Democrat affiliation. He wears a "Tyme to Vote" pin on his lapel and somewhat more modern glasses than his brother, though still brass. His expression if more serious and stern, without a smile. (Background)At the bottom of the frame, seen between the brothers, a modern city of skyscrapers is in flames, belching out large plumes of smoke! The light from the fires is so intense, the two brothers are outlined in its glow. At the top of the image, the flag of the United States waves. It's been splashed with blood, while smoke and sparks from the fires rise past it.

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Facebook actually tried to censor one of my books! Can you believe that? Has this happened to anyone else?

In my case, it seems to come down to their software being unable to tell the difference between political satire and pushing a fake political candidate.

Here's my promo page for the book in question, if you're curious: https://owentyme.us/books/ashen-blades/demon-for-president.html

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The cover of Demon for President!, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. (Foreground) Two blond-haired, blue-eyed, tall and slender brothers of German descent, shaking hands, facing the viewer for what could almost be a photo-op. Their clothing is clean. The one on the right is in a gray suit and red tie, matching his Republican affiliation. He wears a "Snake Pride" pin on his lapel and round-framed, brass Windsor glasses. He smiles somewhat evilly. The one on the left wears a black suit and blue tie, matching his Democrat affiliation. He wears a "Tyme to Vote" pin on his lapel and somewhat more modern glasses than his brother, though still brass. His expression if more serious and stern, without a smile. (Background)At the bottom of the frame, seen between the brothers, a modern city of skyscrapers is in flames, belching out large plumes of smoke! The light from the fires is so intense, the two brothers are outlined in its glow. At the top of the image, the flag of the United States waves. It's been splashed with blood, while smoke and sparks from the fires rise past it.

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I've got six novels out that have very few or no reviews, so I'm running a short-term Ebook giveaway through Jun 30th.

Use the code ''P6YFQ' to get my books for free via the smashwords store: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/OwenTyme

Please post your reviews to one or more of the following sites:
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AOwen+Tyme&s=relevancerank&text=Owen+Tyme
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45452178.Owen_Tyme
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Owen%20Tyme%22
https://fable.co/author/owen-tyme

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@bookstodon Oh, and one last detail: if you find my novels to have any value and you want to support me, you can always buy the book anyway.

Thank you all! I appreciate what my fans do for me and it means the world to me.

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I've got six novels published, but they have very few reviews. Would anyone be willing to give me honest reviews in exchange for free Ebooks?

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When a snake demon in an expensive, tailored suit takes an irreverent stab at American Presidential politics, the Hunter is literally forced to take a stab at him, to save the USA from getting a Demon for President!

Book #3 of Ashen Blades, Demon for President! is now available for pre-order, coming to online bookstores June 10, 2024!

https://owentyme.us/books/ashen-blades/demon-for-president.html

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If you want some pins that tie in to my novel that releases on June 10, 2024, check these out:

https://rajohns.work/product/demon-for-president-pins/
https://rajohns.work/product/snake-pride/

You can either show your support for the demon running for president and his Snake Pride cause or you can use them to mock the world we live in, which has clearly gone insane.

Demon for President! is currently available for pre-order!

https://owentyme.us/books/ashen-blades/demon-for-president.html

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An image of the "Snake Pride" political pin, as designed by Owen Tyme to help promote his novel, Demon for President!
An image of the "Demon for President!" political pin, as designed by Owen Tyme to help promote his novel, Demon for President! The pin is attached to a denim jacket.
An image of the "Snake Pride" political pin, as designed by Owen Tyme to help promote his novel, Demon for President! The pin is attached to a denim jacket.

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When a snake demon in an expensive, tailored suit takes an irreverent stab at American Presidential politics, the Hunter is literally forced to take a stab at him, to save the USA from getting a Demon for President!

Book #3 of Ashen Blades, Demon for President! is now available for pre-order, coming to online bookstores June 10, 2024!

https://owentyme.us/books/ashen-blades/demon-for-president.html

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A round political button proclaiming, "Demon for President!" The upper portion is red with three five-pointed stars in white, the center band is white with black text and the bottom is blue, with three five-pointed stars in white.
A button for a fictitious pride movement, which reads as "Snake Pride". The outer edge of the button is a representation of Ouroborous, the snake eating his tail, with his head at the bottom. His scales are brown, his belly yellow and his eye is a greenish gray. The center of the circle formed by the snake's body is filled with two shades of reddish brown, dark on the outside and light in the center. The words are arranged around the border between the two shades. At the very center of it all is a white, five-pointed star.

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I just got some author copies I ordered and that always makes my day! I'm looking forward to getting them in the hands of local fans.

If you're interested, you can learn more about these books at the following links:
https://owentyme.us/short_stories.html#she-goes-to-summer-camp
https://owentyme.us/books/ashen-blades/she-goes-to-war.html
https://owentyme.us/books/wizards-scion/the-third-wish.html

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The author that brought you Troll Song and Forgotten Legends now offers you the chance to read the third book in the The Wizard's Scion: The Third Wish.

$3.99 Ebook and $18.99 paperback.

https://books2read.com/b/TheThirdWish

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Volume 3 of the Wizard's Scion, The Third Wish, is out of pre-order as an Ebook! The paperback edition should be available soon!

https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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Uncle Sam wanted every man he could get, but never expected a half-demon witch girl to show up for the Vietnam War...

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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Uncle Sam wanted every man he could get, but never expected a half-demon witch girl to show up for the Vietnam War...

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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Volume three of the Wizard's Scion is now scheduled for release on May 6, 2024, titled 'The Third Wish'! It will be in Ebook first, with print to soon follow.

In this novel, old enemies of Heart Forge band together and seek to alter history with a time machinel, forcing the Steel Wizard, Levi Jacobs, to take action, despite the pain of having recently lost his parents.

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I've got awesome news! As you may recall, I recently talked about my books being added to a new Ebook store: fable.co.

Books2read.com seems to have started supporting adding book from this store to my sales links, beside the rest!

https://books2read.com/TrollSong
https://books2read.com/ForgottenLegends
https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons
https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar
https://books2read.com/EmergentConsequences
https://books2read.com/SheGoesToSummerCamp

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I just made a couple of posts on my blog, though neither should be too surprising to those that have been paying attention to my posts on Mastodon.

https://owentyme.us/blog/new-stores-for-my-books.html

https://owentyme.us/blog/she-goes-to-war-now-in-print.html

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@chiraag @bookstodon Mostly a matter of fewer middlemen. Draft2Digital is the parent company of Smashwords, so I get to keep more of the profits when my books sell there.

That's mostly why its my favorite for Ebooks, but they also support open standards and don't use DRM, so you can read my books on any device you like.

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Volume 2 of Ashen Blades, She Goes to War, is now available in print! In this novel, Little Miss Secret braves the jungles of Vietnam, in 1972, in pursuit of her demonic nemesis, Vogerath.

Also includes the novella She Goes to Summer Camp, in which she goes undercover as a teenager to root out the demons hiding at a summer camp, in 1986.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar
https://books2read.com/SheGoesToSummerCamp

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I've found another online store that respects the price I've set on print copies of my books.

Has anyone ever heard of bookshop.org? Anything good or bad to say about them?

I found my books on it recently and the site has good reviews online, so I've added bookshop.org links to the list that shows up when you click on one of my books2read links.

My books on their site: https://bookshop.org/contributors/owen-tyme

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She Goes to Summer Camp is now available as both a free Ebook and an inexpensive print edition ($9.99 from Barnes and Noble).

This is the novella included at the end of She Goes to War, all by itself. So, if you want to get a taste for my Ashen Blades series without paying for it, this little Novella might be just the ticket.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToSummerCamp
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/she-goes-to-summer-camp-owen-tyme/1145317818

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Draft2Digital added a new online store for distribution and I must say, I like the look of it.

https://fable.co/author/owen-tyme

Fable isn't just about selling books. It's actually a site for book clubs, which happens to include an Ebook store.

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Volume 2 of Ashen Blades, She Goes to War, is now available as an Ebook! The print edition should be available soon.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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Volume 2 of Ashen Blades, She Goes to War, is available for pre-order as an Ebook. It will release on April 5, 2024!

In this book, our heroes brave the jungles of Vietnam, in 1972, as they track their nemesis to his new lair.

This book also includes a bonus novella, She Goes to Summer Camp, in which our brave heroine faces the most difficult challenge of all: teenagers.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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Its been a few weeks since my little debacle of ordering 35 copies, only to realize I'd need a business license to sell them at a profit.

To get my money back, I decided to sell them at cost, in exchange for passing out my business cards.

The local fans have surprised me by tipped me super-generously. On top of that, they've taken the business cards, too.

What can I say, other thanks for the love, Liberal, Kansas!

https://books2read.com/OwenTyme

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There's now a long-form character profile on my blog for Otto Vogerath, the villain of my novel, She Hunts Demons.

https://owentyme.us/blog/character-feature-otto-vogerath-aka-pride.html

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There's now a long-form character feature on my blog about Verda Bagley, the witch ally of Little Miss Secret in my novel She Hunts Demons.

https://owentyme.us/blog/character-feature-verda-bagley.html

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There's now a long-form character feature on my blog about Mashu'ra, the little kitten demon that lives inside the main character's top hat in my novel She Hunts Demons.

https://owentyme.us/blog/character-feature-mashura.html

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There's now a long-form character feature on my blog about Clayton Simmons, the private detective partner of the main character in my novel She Hunts Demons.

https://owentyme.us/blog/character-feature-clayton-simmons.html

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I just posted a long-form character feature to my blog that's all about Little Miss Secret from my novel She Hunts Demons.

https://owentyme.us/blog/character-feature-little-miss-secret.html

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The @Smashwords Read an Ebook Week sale is very nearly over!

My books are still 50% off through tomorrow (March 9)! If you don't hurry, you'll miss your chance to pick them up at a discount!

https://books2read.com/TrollSong?store=smashwords
https://books2read.com/ForgottenLegends?store=smashwords
https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons?store=smashwords

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Just about every example of Film-Noir uses a classic trope: the Femme Fatale.

In She Hunts Demons, this role is filled by a teenage girl by the name of Isabel Grant.

She initially presents herself to Little Miss Secret and Simmons as a terrified victim of the demon, Otto Vogerath, but she soon has them wrapped around her little finger.

Hover the cursor over the image to learn more.

https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons

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There's only a short time left to take advantage of the Read an Ebook Week sale in the @Smashwords store!

My books are still 50% off through March 9!

https://books2read.com/TrollSong?store=smashwords
https://books2read.com/ForgottenLegends?store=smashwords
https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons?store=smashwords

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Verda Bagley is an ally of Little Miss Secret, Simmons and Mashu'ra.

She's one of the most powerful witches in the world, but ironically doesn't consider herself to be one, instead thinking of herself as simply 'talented'.

She's a mother to her very core and uses nursery rhymes as a concentration aid to focus her mind for spell casting.

Hover your cursor over the image to learn more.

books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons

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Otto Vogerath may be many things, including a German man that came to the states before the Nazis took over, the ring leader of a circus, an abusive husband and father, a criminal, a mob boss, a mass-murderer, a mad genius plotting world domination, but all of that pales in comparison to his true identity.

Otto Vogerath is one of the seven Arch-demons that rule Hell, where he's known as Pride.

https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons

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Happy Read an Ebook Week! To help you find a book to celebrate, you can find my entire collection at 50% off at @Smashwords from March 3 - March 9. Find my books and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/ebookweek

https://books2read.com/TrollSong?store=smashwords
https://books2read.com/ForgottenLegends?store=smashwords
https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons?store=smashwords

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Mashu'ra, often times called Masher, is the little demon that lives inside Little Miss Secret's top hat, in my novel She Hunts Demons. He's stuck in the form of an adorable little, black kitten.

Mashu'ra was her mother's familiar and as a result of that demon-witch's betrayal of demon-kind, he'd also a traitor.

Learn more by hovering the cursor over the image.

https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons



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Clayton Simmons is the private investigator partner of Little Miss Secret, in She Hunts Demons. He affectionately calls her 'the boss', because she's been a part of their agency longer than he has, though she actually plays the role of muscle, while he's the brains and face of the operation.

Learn more by hovering the cursor over the image.

https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons

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The half-demon protagonist of She Hunts Demons has no known name, but instead a series of nicknames. Her friends call her The Boss, Little Miss Secret, Little Miss or LMS, while her enemies call her lots of unpleasant things, the least offensive and repeatable of which are half-demon brat or simply brat. She calls herself The Hunter.

Learn more by hovering the cursor over the image.

https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons

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@bookstodon Inevitably, an indie orders a bunch of their to sell in person.

Hopefully the rest of you won't make the mistake I did: blowing a bunch of money on author copies, only to realize, after the fact, I also need a business license from the city and a state seller's license, so I can collect and pay sales tax. Whoops.

I should be talking with an accountant soon, to rectify that.

Until then, I've got 35 books I can't sell.

https://books2read.com/OwenTyme

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