{"product_id":"2940045846103","title":"At Least He's Not On Fire: A Tour of the Things That Escape My Head","description":"\u003cp\u003eI'm an odd dude. But I write some decent stuff, and here's my way of sharing my odd dude thoughts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm the author of three 'major' series; Adrian's Undead Diary, Elmoryn's The Kinless Trilogy, and the Reemergence Novels, the first of which is Tesser: A Dragon Among Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo help folks get a taste of my writing, I've put At Least He's Not On Fire together. Inside this wonderful electronic tome of my words, you'll find a healthy sized sampler of each of my major works, as well as several short stories that are mixed in for your entertainment. All in, Hell Hole, and The Vampire of Menlo Park are all great fun, and I hope you enjoy them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark Recollections: Book One of Adrian's Undead Diary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeheading a zombie isn't easy in a world where you're more afraid of the living than the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Ring's simple life is thrown into chaos when the world is ripped apart by a plague of undead and legions of desperate survivors. Retreating to Auburn Lake Preparatory Academy, Adrian attempts to rescue friends and family on the way while dancing around his impending insanity over who and what he left behind, and evading maniac survivors. He saves his cat Otis, but shoots his mom. Pretty successful, all things considered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark Recollections is the first part of Adrian's own story of how he survived after \"That Day.\" Told through his eyes as he talks to his laptop, affectionately named 'Mr. Journal,\" and through short stories that entwine with his tales that bring forth dark visions of a world being eaten alive by an unimaginable evil. Adrian's Undead Diary is an eight part epic about a solitary, guilt stricken man that didn't think he deserved to live, but realizes very soon that he survived, and suffered for a reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Wrath of the Orphans: Book One of The Kinless Trilogy\u003cbr\u003eMalwynn and his twin sister Umaryn live in a small town in northern Varrland. In idyllic New Picknell nearly nothing happens, and when their day to day routine is interrupted by a skirmish between an invading patrol of the dead from The Amaranth Empire and a defending force from Varrland, their world begins to come undone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith international war looming on the horizon New Picknell becomes the center of quite unwanted attention, and the twins have their world shattered. With nothing left to lose, they set out on a mission of vengeance that will take them to places they'd never dreamed of visiting, discovering mystical powers in The Way that will change their lives forever, and revealing dark knowledges best left undiscovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTesser: A Dragon Among Us A Novel of the Reemergence\u003cbr\u003eImagine for a moment that you are a Dragon. A creature of unimaginable power, unending intelligence and strength, and you've just woken from ten thousand years of slumber. Worse yet, you've awoken underneath a city; Boston, an alien and strange place that defies everything you've ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour last memories were of primordial forests, erupting volcanoes sculpting a developing world, faeries, witches, vampires, krakens, and monsters that feared where you turned your eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut all that is gone. Humans, only barely coming into their own in the world from your memory, have taken over. They have erected cities made of stone and steel erupting from the earth like stalagmites reaching for the high blue sky, and developed sciences that have overshadowed even the glory of old magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was not the way it was supposed to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Tesser, the Dragon. He who walks in any form, and flies the skies free of fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Dragon Among Us is Tesser's story. Walk with him as he learns the human way, and discovers the dark truth about why magic has really faded from the world he calls home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd just maybe, humanity will remember why dragons were most noble, and most savage creatures again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to The Reemergence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Philbrook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167681528048,"sku":"2940045846103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045846103_p0.jpg?v=1769890988","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045846103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}