Hey! I do more than just fill up page after page with random thoughts and call it a blog. I also write books! Here's a listing of all the books I've written, and where you can get them. If you want to order a book in print, click "Add Print To Cart." That'll take you to the ordering page.
Most of my books are available on Kindle -- it's probably easiest to grab your Kindle and look me up.
I have a standing offer of Buy 3, get 2 free: If you buy any 3 of my books (in any format) I will give you the other 2 free (in the format of your choice.) To take advantage of that, once you buy the books, email me proof of your purchases at "thetroublewithroy[at]yahoo.com". Put "Books" in the subject line. Your proof can be either an e-receipt, or a scanned receipt, or a picture of you buying the books -- whatever it is you want.
 | The Scariest Things, You Can't ImaginePrint: $10.00 Download: $1.25 A shape-shifting demon torments children while their parents stand by. A widower haunted by the ghost of his wife tries to understand her requests. A baby stolen from his mother by gargoyles returns, full of hatred for the life he's led. A family of children raised by grave-robbing corpse stealers tries to discover a way out. An elderly man possesses the power of life and death in his retirement. These stories present images and people who will haunt your thoughts for a long time after you read them. |
 | Just Exactly How Life LooksPrint: $11.18 In Just Exactly How Life Looks you'll be introduced to unforgettable people living remarkable lives. Cowboys wander in a timeless desert. Scientists meet in secret to plot a new way to get attention, and money, from people. A man and his would-be lover try to find lions on safari, and more. The people and places in this book spring to life fully-formed and full of anxiety and imagination. They worry about the time they have had and the time they have left. They bury their loved ones and look for new friends. They talk and laugh and hope and cry and die, while their friends and family and enemies and Gods watch them, seeing, in their faces and actions and fears, a portrait of just exactly how life looks. |
 | EclipsePrint: $11.50 Download: $1.49 Claudius wanted to be the first man to reach the stars... and maybe he was. In a stunning psychological horror work, "Eclipse" unfolds slowly, beginning with Claudius drifting through space after something has gone wrong with his mission. As he stares at the only thing he can see, a tiny rock off in space, he mulls the events that led him here, reflecting on his childhood and the mission-turned-into-murder. Or did things go bad? As "Eclipse" unfolds, the reader is treated to a twisting, constantly changing landscape created by Claudius' own mind, as version after version of what-might-have-happened pile on. One thing is clear, though: Something has gone wrong, and Claudius may never reach the stars. Or will he? |
 | Do Pizza Samples Really Exist?Print: $10.06 Download: $1.49 Why will paying attention to Paris Hilton destroy the universe? How can one number be better than the other? Are saber teeth really necessary for a good movie monster? Would Hollywood as we know it exist if not for Jennifer Aniston's hair? These questions and more are asked, and answered, in the only book that dares to explain how jellybeans are related to the apocalpyse. Essays on pop culture, things that are The Best, and life show a provocative, and hilarious, way of looking at the world. |
 | Thinking The Lions, and 117* Other Ways To Look At Life (Give Or Take)Print: $12.98 Life, only funnier: Here's the book you've been waiting for, assuming you've been waiting for a book about a guy who spends his time trying to prove velociraptors didn't exist, who teaches his kids to gamble and helps them with their homework by wondering what would happen if you cut a superhero in half, whose own wife said he would get a crocodile for a babysitter, who finds squid chili romantic, and who generally makes the most -- or the least? - -of his life. |
Are you the electronic reader type? Get most of these books and my blogs on your Kindle for as low as $0.99. Click here for details.
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While I indie publish most of my stuff, these people have seen fit to actually publish things I wrote. So, you know, I've got that going for me:
Harvest Hill (horror anthology): Featuring my story, Don't Eat My Face, about a man lying trapped in a car wreck while tiny cannibal... things move closer and closer.HARVEST HILL
31 Tales of Halloween Horror
Welcome to Harvest Hill, Tennessee: a seemingly idyllic community. But within the shadows of this restful town roams a centuries-old evil that rears itself in some awful form or influence every Halloween when the veil between worlds is thinnest. We offer a choice crop of truly disturbing accounts - large and small, stretching from the 1700s into the present day - as a warning to all. If only the residents understood the unspeakable thing that has writhed and raged among them for ages, and keeps growing ...Buy it from Graveside Tales.
Tabloid Purposes III: Featuring my story You Know What Happens After Dark: Freddie was a little too close to her dying friend, and now something is trying to use her to come through.The third installement of the flagship anthology series edited by Lake Fossil Press' founder, Nickolaus A. Pacione (now the featured nonfiction author on Withersin #1.) Some of the authors in this anthology are Donna Burgess (AWAKE GHOST SONG,) J.M. Heluk, Ken Goldman, Alex Rivera, Casey Gordon, Paige Smith, and Mary Rose -- plus a host of other writers including J.R. Cain (Dark Animus Magazine,) and Charles O'Conner, III. Get ready for a collection that is designed to entertain the reader.
Buy it from Lulu.
My stories have also appeared in Conceit Magazine, The Truth Magazine, and my original short story "Thinking The Lions" appeared on The Adirondack Review (and now is in Just Exactly How Life Looks, above.)
