L. Jagi Lamplighter Ask Me Anything — Live

My wife will be answering questions on REDDIT on Wednesday, November 16th at 1:30 EST

Drop by and ask her about her books and what it is like to be married to a cold-hearted Vulcan like me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/

WOW!!

I will write a more complete review later, time permitting.

Jagi here again…

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you, to everyone who contributed to John’s Patreon account.

You have made it much more likely that we will be able to pay all our bills every month!

Hey, Jagi here!

I just wanted to take this moment, while John is napping during a late lunch break, to thank you all, once more, for your amazing generosity.

Not only did we both pay the mortgage and eat (amazing in itself!) but there was so much bounty from the gifts you all sent that I was able to:
pay our back creditors (including two bills that were over two years old);
pay additional current bills;
buy pants for the Cherubim–who is doing a work-study thing at school and needed pants without holes;
repaired the air conditioner;
put aside money to repair the kitchen light (which has been out for a month or so. Very hard to cook in the dark! Really looking forward to that being fixed next week);
buy shoes for two of the children (both of whom has holes in their soles);
buy an outfit for the princess to start her new job training program;
share a bit of the bounty with two friends in dire need;
fix the laptop someone had dropped;
buy John a Roku for his birthday (he’d been asking to watch Netflix on the TV for two years or more);
go out for a meal–to celebrate all the bounty and the release of the third Book of Unexpected Enlightenment
And, with the exception of the last, a bunch of other equally practical things that were needed around the house. (I did splurge and buy a treat for each of the three animals.)

And this doesn’t include, books, drawing pads, and other wonderful things that arrived at the house! (A picture from the wonderful gift of a drawing pad should be appearing sometime soon.) Thank you! Thank you!

I wanted to let you all know that your gifts were tremendously appreciated…and I tried to put it all to good and practical use.

Much gratitude,

The Wright Family

You all may be the most wonderful fans who have ever read a book or blog.

Thank you all so much for your unprecedented generosity.

Jagi

Someone, whether kidding or no, said he was going to try to run this game, so, in order to bedevil him I here list more background information I invented for it. Please note that I changed all these names and powers for my novel SUPERLUMINARY, since the needs of gameplay differ from the needs of fiction.

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I see Dr. Andreassen has once again deigned to haunt my website. Sad experience has taught me that he has indeed, like the villains at the end of THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH, been reduced to the meat robot he says all men are. If you prove a point in debate with him, his brain mechanism conveniently erases it from his hard drive, so that the next time he speaks, he has been reset to the factory default, and one must raise the same point again.

Hence, I have no intention of responding to anything Dr. Andreassen says. It took me three years to realize that any words spent on him are wasted.

If any reader understands his argument, and wants to reword it, and pose it to me as a question, I will answer it. Otherwise I will not.

I will not take my time to respond to someone who refers to the statement that chess notation contains all the essential elements of a chessgame as ‘an outrageous lie.’

This is akin to saying that the statement that Newton’s Third Law of Gravity contains all the essential elements of solving two body problems is ‘an outrageous lie’ on the grounds that you don’t speak Latin and cannot grasp Newton’s PRINCIPIA.

However, for those not versed in the technical language of philosophy, the best way to explain the paradox of how mind and body can both exist, and be interrelated, without mind being made of body stuff or bodies being made of mind stuff, is by an analogy. In deference to the ghost of the human being Dr. Andreassen once was before the macrobes turned him into a meat robot, allow me to use Shakespeare, once again, in the analogy.

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Superluminary, Episode 13, RIPPING THE FABRIC OF REALITY, is posted on Patreon:

Episode 13 Ripping the Fabric of Reality

In this exciting episode, the experiment in creating a spacewarp has an surprising and tumultuous result: the sinister uncles of Aeneas find themselves flung across timespace, their hull breached and alarms blaring, far beyond the range of any earthly rescue, with Aeneas freed from their control, and ready for battle.

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Superluminary, Episode 10, THE MADNESS OF TELLUS, is posted on Patreon:

Episode 10 The Madness of Tellus

In this exciting episode, Aeneas Tell is on trial for his life! His cruel and Machiavellian uncles, aunts and mother coldly debate what punishment to levy. His crime: knowing the secrets of Lord Tellus, the missing Emperor his children overthrew!

The strange history of the family is discussed: startling revelations result! But the verdict is death!

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Superluminary, Episode 08, MISTRESS OF DREAMS AND DELIRIUM, is posted on Patreon:

Episode 08 Mistress of Dreams and Delirium

In this exciting episode, Aeneas discovers the identity of his savior: his vivacious young cousin Penthesilia Tell, Lady Luna, whose servants seek his obliteration. But is she rescuer or captor? A wrong word could lead to his instant destruction!

Our Story so Far:

Episode 01 Assassin in Everest

In which Aeneas Tell, the youngest member of the Imperial family of mad scientists who rule the solar system with an iron fist, is decapitated by a high-tech vampire.

Episode 02 The World of Death

In which Aeneas Tell is flung in his pajamas onto the surface of planet Pluto.

Episode 03 The Dark Tower

In which Aeneas breaks into the forbidding and forbidden tower looming above the ices of Pluto, and finds it void of living things, but not uninhabited nor unguarded.

Episode 04 The Technology of Tyranny

In which Aeneas, paralyzed, falls facefirst into the plutonian secret it is death to glimpse: a raging singularity at the engine core of the very antique superspaceship his grandfather once used to conquer to Earth!

Episode 05 The Many Murders of the Mad Emperor

In which the helpless Aeneas delays his death sentence to sate his lonely  captor’s curiosity, and his own. Lord Pluto reveals the startling truth of their family’s bloody past. Was the Emperor a savior? Or a maniac?

Episode 06 Deathstorm

In which Aeneas, paralyzed and on fire, plunge down and down toward the death-energy powered warp singularity at the base of the dark tower of unseen Lord Pluto, while all the undead vampires unleash a ghastly barrage of negative life energy no ordinary organic life can withstand!

Episode 07 Moon of Murder

In which Aeneas is blasted by an interplanetary strength particle beam weapon issuing from the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon to his position hiding behind a rapidly melting satellite in rapidly degenerating orbit.

A message from my lovely and talented wife:

In honor of the release of the revised ebook for The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel, the first Book of Unexpected Enlightenment, The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin is

ON SALE NOW!

Only 99 cents on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th.

Mrs. Wright here.

For those of you who have asked for an e-book version of the first Book of Unexpected Enlightenment:

The new revised and expanded (improved and better edited) version of THE UNEXPECTED ENLIGHTENMENT OF RACHEL GRIFFIN (Book One) is now live on Amazon.

The cost is $2.99.

Book Two will go live in early July. Book Three should be available in October. Also coming in October, another requested item: the audio version of the first book!

(Thank you to Joel C. Salomon for making this possible!)