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Here’s to New Beginnings!

This latest addition to my writing bookshelf (number 6) was the most challenging of my last two efforts.  Maintaining five main characters, while maintaining each character’s unique individuality can be quite a challenge.  This can become even more challenging, especially when the lines between multiple protagonists and antagonists shift and blur, revealing their true natures.  Realistic characterization vs. plastic characterization can make or destroy a story, especially if each one loses their individuality.

In this psychological thriller, you’ll find the hard twists and turns you’ve come to expect in all of my novels, coupled with bits of historical fiction.  If you’ve watched Big Brother and like Criminal Minds, you’ll notice a convergence of both their dynamics that mimic the old Mission Impossible episodes.

Be sure to pick up a Hard Copy or read it on NOOK.  It should be available for Kindle in the near future.  Please drop me a note or comment to let me know what you think of this latest venture!  I look forward to hearing from everyone.

In lieu of the recent outbreaks of ignorance and blatant disrespect of human rights, Pentwist will be posting a few reminders that no one is perfect and forgiveness is divine.
Some posts will not need comments…

Drivel I wrote for my kids to ponder…

Today
by David Pyle

Today was the first and last time I would ever awaken on December 12, 2014. This day appeared, I was alive, and it would never come again. In this finite time-line, all of creation is pushed ever forward by an unseen wall called TIME. At six a.m., the clock alarm went off and mere moments later a minute had passed, never to be reclaimed, never to be changed, and barely remembered.
This simple revelation of truth can be received two ways – a cavern of depression, or a bonus incentive to live every second while you can.
When the supreme universal hourglass was flipped at the moment of all creation, there were only a finite number of grains of sand inside the upper chamber. Time cannot last forever, yet forever will last beyond time. Thankfully, our hope and consolation is eternal life.
But what of now? What of today? Life is more than waking, eating, working, scrambling, sleeping, and beginning the sequence again every day of our lives.
The element of life is above mere existence.

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For those readers uncertain about trying a new author, you can try three of my books:

Between Life and Death

Minutes

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Thanks to my readers!

David

How many times have you been completely captivated with an absolutely perfect scenario coming alive in your imagination, to have the telephone ring or a knock on your door obliterate that delicate vapor?

If you dare consider yourself a writer – whether it be considered simple or cryptic pentameter of a poem, or a thousand pages of complicated thriller – you’ve likely experienced these types of interruptions. Even if you take careful and meticulous notes, it’s easy to lose that moment of divine inspiration.
Have you also noticed that these interludes always manage to arrange themselves to occur at the precise moment of the apex of that specific creative moment?

I’ve heard these creative moments aptly described as the construction of a house of cards, but I believe it goes much deeper into a writers psyche and is far more delicate. I also believe that even well meaning repetitious interruptions can be destructive to long-term creativity.

An oversimplification would be the scenario of Pavlov’s dogs and ringing bells. If your apex of construction is regularly interrupted, it may be possible to become expectant of an interruption even when none presents itself.

If your writing environ is for example the family kitchen table, then there are no expectations of privacy, focus, or concentration. The cellphone will ring, sing, buzz, and vibrate every thirty minutes to an hour. Your spouse or children will wander through making reasonable demands of attention on a regular basis.
If you only write casually, or for your own personal enjoyment, then this type of setting may be perfect for you.

However, if you belong to the less than 1% of total population with the lofty desire of an enduring career dependant on your writing skills, then you may want to consider some retreat away from daily (or hourly) interruptions to rekindle those pivotal moments of genius.

If you can’t find the seclusion you need in your home, you’d be surprised to find how many buildings and organizations in your home town have vacancies at little or no cost for someone needing a private setting to gather their thoughts.

Read More Here…

Happy Writing,
DP

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Occasionally I run across an article or short story that resonates.  Even rarer I run across a story that is so deliciously vile and irreverent that it causes backbone jarring laughter, all in the name of Gothic Horror.

Demonic Dora by Claire Chilton – originally appeared on Wattpad, and after laughing myself silly streaming through its rough beginnings, I too stood in line as a new chapter appeared each week.

This is not for children, nor would it be considered appropriate for a bedtime story – however if you can clean the chips off your shoulders and put away your vices, this tale of teenage horror is definitely for you.
It contains blatant, no holds barred situations of stone throwing and temptation that only a survivor of the teenaged years might fully appreciate.

My only regret is not taking the time to make note of its appearance ages ago.
Happy Reading.

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I’m sure I continually shock my children when I admit that their conservative dad, steeped in 70’s era rock, also immerses in such revelry as Avenged Sevenfold, Pink, Chevelle, Tool, and the Pretty Reckless – to name a very few. Of course, there are other artists and other genre, but I can’t deny the need to remain current with the world around me, lest I end up stale or mimicking the proverbial ostrich. The same goes for reading choices.

Avoiding progressive thoughts and ideas, even those ideas with which you do not necessarily agree are a swift path to becoming moldy and irrelevant.

Remember it was your life events (good and bad) that created the person you have become and it is through your lens and your viewpoint with which you interpret the world around you. You are the only person capable of delivering your viewpoint to the world, through song, poem or the written word.

As a writer, you cannot afford to retreat into mediocrity.
This tidbit of information should not be anything shocking or new; it only serves as a reminder to keep your eyes open to the world around you.

Happy writing.

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New release – Hells Bells
Book Three of Between Life and Death

At Amazon Books, CreateSpace, and Kindle

Reborn!

Thirteen years have passed since James Earl Williams was murdered, buried, then through a powerful ritual of dark magic was resurrected to a body of Flesh and Bones.

During the last decade, peace has reigned over the Ames family, with James serving as backbone and curator over their vast financial network. Married for ten years to his first love Jolie and raising a pair of precocious nine year old twins, Fate seems to have granted a reprieve. But there were snakes in their Garden of Eden.

One cold November evening, following a trail of promises, a desperate young girl stumbles upon a tiny book containing a rite powerful enough to unleash a desperate evil.

Bridget Straw has nothing left to lose and recites the tome while spinning widdershins in the dark. As she utters the verse, bells begin to toll in the distance. These bells signal an exchange of ownership and she is overtaken by the animus spirit. Freed from its prison, it has places to go and people to eliminate.

All is at stake in this final battle between good and evil. Lives will be changed and some may not survive.

New release – Flesh and Bones
Book Two of Between Life and Death

At Amazon Books, CreateSpace, and Kindle

Flesh and Bones – by David Pyle

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The Saga Continues

In Book One of this trilogy, Bitter winds of change swept through the Ames family. Dark magic and deception lured seventeen year old James Earl Williams into a deadly trap using a supernatural bond of love as its bait. Greed and a relentless pursuit of unimaginable power led a practitioner of the Dark Arts to whisk James Earl from the land of the living and cast him into a place where light and shadows are inseparable.

Now, trapped in this altered state, all that remains are endless memories of what could have been and a young woman who refuses to let go of her desperate bond to an ethereal being. Before James has a chance to mourn his losses or learn how to cope with the possibility of an eternity in this world of shadows and nightmares, another chapter begins to unfold.

By complete accident James Earl gets a taste of his true potential and new doors open offering other possible futures, but some of these doors lead to even darker evils of the soul. At the same time, James learns new truths about Jolie, her past, and her origins. Now begins another journey of discovery, deception, murder and intrigue all immersed in the supernatural.

The Fates are spinning a web of unbreakable cords between James Earl Williams and Jolie Dimanche, and will cause their bond of love to tighten beyond anything either of them could imagine.

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