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Now a published Anthologist

It has been a hard week getting my first anthology collection edited, cover designed and put up in Amazon and create space.

I now have ten of my short stories with a sneak peak of my novel Teller’s Cove e-published in an anthology called “Synaptic Overload” after this blog. It is available as an e-book and also (after three attempts with photoshop to get cover right) a print on demand paperback option.

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I am exhausted, but pleased to see my work available to the general public. Now I need to work on all the self promotion  stuff (and Teller’s Cove final edits) Book contains my four published story Whale Song, Ricochet, Group, and  The Sleep Diet as well as six never before published short stories, 

I was amazed at how much Amazon does to help with the process.

Smiles.

 

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Publishing Books in e format

<h1> Update</h1>

After waiting for years waiting to hear back from agents and publishers, I have decided to e-publish my books and short stories. 

Last semester I was accepted into an MBA program and had a good class on marketing. I will attempt to use the skills I learned to promote my fiction works.

The amount of research involved has been staggering. I find the process interesting.

Will keep you informed.

The first book I intend to publish will be a short story anthology with the same name as this blog “Synaptic Overload”  by R.W. Van Sant in hopes that they will help reinforce each other in search engine optimization.  The stories are fantasy, science fiction and horror, four of which have already been published in various magazines

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Poetry

Concerning the Nature of Storms

By Ron Van Sant

Storms that fill the night with clamor

As Thor the Thunderer does rush to fight

Long sparks fly as shield blocks hammer

Cutting brightly through the cloudy night.

This is the nature of storms

My Oma to me told,

As passed on down in the Eddas

 Stories from days of old.

I feared the sound, that battle din

That as a child broke my sleep

Would the gods of heroes win?

Would giants leave the world to weep?

Storms and battles do not last,

To me my Oma said

The world is always better off

Once the storm has fled.

Would my Oma tell me a lie ?

Even Gods can’t always prevail

As anger itself rang through the sky

Bringing, thunder wind, and hail.

Oma explains that storms bring hail

 And rain and also snow

All the elements nature needs

 To make the flowers grow.

Frost Giants are made from the tears of man

It is from our sadness that they spring forth

From their icy realm they plan

In cold borne anger they attack from the north

This is why, my Oma said,

The storms are always loud

This is why, she also said,

 Water comes from cloud

Thor leads the fallen hero army,

 A mighty battle train

To answer the giants infamy,

He smashes them to rain

Blow by blow, the giants fall

 Our the tears to return earth

To water trees and flowers all

Bringing Joy and mirth

From every evil, some good prevails

Though it invades your dreams

This storm will end, despite your wails

Rain helps crops and fill the streams

Thus my Oma held me tightly

Till the heavenly battle was won

And the storm ended brightly

 With the coming of the dawn.

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Poetry

The Smith

 

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RW Van Sant

 

Tink tank

The hammer falls in riotous blows

From sore muscles and weary hands

On iron sheets full of promise

 

Tink tank

Hammer dents it shapes and molds

The iron bends to the smiths design

Forming a useful shape

 

Tank tick

The rough shape is smoothed out

Dimpled iron yields to custom

To make a recognizable tool

 

Tick, tick, tick

The tool is refined to make it acceptable

Polished and filed to appeal to its user

To make a useful tool.

 

The smith inspects his work

It has the right structure

It has the right shape

But does it have a future?

 

 

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Poetry

Legacy

By Ron Van Sant

Rebellious hands clasping illegal pens,

Frantic swirls forming outlawed shapes,

Ornate designs make alias names,

A silent attempt to be remembered.

Bit by bit, hidden in plain sight,

The forsaken artist leaves his mark,

A message only the initiated can read,

A desperate attempt to be remembered.

Desecrating the desks society gave his parents,

The artist struggles against the grooves,

Of the mark his father once carved into the wood,

A vain attempt to be remembered.