A new review for The Vision Quest Factor

 

I am pleased to announce that the Book Wenches at BookWenches.com have given my novel The Vision Quest Factor a Rating of 4.5 out of 5!

They said in part “…I found myself caught up in this story about the otherworldly race known as the Mensora and their plans for Earth. This novel is well-written and interesting. The imagery is vivid enough to bring the story to life, and the characters are well developed, unique, and intriguing.

…The action is very realistic and clearly depicted and is almost cinematic in quality. There is a very real sense of danger involved that draws the reader right into the middle of each scene.

…it definitely leaves the reader hungry for more.”

Reviewed by: BD Whitney

To read the whole review  go to  http://www.bookwenches.com/june09reviews.htm

Its a great site so stop by anyway...

A busy time

 

May and June-so far- have been busy. Very busy.

I did my 49^th ren faire, performing at the Shakespeare Summer Revels in Piermont New York telling stories. Solo this time but Aislin and I are scheduled to do the Cloisters Medieval Faire in October.

I have also been writing: The Hunt Club Occurrence, Even Hollywood Zombies Need Agents, Lord Wicked, John Bull and the Fairy Ring, The Eye of Darkness and Greystone’s Descent. All novella’s and all in one of my series: Doctor Argent, Dr. Shadows or Moxie Donovan.

I am on the next story now...

I also had to do the final edits on A Hex of Shadows the first collection of Dr. Shadows stories-mystery adventures set in the year 1937.

I also was able to approve the cover beside this for my first romance sale

The Horsed Thief: a virtual tale of old Basra from Eternal Press due out soon.

“In the virtual world of 9^th Century Basra a thief, in an attempt to woo a princess is spelled with a curse while in the real world of today a computer designer woos a colleague. Who is who and what will happen to them when the safety protocols on the Virtual Immersion Unit are removed: if you die in the dream, you die!

Look for it out soon....

Don't mind he cover it was a miscue between me and the artist-there is no blonde Arabian woman in the story--at least not in the virtual world--but it does have symbolic meaning...so read it and enjoy!

 

An eventful week

I performed with my daughter at my 48th Renaissance Faire this last weekend at the Hudson Valley Mayfaire. It was a fun experience and I came home to yet another positive review for my novel Sister Warrior at the Rainbow Review site. Here are some images of me and my gal while I performed. 

Is it our future to take a step back to tribal times?

Review from Chrischatreviews

 

http://www.freewebs.com/chrischatreviews/2009exceptionals2.htm

Is it our future to take a step back to tribal times?

“Across the Wasteland” travels with us to a part of our world turned into a wasteland due to a massive hole in the ozone layer that we caused. This area “the zone” is a virtual dead man’s land. Nothing electrical works within its ozone free boundaries. The solar radiation can and does kill. Even Lastshot and Skorpion well this areas weakening powers.

However, as renegade Exceptional, Rokk, knows, life is always hidden in Mother Earth. Rokk is “a full blood Seneca, a citizen of the Original Nation Confederacy”  as well as an Exceptional. Mr. Glenn introduces an interesting future for North American and her Native Peoples...

The base story of “Across the Wasteland” is the survival of Lastshot and Skorpion as they strive to deliver Rokk to the proper authorities while keeping the civilians, whose plane was commandeered for Rokk’s transportation, alive. Within the Wastelands, our group encounters the locals , who were forced to band together into warring tribes, packs of radioactively mutant wolves, and their own internal battles.

I like Lastshot here more than in Book 1 of the Exceptionals. Here he is faced with someone, Rokk, who is very much like Lastshot but has crossed the very narrow line dividing the legal from the illegal. How Lastshot accepts or doesn’t accept Rokk made for a deeper reading of what is an adventure series.

This time around Mr. Glenn has produced one storyline and has run with it to my satisfaction. So, what is so great about it being to my satisfaction? I’m no longer going to read book three because I’m curious or because I’ve accepted the review request. I’m reading book three because I want to revisit this series.

Well done, Mr. Glenn.

Three out of four elephants.

Copyright 2009 by Chrischat reviews

On the Good Ship Caligula: not a Disney story

The third installment of the Exceptionals' Saga will be published this month from Whiskey Creek Press and it explores more of the personal lives and world conditions of our heroes in this near future thriller series.
With a great cover by Jinger Heaton this one is all set to eclipse the best seller status of the two previous books.

When the Exceptionals uncover a deadly gladiatorial combat that has been televised worldwide they make an even more horrifying discovery: one of there own, the techninja Temper is a participant and fighting for her life.
Conner Le-Shott is convicted of murder and then escapes jail only to find himself embroiled in the deadly games. He meets the young girl Jester who badly needs his help and finds his interest in her is more than professional.
Can the Bodyguard discover where the games are and stop the mad man Caligula’s plans for world nuclear destruction before Le’Schott loses his life-or his heart?

The Exceptionals: A thriller series!

In 2008 I realized a long time dream and the first two books in my series The Exceptionals were published by Whiskey Creek Press. Created with Jerry Kokich in 1998 the world of the Exceptionals is a dark one but with a ray of light. I wrote the first from scripts Jerry and I had written and the next two solo with the fourth in the works...

Here is the trailer for the book//series we shot in 1999...

The Near Tomorrow World of the Exceptionals:
It was not a world anyone wanted to live in except the terrorists. Their desperation to make the rest of the world conforms to their view of the universe as far back at the 1980s had changed the world. It was a slow change at first, and then like a dam that burst, the violence and irrationality of their vision was imposed on the rest of the world.
It was from this chaos and lawlessness that a terrified world came to embrace the concept of the Exceptionals: extraterritorial bio-enhanced bounty hunters, who could go anywhere, do almost anything in the name of law. Their lives were always at risk from the narco terrorists, tyrants and hate mongers of this not-so-brave new world. TheUnited States Government and the United Nations mandated that their identities became a closely guarded secret.

This was a review of the first book (which was a best seller for Whiskey Creek Press):

"The Exceptionals is a great book and the start of what I hope to be a long series in the science fiction/thriller suspense genre. The authors' fictional world set in the mid 21st century is so vivid and compelling you find yourself believing that this reality of the world actually exists. Teel James Glenn and Jerry Kokich have created a great fictional world for their Exceptionals and I for one can't wait to return. If you like your suspenseful thrillers with a healthy dose of science fiction thrown in, The Exceptionals is the one for you."--A Simply Romance Reviews Outstanding Read! Reviewed by Whitney, Simply Romance Reviews

Knight Errant reviews!

I've been lucky enough with my very personal mystery novel Knight Errant: Death and life at the Faire to get good critical response, the most recent of which is in Renaissance Magazine issue #66 :
Knight Errant:
Death and Life ant the Faire

BY Teel James Glenn
Epress-Online (06)

The hero’s carefree life of beer, pizza, knocking the heads of punk robbers, and renaissance faire combat is shattered when his best friend tom is mysteriously killed. This action packed novel will keep the fan of hard-boiled renfaire mysteries on the hedge of his seat.



And this online review from some time ago:

Knight Errant_:Death and life at the Faire
Teel James Glenn_
Epress-online.com_ISBN: 0-9772224-5-4_, _Reviewed by Shannon Frost ___
When Eric Knight’s best friend, Tom, is murdered, he knows neither himself nor all the people who loved Tom will be able to find peace until they discover who was behind the crime. Together with his friends, Eric begins a quest for truth that takes him from the modern streets of New York to the living past of a Renaissance Faire. With each step he takes, the killer is close behind him, and the only way for Eric to find justice may be to fall back on the laws of long ago.

Written in the first person, the voice of Eric has an easy flow with a snappy wit that makes it feel as though the reader is sitting with him while he spins his tale. Based partially on fact, at the end of the novel is a postscript written by the actual wife of Tom about love and loss that touches deep to the heart. With its bright characters and interesting plot, Knight Errant does a fine job of delving into the fascinating sub-culture that surrounds Renaissance Faires.